Perhaps events at Bolton, Burnley and Portsmouth will work in our favour. You don't like to see other clubs suffering financial meltdown, but Portsmouth will surely soon have to flog all their stars and go into administration, consigning them to the drop.
While Burnley must be likely candidates for relegation without Owen Coyle. (And maybe it's a good time to bid for Chris Eagles who looks a good player on his form against us?).
Meanwhile Bolton may suffer from the upheaval of Coyle wanting to bring his own players in - Redknapp at Pompey apart, most clubs who change managers mid-season don't beat the drop. They might just make it though, which leaves us fighting it out with Hull, Wolves Wigan and Blackburn for the third relegation spot. And if we get just a new owner (seems we have four bidders) you'd have to be optimistic of finishing above one of them.
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It all comes down to the sell of the club imo.
No sell = no money = selling our best = going down.
new owners = confidence = money = new players = best players staying = staying up.
Not sure about the supposed takeover bids. You only have to look at Portsmouth to see how badly it can go wrong, but it would be nice to have an end to the uncertainty. If there is an auction, forcing the price up, presumably there will be less to invest in the team.
off topic, but is there any doubt about the Wolves game going ahead? Fulham have postponed tomorrow...
Takeover saga might be settled this week according to the NOTW. Agree with TBI, a spirit of optimism might lead to players wanting to sign for us again and a turnaround of the whole club. Although we might get someone like the chancers at Pompey too...
Really we are pretty powerless at present. The Aztecs liked the odd human sacrifice in order to placate the Gods and bring rain so we could try that. And plenty of injured stars who might not be missed... Or maybe a spot of yogic levitation...
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