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the irony

only a 2 year old, or an accountant, would urge someone to back Souness with limitless funds.

they aren't pocketing your cash are they ?

only a 5 year old can seriously believe that selling your best players and pocketing the cash is the way to build a successful football club.

indeed, as mancmag says, they do it in Germany. There is no reason why standing areas with controlled admission can't be re-introduced in England again. It would be a major step forward, it would get kids back into grounds [as it would presumably be cheaper] and increase capacity at certain grounds which fill up for games. Things have changed since Hillsborough etc, it's time to bring them back IMO.

superb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY-rPDwzM9M#

is it really beyond some people to understand that NUFC are much bigger than the likes of Bolton, blackurn etc and should not be selling their best players and pocketing the money from the sales, instead of backing their managers ? I will remind you that when Mike Ashley bought this club they had the 14th highest revenues in football, so how much more revenues do you need ? Argh, Jesus. That's not a response to his post man. FUCKING HELL. oh yes it is.

now now girls

is it really beyond some people to understand that NUFC are much bigger than the likes of Bolton, blackurn etc and should not be selling their best players and pocketing the money from the sales, instead of backing their managers ? I will remind you that when Mike Ashley bought this club they had the 14th highest revenues in football, so how much more revenues do you need ?

factual though. Really? Show everyone the evidence that Mike Ashley has POCKETED the money where is it then ?

factual though.

I agree about the quote pyramids. They're a nightmare. I'll try and remember to cut the pyramids, sometimes they do encompass the whole picture though.

Mike Ashley is £28 mil better off fixed

all you have to do is say "racist", is that it ?

wrong Gem mate. you're wrong. Anyway, now your company has changed hands, don't you do any work now ?

anyway, as we went into the transfer window with the money from the sale of Andy Carroll burning a hole in the managers transfer kitty from 12 months ago, so far we have seen 7m out of 35m quid. Wonder if we will make a sale to get this 7m back ?

wrong Gem mate.

Im hoping he gets bored with everyone slagging him and he fucks off or gets himself banned. Honestly, this place would improve tenfold if he did go. You'd still get the odd WUM but nobody could beat LM for tedium. The problem is he's stubborn as a mule. It's almost like he gets some perverse pleasure from being the butt of jokes and ridicule. He probably sees a dominatrix in his spare time. "tell me about Shepherd one more time bitch, I dare you" "well chum, don't forget we finished 3rd, 4th and 5th under the Halls AND Shepherd" "WHIP CRACKS" what a crushing bore. When are you going to have the balls to admit that you are now repeating what I told you years ago, that you disagreed with ?

Mike Ashley can "change my mind". But he won't. I don't get your problem, you may be deluded or unable to see what is in front of you, but not all of us are so blinkered. Thankfully.

hopefully Fish picks you up on his current quote ie . I have NEVER said anywhere, that Fred was a GREAT chairman, for one thing he never owned the club, what I have always said is that they backed their managers. This is the first requirement of any good owner/board of directors of a football club. You WILL find this, lots of times, because it is correct. Don't hold your breath though, that the self appointed board policeman will do as he says he is doing. i

shocking. The PC brigade obviously think there are no muggers, wife beaters, benefit cheats or drug dealers left in the world to deal with anymore. Stupid old idiot. silly, blind foolish boy.

reckon you need a shot of realism.

how old are you ?

one day you will smell the coffee

minus Krul, if current rumours are to be believed ? Then what ? Interesting example, a player who cost us nothing, yet adequately replaced a player sold for £6m. That must mean he's no good right? it's pointless talking to people like you. People who regularly point out the gaping chasm in your argument? I admire your tenacity to stick to the same tried and tested lines in the face of such a tsunami of factual information that contradicts them. Every successful football club (bar those owned by sugar daddy sheikhs and russian oligarchs) are run like businesses. Arsenal have been doing it for years and have consistently achieved CL status. At times they've received bids too good to turn down - occasionally because the player wants the move (see Fabregas, Cole, Nasri) or sometimes because they were selling them at the peak of their value before a inevitable slide in form (see Henry, Viera, Overmars and Petit). What all of these players have in common is that Arsenal made profits on those players, a fraction of which went back in to player recruitment, the rest to pay for operational costs, wages and I dare say shareholder dividends. Where FFS went wrong is that he didn't recoup any real value from his assets. So we consistently bought players at the height of their potential worth and sold them for next to nothing or actually nothing (see Robert, Speed, Martins, Owen, Cort, Dyer). Unless you see players as assets you will always have to find extra revenue to fund new players, and eventually the well will run dry and those wonderful Champions League nights that we all loved will NEVER return. FMA, for all his faults, has managed to get the club back in a financial position where Europe is back as a possibility. Good points, well made but sadly wasted on Leazes sadly, it appears that, like so many people, you and the post you quote are cherry picking the last year or so and totally ignoring the first 13 years of the previous regime as if they never happened. Even worse is that if your man ever matches even the last couple of years of his predecessors, you will be pissing your pants with excitement, in your armchair too, such is the lowering of expectations that you have encompassed and accepted. The club has been transported back to the70's and 80's in terms of expectations under Mike Ashley. If you witnessed this period, its easy enough to see, if you didn't then be told by someone who did. Leazes, I know this has been said a million times before, but football has moved on, even since the days of SJH and FFS. It is not possible to compete for the league and/or the champions league by out spending people like we used to. Look how much it took for Chelsea and Man City to compete at the top of the league. You're talking hundreds of millions of pounds. We simply don't make enough money as a club and we're not lucky enough to be backed by a sovereign state. The only way we can compete is to follow the Arsenal model (as outlined above) and for my money that's the direction we are heading in. rubbish. Football has always been about the team with the most money, and how well NUFC have risen to the challenge. Only 2 teams are being bankrolled, like Jack Walker who also bought the league, and it is no excuse for NUFC to sell their best players and pocket the cash, especially when they had the 14th biggest revenues in football. How much more income does a club need not to have to sell their best players and pocket the cash ? If you really don't think that the game has moved on, and that competing at the top isn't about absolute megamoney, then your acquaintance with reality is even slimmer than I thought. like an accountant who backed Souness to spend unlimitless funds to build his own team ?