Sean

Irrelevant tbh. Ashley wants Sports Direct everywhere, say hypothetically a company wanted to take all of his shitty sports shops advertising space, does anyone think for a second that the club would be accommodating to that? Also, its really no hassle at all to create an advert / upload a file.

It was propaganda put out to ensure Ashley could turn up to St James with minimal protests...literally came out a few hours before the game

Seems like a great guy, and a great owner. RIP to all involved.

Fucking scandalous With an owner who gave a fuck about the club we'd have grown both hugely too. Not effectively stolen the income for another company. That alone is hundreds of millions the club has been deprived of. God only knows how else he's asset stripping us.

Difference being now its the quality of the players rather than the quality of the manager causing it.

Dubravkas too good man

Whys he suddenly spending his saturdays watching a team he clearly couldn't give a fuck about? Trying to quell the protests? Sticking another 2 fingers up to the fans? Trying to intimidate Rafa and put the pressure on? Or an even more sinister motive?

So we made about a £30 million profit summer 2016 also. We literally haven't spent a penny of TV money for 2 full years? Daylight fucking robbery

Sadly Bruno's right. If we're not winning by 20 minutes theres going to be a lot of moaning and groaning.

Exactly, it's really disappointing that he's been bought off so easily. Anyone with any principles would say their honest opinions irrespective of being able to wear the crest ffs. It's people like him who we need on our side as they are in a position to influence people. Evidently Ashley realises this too.

How about we start taking up floor space in Sports direct for free advertising...Ashley Out / Sports Redirect posters all over the shop. He does it to the club so why not

https://ashleyout.com/finances/commercial-revenue/ About 25m per year according to that, for all commercial income combined. Plus that figure should be increasing year-on-year if the club was being ran properly. The amount he's taken for Sports Direct is probably equal to the clubs 'debt' to him, its a fucking joke.

Going by trustworthiness etc, its clear as day that he'll be taking more money out of the club than we realise. It's just a question of how much really. Anyway his loan has already been paid back in free advertising/merchandising alone. And then some.

Yep, I swear some people just can't comprehend that other factors can influence things.

Goal kick ffs :lol: :lol:

Stuck a tenner on us to win at 9-1 and its been paid out already Its too early to be battering them

Get the fuck in

I particularly like this bit: Committed to getting more propaganda out in the media...at least they're being honest about it now eh Also an admission that they can't be fucked doing anything with the academy:

I don't care about any of that, minimising their tax exposure, whatever. My problem is not that they're doing a lot of illegal things, but that they're doing a lot of things which simply are not in the interests of NUFC but instead set up to favour Sports Direct. Yep, lots of businesses might do things that are in their own interests, in our case its working against the clubs interests.

Nope. The price would be the price. If the club as a business is worth £300m and the debt is £150m, then his equity is worth £150m. If the club is worth £150m then his debt is worth £150m and his equity is worth zero If the club is worth £100m then his debt is only worth £100m and his equity has already been wiped out After 11 years of Ashley you should realise by now he doesn't operate like a normal person. It'll be added on to the price no doubt. As will the cost of removing Sports Direct adverts, or buying the club shop back amongst god knows what else.

That makes zero sense. Why would he need to loan the club money to outsource a function? Anyway, as said many times before, the 'debt' to Ashley is meaningless as a number. Surely if the football club owes him x that is added onto the sale price at negotiation time if a buyer ever comes forward though. Yep. Its as far from meaningless as possible ffs.

This is absolutely scandalous, actively skewing the figures to say "Hey, we're skint and not really making a massive profit" when the opposite is the case. Nothing less than you'd expect from these thieves though.

It's a dangerous notion to think he's stealing anything. You can't steal from yourself. I know we hold a view that our affinnity for the club confers some kind of moral ownership but the reality is this is his property. He's lied about 'every penny' and much of this is testament to this lie, but it's still not stealing. And when he sells, the next people will have the same rights to do as they wish. Ashley can take every spare penny out of the club and he is legally entitled do so. All fans can do is make life as uncomfortable as possible or better, when the time comes, push for some kind of element of ownership. The problem is not simply down to the nature of the owner but the nature of his ownership. Im using the term loosely (hence use of the word 'effectively'), as millions of what should be the clubs money is redirected away from the club, however it was entirely predictable his number one supporter would be along.

I wish someone would take a proper look into Sports Directs relationship with the club and work out how many millions they are effectively stealing from us. As well as how much Ashley has stolen through the likes of MASH investments etc. At a bare minimum it'd be what, 3-4 million a year through merchandise etc, 10-15 million a year advertising at a quick guess, then through MASH he's stolen valuable land from us. These are only some of the things that we know about too, theres going to be so much more thats been hidden. He's made a profit on the price he paid for the club just through thieving from it. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if his grand plan is to keep taking from the club whilst running it into the ground, eventually selling a shell of a club that will take the next owner years if not decades to rebuild, causing more misery for fans as he fucking hates us.