Sour Mash

You think that would just leave £140m floating around to be invested in the team? No on-going running costs, liabilities or debts? Of course if we sell we will reinvest. But you are suggesting the club is going to be milked for money by KL?

Where have you seen anywhere, even speculation on here, about the owners earning significant monies out of the club year on year? It's not relevant.

You think anyone is going to be making £70m a year from the club?

We have a squad that can "genuinely, genuinely compete" for what?

I doubt Man Utd or Liverpool's summer transfer policy would be structured around our quick press releases.

All players can continue to progress year on year, at what point would you/NC sell them? It is easy for NC to sit there and say he wouldn't sell now, I can sit here and say the same, it's irrelevant, we're not the ones making the decisions of managing the situation.

I like Blackmore and respect his opinion, but I'm not sure why the timing is particularly bad PR, it won't make any difference to anything genuinely important.

Not exactly an easy thing to do though. I'm trying to think of the wording of such a statement that wouldn't make MP's position untenable, yet put some kind of pressure on him? Difficult one that. Agree, re Cork and Fonte, they should be easy ones to sort out.

I reckon this was the case for Lowe and definitely NC, you can see he loved it, the whole package, I wonder if he's partly kicking himself now with a bit of time and hindsight for not being a little bit more flexible with KL at the end of his tenure.

What is "archaic" about their policies? Their policy isn't to close borders entirely.

Ha what an Ego! He does seem a bit obsessed, good entertainment value as well I have to admit.

Are you really "very disappointed"?

So you vote for a party based on who else supports them and not based on key issues of the election? That doesn't make any sense.

You must have missed all the positive articles the Mail were doing on us earlier in the season.

Not a lot a guess. Still surprised that NC etc have been able to get so much out of Ashton and co, they really aren't great articles, even by his standards.

It's got be that. Still a bit misguided from NC, don't get the impression that KL wouldn't be sharp enough to spot that.

They're really getting their money's worth out of Neil Ashton and the Daily Mail. Unusual news, pity to see Dodd leaving the club, but assume there must be some sort of reason behind this change - jury currently out this end.

It's more than just CL football, its competing for trophies season in, season out.

You did say you were "not concerned" at speculation towards the end of the season.

You would think Schneiderlin would be happy with recent progress. Even if he doesn't make the world cup, who knows how things will pan out after that. Who is infront of him in the squad? Sissoko? Not exactly flush with Champions League appearances.

Pellegrini. Exciting news, cheers for sharing.

Terrible wind up efforts.

Do you honestly believe that?

It's not whether the new board are interested in progression though is it - if Schneiderlin wants to play Champons League football so much, he's going to have to seek a move regardless of what our board realistically do.