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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.

That sums it up for me

Amazingly short memory syndrome again. Boumsong started his first game with a shaky performance against lower league oppisition! He did ok in some games early on but was never quite good. On the other hand Coloccini actually did do very well initially, you only have to look back to the threads much earlier in the season to see that. Who cares though, he'll be gone soon and I certainly won't be bothered one bit when he leaves, its neccesary after all. Severely debatable. Anyway. We'll be lucky to get over 5 mill on his performances this season. Have to see how far his previous rep will take him. Well you can debate it but I remember most people thinking he was doing very well initially, I can't remember many people thinking Boumsong was doing very well early on. lol The really funny thing is at the time he didn't

I think it all comes from one of his recent comments: "It has been catastrophic for everybody. I’ve lost my money and I’ve made terrible decisions. Now I want to sell it as soon as I can" People are assuming that when he says he's lost his money he means he's written off the money he's put into the club. He won't sell it for £100 million with a £106m debt anyway so he's going to have to right it off if he wants to sell it.

We paid £9.4 million as far as I remember, with another £1 million performance bonus, can't imagine that bonus was ever achieved.

That strategy might have made sense to a degree back then, but not now. There's no protests or calls for him to leave this time around, just fans waiting for a management position to be settled and resigned to supporting the club in the Championship. What would he look to gain from pretending he wants to sell? It won't apease anyone, as far as I can see he'd only achieve a massive reduction in season ticket sales for no advantage what so ever. Unless he's putting the club up for sale only as an attempt to stall on the appointment of a new manager? Seems quite a drastic way to do it, but he is an idiot. Still I just think he wants out.