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In the NOWT tomorrow. North East business men putting the £££'s up

 

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/1702_newcastle.shtml

 

ALAN SHEARER has been asked to front a £250million takeover bid for his beloved Newcastle.

 

The Toon legend has been approached by a consortium of businessmen based in the North-East who want to buy out the club's billionaire owner Mike Ashley.

 

And the former Magpies skipper (right) has admitted he is ‘intrigued' by the offer.

 

A Tyneside source close to the talks said: "Alan has been contacted by a group who want to try and buy Newcastle. They're from the North-East and he knows some of the people who are involved.

 

"He certainly knows they are capable of raising the cash to put a very good offer to Mike Ashley.

 

"What they want from Alan is not his money but his support, his blessing. The man is a living legend on Tyneside so to have him on board, even just as a figurehead for the bid, would be a massive boost. It would also be welcomed by the fans who'd love to see Alan in some role at the club.

 

"It is certainly a fascinating proposition for him but he is refusing to rush any decision.

 

"He wants to have a good think about it before giving any answer."

 

The would-be buyers have been energised into action after the recent turmoil at the club.

 

A shaky start to the season cost manager Sam Allardyce his job and the return of Kevin Keegan has failed to halt the Toon's alarming slide down the Premier League. A relegation battle looms unless results dramatically improve.

 

Keegan had wanted Shearer to become part of his backroom team but the former Toon captain's television commitments prevented that.

 

Ashley insists he does not want to sell and is adamant he will turn the club around.

 

The Newcastle owner has recently recruited millionaire property whizzkid Tony Jimenez to the board and brought in ex-Leeds manager Dennis Wise as executive director of football to work alongside Keegan in recruiting new players for the club.It's all part of Ashley and chairman Chris Mort's re-organisation of the club's structure.

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Oh dear.  The 'Turn the Newcastle Fans Against Keegan' campaign from the gutter press doesn't appear to have worked, so now they're trying to de-stabilise the club with this one AGAIN!  Bobby's comments about how we are the only team likely top break the top four long-term must have really put the shits up the Manchester press.

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I'm looking forward to the mongs reacting to this. More instability is the last thing we need right now, though, which happens whether this story is true or false.

 

Funny that this story comes out on a weekend when we have no game/nowt is happening.

 

The Allardyce/Keegan/Wise stuff has satisfied the press for a good month or two now, they've ran out of stuff to write, so it's back to hostile takeovers. Laughable really.

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FFS, surely by now we should have banned News of the World articles on this forum.  It's the single wosrt peice of s*** rag in the world today.  Nothing they ever print is worthy of the slightest recognision, never mind discussion.

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It's more likely L'pool will get taken over before us. So why not write about that shit first, and how Wenger and Benitez had a perfect day at work?

 

I know, I love how last week's NOTW back page headline was "TOON IN CRISIS!", then Liverpool and Arsenal get humiliated while we don't even play and lo and behold, we're still all they want to talk about!

 

But we're not a big club and no-one cares about the deluded "ideas above their station" Geordies, no no.

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FFS, surely by now we should have banned News of the World articles on this forum.  It's the single wosrt peice of s*** rag in the world today.  Nothing they ever print is worthy of the slightest recognision, never mind discussion.

 

spot on.

 

Doug

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