BottledDog

Shepherd's doing with our club exactly what Ashley did with Sports Direct. Hide the shit, sell high, buy back low. Bottom feeder of the highest magnitude.

Nope. Not until there is a bit more substance to it than quotes from some faceless source.

Hahaha, it was going alright up until then too. I wonder when that was recorded though. I cant imagine him putting Deco in at the moment. How can that strawberry scouse inspire confidence in anything serious, he just smacks of being a highly paid mug for these people to stick in the spotlight to hawk their dodgy investments. I really don't have a terribly good feeling about this Profitable Group....er....group.

From Todays 5iver - "Dear Mr Ashley, We are emailing you to inquire about the possibility of buying Newcastle United Football Club for £100m, as advertised on your website. We have always fancied the idea of owning our own football club and are currently in a position to invest in one, having recently received winning notification from Mr Austin Connor, a claim agent with the Ontario Lottery Corporation, that we have won exactly that amount in their latest draw for the promotion of the 2010 Soccer World Cup to be hosted in South Africa. We have been assured that the £100m will be deposited in our bank account just as soon as we have sent Mr Connor the £10,000 he needs to help facilitate the processing of our claim. Speaking of which, we were wondering if, as a gesture of goodwill ahead of our imminent purchase of your football club, you might be able to loan us this £10,000, as our own life savings are currently tied up helping Dr (Mrs) Mariam Abacha (M.O.N), the wife of the late head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the federal republic of Nigeria, who recently emailed us out of the blue to inquire if we might assist her in getting the $80m supposedly misappropriated by her late husband out of Nigeria, packed in trunk boxes in such a way to forestall anybody else having access to it. Once we have received our own 40% share of this bounty, we will obviously repay your £10,000 in full, with 15% on top for your co-operation. All we need from you is an assurance that you can handle the amount involved comfortably and that we can also trust you with this very arrangement. Oh ... and a cheque for £10,000 made out to us. Obviously we can imagine that a businessman as shrewd as yourself might be wondering why it is that somebody such as ourselves, who are London-based, overweight, fond of a beer and with neither ties to the north-east nor any discernible trace of business acumen would be willing to pay such an enormous amount of money for a football club, as it seems like the kind of foolhardy impulse-buy that only a congenital idiot would undertake, particularly without checking the books first. But you look trustworthy and have a nice face, not unlike that of the idiot that one might encounter sitting on a stile outside any English village. We look forward to hearing from you by return mail, All the best, The Fiver. PS While we are aware that you are looking for £100m for your club, we were wondering if perhaps you'd be willing to consider selling it for a knockdown price, as there are certain parts of it that we don't actually want: the entire playing staff, those fat blokes whose job it is to convene outside it and cheer raucously every time a new consignment of stationery is delivered to the club office, Shearer's bar, Shearer's tattoo parlour, Shearer's replica shirt shop, Shearer Stottie cake shop and Shearer."

Precisely. I couldn't give a fuck about them spending silly money, just spending sensibly where and when needed. Like Ashley fucking should have. Hmmm.... apart from their website being beyond shite, these folk seem a little dodgy, just out for self promotion, or at worst, scammers of the highest order. Regarding their business - "so i was right, dodgy as a £3 note." "This company advertise heavily on the ESPN-STAR Asia Sports channels. I thought it was dodgy when they changed names a while back. They are predicting 200% gains in just a few years. Have they not heard of the recent popular term "credit crunch"." Regarding interest in Liverpool - "Last year Profitable Group were supposed to buy Everton and then Newcastle according to the UK and Singapore press both of which later turned out to be completely untrue. Some clever high profile brand association work by someone though with enough rumour being passed around that the normally reliable UK Guardian claimed Profitable Group were looking for complete control of Newcastle. It all turned out to be completely untrue in the end so throw some large pinches of salt in the direction of a Profitable Group and Liverpool FC relationship until Liverpool FC say something." etc... etc... from: http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=599820&nmt=Profitable%20Group%20-%20Concorde%20Village http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/450/RipOff0450409.htm http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/978232 Oh, check out their lovely adverts including this one. http://www.profitablegroup.com/group-mediaplayer.aspx?cid=5&media=1

Is this the same Steve McMahon who does odd bits of studio work and vile investment opportunity adverts on the dodgy Asian sport channel streams? God I hate that fucker. Steve McMahon OUT!

Freddy Shepherd already has more of my money that he deserves, far more. I have no base faith in that money grabbing cunt. He will have to work a hundred times more than any other "unknown" investor to get anything as close to as much out of me again.

I'm an optimistic chap. As it stands there is very, very, very little to be optimistic about.

That was Per Ciljan Skjelbred. And we'd much rather have him than Huseklepp Thought is they would both come, even to the championship. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/breaking-news/2009/04/29/united-klepping-tabs-on-wing-ace-72703-23500460/ Should sign them both up really if they are really both interested in coming. I hope we try and prise Kevin Doyle away from Reading and Beckford would be a good addition if the price is right. We will need to get an experienced Striker in though, like James Beattie (who will not be available to us). Doyle, Ranger, Carroll, Beckford, Huseklepp and experienced striker would be a decent front line to choose from. Then there is the possibility we might still be lumbered with Ameobi and have lovenkrands around. Skjelbred seems a bit of a sickly lad. http://www.offthepost.info/2009/06/video-norwegian-player-loves-to-vomit-on-the-pitch/

Surely if it bothers you so much you don't go spreading it around the net? Bother me? Not in the slightest. I'm more than happy to showcase the effort they go to in pluming new depths.

Sorry if already posted but christ on a bike, they never fail to amaze me. http://api.photoshop.com/home_f6af789f50f14ec681c315830bb2d97d/adobe-px-assets/9284050d8ec3482b8aebf75461f593b5 http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/SAFC-joker-signs-Shearer-for.5318567.jp

It doesn't say Ashley's in Dubai thankfully. Just that Keith Harris blerk.

? Why are you blaming KK for Ashley's doing? KK will be hurting cos he cares but as we all know he wont be s*** on. Ashley will also be hurting but that comes out of hurt self pride and money; nowt to do with the club and the fans. Cares? Fuck that. If he cares, let's see him drop the fucking court case. Fingers crossed.

? What have you done to prove your anger? I'll mark it from one to fucking ten.

I am in a similar mood, I've started coming to terms with the fact we might be in the Championship next season and the one positive I will take out of it is that a mass clearout will mean I won't have to suffer watching this shower of s**** dragging our name through the mud any more. Hell I might even start enjoying football again. That is assuming Ashley either f***s off or lets Shearer rebuild properly. feel the same! really really hope shearer stays on....if we go down and shearer leaves then we could have a problem!He must be the best suited for the job, i guess! Better than Dave Bassett?

Who's the source of the source?

I thought he was on a 3 year contract, in fact I would be amazed if he wasn't, you would not sign a young player on a 2 year contract, that means he's still got 2 more seasons. So he won't bwe available on a free. Even if he were out of contract, he would still cost a club money because he'd be too young to qualify for a bosman. I agree though, no way in hell any team will pay 8-10 million for him, he's simply not shown that class yet, 5 million is the max we'll get. Well considering Arsenal are preparing a £15m move for Brede Hangeland. (*cough* The Sun)

Do you really find it staggering though, considering what manner of dickheads the people running the club have been proven to be time and time again? Dickheads is one thing but to go out of your way to mislead people about something which didn't even need to be brought up is just pathetic. Hope the story is true and only playing devil advocate here but the source for this story is, well, an unamed source.

Huh, where did that come from? The only quotes are pretty positive (if a little old). Non story.

Has to be utter balls. Yes there will be meetings, that's not news, but none of them will have been planned or relying on any set budgets yet considering that so much depends on Sunday.

It's an interseting moral delima and worthy of a poll in my opinion. Do you love your club enough to partake in some mano y mano activities, in much the same way as "gay for pay" porn stars. Ferguson, Hiddink on O'Neil are just longing for some good servicing. Hiddink's already refused to play a weakened team, so that leaves just O'Neill and Purple Face's purple headed warrior. Yup, don't like to blow my own trumpet nevermind anyone elses, but I've already sorted out Gus. Time for the rest of yous to step up to the plate methinks.

As his daughter said, whatever happens he didn't get to see us going down. God bless you sir, you have no idea how often you song accompanies me when I head back accross the Tyne if I've been away for a while.

We came here for eight weeks then we're off, insists Shearer's Newcastle assistant boss Dowie http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1185288/We-temporarily-insists-Shearers-Newcastle-assistant-Dowie.html

Christ no. Apologies, but there's just something about him that really strongly disagrees with me. Fuck Darren Furguson. Fuck his lispy accent, and fuck his rubber face. Darren Furguson out.

Think it came out that he wanted to move back south, but seemed to be more a falling out between him and Keegan. Most people at the time couldn't see the logic behind losing him outside of any personal issues.