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OFF THE MARKET !

Confirmed ....

Barry Moat's Newcastle United takeover plans in doubt Tyneside businessman Barry Moat's £80 million Newcastle takeover plans were left on a knife-edge on Tuesday night. By Rob Stewart Published: 9:20PM GMT 27 Oct 2009 Moat has been left exasperated by an inability to maintain dialogue with the sports retail tycoon since has he met owner Mike Ashley's revised asking price for the Championship club. Moat, a close ally of former Newcastle captain Alan Shearer, has effectively been frozen out of talks by Ashley who flew into Tyneside by helicopter on Tuesday afternoon for a brief visit. While Moat remains hopeful that he can strike a deal, he is bound to be concerned that the unpredictable Ashley will take the club off the market three months after it was put up for sale following relegation. Ashley dropped his asking price from £100 million earlier this month and challenged Moat to meet the new amount but then offered caretaker manager Chris Hughton the job on a permanent basis - the first sign that he was ready to keep the club. No one at the club was available for comment

No idea .. but he's been nothing but useless for us ..

I dont post very frequently .. but reallly .. With a halff decent replacement we would be mad not to sell him for anything more than £4m .. An attacking, creative midlfielder who .. cant pass, shoot or score ... we would be better off with Kinnear in Midfield!

Big article with direct quotes from Ashley in tommorows NOTW .. ill do it my way etc ... Only going to sit with the fans once in a while going forward ... wants to see the day that we are battering the likes of Chelsea and Man U .. Also said he had now paid 100M of debt off. .. And it was Mort who told him that it was time for a change with BSA ..

mmm

I'm not saying Roeder is the man for the job .. just that our current squad is no better than our position in the league suggests .. i accept a top manager may have got more out of the team, but unfortunately .. we dont have one.

We have spent the majority of the season with one recognised striker ... Irrespective of the manager, or the quality of our squad, this season was never going to be anything than mediocre at best...