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The owner? He’s worth 5+ billion.

Kenedy aside it’s about what you’d expect from a team fighting for survival.

Yup.

No guarantees this season Ian especially if we aren’t adding much more.

It’s often repeated but I’m not sure I believe it,I seem to remember before he signed it he had a team of lawyers going through the contract with a fine tooth comb.

I generally agree with the sentiment Rich but he can and will just appoint another stooge unfortunately. Charnley going would be a morale boost though.

It would certainly have an impact. As it did last time when there were 20,000 empty seats (despite the club declaring an almost full house). http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/646059/stream_img.jpg https://twitter.com/bigchrisholt/status/1019951997217370113 This is the only way to achieve progress. How people think going to every match will get us what we want is a disaster. It'd be different if we had an Ultras end like they do in other Euro countries and then there could be moves to get each game abandoned etc, but that is not even worth talking about as it isn't reality. Fuck all of this. I’m not critiquing anybody personally I’m just pointing out that the protests haven’t worked. I mean he spent money once but if the goal is to get rid of him I’m not sure how him spending money equates to achieving the goal of getting rid of him. My post wasn’t a criticism either all I’m doing personally is making sure he never gets a penny out of me ever (which is of course easy being in Singapore). The purpose of this post is to merely point out that if the goal is to get rid of him action which affects either the share price of his companies or affects him personally (protesting outside of his house) might be more effective.

Not sure how it would be effective at all personally, I mean sure it would make a great story, a great video but other than that I don’t see how it would further the cause of getting him out. The club is a business which Ashley owns so he goes when said business is sold or liquidated. So we either need to find a buyer who will pay whatever asking price he sets OR we need the club to be devalued massively to the point he can’t wait to get shut of it.

He has the finances don’t let him fool you, he’s actually one of the richest owners in the league.

If he cared he would have some by now, he’s had offers and declined them all.

The fans have been chanting for years and he’s still here. Really need to look beyond chants and banners to get rid of him, it’s quite clear that the action which needs to be taken has to be more direct in nature. I mean think of it like this, we are paying money to him to go and call him fat.

It’s bollocks and of course it’s coming from the stooge at sky sports in an aim to make it look justifiable.

Tv money is more than a 100mil and the wage bill is less. Also I love how in these calculations people (not you taxfree) love to discount the other sources of revenue.

To be frank I think it’s goong to take more than some banners and some boos no matter how many you get involved.

Because it was either cheap, he believed he could turn it around and or he wanted to take SD share price.

I’m sure he’s got some cash lying around failing that he’s hardly not credit worthy is he?

That depends the share price is down 5% already, should he buy a few and the price jumps he makes a profit, with further impairments to come from both of those shorty investments he can bank on the price being volatile and buy when the dips come causing him to make a lot of money. It depends on how he views success I suppose. I think the core business makes most of the money for SD (correct me if I’m wrong) and as long as it does he’s in the money.

So this can be a win for him, sure he incurs a paper loss in net worth terms but if he were to buy up more shares at a lower price and sports direct recovers his net worth will be up. Of course he has to navigate insider trading rules etc

For sure, I think Debenhams is practically done which will mean another write off/down for SD which would in theory lower the share price for SD and the cycle continues. Correct me if I’m wrong but the Debenhams investment is under sports direct and not him personally?

It’s due to the bad investment in Debenhams mainly. Actually means he can buy more shares at a lower cost as no doubt the share price will drop as a result of this.

Charnley isn’t relevant if it wasn’t him it would be someone else please don’t be distracted from the real problem.

He didn’t plunge us into debt that is correct however his gross mis management which had led to Two relegations and a decrease in commercial revenue must equate to the amount he’s put in at least. That’s before we talk about all the free advertising.

Haha, I still don’t think he has any intentions of loosening the noose but I get your point.

Club has generated 125milliom in tv money alone.

GD the answer is money, Ashley feels it’s too expensive to compete so he’d rather just attempt to cling on premier league survival. The real question is why are the fans paying for this treatment? And I get the Charnley angst but let’s try to keep in mind who is really to blame, im sure any transactions over a certain figure will require authorisation from Ashley.