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I think deferment is the outcome we will see. Take the hit now and get paid later basically. This is the likely scenario for the clubs too with tv money and sponsorship.

Interesting this will lead to them being able to collectively bid down wages in the championship.

Disagree completely. Why should the other employees take the burden when the equity holder is a billionaire and makes all the decisions regarding the club? Why is football the only industry where we have this attitude? Footballers are employees and are pair so highly because they generate massive revenue. We don’t hear hedge fund managers being asked to pay for the clearers wages do we? The usually political points scoring from Khan and the Tories.

Indeed billionaire owners shouldn’t pay the wages of the staff the other employees should.

I was watching the game last night and thought exactly this. Was like watching the Pardew days over again. More of the same purgatory for us.

Yes he sold Dunlop

Love this. He’s utter shit, unfit for purpose and a joke of a signing. Be amazed if he’s done anything positive when on the field. Signed to placate morons. It's worked a treat to be honest. The double Geordie Bonanza of this summer has pretty much curtailed any criticism.

Every above average player that never went on to do anything more in the game other than appear on talkSport: "Ashley is a good business man". Yeah I’m listening to this now and it’s full of inaccuracies Very poorly researched and trying to create Balance where much doesn’t exist.

I’ve thought this for a while. - Spurs valuation is 1.6 million ours 350 million*. - Kenyon believes he can bridge the gap through properly running the club. - Kenyon does not have the money to buy. - Ashley does not have the skills to run the club and he cannot sell the club. - His primary/only motivation for owning the club is sport direct. Sport direct will benefit more with a successful Newcastle. Why would he not look to someone like Kenyon to run the club, maybe with some outside investment? Potential the club adds a billion to its valuation. Sports direct gets positive press and coverage. As much as I hate the bloke I don’t go along with the line that he’s an utter moron or that he despises us and is punishing us. He likes a gamble this seems like a decent one to me. Edit - basically say Kenyon has 50% of the money through backers. In effect Ashley could say I’ll in effect be the other 50% of the backers. He get 175 million now. The group own the club and run it. Maybe his 175 million turns into 500 million. * https://www.forbes.com/teams/tottenham-hotspur/#6aa109f453ed https://www.forbes.com/teams/newcastle-united/#6e8aaf94733d Mike Ashley runs the club purely for the benefit of sports direct. He has no intentions of seeing the club progress.

This is exactly it, I’m surprised by his outburst and he’s currently spending a fortune upscaling certain stores to try and get in on the action. I wonder if his plan has gone tits up and he’s decided to press the nuclear button.

They own 14% of Bordeaux. Ok, but the chairman and CEO of GACP, Joseph DaGrosa, seems to be the president of Bordeaux. Nothing stopping then from owning 14% and having the ceo mace president of the Football club.

Should be walking off, no if’s or but’s. The authorities won’t take a proper stance until they are forced too unfortunately.

Playing to his audience of support the team not the regime idiots.

Playing on the geordie narrative heavily with this absolute tripe. Let’s hobble ourselves for no reason other than it’s cheap to do so. The Mike Ashley way folks.

We deserve this, vast majority of fans have welcomed Ashley with open arms and continue to actively support him.

Ditching something which never existed in the first place. This Brexit/NUFC parraelel universe can't end soon enough.

Would Rafa manage them if asked? (Liverpool connections surely too strong I imagine?)

Our fans are thick as mince, bought off with a free transfer who is a crock

Absolutely tragic that, he really has a lot to answer for. Unfortunately, he has absolutely nothing to answer for because our fan base refuses to hold him accountable. As a whole, the fan base would rather keep going, keep buying shirts and lining his pockets. Sorry for being a broken record.

Perfect game to broadcast, it's a quota filler. They must broadcast all teams a minimum amount of times so this is two birds with one stone.

He's far better technically than Jonas imo.

Anyone heard any anti Ashley chants?

Got beat 4-0 in this game last season I was speaking in general terms, made no mention of this game last season.

Nbc are talking as if we were ever in it. Media fumed when Rafa did this but effectively.