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apparently Beale on a flight to Edinburgh on his own after todays game 
I knew you wouldn’t like that one but a lot of good points in there. One thing is for sure - imo - is the pride isn’t there if the BCB still hasn’t had the graffiti removed after 5 weeks.Here's a good one.
Another massive argument built on supposition, nonsense and, of course, the BCB to gain support and likes.
The argument seems to be that SAFC is just a money making outfit for KLD. This is 'proven' by the facts apparently. Those facts are that he's buying dross, appointing useless managers and happy to limp along in mid-table. It seems that's the best shop window to display and cash in on the players
And if you don't agree you need to wake up!
"Hopefully more and more people will now start to wake up to what’s going on.
KLD did NOT want to be a majority owner of this club and he plainly has no intention of investing a meaningful sum of money in to it. It’s going to be run as an asset trading house.
He bought a minority stake, and an elaborate offshore web of companies and ownership structures was then put in place to mask the fact that - contrary to what he and Donald etc told the fans - he didn’t actually have a “controlling stake”. In short, they went to great lengths to construct and conceal a lie.
Only when that lie was exposed in the press, was he forced to increase his stake; and even then, he increased it to the absolute bare minimum of a majority - 51%.
Every single thing this club has done since, has been first and foremost about minimising spend and/or maximising profit above all else. Both on and off the pitch.
The club shop fiasco, the kit supplier fiasco, the ticket office fiasco, the lack of any regard whatsoever for, or concrete action to protect, the safety of supporters in the North Stand, rolling out the red carpet for the mags - all are indicative of industrialised penny pinching and short term profiteering. They dress it up in the language of “sustainability”, “project” and “custodians” - and a certain cross-section of our support just laps it up and nods along.
On the pitch, the “model” is designed to turn a profit on players first and foremost - NOT to build a balanced squad. There’s no inherent problem at all with the first aim, obviously - but it can’t be at the expense and disregard of the latter. If it is, then we’re all being asked to support a profit centre, not a football team.
That’s why we have more cheap foreign attacking midfielders than we know what to do with, but no experience in key areas and - for example - no competent forwards with any track record, and no cover whatsoever in the middle of the pitch.
Have they signed some good players? Yes. Have they also signed plenty of dross? Yes. LOTS. Just like any club. However they’ve been doing it at a level which lends itself to penny pinching so far, and they’re running out of that rope as the club now gets back nearer to where it naturally should be. Don’t suppose anyone will be finding the Stewart, Lihadji and Gooch money down the back of a sofa any time soon. It certainly wasn’t anywhere to be seen in January - a third consecutive window in which the supporters have been short changed and Speakman/KLD have arrogantly ignored the glaring, obvious needs of the squad in favour of signing more cheap, foreign, “assets”.
This Michael Beale appointment is just the next chapter of that increasingly obvious trend. Cheap? Tick. You’re top of the list pal. That’s four managers now appointed by KLD. Every single one of them out of work and cheap. Coincidence? Of course not.
This is why I laugh every time some knacker tags me in to a match thread if we win a game, as if that proves me - and an increasing number of others - wrong. It doesn’t. My concerns are based on the big picture and the mounting pile of evidence as to where the club will be going in the medium/long term, if it’s continuously going to be run on the bread line. That’s fine for limping out of League One on the back of a fifth-place third tier finish, but it’s going to butter fewer and fewer parsnips as we try to get back to where we should be."
Something I heard yesterday at Brum.
If Arteta goes to Barca in the summer then Arsenal will make Beale their number 1 target to replace him. We need to react now and give him a 5 year deal.
If Arteta goes to Barca in the summer then Arsenal will make Beale their number 1 target to replace him. We need to react now and give him a 5 year deal.
It's beyond me how someone can truly concentrate on their job fully when they have to flit between the Northeast, London and Scotland and manage a football team.
Something I heard yesterday at Brum.
If Arteta goes to Barca in the summer then Arsenal will make Beale their number 1 target to replace him. We need to react now and give him a 5 year deal.
Seems legit
Can't be true mate. people have clearly stated Speakman won't admit it's not working ...
... and KLD won't pay the contract up.
Just read it on Facebook
Ooohhh. That’s not true never believe Facebook
Joking a side I don’t believe all I read on Facebook I’m sure we will find out if anything tommorow
I suppose this is where it's come from
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/fAzrcY...otChW_Sk78BKmaF1I4v1w625I0mk9nzC8f_CLkTTPHRm4
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/fAzrcY...otChW_Sk78BKmaF1I4v1w625I0mk9nzC8f_CLkTTPHRm4
if he goes this week sounds daft but that will make my mind up that KLD will be full owner by the end of the season
don't know mate , i think KLD would have the balls to do it, but will he give him more time, if you go off mowbrays record this season that got him sacked
it's the same as beale so on that you would think if the were keeping the same pattern he should
in theory go this week
Nothing to back up why I think this but I think he gets Swansea as a last chance saloon drop point there and they might act, awful run of fixtures after that
Apologies if ignorant but who are safc fan tv? Reliable or just daft YouTube knackers?
FfsWee Phillie set the channel up.
Can't see this being true at all tbh
I thought it was that lot when I realised I had them blocked on Twitter