Interpolic

No saving spared.

Yep

Daft selling Armstrong when he might have got a game for Dave Bassett next season.

From that article. "This from a squad that is already among the best-paid in the Premier League." "The last complete set of accounts for football clubs was for the 2016-17 season, when Newcastle United were getting promoted from the Championship but their £112million salary bill was one topped by only seven Premier League clubs." He's referring to the accounts where some trickery took place, which grossly inflated the loss? Yep, what a shock that it's poorly researched.

Mahrez cost Leicester less than a million. Youth players cost nowt in transfer fees, if you can be arsed spending any money on your academy.

Box

2014 called, it wants its patter back.

Wonder if we'll hear idiots in the press say Benitez is foolish to be moaning as it will adversely affect the players, like they did last summer before he had an average squad finish 10th. I don't think it's a coincidence that he's speaking so strongly now btw, he'll have seen the criticism Ashley is getting from fans and will want to add fuel to the fire.

That's hilarious, but I also quite admire it. Was over a broken box

Never is "opinions are like arseholes" truer than when some fans are trying to change things for the better at NUFC. If you have nothing to contribute you should just shut the fuck up tbh.

https://ashleyout.com/myths/ashley-wants-out-no-buyers/ Found this interesting the other day, he (apparently) put the club up for sale for £100m 9 years ago. What has HE done to quadruple the asking price in that time? Only thing he's done to contribute to that is significantly increase the debt with his incompetence. Other big factor of course is the increasing TV revenue, something that has nowt to do with him. Other revenues have stagnated or decreased. That whole article is worth another read, that slimy cunt Llambias stringing the fans along week after week, "The sale should go through next week, your taxi is just around the corner blah blah blah". Ashley is just a horrible, exploitative parasite and surrounds himself with similar people who have no problem fucking others over as long as they're alright.

Literally everything he says is mental.

Honestly man I'm usually really tolerant towards stupidity but when it's coupled with arrogance then sorry like, but nar.

And that's because of the formation of The Magpie Group?! What you on about, man? I'll remind you what you said: You're talking absolute rubbish. Nothing has stopped. Any drop in traction for the individual Twitter accounts/hashtags is due to natural peaks and troughs. It's nothing to do with the formation of the Magpie Group, which won't replace or supersede any of the existing groups.

One of the most frustrating transfer choices in our history, Butt over Carrick. 7 years older and twice the price

You’re mistaken. Putting a group together as one single voice makes it very easy for them to ignore. What happened on Twitter regardless of whoever organised it got plenty of attention. It was a mini trending hashtag. But more importantly the campaign to troll all of Sports Direct’s ventures over twitter caused them at least a small headache. It damaged their brand. It was effective. The next logical step would be to popularise it more, introduce a slight variation but aiming at more coverage, more posts, more retweets etc. All they have done is canned something that was organic and was growing. In order to have a successful movement you need to understand how to maximise your efforts on social media. This needs a digital marketing approach. This Magpie group should have had the cop on to ask people in the know before putting all of this to a halt. Nothing is stopping. You're absolutely mental. The twitter campaign has all but stopped to a trickle. Are you saying all those people who had been participating are now flocking to themagpiegroup.co.uk instead of mainstream social media? You’re deluded man. I work for a large digital agency who specialises in this area, I think I’ll trust my instincts/experience on this one! It's just an umbrella group that brings together all of the disparate groups. Nothing changes with the individual groups. Nothing has been canned. This just allows a united front / more coordination between the groups around protests and other activities. And there is still plenty of activity from @IfRafaGoesWeGo and @AshleyOut today, so what you're on about there I don't know.

You’re mistaken. Putting a group together as one single voice makes it very easy for them to ignore. What happened on Twitter regardless of whoever organised it got plenty of attention. It was a mini trending hashtag. But more importantly the campaign to troll all of Sports Direct’s ventures over twitter caused them at least a small headache. It damaged their brand. It was effective. The next logical step would be to popularise it more, introduce a slight variation but aiming at more coverage, more posts, more retweets etc. All they have done is canned something that was organic and was growing. In order to have a successful movement you need to understand how to maximise your efforts on social media. This needs a digital marketing approach. This Magpie group should have had the cop on to ask people in the know before putting all of this to a halt. Nothing is stopping. You're absolutely mental.

Exactly

I know what you mean, but do people really care about "Sterry says the toon will come out fighting!" articles? They must do tbh, aye. There was a recent editorial decision to focus only on Newcastle and Sunderland at the cost of grassroots football and other sports and that must be based on some research of what their now small readership want to read. Losing access to the club would be catastrophic for them, the printed version would be finished after a few months of that.

(Rafa) You don't have to put on the red light.

Incredible that they gave Mourinho a new contract in January.