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Yeah that deal was done a while back: shame he has a bad injury and has been plagued with injuries for a few years A £40m player available for half that sum due to injuries.. Of course it´s a gamble but he ought to be okayish sometime in August

When supporters dream with their eyes open again.. You are entitled to a ticket I think, besides, it´s for the kids really

I bet closest is Keegan. http://www.managerstats.co.uk/managers/kevin-keegan/

In his book, Champions League Dreams, he has blamed Hicks and Gillett for wrecking the chance for Liverpool to claim a first title since 1990 by tightening the budget and forcing him to be "a bank manager"

San Miguel is from the Philippines btw If this is true, San Miguel being Spanish is a common misconception. There´s actually a Spanish San Miguel as well it seems.. The Philipino brewery sold their Spanish brewery to another Spanish brewery, but originally it´s Philipino of course

I'm pretty sure you said that you packed it in a while back and you had been loyal season ticket holder since you were a bairn. I think you made a big point once saying how you have got an android box that means you never have to go to the match again. The difference between "have to go" and "want to go" perhaps?

His family lives in Wirral, he got three daughters.. two of them teenagers as well. I would have tried to stay in the U.K if only to keep an eye on them

If I was negotiating a new contract I would drop hints of going to this or that company at the first chance.. Unless I get what I want of course

He hasn't bothered feeding the potential of the football club because Sports Direct has profited sufficiently by it's Premier League association. That's where the earner is for him. Thing is.. He´s slowly reducing his shareholding in Sports Direct, today he´s also taking flutters on the stock market, finance london property deals etc He's always traded on the stock market, he often buys 5% of a company and sells it within weeks when the value has gone up, he did it with Adidas around the time he bought us. I'm not aware of him reducing his shareholding in that company recently? Oh, nowadays he buys London real estate it seems.. But I meant that his Sports Direct shareholdings are shrinking each year.. since 2013 he have sold shares for £417m in total.

He hasn't bothered feeding the potential of the football club because Sports Direct has profited sufficiently by it's Premier League association. That's where the earner is for him. Thing is.. He´s slowly reducing his shareholding in Sports Direct, today he´s also taking flutters on the stock market, finance london property deals etc

Surely Ashley knows that top clubs are valued at billions while a midtable club can be bought for a couple of hundred millions.. He is a bit of a gambler as well We´ll see in due time of course.

He have always been like that I think.. Evasive I mean

Ashley's "football philosophy" is to advertise his tatty company to the widest audience possible whilst spending as little money as possible. That's the beginning and the end of it. Well, that´s the coastermonger philosophy in a nutshell.. But it seems to me that what differentiates Ashley from say the Al-Nahyan family at City or the King Power guys at Leicester is that he wants everything on the cheap. But relegations are not cheap. Perhaps he might find it cheaper to actually nourish the club in the long run You wouldn't believe how much cost cutting he does. I'm not talking about getting Obertan off the wage bill, I mean cutting certain departments down to skeleton staff on minimum wage and refusing to put out so much as a plate of biscuits for the press on a matchday. He's always thought along the lines of "I've built up a completely dominant company and destroyed my competition by paying staff peanuts and running everything on a shoestring so why won't it work for a football club?" So how does Rafa fit in there.. Is the leopard changing his spots?

This.. The importance of having a project can´t be overstated for a guy that have won almost everything It also implies that if a big club came in for him (how many are left that he can go too now?) then he'll surely be less likely to go and will want to see out his project. There will always be jobs around but in the north of England (as he prefers that) I can´t see any club needing a new manager apart from Everton..Which would be awkward for a Liverpool legend

Ashley's "football philosophy" is to advertise his tatty company to the widest audience possible whilst spending as little money as possible. That's the beginning and the end of it. Well, that´s the coastermonger philosophy in a nutshell.. But it seems to me that what differentiates Ashley from say the Al-Nahyan family at City or the King Power guys at Leicester is that he wants everything on the cheap. But relegations are not cheap. Perhaps he might find it cheaper to actually nourish the club in the long run

This.. The importance of having a project can´t be overstated for a guy that have won almost everything

A point away? Progress

Respect...

Former Real Madrid managers in England..atm Mourinho Pellegrini Benitez Hiddink

Being City I don´t understand why Ashley would like to impose his football philosophy on NUFC.. I mean our own Sheikh makes a visit about every 2nd year and mainly just walks around and have a look, his guys at the club sort out everything while hired football people manage the teams, He himself just enjoys having his clubs and is of course very popular among the fans.. Something I´m sure Ashley would enjoy as well instead of the constant troubleshooting you see at NUFC

Buying him a retro shirt perhaps?.. https://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/premiership-clubs/newcastle.html?p=15

A decent Cava I hope..

Well, clubs and players would be more willing to sort out loans to Rafa than to some hoofball manager

Not often a championship club argue about their manager versus Guardiola, Wenger etc...

If you squint, the buttons on his shirt look a bit like a clerical collar. THE MESSIAH It might be just me but I think about THE EXORCIST when I see that pic now..