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Bayern are turning into Chelsea just buying s*** loads of players They're saying that's why he didn't join Arsenal, Schalke had agreed to sell to Bayern for a higher price ; we'll wait and see.... the bundisliga does a lot of things well but this boils down to my main problem with it, nothing can stop bayen, manage to beat them to the league a few times like dortmund? they just take your best players.

I do despise bayern

lets not go overboard, ashley's degrading nufc, Red Bull would kill nufc and replace it with their own monstrosity

4 or 5 games? If I'm an insider then you are thick as mince. What you talking about dips**t. A businessman only cares about money. You're some sort of ridiculous apologist: whats your angle? Sports Direct employee or something. If a customer doesn't like a product then they should stop buying it: the company then has to change or cease to make a profit. the problem is (and its one not just concerning us but everyone in the premier league) is the increasing irrelevance of the fan even to profits. Say you manage to get half the crowd missing for games (no mean feet never got that low even in the championship) thats a cut around £10-12m roughly going off recent accounts. The increase in tv cash is around £20m. And the likely response from Ashley is likely to be less "oh god I must change my ways and spend money and get a top class manager" and more cut expenditure and/or reduce ticket prices to attract more casual fans to fill the ground and make back some income. The latter of which would actually get him positive headlines.

this entire match has been shit.

Jesus wept. This has to be an insider. Realism more like. I'm all for protesting but it just never works. SJP will be near full no matter what is done. IMO getting the media's attention is the only way to get anything done but even that's hard when there's been the Chicken Bros and Vincent Tan doing their thing recently. Sadly I believe another relegation is the only way to get anything significant going on. plenty of negative headlines before around ashley, a lot worse than anything that could really be summoned now (the relegation season and summer after it were probably as bad as the headlines will ever get) and he's still here. Nor does it affect any other owner the media disapproves of like Tan, The Venkys, anyone who's been at Leeds for the last decade or the fella trying to change the name of Hull. Relegation is the outside chance but more than likely would be a repeat of the previous one where he'll "protect his investment"

I really honestly think its because he kicked off at not being in the side, agent did speak up a few weeks ago and lord knows what he's said behind the scenes. After all even when fit and Colo out this season MYM was chosen ahead so the only logic is he's threatened to leave.

that's rather hopeful thinking

good grief

Outside of Newcastle and the surrounding area, they don't. Maybe they dislike zero hour contracts which he uses, maybe they dislike kids being born in his warehouse at 11pm on New Years day and maybe they dislike child labour manufacturing his shitty products? not enough to stop going to his stores clearly.

here's a question, whats he done that should make anyone who's not a nufc fan care in the slightest?

media on a national level don't care, sure the reporters who work for the nationals probably care but the guys deciding whats headline news in London don't. Why care about us when there's a title race between two oil funded super teams to get excited over? Or Man Utd only being above average this season how can the fans cope with the horrors of being 7th?! Or the race for the 4th place trophy? All we're worthy of is an occasional tut tut in MA's direction and not any kind of investigative forensic analysis of what Ashley is doing at the club. I'm not sure I agree with this to be honest. In the past we've been massive news in the national media. The lack of dissent from the fans means the media look at us as if everything is OK. lets just say I have very little faith in the media. Not that it makes a blind bit of difference, bad headlines don't affect Ashley badly hell they're probably a benefit since the name sports direct gets thrown around a lot when referring to him as its owner and thats a lot of free advertising

I agree totally fans not to blame at all but if there is going to be change unless some rich arab comes floating by (unlikely) then the fans do need to make their own choice as to if they can play a part in forcing is hand. Some will but many won't so we are stuck with the fat c***. e's a stubborn t*** though; 50 butts in seats or 50,000 it won't matter - belts would just get tightened further; he won't change his ways. If you get 50 butts in a seat and lose a massive amount of seats due to boycott it will take note as the adverse publicity will take an effect as he becomes more and more under pressure and starts to lose money. Not a couple of thousand though it would have to be a mass amount - not going to happen so nothing will change and in my opinion with being a season ticket holder for 40 years, if your not prepared to do something about it then you can't really keep shouting from the rooftops about what is happening. with the size of the tv deal its almost absorble if he just cuts spending enough (since its not actually increased in the slightest) which he has proven he's more than willing to do.

Also true and the giant cheque book enabled everything but he's also stuck his nose in needlessly and screwed things up for no reason like when Mourinhio left the first time, an already proven winner who's well liked by players and fans and he interferes and ultimately sacks him for his own ego. Just another in the long list of daft things owners/board members have done in the history of football

media on a national level don't care, sure the reporters who work for the nationals probably care but the guys deciding whats headline news in London don't. Why care about us when there's a title race between two oil funded super teams to get excited over? Or Man Utd only being above average this season how can the fans cope with the horrors of being 7th?! Or the race for the 4th place trophy? All we're worthy of is an occasional tut tut in MA's direction and not any kind of investigative forensic analysis of what Ashley is doing at the club.

baffled Swansea let him go on loan

you do realise with our luck lately his health would be just fine and we'd be stuck with him for a long time

the whole lack of transparency isn't unique to us (though we're clearly an exaggerated form of it with Ashley making random decisions on a whim) and is more a symptom of modern football itself, the only true way there can be transparency is if the fans had a share in the club and someone on the board and the only realistic way I can see that happening is an edict from the FA to force clubs into having that fan ownership ala Germany which is not bloody likely. Agreed but he has taken it to a whole new level. There can't be a club anywhere in the world with an owner making such ludicrous decisions with absolutely no explanation. Abramovich on his day is as bad as Ashley for it but with the huge cash put in to make up for it. Venkys too are beyond ridiculous What? He actually wants the club to win things. I was referring to the random acts of stupid interference, if he'd kept out of it then Chelsea could probably have won more.

he's basically the summary of the lack of any investment. He's clearly not up to premier league standard on any kind of consistent basis as a striker with only flashes of competence but the unwillingness to actively replace him means he stays around as we need something up front. Now I don't blame him in the slightest for staying I would do the exact same thing in his boots nor will I ever hate him as he seems a nice guy never caused any bother or bad headlines or generally dragged the name of the club down and hating someone because they're bad at football is not a good reason in the slightest. Apart from that time he said he'd been robbed and it turned out he'd left the flat messy. Sums him up really. in the context of stupid things footballers have done that doesn't even register beyond a brief laugh at stupid footballers. We've dealt with a hell of a lot worse

I'm fairly sure he'd sell up as quick as he could if we lost £24 million, yes. lets just say I'm rather more skeptical about that, put into context the tv deal increased roughly around £20m this season. Considering we haven't actually invested any of that its not much of a cut.

he's basically the summary of the lack of any investment. He's clearly not up to premier league standard on any kind of consistent basis as a striker with only flashes of competence but the unwillingness to actively replace him means he stays around as we need something up front. Now I don't blame him in the slightest for staying I would do the exact same thing in his boots nor will I ever hate him as he seems a nice guy never caused any bother or bad headlines or generally dragged the name of the club down and hating someone because they're bad at football is not a good reason in the slightest.

Do you think he wouldn't miss £24 million? do you really think he'd start crying over losing it and just sell the club straight away or simply make cuts to expenditure to compensate for the lost income.

a red for that?!

good goal by Adam

your feeling generous