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How many millions of debt did they write off again?

The worrying thing is how this is being played out in the media. Knowing how Cortese and the Leibherrs like to keep things in house, it smacks of desperation. It's all speculation but my gut feeling is NC and Poch wont be around much longer.

Was a good night, Poch speaks half decent English but think he just wants to make sure he doesn't make any gaffs. Was impressed with the whole set up, much better than previous years.

It is obviously a concern, but as we don't know all the facts it's hard to judge whatever decision the owners make. Cortese has shown how good he is at running the club but it's not his money at stake.

I voted for Cortese to stay as he has obviously done a good job and any instability is a bad thing in our current position. But I don't see why him leaving is some sort of disaster. There is no reason why he couldn't be replaced with an equally capable CEO and the club would carry on without the slightest bit of disruption. We don't know all the facts so it's hard to criticise whatever decision the owners make. It's their money.

Maybe he got bored of talking to you?

Don't be such a bloody bed wetter. If the Liebherrs don't want to finance Cortese's march to the Champions League that is entirely up to them. If they want someone else to run their club it's up to them. Cortese has done a good job but the only bad news IMO is that the article hints at the owners not wanting to invest.

It COULD grow, or it could spend millions trying to get into Europe and still end up relegated in massive debt. With the new TV money secured now could be the best time to sell if that is what they were looking to do.

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The important thing is the Leibherr's money, not who is Chief Exec. It wouldn't be hard to hire a decent replacement.

Wigan, Sunderland, Brighton.

10564, but i couldn't be arsed to zoom in and try to find roadsigns so that's not bad.

Exactly, going to footie for most people is just about having a laff with their mates. It's a concept lost on the average SWF football geek.

Europe has to be the aim.

I don't doubt it's a nice place but if I ever read "safer than a lot of Middle Eastern countries" on a holiday brochure it would be a bit off-putting.

****s

thank ****ing **** for that

Weird thing is we could still make 10th. If we go down from the position we were in it will have been one of the most spectacular f*ck-ups ever.

We have better fixtures but being 1 point of the relegation zone with 2 to play is in the sh!t.

We are right in the sh!t now.

Exactly, it's a freak season. You get the impression some people don't even look at the league table before posting.

Why is it so hard for you to understand what "realistic target" means? I shall put is it simply for you, it's where we could have possibly finished in the best case scenario, not, I repeat NOT. Again, that is NOT where we expect to finish, just where we COULD have finished given the way we were playing and the run in we have. With a small amount of luck in the West Ham and Swansea games we could be sat in 9th place right now, as it turns out we are 14th and a realistic target now would be 11th even though mathematically we could probably still finish 9th.

No one said we were certain of finishing 10th you stupid f*ck, just said it was a realistic target. Even someone as dumb as you must admit that a month or so ago it wasn't impossible to finish 10th. If Lamberts shot had gone a few more inches over the line against West Ham and we held out for the win or if Mayuka's late shot had gone in against Swansea we would be 1 point off 10th now. How was that not a realistic target a month ago?

No, someone suggested 10th was a realistic target and you gave them grief. At the time a tenth place finish was a very realistic target, as it was up to a couple of weeks ago, there was only a few points in it.

We havn't been that bad but 1 point from West Ham and West Brom at home is not great, and why we are still in trouble.