Interpolic

This is fucking insane. Genuinely quite surprised if he's switched where the revenue goes from one place to another on the quiet.

How long has the online shop been http://www.nufcdirect.com/ ? http://www.whois.com/whois/nufcdirect.com Creation date 18-12-2006 Does this mean Ashley was already planning to buy NUFC in 2006? More likely to mean he bought the domain, not sure if the "Updated date" of Jan 2013 is significant.

Sneaky fucking cunt.

That's what I'm asking man. My mate says it does.

My mate reckons when you buy stuff off the club's website it comes to you in Sports Direct packaging, anyone know if that's correct? I wouldn't know personally, SD 4 Life.

£17m from merchandising and sponsorship in 2011/2012 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mike-ashley-want-prices-low-1361584 Eh, that doesn't make sense to me, is he saying we bring in £5m on retail but retail costs are £4.8m-4.9m? Appears so. No way that is true like. It can't be, they'd be the worst business people ever. Oh, hang on. In all seriousness, they might as well shut them down if the profit margin is that s***. Like you say it sounds like f***ing bullshit, as ever. Unless it is outsourced and the club gets the £100,000 - £200,000 as a commission or fee on the £5 million of sales. If you see what I mean. Perhaps, in which case Llambias is leading people down a garden path with his quotes. It's an absolute piss-take if that's going on like, it used to be a big cash cow.

£17m from merchandising and sponsorship in 2011/2012 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mike-ashley-want-prices-low-1361584 Eh, that doesn't make sense to me, is he saying we bring in £5m on retail but retail costs are £4.8m-4.9m? Appears so. No way that is true like. It can't be, they'd be the worst business people ever. Oh, hang on. In all seriousness, they might as well shut them down if the profit margin is that shit. Like you say it sounds like fucking bullshit, as ever.

As good a cause as it may be, why did they do this when it's entirely immoral and they were always likely to get rumbled? Terrible error of judgment.

£17m from merchandising and sponsorship in 2011/2012 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/mike-ashley-want-prices-low-1361584 Eh, that doesn't make sense to me, is he saying we bring in £5m on retail but retail costs are £4.8m-4.9m?

Would be hilarious if we paid the staff/running costs too, similar to the craic with the advertising boards. Hope someone runs with this and finds out what's going on, it doesn't matter if he's taking £10k or £10m, it's not right.

That's scandalous if true, yet another way we're hemorrhaging money which could be going towards making us better.

That is a strange thing to say when we've just had 3 months to buy 3 players and change manager, and didn't.

My heart bleeds.

Wow, that's about as bad as it gets.

Yep, I'd have been shocked to have seen us in for anyone today, the penny's dropped the further into the summer we've got.

You've got great form for this kind of thing, so colour me excited. I'm still using cash all the time, me.

which is ashleys plan why should pardew let him win by giving him what he wants when he can continue to do his job and if ashley wants him out let him pay him off in full This is it. The situation is so ridiculous now where Pardew wont quit knowing that's what Ashley wants and at the same time Ashley wont sack him. I can't recall ever seeing such a stand-off at another club, probably because 1) most other clubs don't deal out 8 year contracts to the manager for no reason; 2) most clubs aren't as tight as us; 3) most managers have an ounce of self respect; 4) most owners put the needs of the club first, the daft fuckers.

SDNW? Sports Direct Not Welcome?

Just confirms what most people suspected back in June when Kinnear was appointed, that Ashley was playing silly buggers for whatever reason (probably to undermine the manager and/or distract the fans and press from his negligent behaviour) and that the needs of the club are second to the owner getting his cock out on the boardroom table and running the club on a shoestring. I'm not even that disappointed, it's been on the cards for months IMO.

"We turned down decent money for Cabaye, just shows Mike's a brave fella who only wants the best for this football club. Without the Europa League, we should have just enough to get over the line. Over the line, over the line, over the line". Something along those lines.

Holy shit it is. Eh, how is it a top trend worldwide but not UK-wide?

Chelsea are bloody poisonous like, hoovering up talent with no intention of playing them for a number of years just because they have that much money to throw at it. At the very least they shouldn't be allowed to have these clauses in that the player can't play against them, they should be forced to play against them like everyone else. I suppose they'd just loan them to foreign clubs. Like you say it just shouldn't be allowed, a handful of loans to lower tier clubs should be the maximum.

Fucking outrageous.