Smurf Out 2.0

[Santa]

No in my opinion he’s artificially inflating the price of the club to give himself more room to negotiate a price for the club.

Any potential buyer would see right through that.

 

So what are we saying 1.2-1.5m If that’s the case people will realistically start to bid at around £1m.

 

Two parties bid £1.25 million in the summer. He rejected both. Reportedly he wanted £6.7 million.

 

It’s costing the club nothing as long as Norman isn’t charging interest.If he writes it off,happy days.If he wants it back,as you say,it’s not unreasonable for him to want it.

What I said was it if someone was valuing the club, it would be a fair assumption that the loan would want paying back. I'm not convinced that some of his failures for which he wants his money back are reasonable.

[Hagrid]

It’s costing the club nothing as long as Norman isn’t charging interest.If he writes it off,happy days.If he wants it back,as you say,it’s not unreasonable for him to want it.Keith Ryder will want his money back at some stage,I assume.What I find amusing,Santa,is the amount of people who think we should be in for every player available,then ‘we. should have got him’kicks in when we don’t.I presume Neil has a mind.We should have a carpetesque pitch to play on and get us into the Championship,where Norman said he was going to take us.Get John Amos to sort out a few roll ends.Continually requesting the owner to **** off on a daily basis but expect him to bring in new players with some more of his money and in the same breath say they won’t be going again until he does.Strange but true.

 

So, in your eyes, as fans are unhappy at how the clubs been rinsed the past 18 months, Norm has every right to neglect his responsibility of Club Custodian (as he called himself very early on in his tenure) and is fully justified in leaving Aspo with a lower budget at the end of a crucial window?

 

Fans want a GK, cus we have 2 and neither of them are very good. We have had 9 since Alnwick, all inadequate. How are you failing to grasp this?

 

I can't quite figure out whats gone wrong for you.

[Hagrid]

Where did I state we should get a 36 year old has been goalie not wanted by his club,hasn’t played all season and has been snatched from under Norman’s nose,not Neil’s,to go to Yeovil?a region which he comes from.Me,contrary? Behave.

 

Considering the budget lowered throughout January, I doubt Aspo could even entertain the prospect of a goalkeeper who is proven at this level. The club can't afford it.

[Howjy04]

So, in your eyes, as fans are unhappy at how the clubs been rinsed the past 18 months, Norm has every right to neglect his responsibility of Club Custodian (as he called himself very early on in his tenure) and is fully justified in leaving Aspo with a lower budget at the end of a crucial window?

 

Fans want a GK, cus we have 2 and neither of them are very good. We have had 9 since Alnwick, all inadequate. How are you failing to grasp this?

 

I can't quite figure out whats gone wrong for you.

Please list the examples of rinsing.Cheers.

[Howjy04]

So let me get this right.People want him to leave for the same money as Keith Ryder leant him,1.25m.A new owner comes in and buys the club for that amount.So the new owner then has 2m from the Hughill deal to offset against the purchase price.Hey presto ! New owners make 750k.The queue to buy Vale will extend to Hanley.Please correct my maths if needed.

[Santa]

So let me get this right.People want him to leave for the same money as Keith Ryder leant him,1.25m.A new owner comes in and buys the club for that amount.So the new owner then has 2m from the Hughill deal to offset against the purchase price.Hey presto ! New owners make 750k.The queue to buy Vale will extend to Hanley.Please correct my maths if needed.

Really?

[Hagrid]

Please list the examples of rinsing.Cheers.

 

I don't know how you use it but I use 'rinsing' as a slang term to mean making someone/thing look bad.

 

I don't have the time or inclination to list everything he's done.

[Doha]

I don't know how you use it but I use 'rinsing' as a slang term to mean making someone/thing look bad.

 

I don't have the time or inclination to list everything he's done.

 

Luckily someone has taken the time to chronologically detail his incompetence for us all.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Smurthwaite

[Howjy04]

Really?

 

According to Old Sage.Who am I to disagree or argue the toss with people in the know?

[Santa]

Oh, sorry. I thought you were being ingenuous.

[jjvale_03]

Luckily someone has taken the time to chronologically detail his incompetence for us all.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Smurthwaite

 

The only thing missing there is the biggest indication that he hadn't a clue what he was doing from the beginning - his quote equating the running of Port Vale Football Club to running Stoke Audi.

[SuperValiant1876]

So he said he would do whatever it took to make sure we didn't go down. If we go down people can moan about the window then but it doesn't look like we will go down. I am inclined to wait and see what we can do in the summer with the money saved in Jan. Until then all of this bashing of the owner will not help in any way whatsoever, its pointless.

[Hagrid]

So he said he would do whatever it took to make sure we didn't go down. If we go down people can moan about the window then but it doesn't look like we will go down. I am inclined to wait and see what we can do in the summer with the money saved in Jan. Until then all of this bashing of the owner will not help in any way whatsoever, its pointless.

 

I canna be bothered anymore lads.

 

If we go down, and are in non-league, and face extinction, then SuperValiant1876 will let us air our grievances about going from mid table League 1 to 19th in League 2 in 18 months. When its all too late. We'll all have a good moan after its happened.

 

Christ man wake up and see that we can't sit by and let this happen.

 

Take a read of his wiki that Doha posted, and then continue to urge silent acquiescence as our club is shafted by a man motivated by £s.

[Hagrid]

We did nothing last season, not wanting to distract from the relegation battle.

 

Smurf ****** off, lobbed Fradley into the fray, and we didn't see him again till he sacked Brown.

 

We can't afford to wait till the end of the season to exert pressure on him to sell; he won't have to face it in the off-season.

 

We can't postpone again. Look where it got us.

[bookworm]

Smurf aint going nowhere until he's trousered all the hugill money and safely negotiated HMRC citing vale as a tax loss. he doesn't give a shyte about the club and wont until he's creamed every bit of financial advantage out of the club that's why he wont give a toss if we are relegated as he'll have 2 years virtually tax free to savour, just remember money is his god and his god isn't here to help us.