madras

I suppose a quick way of looking at it is that on a turnover (income) of £100 million the club is losing maybe £20 million a year in the Premiership. Lets say incoming revenue drops to £60 million in the Championship so Ashley needs to save £40 milion of costs to get back to where he was in the Prem and he needs to save about £60 million of costs to get to break even. You might be able to drop £30 million off the wage bill (if you are lucky) so he would still be well out of pocket. Hmm, still quite a lot then. Cheers. The club is a financial basket case imo and has been for a few years but, as it stands right now, it is onto a whole new level. Just waiting for Ashley to offer a free pair of trainers and a Sports Direct t shirt to anyone who sticks a bid in before midnight tbh. on the other hand £100mill for a club of this size with no creditors and potential (ie get the wage bill down and return to the prem) should attract some business. surely that it what business is about ?

it's a shame noel edmonds isn't doing his swap shop anymore........ "hello who's that" "it's mike" noel...."hello mike, what have you got" mike..."a football club.....newcastle united football club" noel..."is it in good working order ?" mike..."well some bits are broken and a bit worn out but you can still get a game out of it" noel...."and what would you like to swap for your football club mike" mike....."a scalextrik or a buckaroo please"

By asset management company CB holdings. seems like it's only us left.

what ? it hasn't just been delivered in the last 10mins has it ?

I got the feeling it was after Ashley heard the Shearer/Dowie conditions that he paraphrased "f*** it, can't be arsed with this - I'm selling." Hence the negotiations ended up in limbo. thats tyhe feeling i got. not so much on the personal terms but with regard to how much they wanted him to put up.

or suspended the first time round or jailed. (at which point he should've been sacked)

is there a forum just for championship football ?

shearer can't walk out as yet as he hasn't anything to walk out of.

1 point more than the team in third.

even before alf common. it's always been about money.

hows this to set the cat amongst the pigeons.......... i'd take fred back (as i think he may well have shit himself at the position the club was in when he left) and we'd be (imo) unlikely to see those levels of debts and wages again because of it. i wouldn't want keegan in charge of the playing side again.

we have dropped off the premiership page on newsnow

his boss said they were aiming for top half.

nolan to hull would improve our midfield.

the tempo and fitness is very much the same as the prem, it's the technical stuff that makes the differences. if anything the fizzy pop division may be more so as i'd guess quite a few players will use the fitness angle to try and make up for their lack of technique.

so he wasn't a leader throughout his international career cos he didn't take a penalty ? and i would have both batty and southgate up before adams. Why? Batty had never taken a penalty before that miss in 1998 yet he still showed more leadership qualities in doing so than Adams, who was hiding in the centre circle at the time. Again it's back to 'lead by example' because he had more ball skill than adams.......i'd rather beye than bassong take a penalty type thing. also that one incident means he wasn't a leader throughout his time as an international ? One incident? WTF are you on about? Did you watch Euro 96 when we had a few penalty shoot outs (without Adams volunteering to step up at any time) or the 98 World Cup where again Adams went missing at the crucial time? Or did you think both Southgate and Batty missed pens on the same day? or maybe he thought he wasn't very good at penalties

so he wasn't a leader throughout his international career cos he didn't take a penalty ? and i would have both batty and southgate up before adams. Why? Batty had never taken a penalty before that miss in 1998 yet he still showed more leadership qualities in doing so than Adams, who was hiding in the centre circle at the time. Again it's back to 'lead by example' because he had more ball skill than adams.......i'd rather beye than bassong take a penalty type thing. also that one incident means he wasn't a leader throughout his time as an international ?

so he wasn't a leader throughout his international career cos he didn't take a penalty ? and i would have both batty and southgate up before adams.

I know I can't really back up this following statement, but in my opinion ... If Owen isn't captain and say Beye or even Butt was I believe we stay up. We missed staying up by one point. I believe a more vocal and instructive leader would have at least got one more point for us this season in one of the many close calls we had when we just needed that extra push. How demoralising it must have been to see the club captain so quiet, sour faced and dejected when were struggling. well beye or even butt should have a long hard look at themselves if they feel they need an arm band to be vocal and lead. I really wonder what our captain was ike off the pitch you know ... Through all those tought imes, did he ever take it upon himself to get the guys together on an off day and just hang out and try and kick back and get the team morale up and bond a bit? Without the manager or any of the coaches around? It's these little things that sometimes make all the difference. Owen's more likely to have been straight into his helicopter and out of the city. People talk about the owner not living in the city. The captain of the team didn't! Crazy stuff. why couldn't anyone else do it. did tony adams become a shrinking violet cos shearer was his captain when playing for england. no. the captain wears the armband and calls heads or tails. you don't need the arm band to lead Adams is a bad example to quote he hid whenever England had to take penalties. Where was the 'lead by example' ethic there? Also I remember the t*** in the papers whinging that he should be the captain instead of Shearer, then criticising Al for retiring from international duty. 'I'd never turn my back on my country' he said........................before retiring from internationals himself a few games later have it your way then. tony adams wasn't a leader. Well you did specifically quote Adams on England duty when he was far from a leader. Clubwise I would agree with you but not for international duty. adams was still a leader in the international set up, possibly not confident about taking penalties, lets face it in the england team of the time he'd be the last oner i'd pick to take one.

if it's true then ashley can walkaway walkaway,from cullercoats and whitley bay, he can walkaway

Nah, its the Sultan of Oman. Different kettle of fish apparantly. they aren't the sultans, they aren't the sultans of swing

keep his wallet fat ? so far he is about 230mill down on the deal.

I know I can't really back up this following statement, but in my opinion ... If Owen isn't captain and say Beye or even Butt was I believe we stay up. We missed staying up by one point. I believe a more vocal and instructive leader would have at least got one more point for us this season in one of the many close calls we had when we just needed that extra push. How demoralising it must have been to see the club captain so quiet, sour faced and dejected when were struggling. well beye or even butt should have a long hard look at themselves if they feel they need an arm band to be vocal and lead. I really wonder what our captain was ike off the pitch you know ... Through all those tought imes, did he ever take it upon himself to get the guys together on an off day and just hang out and try and kick back and get the team morale up and bond a bit? Without the manager or any of the coaches around? It's these little things that sometimes make all the difference. Owen's more likely to have been straight into his helicopter and out of the city. People talk about the owner not living in the city. The captain of the team didn't! Crazy stuff. why couldn't anyone else do it. did tony adams become a shrinking violet cos shearer was his captain when playing for england. no. the captain wears the armband and calls heads or tails. you don't need the arm band to lead Adams is a bad example to quote he hid whenever England had to take penalties. Where was the 'lead by example' ethic there? Also I remember the t*** in the papers whinging that he should be the captain instead of Shearer, then criticising Al for retiring from international duty. 'I'd never turn my back on my country' he said........................before retiring from internationals himself a few games later have it your way then. tony adams wasn't a leader.

I know I can't really back up this following statement, but in my opinion ... If Owen isn't captain and say Beye or even Butt was I believe we stay up. We missed staying up by one point. I believe a more vocal and instructive leader would have at least got one more point for us this season in one of the many close calls we had when we just needed that extra push. How demoralising it must have been to see the club captain so quiet, sour faced and dejected when were struggling. well beye or even butt should have a long hard look at themselves if they feel they need an arm band to be vocal and lead. I really wonder what our captain was ike off the pitch you know ... Through all those tought imes, did he ever take it upon himself to get the guys together on an off day and just hang out and try and kick back and get the team morale up and bond a bit? Without the manager or any of the coaches around? It's these little things that sometimes make all the difference. Owen's more likely to have been straight into his helicopter and out of the city. People talk about the owner not living in the city. The captain of the team didn't! Crazy stuff. why couldn't anyone else do it. did tony adams become a shrinking violet cos shearer was his captain when playing for england. no. the captain wears the armband and calls heads or tails. you don't need the arm band to lead

bananas ?