Toonpack

I don't think we are really in the ''Champions League run in'' but if we are - & we get beat on monday - that'll put an end to it. Yep, of course if we win............................ I fear a good old fashioned mullering personally.

Similar thing though ain't it ?? was reported in the Torygraph the other day, no amount but evidently less than the contingent liability held in last years accounts (which I can't find).

I thinkthat "furtherdown theroad" was a short road timewise tbh On the tax, apart from the one we've just settled with HMRC for historical EBT's, amount not yet known/confirmed. (saw a report the other day, can't recall where dammit!!) Rangers (on EBT's) are looking at another £48Mill debt landing if they lose the "big tax case" as it's called, that goes way back to Murray's time btw.

95% of the time thats right. There is the odd time when the club fights off any offer and resists (Modric) but in most cases a daft offer is accepted (Carroll, Torres, Berbatov, Ronaldo) That's yet to play out I reckon, he still hasn't signed his sweetner "sorry we said no" contract. Calculated risk by Spurs (oh no Spurs again !!!) they reckoned they could get CL with him (not so much without him) so could afford to say no (and he was on a long deal), if they didn't get CL and the resultant money, almost the same as his fee would have been, they can still flog him later.

WTF have Morrisons to do with anything, is that where you get your White Lightning from ??? Yeah and income is only worth a damn if your expenditure don't outstrip it. So in Leazes world NUFC going bust, getting -10 points etc. is fine because "at least they tried". That's really what you are saying isn't it.

Oh and on the thread title, every club is a selling club if the price is right. If someone offers north of £20 Mill for Tiote he'll be off, that's been the case forever, not just the last 24 hours.

It did, I remember it. Then again, as a fan base we seemed to boo fairly regular. I recall the booing at the end of the 1-1 draw v Charlton before KD got sacked. I have never booed in my life at a game, or anyone I know, but we hear it. Then again, you manage expectation dont you? It is about expectation at that time not against something that might happen 10 years down the line. who said 10 years ? Do you know how long Mike Ashley is going to own the club ? I don't, but I'm confident enough when I say that despite those saying "we are doing it like Spurs" we will not match Spurs nor the old owners [who DID do what Spurs are doing ie backing their manager] At least you accept that expectations have been lowered. Some idiots have been saying for over 4 years now that this is not the case and that statement when it was made was rubbish. IF the "old owners" had even the slimmest glimmer of a chance to repeat what they did in the early years of their tenure, you may have a slightest glimmer of a point. They didn't, you haven't.

First bit, probably true, but I'm not a sad "no-life outside of NUFC" thicko like you and yer old mentor. We all know you are the uber-est of uber geordie NUFC fans. The rest is bollocks. Anyhow, how any of that supports your shite argument is beyond me. I've asked you to show me how it totals £25.6m, and I'd also like to see how the figures beyond that detailed in yesterday journal show a net spend of £3m (including the Carroll money). You can't/won't do it. Haven't seen the full accounts yet. Bottom line - club is in a hugely healthy position on and off the field, what's not to like ?????

was 14th in the world when your man bought the club........ And the losses/interest payments/outgoings were .................................. (Rangers-esque is the answer)

First bit, probably true, but I'm not a sad "no-life outside of NUFC" thicko like you and yer old mentor. We all know you are the uber-est of uber geordie NUFC fans. The rest is bollocks. Anyhow, how any of that supports your shite argument is beyond me.

It'll be in the accounts. Transfer dealings are not a single seperate sum you doilem it's all part of the greater whole. In other words you haven't got a clue what you're talking about you old divvy. The club are saying transfer dealings totalled £25.6m for the period I'm asking you how? If Ashley stabbed you in the eye you'd find some excuse for the cunt. We'll see the "sums" when we see the accounts. As for having a clue, am surprised you know what day it is tbh.

when exactly are you going to bother going to a game again ? Probably never, prefer watching from home.

Pish The accounts will not lie (they cannot for legal reasons) BTW no club actually measures transfer spending (only fans do that) Clubs will assess what they can afford based upon the whole financial picture, which does and will include agent's fees etc etc. Well do the sums you stupid old cunt! Do the sums in transfer dealings. Who did we buy in the period covering 2010/2011 season that totalled £25.6m? It'll be in the accounts. Transfer dealings are not a single seperate sum you doilem it's all part of the greater whole.

I've said that I'm as surprised as anyone else by our league position ! The overall strategy and mentality inside the club is a different thing altogether, I've also said the current policies dictate that this is as good as it gets, and the next direction is downwards because it simply isn't sustainable for long ie selling your best players and not backing your manager like the 2nd rate clubs do. Stevie's post is bang on too. The people who are running the club are wankers and sadly only fools are being taken in and fooled by them. "I'm as surprised as anyone that the team is getting better. But it doesn't make me wrong in my assertion that the team is getting worse." Class!!!, ranks alongside the: "I think Freddy Shepherd doesn't believe what he says, he really thinks what I think, and he's right"

Pish The accounts will not lie (they cannot for legal reasons) BTW no club actually measures transfer spending (only fans do that) Clubs will assess what they can afford based upon the whole financial picture, which does and will include agent's fees etc etc. so when are we going to match Spurs, as we are doing it like they are and they have found it relatively easy to break into the top elite ? It's taken them years, could take us the same. But on the bright side, we're set up not to have to overcome -10 points for the forseeable. You must be gutted, it appears no pocketting (although you don't know what that is), club doing better now on the field than it has for years. Fucking disaster aint it.

I've said that I'm as surprised as anyone else by our league position ! The overall strategy and mentality inside the club is a different thing altogether, I've also said the current policies dictate that this is as good as it gets, and the next direction is downwards because it simply isn't sustainable ie selling your best players and not backing your manager like the 2nd rate clubs do. Stevie's post is bang on too. The people who are running the club are wankers and sadly only wankers are being taken in and fooled by them. :icon_lol: :icon_lol:

When the accounts are available in pdf, you might have to. I look forward to your thoughts on that. I wouldn't wait for my thoughts, I suggest they'll back up the statements released in the last couple of days. The detail around the loan from MA will be of some interest. Hope the Ramble does a follow up piece tbh.

Pish The accounts will not lie (they cannot for legal reasons) BTW no club actually measures transfer spending (only fans do that) Clubs will assess what they can afford based upon the whole financial picture, which does and will include agent's fees etc etc.

When the accounts are available in pdf, you might have to.

Santander and BP will be chomping at the bit to hoy £100m at that sort of sales pitch. Way to showcase the opportunity Decka. Aye, I read that and just thought: does he actually care how incompetent he sounds? I mean I get he doesnt mind being unpopular (revels in it probably), and the stadium name change is prime evidence of that, but theres a huge difference between seeming unpopular and seeming retarded. That difference basically boiling down to self respect. That comment is irrelevant. Everyone knows people will call it SJP (in the UK). From a brand exposure perspective, the selling point is about getting the brand in front of the global TV audience. What Llambias said is of no importance and will have no effect on any prospective sponsor, to suggest it will, is all a bit silly tbh. It's about exposure of a brand to some folks in Timbuktu or other far flung markets and not what anyone in the vicinity of NE5 (or GB for that matter) thinks/says.

Could be worse, it could knack.

Our squad will be the same size as everyone else's (25) come next season.

Inside he must be seething, all the positives about the club in the last couple of days. Oh and no evidence of recouping (or pocketting as Leazes likes to wrongly call it).

It's a bit rich when we have the 4th highest debt in the league. I think what he means to say is you shouldn't spend what you can't borrow. Hardly the same thing tbh.

There'd be some significant reeling in all over the place, we've already done our slash and burn and are well placed. Evidently rule doesn't apply outside of England, one of the reasons for the shenanigans at Rangers with the players taking pay cuts.