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Really think it will be under 40000 if Rafa goes and Ashley stays.

Pretty sure I walked passed that skip yesterday- empty obviously

? In English please You are so insane he thinks you are being sarcastic.

Christ, someone get James out of there.

Fair play on the charity thing. Wish we would do a Bobby Robson one.

Doncaster equalise. Both sides have been terrible.

Didn't he already sell part of the club to Sartori? Seems weird timing.

Christ, forgot about Pattison. What a sack of shit he was. Saw him play for Shields. Still looked shit.

I'm clinging to the faint hope that Sports Direct are his main focus and he will sell us to keep them going.

Budgie Burridge

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/03/27/curtain-pulled-back-mike-ashleys-retail-wizardry/ The curtain is being pulled back on Mike Ashley's retail wizardry Ben Marlow Executive Business Editor 27 March 2019 • 12:37pm For a man who has spent a lifetime rummaging around the bargain bin, Mike Ashley’s pursuit of Debenhams risks turning into an eye-watering extravagance. That’s if it is even serious, of course. Having tried every other trick in the book to prevent lenders taking control of the besieged chain, the burly tycoon has now said he is prepared to table a full takeover bid. There’s just one problem: it would cost him a king’s ransom. And if there is one thing we do know about the mercurial billionaire, it’s that he rarely - if ever - pays full price for something, let alone over the odds. A quick back-of-a-fag-packet calculation suggests it would cost Ashley close to £1bn to take control of Debenhams. That’s more than 30 times what the stockmarket currently thinks it's worth. Ashley has already blown around £150m building a near-30pc stake in the chain. At the proposed 5p-a-share takeover price, he would need to find another £60m to buy out shareholders. Sports Direct would also become liable for Debenhams’ debt pile, which stands at a towering £560m, and have to plug an immediate cash shortfall of about £150m. Ashley is in la-la land if he’s seriously considering such an outlay for a failing department store chain. After all, this is a retailer that has been racking up the profit warnings and is expected to fall into the red this year. Debenhams store Sure, we’ve heard many times about his grand plan to merge Debenhams with House of Fraser to create the “Harrods of the high street”, but that never sounded even remotely credible. Indeed, according to several recent reports, House of Fraser stores are already in danger of becoming a dumping ground for excess Sports Direct tat. If this is Ashley’s plan for world domination, then it is probably going to need a serious rethink. There are only so many Lonsdale tracksuits and Dunlop umbrellas that UK consumers want. Really this is all a massive distraction from the real issue: that Ashley is perilously close to being wiped out when Debenhams finalises a debt-for-equity refinancing with existing lenders. When that happens in the coming weeks, he will be able to tell Sports Direct shareholders that he made every attempt to recoup those losses. But what they shouldn’t forget is that ultimately the tycoon took a big gamble and failed spectacularly. And it’s not a punt that can be waved away as an isolated incident. Just hours after firing off its latest Debenhams missive, Ashley's offer for catalogue retailer Findel, where he is also sitting on some sizeable losses, was rejected. Meanwhile, shares were suspended in Goals Soccer Centres, where he is the largest shareholder, over an unpaid VAT bill. This may be the week that the curtain was pulled back on the tracksuit tycoon's reputation for unmatched retail prowess.

It's been done to death for years but that doesn't stop him.

Was same under gallowgate west corner. Pretty poor but fair play to everyone who did it.

f***ing wow Not even surprised, that is the SJP crowd of today. Last season i think it was Watford home, i started singing "we want Ashley out", no one joined in and a few people even started chuckling at me. It's sad. Today when the chants started we were still in the game and attacking at least until the final pass or shot so it never really got going. If we'd gone 2 down I think the crowd would have turned.

"Tracksuit tycoon Mike Ashley is facing an investor revolt at Sports Direct next month with shareholders being urged to vote against his re-election." First time the daily mail has ever made me smile. There was a complimentary mention of sports redirect on there as well the other day. I don't think they like Mike.

https://twitter.com/MagpieChannel/status/1028301446066962432 Their staff(Luton) on Facebook raging about their behaviour.

He wanted the transfer and said his family couldn’t settle in the North or some shit and then went to Liverpool and won a bunch of trophies. Bastard. I also remember Inhoped he would break his leg and he was actually injured at the start of his career there IIRC He got booed to fuck the first time he played against us. Got subbed off at half time iirc.

Finally find out what Janey looks like.

He knows fuck all tbh Good lad, definitely not one to bullshit for the sake of it, has some reasonable connections TBF. I hope he's hopelessly wrong here obviously. If Rafa did go I hope the prick does come back. The abuse he would get from day one would be immense.

Joy Division album cover rip off.

Bloke in the pub started swearing. Then was informed he'd been watching the wrong screen for half an hour.

Gave Cattermole a 5 year contract extension then becomes his agent.

The mackem logic is it's the owner who owes it not the club. The fact it's secured on the parachute payments seems to not count in their world.

Their new managing director and mascot sounds comfortably out of his depth