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Newcastle Utd (and Viz)

orly said:
Would love to know the first recorded instance of the phrase headpatters is on this forum. I'm sure I nicked it from someone.
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Think it was you. This was the earliest one I found in the vaults.

orly said:
Again - and I appreciate this is difficult for you to see through your red-and-white 'I'm not angry, I'm really not!!!' haze, the emojis are only used because the absolute worst offender on here, @Sunderland afc , was notorious for using the :dance::dance::dance: dancing emoji. It's now used by me, deeply ironically, but also with great joy as I watch a deluded Sunderland rabble (like yourself) try and defend the worst club in the Championship with an increasingly exposed fairweather support base.

As I've said, several times, I don't like Sunderland because you are the very worst of football. Gross overspending, no plan, no real reason for existence beyond a few people gorging themselves on football's excesses, a deluded, head patting fanbase with zero self-respect, and an away support that is now beyond anemic. Of course you went yesterday...

I'm not really interested in being funny for you. I'd quite like to chat with and by luck rather than judgement amuse the odd Everton fan here or there, but your bunch of toxic navel-gazers? Nah, I'd prefer to talk about your defeats and (fingers crossed) your eventual liquidation.

A club could well rise out of the malaise there, eventually. I've drawn up a blueprint for its requirements:

  • New owner (so Ellis Short doesn't have to waste any more of his money, he's tried his best)
  • New fanbase (needed immediately)
  • New club motto (something realistic)
  • New league status (perhaps something like Gateshead Sunday League of similar)
  • New fansite (something similar to GrandOldTeam.com) where instead of rep, you can all pat each other on the head. Patting points, or similar
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mikeh72 said:
Remember getting home from work one day and we’d been bought by some Iranian fella I’d never heard of despite being linked with Americans all week.
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Moshiri's name only came out the day it was agreed – I remember taking our kid to his footy that Saturday morning and Moshiri's name appeared on Twitter

Few hours later, it was announced. None of this Circus.
 
mikeh72 said:
Remember getting home from work one day and we’d been bought by some Iranian fella I’d never heard of despite being linked with Americans all week.
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I recall it being the Americans I really did NOT want to buy us. There was another group that I think owned Sporting Kansas City in the States that was rumoured first that was very interesting because they were genuinely GOOD owners. Then the other one took pole position and it didn't look good. Then, out of nowhere, Moshiri came up and his quite attractive niece was saying how much we were going to love him.
 

Connor said:
Moshiri's name only came out the day it was agreed – I remember taking our kid to his footy that Saturday morning and Moshiri's name appeared on Twitter

Few hours later, it was announced. None of this Circus.
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I've said this point a few times. We are at least now into the 4th week since price was agreed. If it goes more into next week and no announcement we give over the 4th week and it starts to become quite suspect.

I'd also add, the 3 big takeover whove put money in, have done it in a day (City, us and Chelsea). Even if it goes through, I have my doubts they are pumping money in.
 
Connor said:
This has to be the most public takeover of all time, and premier league football club takeovers don’t get done in public

last one like this was the Reds but they were on the brink of administration
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Yes. And that's highly atypical for owners that want to spend big.

With Liverpool ir dragged on, because it took the bring if admin for 3 of the board members to out vote H & G. That lowered the price.

That seems to be the hope with the buyers. The question is, why? If the buyers are committed why are they not just paying the fees, if they want to pump billions in?

I keep going back to that Martin Samuel article. He was of the view that Ashleybwas sceptical they were genuine, and is sick of being blamed for it not going through. Maybe he has called their bluff, as is suggested to prove its not real?

Those articles and tweets from that journo, who has been so keen to make it seem as going ahead seems like they are backtracking.
 
catcherintherye said:
I've said this point a few times. We are at least now into the 4th week since price was agreed. If it goes more into next week and no announcement we give over the 4th week and it starts to become quite suspect.

I'd also add, the 3 big takeover whove put money in, have done it in a day (City, us and Chelsea). Even if it goes through, I have my doubts they are pumping money in.
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You can buy a multi million pound football club in one day?
This has made me very angry and I'm gonna sue the people who people who ripped me off by stretching out my buying of my little house.
 
H.H. said:
You can buy a multi million pound football club in one day?
This has made me very angry and I'm gonna sue the people who people who ripped me off by stretching out my buying of my little house.
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Well pretty much yes. I suspect the quality of brokers they have is a bit higher than the average estate agents!
 

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