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Just a word for mr ploppypants:
We survived to fight another day. 
You might be next. 
And you might not be so lucky. 
 
Sweet dreams sunshine. 

Our two chief weapons are fear and surprise….surprise and fear….and a ruthless efficiency

Owners should be able to invest as much as they want to in a club, but if there was some way of banning them from racking up debt, but investing it as equity, then that would solve a lot of football’s problems in a stroke. No debt allowed, owners would only invest what they can afford to lose.

When this goes through we should feel ourselves very very lucky, this has been building in football for years, and as everyone has been telling us, a big club has to go under before anything changes.
Thanks to Mr. Clowes it won’t be us, but there are probably 10 - 15 clubs who are in far more debt than their club is worth. The next one could be the one to go pop.

When this goes through we should feel ourselves very very lucky, this has been building in football for years, and as everyone has been telling us, a big club has to go under before anything changes.
Thanks to Mr. Clowes it won’t be us, but there are probably 10 - 15 clubs who are in far more debt than their club is worth. The next one could be the one to go pop.

I’ve just driven past, it’s still in the same spot. 

When this goes through we should feel ourselves very very lucky, this has been building in football for years, and as everyone has been telling us, a big club has to go under before anything changes.
Thanks to Mr. Clowes it won’t be us, but there are probably 10 - 15 clubs who are in far more debt than their club is worth. The next one could be the one to go pop.

When this goes through we should feel ourselves very very lucky, this has been building in football for years, and as everyone has been telling us, a big club has to go under before anything changes.
Thanks to Mr. Clowes it won’t be us, but there are probably 10 - 15 clubs who are in far more debt than their club is worth. The next one could be the one to go pop.

I’ve just driven past, it’s still in the same spot. 

When this goes through we should feel ourselves very very lucky, this has been building in football for years, and as everyone has been telling us, a big club has to go under before anything changes.
Thanks to Mr. Clowes it won’t be us, but there are probably 10 - 15 clubs who are in far more debt than their club is worth. The next one could be the one to go pop.

When this goes through we should feel ourselves very very lucky, this has been building in football for years, and as everyone has been telling us, a big club has to go under before anything changes.
Thanks to Mr. Clowes it won’t be us, but there are probably 10 - 15 clubs who are in far more debt than their club is worth. The next one could be the one to go pop.

When this goes through we should feel ourselves very very lucky, this has been building in football for years, and as everyone has been telling us, a big club has to go under before anything changes.
Thanks to Mr. Clowes it won’t be us, but there are probably 10 - 15 clubs who are in far more debt than their club is worth. The next one could be the one to go pop.

When this goes through we should feel ourselves very very lucky, this has been building in football for years, and as everyone has been telling us, a big club has to go under before anything changes.
Thanks to Mr. Clowes it won’t be us, but there are probably 10 - 15 clubs who are in far more debt than their club is worth. The next one could be the one to go pop.

When this goes through we should feel ourselves very very lucky, this has been building in football for years, and as everyone has been telling us, a big club has to go under before anything changes.
Thanks to Mr. Clowes it won’t be us, but there are probably 10 - 15 clubs who are in far more debt than their club is worth. The next one could be the one to go pop.

Owners should be able to invest as much as they want to in a club, but if there was some way of banning them from racking up debt, but investing it as equity, then that would solve a lot of football’s problems in a stroke. No debt allowed, owners would only invest what they can afford to lose.

Can’t you just be grateful that we’ve got a club to support, and worry about the Champions League push when we’ve stabilised a bit? Hmm?

That might make most of the Kirchner problems go away, but it doesn't solve the problem that nobody else was willing to match his bid, to put their money where their mouth was at the time.
We'd quite possibly just have seen more weeks of speculation with Ashley trying to drive the price down further, Appleby still trying to find investors for his bid, the usual.
Who was going to agree to a non-refundable deposit in March/April when the club already had enough funding to see out the season? You're risking a good option (on paper, regardless of how it turned out) dropping out with nobody to step into the void. 
Worse still you're risking the possibility of someone coming in with a seriously terrible lowball offer that you're then obliged to accept by virtue of it being the only one on the table.
 
Besides, all the time wasted with Kirchner wasn't actually a waste -
With a PB in place it allowed pretty much all of the groundwork to be firmed up in preparation for the eventual sale. That's why Clowes can 'do it in ten days', because the path has been trodden, the weeds extinguished and a clearer path to the finishing line unveiled.
The time wasted with Kirchner brought Clowes to the table in the first place - would he have stepped in if he wasn't already buying the stadium as part of Kirchner's bid?
So many variables and not at all as simple as some like to make it sound.

Can’t you just be grateful that we’ve got a club to support, and worry about the Champions League push when we’ve stabilised a bit? Hmm?

Sorry, I have to take issue with your point no.2, I can’t remember Newcastle ever playing in a European Cup Semi Final ?

Can’t you just be grateful that we’ve got a club to support, and worry about the Champions League push when we’ve stabilised a bit? Hmm?

Sorry, I have to take issue with your point no.2, I can’t remember Newcastle ever playing in a European Cup Semi Final ?

Sorry, I have to take issue with your point no.2, I can’t remember Newcastle ever playing in a European Cup Semi Final ?

Sorry, I have to take issue with your point no.2, I can’t remember Newcastle ever playing in a European Cup Semi Final ?

Sorry, I have to take issue with your point no.2, I can’t remember Newcastle ever playing in a European Cup Semi Final ?

Sorry, I have to take issue with your point no.2, I can’t remember Newcastle ever playing in a European Cup Semi Final ?