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Mike Ashley has seven offers for Newcastle Newcastle owner Mike Ashley's chances of securing a quick sale of the club have risen dramatically after it emerged that he had received approaches from seven possible bidders, none of them British. Although much of the attention has so far been focused on a group of Nigerian businessmen, advisers Seymour Pierce have been encouraged by the response they have had since being appointed to sell the club by the Sports Direct tycoon. Seymour Pierce are expected to spend the rest of this week assessing the bidders before recommending one offer to Ashley, who is seeking around £350  million for the club. The new details of the auction came as the former Newcastle United chairman Sir John Hall yesterday admitted that he was resigned to the club falling into foreign hands. Hall, who paved the way for sports retail tycoon Ashley to buy Newcastle last year by selling off his family's shares, said: "Roman Abramovich [Chelsea's owner] changed the game for ever. ''There's nobody in Britain wealthy enough who'd be interested in investing in a football club. Who has this sort of mega-money? ''Even Mike Ashley was finding it difficult with his wealth because £200  million is a lot of money. Premier League clubs are being bought as toys. They'll have them for a few years, then throw them away. These people don't know the passion of the fans. The Premier League is a tremendous brand but I fear for the game and for the fans.'' Hall defended his decision to sell to Ashley who has put the club back on the market following the angry reaction of fans to the resignation of manager Kevin Keegan less than four weeks ago. "When I met Mike Ashley and his advisors, they had the best intentions for the club," Hall added on Radio Five Live's Sportsweek. "He wanted to stay there and develop it, so I feel sad for him and sad for the club. He's a good businessman but a novice in the game, as I was when I first came into it. He was coming in to build for the long run and he is a football fan. He had a long-term vision." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/newcastle/3098277/Ashley-has-seven-offers-for-Newcastle-Football.html

surely you mean Juan Vargas (Jorge Vargas plays for another Italian team).......brilliant player mind and he was linked with us last season when he was at Catania but nowt came of it sadly.

bacon sarnies? very healthy ------------ Newcastle United's players have branded the appointment of new manager Joe Kinnear as "bizarre". One revealed to the People: "We were all looking forward to getting back into a good work-out on Friday morning to blow away the cobwebs after the Spurs defeat, but when we got to the training ground we were all herded on to a bus. "We weren't told where we were going but we ended up having a walk along the beach and seafront at Tynemouth. Then we went into a local cafe and had some bacon sandwiches. "The look on the faces of the people there told its own story. We then boarded the bus and told to go home. "That was our preparations for the match with Blackburn. It was all a bit bizarre to tell the truth."

interesting point made by Kinnear.........not just cuz we`ve got zero confidence. "Nicky Butt, who is a wonderful lad, Michael Owen and Shay Given are all personalities, but the other players are very quiet." Thought Geremi was another one........anyways, just going back to the `good old days` when we had no shortage of characters/talkers like Killer Kilcline/Beresford/Ferdinand/Asprilla/Shearer/Lee etc who would gee players, joke around etc to keep spirits up......we just don`t have that now. When the next transfer window opens we surely have to buy some players that are not only half decent(!) but are not quiet ,and shy away on the corner of the dressing room on match days.

Arsene clearly angling for the job IMHO. Sadly, he's nowhere near Geordie enough. quite clearly wouldn`t understand the area, passion of the fans

Exclusive: Temuri Ketsbaia wants Newcastle job By Richard Edwards, sundaymirror.co.uk 28/09/2008 Temuri Ketsbaia is a Champions League manager with Geordie connections who wants the Newcastle job. But Ketsbaia has blasted Newcastle's decision to appoint an interim boss - branding the position "a suicide job". The former St James' Park favourite is now managing Cypriot side Anorthosis Famagusta in this season's Champions League. Ketsbaia said: "This is no kind of solution to Newcastle's problems. "There is no point in appointing someone in a temporary role, you can't just sit there waiting for something to happen in the future." No amount of money would have persuaded Ketsbaia that the position was worth taking on matchby-match basis. "This kind of appointment is a suicide job," he said. Ketsbaia spent three seasons at St James' Park after being signed by Kevin Keegan in the summer of 1997 and was a firm favourite with the long-suffering Geordie faithful. And it's those fans that he feels are being let down by the current regime. He said: "Newcastle is a massive club and it's a real shame that they find - themselves in this situation. "From what I had seen Keegan was doing a good job of turning the club around but what happened was no surprise to me. "He walked out because he's the manager and it seemed that other people were going out and making the decisions that he should have been making. "We are seeing more and more directors of football coming in and doing the job the manager should be doing. "I had a great opportunity to play at Newcastle as a player, so why not as a manager?"

some "expert Sky Sports analysis" Going down Toon? http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11678_4203247,00.html

Aye, leave king Kev alone. It's not his fault he done a runner at the worst possible time leaving the club in the s***. Which other manager wouldn't have "done a runner" if put under the same circumstances ? Jose Mourinho? How about Bobby Robson? If you're not happy having players bought for you then he should have gone when Jonas arrived, not on the day after the transfer window closed which was the worst possible time. If it was any other manager the fans would want him hung by his bollocks. Jonas was the first player, and Keegan was happy with anyway...So what is your point ? But Keegan had never seen him play and admits he had to look him up on the Internet, so my point is obvious. If he's not happy having players bought in without his approval then why didn't he walk then? I'm not sure why it so hard for you to understand something simple like this...There were BETTER players wanted by Keegan that should have made the team much much stronger but Wise and co decided to bring Xisco, and that Uruguayan kid who are unknowns and never were going to strengthen an already weakened team by the sales of Milner without the approval of Keegan... Like who? Like the ones he identified but were never bought... Which were? Warnock and...? Ronaldinho, Lampard and Thierry Henry j/k

what was the reaction at the end of the match? players booed off the pitch?

FT

Werder Bremen [5 - 4] Hoffenheim

bring on the Ranger

ffs

2-1 Villa Carew

fkin hell.......watching the match live......Taylor again covering....fkin idiot

wasted freekick

emerton booked for foul on zog

Villa scored 1-1

so what`s the rest of the team news?

most likely. Newcastle vs West Brom is hardly the most attractive of games for the neutral(never mind us!)

Hughton is picking the team but Kinnear will be at the game "Chris Hughton is picking the side (against Blackburn), but I will go in and talk to the players before the kick off. It's no good staying away, I'll have to go and face the fans." http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_4199325,00.html

----------Given--------- Edgar-Colo-Cacapa-Bassong Duff-Geremi-Butt-Zog -------Owen-Xisco

didn`t realiise the reason he stepped down from Wimbledon was because he suffered a heart attack......I think he doesn`t realise what he`s got himself into now

saw this on skunkers http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3397/kkgm6.jpg

fkin hell