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You think we should keep him then? unless we're offered £8m plus, absolutely. He's still an big asset and well though of on the continent I'd be staggered if we get offered anywhere close to £8m, regardless of his reputation. He's on megabucks too (something about this being a lifechanging financial opportunity iirc) so he needs shifting. He was on less than £20,000 per week at Depor according to their fans. His agent said we were doubling his wage, so he's probably on between £38k-£40k. Also we paid 11.3m Euros as far as I remember (with a further 1 million Euro's based on performance). So I'd be asking for between 8.5m and 9m Euros. I think he's on a little bit more than that. If we have 15 over 50k a week, I would doubt very much that Colo isn't one of them. Like I said he was on under £20k at Depor and his agent said the offer was to double his wages. I'm not sure about the 15 players on over £50k either, certainly possible but I saw that list in the SUN and it had Xisco on £50k, which I don't believe for one second.

You think we should keep him then? unless we're offered £8m plus, absolutely. He's still an big asset and well though of on the continent I'd be staggered if we get offered anywhere close to £8m, regardless of his reputation. He's on megabucks too (something about this being a lifechanging financial opportunity iirc) so he needs shifting. He was on less than £20,000 per week at Depor according to their fans. His agent said we were doubling his wage, so he's probably on between £38k-£40k. Also we paid 11.3m Euros as far as I remember (with a further 1 million Euro's based on performance). So I'd be asking for between 8.5m and 9m Euros.

Yes the boro game could have gone the other way as most games can, the Portsmouth game could have ended with us winning or Portsmouth winning, same goes with Fulham. We also had to play 3 teams from the top 5 plus an in form Spuds team so it was hardly a easy run. We didn't improve a great deal but IMO the major difference was that under Hughton we wouldn't have won a game.

explain how this will happen? Seeing that Ashley is the sole owner he is hardly likely to put the club into administration. Ashley does not own NUFC, a holding company owns NUFC. Ashley is a debtor to the tune of £100m. If the bank refuse to bankrole the wages and NUFC holdings is bankrupt the club would enter administration. In such a case the administrators would seek to settle any debtors, in this case Ashley, through a sale of the club. Before entering administration the holding company must make every effort to sell the club hence announcing an asking price of £100m. Ashley would get some or even all of his £100m debt back in one lump sum, effectively writing off the £130m purchase price. We would be deducted points and most probably be playing Leeds Utd the following season. Dont think this is possible? lets see. Ashley owns the holding company so of course he owns NUFC. So to recap, you think he's put the club up for sale at £200m so that when the club inevitably doesn't sell he can put it into administration and get £100m back I don't know where to start there like. Firstly he wouldn't get £100m back, debtors get a fraction of the money a club owes them when it goes into administration. Secondly why would he deliberately put a price on the club he knows no one will offer in order to eventually make back £100m through administration? Why not just sell for £101m now? By the way, we don't owe Barclays £40m, Ashley is supposed to be looking to setup a working capital overdraft of £40m, supposedly anyway.

Yeah we'd have gone down by 2 or 3 points instead

Saggy face offered £8 million for him a year before we got him, so IMO we should be looking for at least £6.5- £7 million.

The bank didn't put the club into administration so I can't see there being any punishment. As far as I know they accepted the club as payment of the owners/clubs debts.

West Ham weren't for sale. Get your facts straight, West Ham haven't been bought out, in effect the club has been siezed by a bank because it was unable to pay its debts.

Nobody who hasn't heard that Newcastle is for sale already is going to stumble accross the nufc.co.uk site

He's on no more then £40,000 per week, hardly massive comparatively.

Has any other club sold recently put a page up on their official website confirming the asking price? Genuine question, because I don't know that they have. It just seems laughably desperate to me. The email address is just the icing on the cake, they're practically begging. In any case, aren't they supposedly paying Keith Harris to find a buyer? Considering this same info is in just about every national news paper and on the biggest Sports news channel in the country I really doubt they thought "I know loads and loads of random billionaires visit NUFC.co.uk, we're missing a trick here". Its an official statement, probably primarily for fans. Whoever has put it on the site has worded the last line poorly so I suppose it deserves a bit of mickey taking But I wouldn't actually draw conclusions about the status of the sale from it.

Name another club who has made one of these 'very ordinary' statements. Do you usually look around on the official web sites of every Football club on the planet like because I certainly don't.

From reading the forum I was expecting the link to be ebay or something, rather then a very ordinary club statement What a drama over absolutely nowt. I'm glad they've confirmed the price they want officially anyway, unlike last time

Is it so beyond these morons to ask the possible buyers if they would object to Shearer being made permenant manager before any takeover is completed?

The most important thing IMO is enthusiasm and knowledge. Wether the new owner has £10 billion or £200 million means nowt unless they have the desire to invest in the club and the knowledge to run the club successfully. Just having money doesn't cut it, Ashley had billions and still has hundreds and hundreds of millions but he didn't have the desire or the knowledge.

That's the thing though you might say the likes of Manures debts are only managaeble while they're in the top 4 but it is manageable none the less. We were in a position where our debt, and continued losses, were nowhere near manageable.

Love how people use debt in such a generalised way and ignore the differences between the situation we were in with debt and the situation a lot of other Premiership clubs are in.

The papers once again talking about this mythical £40 million debt that doesn't fucking excist

Was the bloke you were arguing with looking back at you through a big shinny object on the wall?

That quote isn't from Mick Quinn, its just the last line of the article so its from the "journalist", as some like to call them.

Who will call in the administrators? The players? Fucking hilariously stupid the press like

What work can he do like?

He could have achieved the same thing by simply appointing any half way competent manager when Kinnear had his heart problem.

As soon as Ashley put this in the hands of the banks he was taking a sideways step from handing Shearer the job. It's a kop out of the highest order and I think we need to start looking at alternative choice managers, though for the life I me I don't know where to start. Joe Kinnear probably. Ashley and Llambias are deluding themselves if they think any other half-decent manager won't say exactly the same as Shearer regarding what's needed to rebuild. Then again, someone like Kinnear will probably say nothing of the sort. What makes you think Ashley wants to rebuild? Administration looks more likely to me. I still don't see the point of that. How does administration help Ashley?

you laugh, but we wish we were in their position. As far as being in the Premiership this season yes, obviously. Doesn't mean they aren't mental for thinking they can sign Hleb though.