Kitman

It's not the Coca Cola though

Presumably a chunk of the money goes towards their debt? Glad if he's gone, I'm bored of reading about him going to Madrid every transfer window.

I think it'll turn out sweet, based on nothing at all. Based on the law of karma, we're due our place in the

He's a grade A cunt is Jimmy 'cuntface' Grieves. I'll be delighted when he can only be contacted through a medium. Seconded. I think he's slagged the toon on numerous occasions too iirc.

That was the first thing I thought when I saw that list. Can't say I'd be bothered if we sold any of that lot. I expect Enrique wants away tbh.

We don't have to sell him regardless of how he currently feels. What we need to do is sell him the future, show him he's integral to the first team and convince him the club's going places. We can't do that whilst the club's in a state of crisis and we've no manager. Not so long since he couldn't get a game but you can't blame him for being ambitious. Edit: by going places I don't mean non league football

Given the facility's at the club and the following, I think we are a bargain, they will need to invest in players, but they will make money if they can commit long term. I guess it would be capital growth but that would need investment as you say, promotion and relative success. Can't see them giving away too many shares to a supporters trust therefore. Plus an exit in the medium term. Needs an investor with money and a clue what they're doing. Who knows if this mob fit the bill....

More importantly, how would they make money out of us? We don't exactly have a track record of it........

My guess is talk of Barca is a red herring. If they did set up a supporters trust, only a small proportion of the shares would go into it. Assuming this story isn't a load of crap of course

Well, I am guessing if we do well: World wide recognition and a lot of moneys. But but......wouldn't that be a lot of moneys that goes to the trust?

What would a company get from turning the club into a supporters trust a la Barca? Smells fishy to me......

Noodles not pies?

You've clearly been smoking blowing Parky. Well blow me

Yes, presumably the wage bill will start to decrease from 1 July. I think we'll see player sales coming through from that date too. I don't think the club will go into administration personally.

You've clearly been smoking Parky. You couldn't smoke a whole Parky. Not at one sitting

No surprise he won't accept a pay as you play deal. He's always fucking injured, the greedy little toerag.

Based on nothing at all I have a feeling it's going to turn out OK. All this shizzle is designed to force a close on the sale of the club. We'll look back and laugh. I admit I have been drinking a bit.

I think Ashley is clueless rather than evil. He's screwed things up royally and now he's looking to make a run for it imo. He doesn't care if that makes things worse, as long as he gets out quick. He's doing the equivalent of running out of town as fast as his tubby legs can carry him, with his trousers and pants round his ankles.

Fucking hell man, perspective required. Aye it's nothing a good donkey ride wouldn't eclipse. And a Kiss me Kwik hat and stick of rock for added class

Can't help but agree with that assessment as things stand. It'd be different if a new manager could geton and sort out the squad but that doesn't look like happening atm

You could argue that he has been instrumental in our decline. A huge signing on fee and annual wage were paid on the basis his goals would fire us up the league. That money translated into debt or funds that could have been used to buy/pay better players for key positions. As it turns out he's mainly been injured, his worst injury being sustained on England duty when it was irresponsible to us for him to play. In addition he's been picked whenever fit regardless of his or other players' form and his media profile has been a distraction. He hasn't banged in the goals when we've needed them most as a rule. I realise that he has sold a lot of shirts and added a bit of glamour for sponsors etc. but I wish now in retrospect we hadn't signed him. The money could have been better spent on the squad imo and I can't wait to see the back of him.

I didn't realise it was him.... "YABOO BOLLOCKSS HISSSSS" Reminds me of:

Managerial choice is your (who's we?) only criticism? You don't feel he owes any responsibility for the debt he brought to the club leaving us with the crippling wage bill we have today? You don't have anything negative to say about the money he and the Halls took from the club, making them extremely wealthy men in the process? The outrageous salaries and dividends, rewarded to themselves regardless of how the club was doing on the pitch, not to mention cronyism and other financial irregularities. You don't have any comment on the Halls and Shepherds appalling PR and numerous public gaffes? Just to make it absolutely clear, I regard all these failures entirely independently of Ashley and none of this mitigates his disastrous reign. But how quickly are we supposed to forget Shepherd's own failures, which have played at least part of the mess we have found ourselves in now? Any talk of a return of Shepherd and company is an utterly nauseating prospect. Oh, and at least 3 of those managers required no hindsight to see they were very, very bad decisions. To use the words 'only criticism' slighly underplays his failure in the one area of his work he absolutely had to get right. Not to mention the unbelievably bad timing and of his dismissals which then forced us into the next bad choice. It's not all down to Freddy.....the Halls must take their share of the blame for the dodgy appointments, they were the majority shareholders after all. To be fair I could see the point of Allardyce, especially with the money all gone, so I wouldn't put him in the same category as Souness and Roeder. Souness there is absolutely no fucking excuse for.

Martin Samuel is a fat cunt of the first order, I haven't forgotten the ill informed shit he wrote about us earlier in the season. So I'm not going to applaud him now he's finally got something right.

Get tooled up mate. http://www.sausagemaking.org/acatalog/mincers.html I'm British. I would much rather complain about the lack of decent sausages than make them myself. Apparently there's a decent sausage shop near where I live that's the shizzle. Run by........a Gorman! Wunderbar!