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Interesting backroom team. 1 x English and 2 x Spanish : "...However, that was exactly what did happen, with Jones and three of his coaching staff, Gary Brabin, Inigo Idiakez and Imanol Etxeberria all moving on..."

Here's hoping a future owner will involve King Kev in some capacity before he gets too old.

Felicia Tan Published on Mon, Aug 24, 2020 / 11:11 AM GMT+8 / Updated 7 hours ago Axington shares drop 20% following admission of doctored Obama photos by company in Newcastle United takeover bid Shares in management consulting company Axington Inc fell 20% to 18 cents as at 9.40am. The Catalist-listed company was bought over by former investment bankers and cousins Nelson Loh and Terence Loh in June 2020. The Loh cousins were in the news on August 16 for attempting to take over English football club, Newcastle United, through the Bellagraph Nova (BN) Group. The BN Group came about through the merger between the Lohs’ Dorr Group and Evangeline Shen’s Bellagraph Group in June. On August 22, the cousins made headlines again after the BN Group admitted to altering photos of former US President Barack Obama to make them look as if they met in a meeting in Paris, France. According to Reuters, there was no company by the name of Bellagraph Nova Group that has been registered in France, according to official online records. The company was not at its given address at 10 Place Vendome either. The BN Group also said that Hydra X -- a financial technology firm -- is one of its entities and is implementing a trading system for the Singapore Exchange (SGX). When contacted, Hydra X denied both claims. The SGX has also denied the claims. Axington Inc, which was formerly known as Axcelasia till April this year, announced a proposed renounceable non-underwritten rights issue to raise some $9.4 million through 95.2 million new ordinary shares at an issue price of 10 cents for each rights share on July 28. Axington Inc also intends to change its name to NETX Inc, as well as its core business to the provision of medical and consumer wellness services, as well as making investments in medical technology, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) in the medical and consumer wellness space. An EGM will be held on Thursday for shareholders to vote on these proposals. Shares in Axington Inc rose by 21.05% to 23 cents on August 20. Previously, prices grew by 11.76% to 19 cents from July 8 to August 19 following a-month-long trading suspension, as the company undertakes a compliance placement to meet listing requirements. The shares last traded at 17 cents. Nelson and Terence Loh are also owners of the Singapore-based Novena Global Lifecare group, which provides medical and aesthetic services. The cousins chose not to go ahead with their plans for a Taiwan IPO for the group, and instead, sought investors from China instead. Since then, Novena Global Lifecare has attracted notable Chinese investors including Shunwei Capital, Sinovation Ventures, and the state-owned Sinopharm Group. Shunwei Capital and Sinovation Ventures are co-founded by Xiaomi co-founder Lei Jun and former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee respectively. As at 11.36am, shares in Axington Inc are still trading 4.5 cents lower, or 20% down, at 18 cents. https://www.theedgesingapore.com/news/company-news/axington-shares-drop-20-following-admission-doctored-obama-photos-company

https://columbus-erp.com/about-us/the-board/ Gordon B. Stein is real and is CFO of Columbus Energy Resources PLC. His profile on website matches that described in his letter. Anyone familiar with this company?

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1707226/saudi-arabia Better pray for the health of Saudi King. If he goes up to the big tent in the sky, funeral rites & official mourning may take forever

So Saudi pay x millions to PL & compensate BeIN and gain rights to all PL games in Saudi. This way they won't infringe any of Qatari's claims of piracy. PL gets more money, BeIN cut loss & Takeover approved. Win Win Win?

https://www.football.london/tottenham-hotspur-fc/news/exclusive-assistant-boss-jesus-perez-15454817 Interesting bits about Pochettino's trusted right hand man - Jesus Perez .... "...After a spell as a fitness coach with the Saudi Arabian national team and then with Saudi side Al Ittihad, reaching the Asian Champions League final, he returned to Spain looking to take six months out of a game he was becoming jaded with ..."

Don't forget Steve Stone

Ashley is reverting NUFC back to the pre-Rafa model of buying players and giving them to the 'head coach'. Their job is then to make the player impress so the player can then be sold on at a profit. We're back to being a stepping stone club. Do well at NUFC and you'll be sold on to a better club. So Charnley makes the final call on who to sign on recommendations of Scouting team???

Steve McMahon was the public face of Profitable Group but it was a scam. Doubt they were real bidders. https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/profitable-plots-case-directors-jailed-3million-scam

Friday & Saturday are weekends in Middle East. So Sunday is the new Monday

Changed the game when he came on and his wicked freekick/assist was much better any other set play in recent times

The streaming boxes are a bigger problem for many Asian Broadcasters. For about GBP80 annually, you can watch ALL EPL games and all other non football channels too. Just go to Aliexpress and you can see the choice of boxes

Rafa said he hopes to complete the transfers by 20 Jan. Announcement will be either be then or whenever he completes his list of preferred list of January signings (loan & permanent)

Look on the bright side....he has signed permanently. Imagine the horror and fear if he got long term injury and doesn't fulfill the minimum number of games to make his transfer permanent.

Looks like Dietmar Hamman and with good sense of humour to boot http://nypost.com/2017/07/20/a-rare-peek-at-the-surprisingly-funny-nets-billionaire-owner/

http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/163574190511/george-weahs-cousin-is-ian-cathro-doomed-at George Weah’s Cousin - Is Ian Cathro doomed at Hearts? The tale of Ali Dia is perhaps one of the most entertaining bits of entirely innocent skullduggery in the annals of modern football. Player tries to get a club in the UK, ends up in non-league looking out of his depth after failing at trials at various lower league English clubs. Soon after, one of Dia’s mates calls up Graeme Souness, says that Dia is the cousin of then international superstar George Weah and that he should give him a look. Souness, doesn’t give him a look and, instead, signs him to a one month deal doesn’t see him play a reserve game due to weather and, instead, puts him on for his debut in a Premier League game, replacing Matt le Tissier as a sub, gets subbed himself and then is quickly released after Souness realises he’s been had. It’s an undeniably funny tale, made all the more entertaining by the fact that it happened to Graeme Souness. And some could be forgiven for thinking that it’s happening in Scotland. Ian Cathro might have brought with him extensive references from Rafa Benitez among other football luminaries, but if you were to tell Hearts fans he was a journeyman who had never and would never make it, then many of them might just think that you were right. Is this the right hand man to Rafa Benitez and a man who sowed the seeds for a near impeccable generation of Dundee United youth talent. Or is this some chancer who locked that guy up in a cupboard, made a pretendy CV and is actually some lookalike called Steve, from Coatbridge who is second cousin to Garry O’Connor? There has certainly been precious little evidence that Cathro is anything approaching even a managerial mediocrity, never mind a managerial genius. This has been a stick used to beat the statistical community with, which is wrong - Cathro’s methodology is sound, but how it is put into practice has varied between ham-fisted and cocked up. The enigmatic recruitment of his first transfer window ended in a mess and the recruitment of his second is all sound on paper, but on the pitch it has led to embarrassing losses to Peterhead and Dunfermline in the League Cup. That isn’t necessarily enough to condemn him on - for Hearts and many clubs, the BetFred Cup group stages is a way through pre-season, rather than to be the finished article from day one. To fire a manager based on having a poor BetFred Cup group would be akin to Manchester United sacking Jose Mourinho because they had a poor International Champions Cup campaign - call it proper competitive fixtures all you like, everyone knows that it’s not quite the real deal. But, as omens go, it’s not exactly a good one. Hearts’ Tynecastle refurb puts them away from home for the first four games, and none are especially nice trips. Pencilling in the first Edinburgh derby of the season as Cathro’s D Day is starting to approach the realms of wild-eyed optimism - it’s going to come a fair way earlier than that. The problem for Cathro isn’t his past performance - some of that is excusable. It’s not the current performance - making a team takes time. It’s that if you conjure up a name, you can imagine they’d do better than Cathro is right now. Robbie Neilson? Definitely. Paul Hartley? Probably. Gary Locke? 50-50. Richard Wilson, writer and opinion breather of thefootballlife.co.uk? Even that bell-end would stand a chance of doing better than Cathro. With the greatest of respect to Cathro, the problem Hearts have isn’t just that they now, on paper, have all of the pieces together, it’s that even if you don’t get those pieces working together as you’d like immediately, you should still be beating a part time side like Peterhead with consummate ease. Their deficiencies now defy explanation save to say that Ian Cathro, however good a coach or different an interpreter of the language of football he is, simply doesn’t have the knack for being the leading man. It is not a question of “will the real Ian Cathro please stand up” - he’s already standing yet simultaneously on his knees. That Cathro simply doesn’t have it is no criticism, nor is it a bad thing. It’s not even something that can be backed up with facts or quantified or analysed. xG or xA can’t explain away why Hearts’ performances have been x-rated. Whatever the human element or characteristic that one needs to be a good manager, Cathro simply doesn’t seem to have. He remains a proven high-class coach and a top analyst. Yes, unquestionably, he deserves a chance to put whatever plan it is that he actually has into effect. But also, unquestionably, we are beyond the point where we can reasonably expect that plan to materialise itself in some sort of cogent manner. Hearts, as mentioned in their season preview on this site earlier this week, will have a good season - either Cathro will come good or someone else will come in, take a team which is undoubtedly a highly talented one, and get them playing. Even now, the balance seems to be tipping inexorably towards it being the latter that will happen and not the former.

Seems Josh Murphy was the one to watch during their younger days. He made 9 appearances with Norwich in the Premiership 2013-2014 season whilst wor Jacob was on loan with Southend and Swindon. Hope Josh stagnated and we got the right Murphy twin

Nothing a £100M investment from the Chinese can't solve. Besides, we have Rafa and they have the grumpy dutchie.

http://www.espnfc.com/newcastle-united/story/3139116/alan-pardew-devastated-by-cheick-tiote-death-i-loved-him Sincere words from Pardew Former Newcastle manager Alan Pardew issued a heartfelt message of sympathy following the death of his former player Cheick Tiote on Monday. The Ivory Coast international died at the age of 30 after collapsing during training with his club Beijing Enterprises on Monday, and the coach who worked with Tiote throughout his four-year stint as Newcastle manager offering these words of shock following the news. "I'm devastated to hear the news about my former player and friend Cheick Tiote," Pardew said. "From the moment I arrived at Newcastle, Cheick was a wonderful presence around the dressing room and his performances on the field often defied belief. "There were days when he must have covered every blade of grass on a football field and it didn't surprise me that clubs like Manchester United were being linked with attempts to sign him. "None of us will ever forget that incredible day when our Newcastle team came from 4-0 down to draw an unbelievable Premier League game against Arsenal, with Cheick's incredible goal in the final moments of that game one of the iconic moments in Premier League history. "I loved him. He was everything that you want in a Newcastle player. He had the quality, and of course you'll never underestimate the fact that he wants to win. "I just loved that he was a winner. It can overcome so many obstacles as a footballer. Young players could take a big leaf out of his book in terms of how he approaches training and games and he was a special young man. "To hear the news that he has passed away at the age of 30 breaks my heart and my sympathies go out to all his family and friends who will be devastated by this news. "Life if not fair sometime and I will remember Cheick Tiote as a giant of a midfielder who I loved to managed. Rest in peace my friend."

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/amazing-rafa-benitez-story-offer-13003319 “I wrote five names on a napkin. Clearly one was Higuain, then there were Robert Lewandowski, Luis Suarez, Edin Dzeko and Mario Gomez" Rafa rates Dzeko and his transfer fee from Manc City to Roma was 15M quid including loan fee of 4M. Surely he is realistic and has experience of Premiership too.

If his knees are really shot, goodbye to the big wages he was obviously seeking. Lucky to even get a contract after current runs out.

'For Arbeloa, I only have my words of gratitude. In my 16 years as a coach I have him in my podium of the most important players of whom I've worked with. A good player and an exceptional man.' Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3578399/Jose-Mourinho-rates-Alvaro-Arbeloa-important-player-worked-with.html#ixzz4AdFWWgFt

Ashley's first goal of saving on wages in June has been met. Next goal is save on airfares and lodging for the upcoming trip to US so that means only signing new players after the trip. Unless they are already in US.....

Didn't SM wanted to get his team in by Mon? Guess not this Mon ...