Kitman

Eel be a good signing

no ambition ? How about 35 million profit? Asset strip, repay loan to club, de-risk investment. It's bloody obvious.....

woop de doo. Sell our only decent striker and sign a creative midfielder on loan. Now that makes sense !

Aye. This is game-changing from the POV of the message it sends out to the rest of the squad too btw. There was chatter earlier today about Enrique signing an extended contract. We might have heard the last of that. Very true. They don't care about the message they send to the players or the fans. Selling without a credible replacement sticks up two fingers to the club's employees and customers alike. Robber barons tbh.

That's how I see it. When they've finished rummaging in the bargain bins for a replacement, they'll decide there's no-one available that offers enough value for money. What a fucking surprise.

I'd rather stick with what we've got than spend on either of those two. This is the sort of shite you get when you sell your best striker on the last day of January.

Carroll 31 Jan "How much did you say? 80 grand a week?! 80 FUCKING GRAND?!! Geddin! Fucking geddin! Right, where do I sign?"

Aye since Ashley brought in Wise then Kinnear Ashley reduced the club to Hicksville United. Wurzel Gummidge on loan till the end of the season?

Absolutely. Mourninho can get to fuck, he's not going anywhere.....

If he does sign for them I hope he keeps up his dedicated professional regime of late nights, Jagerbombers and McDonalds.

You have to wonder how genuine this thigh injury is, if this was all stitched up weeks ago. Plusa it wouldn't surprise me if the Spurs bid reports were phoney just to push the price up. Sorry if this has already been mentioned, haven't read the thread.

Well I can't pretend I'm not very disappointed. I suppose the money's too good to turn down for us and Carroll but I was hoping we weren't a selling club. Let's see what the fat bastard does with the money but I don't have my hopes up.

Lost the first set. Djokovic looking strong I'm afraid, Stevie A naa am watching it through blurry eyes on Eurosport, Murray's still in there fighting. He needs to win this set like or that's it fucked, and Djokovic looks like he's gonna break him here. Andy Murray's mother is one woman I can't and don't want to imagine having sex by the way. She should get a job the lazy cow. Murray looks knackered and on his way out. We've fucked it over and are watching Phoenix Nights instead...might spark a change of luck maybe

I grew up in the 80s and thought they were hit and miss at the time. It's only with hindsight that I've realised just how talented they both were.

Lost the first set. Djokovic looking strong I'm afraid, Stevie

I firmly believe there has been, it's ridiculed as a paper, but to be fair The Sun are better than any other media outlet at getting things correct. Fuck Danny B anyway, fucking dull Reading displaced tool who doesn't even go to games. Good point

26 is he not? He'd have been worth a punt IMO... 26 my arse! His face has a lived in look....

We don't know there's even been a bid. DannyB must be pissing himself at this thread.

Pardew going to look pretty stupid with his categoric "Carroll's not for sale" comments if we do sell. I don't think we will sell, but that's only a hunch. Plus it's the Sun so it's probably bullshit anyway.

I can't get worked up about tittle tattle in the Sun. Let's see what happens.

He didn't lose just his 'own' money, it was company money [sD] hence it was shareholders' money albeit the other 49% involved. The game was played to settle a dispute with the investment bankers over outstanding legal fees incurred by Merrill Lynch during the SD floatation. I'm sure Freshfields/Mort nearly had to play some hard-ball to get Ashley to cough up his outstanding legal fees relating to the NUFC takeover. Didn't Mort make a special trip to Tyneside for reasons related to his debt/fees owed to Freshfields. Unless there's a concrete & legally binding clause ordering him to actually fill a debt [ie. *the stadium debt, following an ownership change, for instance] kicking & screaming it would appear the man has a recalcitrant attitude towards other service providers at the top end of town, where his retail empire is concerned. I've already posted one instance involving Umbro, when he attempted to welch on a contractual deal by refusing to take a delivery of a massive shipment of replica shirts, and thus not pay his outstanding bill. As well as being an unambitiousn club owner, there is distinct lack of honour in his operational methods/practices. *albeit he whinged about it for long enough, including misling the public over the legal specifics of the debt payback ie. the 'banks were banging on the doors' claim. To be honest, if he got a law firm and a bank to play a game of chance for their fees (whether he lost or not) then he was doing alright if you think about it. Can you imagine anyone else paying their solicitors that way? They'd be like "no, fuck off and just pay you cheeky bastard". The services will no doubt have already been rendered and he'll have had the benefit of them. Sounds like he was just trying to get them for free. He didn't, but he might have done if he'd won if that story has any credence whatsoever. And if he had you'd have to say that was a tremendous bit of business. No harm in sticking it to investment banks and corporate law firms, it's all money for old rope. I agree, but I think there must have been some upside for the bank in it somewhere. Maybe it was double or quits. If it ever happened.

Has he played any for us?

The Xisco signing is particularly frustrating. $5.7m and god knows how much a week for someone who's never kicked a ball for us. Something stinks about that deal.

Up and Hatem!

He was winning well, went to the bar for some drinks and then lost all his winnings and plenty more besides. Fancy that. I wonder if they changed the dice at some point?