Bimpy474

I'm sure he'd take some joy out of selling us to a shitter owner, however it's all about what he can gain from it, so best offer wins. Unfortunately there hasn't been any serious offers to consider. Or there has been serious offers BUT he isn't really interested in selling? Closest we've come is the mess Staveley made last year, but it looked like she was just a tyre kicker with no real interest apart from looking to pick us up on the cheap. Now, i know we want him out, but he's not going to accept an offer that doesn't suit him. I wouldn't accept an offer for a possession that wouldn't suit myself either. If she was serious then they would have found an agreement, found the £50m or so to make the deal happen. They didn't and it was telling for that they tried to use a dirty trick media campaign to force his hand (which failed spectacularly) rather than come back with a better offer, something we'd expect from the current owner. IMO it would have been out of the pan and in to the fire, only with less potential financial backing. Mind, Staveley may have been hung out to dry by potential backers. Maybe at first she had a few that were worth a fortune and they liked the idea, but for whatever reason they pulled out so she tried to do it on her own. This would be why she couldn't make a second reasonable offer, if so then see the original point; not real offer was made. Staveley met Ashley’s price for the club, Ashley then went and put the price up as soon as we did, and we arn’t talking about £50m here, we are talking another £100m, another third of the price. Staveley has the money to pay that, assuming Ashley wouldn’t put the price up again. However she has plans for the club which includes about £150m of immediate investment. Around half of that would have been for players. Another half would have been for the training facilities/academy, and stadium improvements. From what I understand it wouldn’t just be training and acedemy upgrades, but a whole new training ground and academy complex in a new location. The sort of campus that Premier League clubs are building, and something that would be for every age group could use. It would also have meant that we would be able to invest a lot more into the woman’s team and included a female acedemy. All of this is what Rafa has said is essential to the club long term, and as I have said it’s what the bigger clubs in the league are doing. Staveley was nowhere near a tyre kicker, she even went out of her way to being in the Rueben brothers who own land in Newcastle that is to be developed in order to not only kick start the development of the club, but the city as a whole. Give over. This is basically what George Caulkin said, and he's seen evidence of the bids made. Ashley doesn't want to sell unless at a ridiculous price - hence he put the price up to £400m. Exactly this. The lad I know in the Middle East spoke to Staveley, knew the people involved and that they'd verbally agreed to the deal. Ashley changed his mind out of the blue after a boozy lunch meeting, and released the 'time waster' stuff through Bishop/The Sun. Anybody who believes the Ashley side of this story, is quite frankly, a fucking idiot. He has form, for being impulsive & belligerent. Remember he had a meeting with Sheik Mansour's people scheduled, he got on the piss, turned into Billy Bignuts and supposedly told an offsider something like "Fuck them (SM's people), they can come to me". Mansour turned his attention to City, and the rest is history. I can believe the story of the boozy lunch meeting, and Ashley doing his best impersonation of a East End gangster. Wait, what's this got to do with recently-outed super friends group? Oh i see, calling them super so you get an invite.

Now youve done it. :lol: Trying to work out if you're in there

I know fees are mental. But that is mental. Two ACL's and hardly played since the 2nd repair op, hey lets whack his price up £20m.... utterly mental.

Ahh the cool kids.

Brilliant stuff BB

Suppose the answer is kind of wrong though as they haven't included Yannick Toure, it says nothing about senior appearances, just signings for Newcastle. Edit: Scratch that, they specified senior appearances Scratch it because he was born in Senegal So who is the 5th? Is Luuk De Jong also born in Switzerland? Literally 4 post up ffs

Two footed and gets a fair few headers, hope he settles in English footy, could be a right bargain.

Brilliant

Thread worth? Dunno just yet, that tweet referred to the report in the story (Kyodo News) Hayden posted. Life pet hate of mine. Sorry. It should be me who apologises mate, i never noticed that before, sorry

Dummett is absolutely fine for where we are. Aye but we need cover, at the moment we have a winger doing it in Cal Roberts, Manquillo as well but nope, i'm not having him he's utterly awful. Mbabu would have been better to keep as full back cover imo. But we need a proper LB as cover or competition for Dummett.

I believe this too in nearly 11 years of his tenure we've never broken our record and not even come close to it. Compare that to how many time all other Premier League teams have done it in that time and it becomes even more embarrassing. It truly is a pathetic statistic it would be interesting to see how many other teams in the whole of the 92 league teams have also not broken their transfer record since 2005 Even if there are a few i doubt it'll be on purpose, it might be through lack of funds etc but not because their billionaire owner is a world champion arsehole. Pathetic is perfect to describe how we do business

We desperately need left back cover, or to make Dummett that cover.

Think we're never breaking our transfer record under Ashley, we purposely don't under his instruction clearly. The day he fucks off, or dies, i'm not fussy can't come too soon.

You absolute fucker, I've been sitting on that all day

Thread worth? Dunno just yet, that tweet referred to the report in the story (Kyodo News) Hayden posted.

Yoshinori Muto has flirted with a change in the Premier League already in the second half of last season. In the meantime, this summer it looked like there would be no corresponding offers for the World Cup participant. As the Japanese agency Kyodo News reported this Wednesday, it could now go fast. Muto is said to join Newcastle United. Once the Japanese could play at the World Cup for his country, in the 0-1 against Poland (kicker rating 3.5). He could not really do any advertising for himself - so it was internally the idea to extend with the 26-year-old for a year, and then cash in on the next summer. Ultimately, but now a mutually suitable offer for both sides should have arrived. From Newcastle United. Muto's request from the Premier League is within reach. An official confirmation is still missing, but as the kicker learned in consultation with the Japanese colleagues, the transfer should be almost in a dry towel. In the 2017/18 season, the striker scored eight goals in 27 games and prepared four more

Quick, mobile and works his arse off, a Rafa favourite that like. Aye, Gayle does the same for me though. I don't pretend to know loads about him but I don't think there's anything between the 2 of them at all tbh. Aye true, Gayle has been a disappointment for us in the Prem though, also I wouldn't have thought Muto was top of our list, just the one we can afford.

Quick, mobile and works his arse off, a Rafa favourite that like.

Sell Mitro for £18M buy Muto for £9m...... :lol:

Sell Mbemba for £5m buy Schar for £3.5......profit £1.5m....every fucking time

We've been ten kinds of shit this half.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44932889 Not the score but Robbie Savage's son who hits the bar for Man Utd, he's exactly like his dad

That was as pathetic as you get