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Professional debt, yes. Personal debt, he might think he has a little way to go. If he's the player I think he is, he'll want to pay back and help those teammates he's been working alongside to help them achieve the dream goal of promotion

Very difficult one, as the top players often struggle with lesser players, even if their "motivation" skills get them some early success.

Our new huge youth set-up will certainly pay attention to everything Ashley says, if only because he might shoot one of them.

We’re in chairlift territory at £10m

It's one hell of a difficult appointment really. The exact opposite on the spectrum to the last appointment.

We need someone who will buy into being a head coach, not a manager, understand that they'll not be the decision maker on transfers and face sky high expectations from day 1 fuelled by our recent spends. They also need to play the "right" style of football to suit a squad they've not assembled.

On the plus point, they're coming into a really exciting opportunity, will pick up a really strong squad and it's not often you get to walk into a team sitting in the top 2 of the league!

Imagine the selection of crisps we could get with £10m

Note to self: Use "twelvety" more.

Second note to self: Nominate @Malone as Czar of making the English language more fun.

I think trousering us 8-10m would certainly pay any debt off, don't you.

‘Ashley Cole’s Wycombe’?

Hateful wretch of a player, shamed himself with that "almost crashed his car" quote at an the idea of a mere 50k a week contract offer.

But can he win against the likes of Northampton putting twelvety men behind the ball? That's the key consideration here.