Chris_R

Not being sarcy or anything but is the club generating lots of cash for him? Or to put it another way has he got his money back yet? Again: Add to that the third biggest ground in the country, which is always pretty much full. Now we've raked in £33 million more than the second bottom club, £85m more than the club in 10th. I VERY much doubt that every club ablve 15th place is making tens of millions of pounds worth of loss every year, I find that impossible to believe. And many of these are smaller clubs with less earning potental, smaller grounds and no European football. Therefore the way I see it there are 2 possibilities here: 1) Newcastle United are generating vast amounts of money for Mike Ashley or 2) The people in charge of the finances are such incompetent retards that they need locking up. One of those simply has to be true. Given that Ashley is an acknowledged astute businessman who runs a tight ship, that helps us discount point 2). Therefore if the club claim they're not making a profit, I'd suggest they're lying. Maybe he's not got all his money back, but there's a hell of a lot he can help himself to if he wants.

Ashely won't sell a profit-making club that's generating lots of cash for him. That's crazy talk. Some people really need to think things through properly before pressing the "post" button.

Posting this again serves no purpose and achieves nothing, but I feel we all need to be as angry as possible right now: Nett last 5 seasons: 1 Manchester City £479,950,000 2 Chelsea £269,759,000 3 Manchester United £138,750,000 4 Stoke City £91,175,000 5 Liverpool £89,400,000 6 Aston Villa £86,000,000 7 Southampton £60,750,000 8 Hull City £47,775,000 9 Sunderland £46,930,000 10 Cardiff City £40,470,000 11 West Ham £30,550,000 12 Norwich City £21,650,000 13 Swansea £18,745,000 14 West Bromwich Albion £14,726,000 15 Crystal Palace £11,950,000 16 Fulham £10,880,000 17 Tottenham £3,850,000 18 Arsenal -£4,125,000 19 Everton -£12,315,500 20 Newcastle -£45,000,000

Ince or Holtby would have been great and perfectly attainable. But they are only 2 of literally hundreds of players we could and should have been enquiring about. It's nothing short of disgusting that we knew with absolute certainty that Cabaye would be off SIX FUCKING MONTHS AGO and still haven't managed to have a replacement lined up. Screw "identifying targets" or such shit, you need to call the club, make an offer and have it accepted. Then you speak to the player and get him to agree. This can easily be done in September, October, November or December. Just the player cannot actually move until January. Agreements can be made ANY time, then when Cabaye goes the other one comes in. It's simple, if you actually want to do it. Selling Cabaye with 4 days left then going "Gah, will you look at that! There's nothing we can do!" is utter bullshit. It's an outright lie. This club gets not one more penny from me. Not directly, and not indirectly either (ie via Sky as let's face it there's plenty of other ways to watch the games). The ONLY thing this rabble care about is money, so the only way to have an effect on them is to hit them in the pockets. I'll always be a fan, they cannot take that from me, but when it comes to those in charge: Fuck them. Fuck the lot of them. (Yes, I've had a long week at work. )

Just waiting for the photo of him waiting for his baggage at Malpensa airport.

Fuck this shit. Utterly fed up of these ambitionless wasters.

There really is nothing more anyone can say about this utter cretin.

This rumour has been confirmed somewhere? I can assure you it's not a rumour. He really is a flatulent, useless ringpiece of a clueless cuntflap.

When he saw the teamsheet, he probably died a little more inside.

I just hope the positive regional publicity that getting to the final gives sunderland that Ashley realises it might be worth giving a cup a go one year. It's probably a forlorn hope, but it's still a hope.

The only reason anyone in Newcastle pisses themselves is reading this buffoon's comments.

We're safe from relegation now. No need to immediately replace Cabaye when we could sell him now, replace him in the summer and save literally tens of pounds on wages.

So is waking up.

Seems to have been given a well-deserved 473rd chance.

Ashley just borrowed the £350k from Wonga, so actually the figures are equal.

Yeah, not a hope in hell that we'll give someone £80k/week in wages. Not even Lionel Messi could prise that amount out of Ashley's wallett.

£20 a ticket? I'm sorry, I could fucking BEG £20 in the street if I really needed to. What you mean is they would quite like to have gone but decided they had other priorities. Which, whilst understandable, is completely different to what you actually posted.

Contained them? If this bloke for real? It's Cardiff fucking City, we should be playing them off the park, not trying to fucking contain them. Snivelling cocksocket.

More like: Anita Tiote Cabaye Sissoko Gouffran Shola Bench: Mata Ben Arfa Remy Gomis

Ben Arfa being HAULED on.

Shane Ben Arfa didn't do enough against Stoke to keep his place in the team....

He's a right-footed left winger who can't cross with his left and can't shoot with his right. Seems like a thoroughly nice chap, but you can't make a footballer with those attributes. Certainly not a left winger.

Not at all. If West Ham accept the offer and he subsequently refuses to join us, he stays on £15k/week. He only gets £60k/week if West Ham refuse to accept the £10m offer. Therefore any club looking to sign him really only has to compete with his £15k/week wages.

Nobody in world football with the possible exception of Lionel Messi is "Not for sale at any price". That's a ridiculous comment from any manager and will only bite them on the arse.

No way would I sell in January unless it was for phenomenal money. Wait until after the World Cup if he has to go. Which I hope he doesn't, of course.