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It's starting to spiral into another pile of crap, like everyone else I just want someone to come out and tell us the TRUTH what the hell is going on as I fear this is another stunt from Fat Mike to state he done his best but no suitable buyer could be sourced.

 

I think Ashley will have to sell, this is just his last desperate effort to squeeze as best a price he can. He's shot himself in the foot by letting the club drift all summer so if he now pulls out of a sale he's left with a club going nowhere, and he hasn't got the balls or vision to invest with intent to return to the Premier.

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did you write that with a green pen at first?

 

:lol:

 

That entire thing and his first reaction is ink cololour

:lol:

 

Aye - I know!

 

djmattis is Norwegian. It explains a lot.  :aww:

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did you write that with a green pen at first?

 

:lol:

 

That entire thing and his first reaction is ink cololour

:lol:

 

Aye - I know!

 

djmattis - are you Scandinavian by any chance?

 

Careful now....

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RIGHT THEN LADS!!

My ITK has just given me a message, now be aware although he IS an ITK he can be a bit of a WUM at times, now take this as is. I know we have all had so much to take over the past few months, news after news that have built up our hopes and then seen them dashed.

Now he sent proof not just text SO here is what the message was.......................

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/2033/dscf7636.jpg

 

:lol:

 

Loon!

Best check Dave... see if its a full moon.

:D

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Careful now....

 

Oh don't get me wrong. I quite like Norwegian humour. Like this:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D38r9nj9xIc

 

(And yes I know it's irrelevant to the rest of this thread)

not only have you searched for norwegian humour but there isn't even a norwegian about to aim it at.

 

There will be. There WILL be.  :shifty:

 

You just can't whack a bit of topical nostalgia. ;D

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http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/moat-puts-jokes-on-hold-to-end-st-james-farce-1768415.html

A former estate agent who was born in Tynemouth, Moat is thought to have investment from American backers and is sufficiently far advanced in his dealings that if he decides to go ahead no competing consortium will be able to act in time to head him off. He was linked to a possible Newcastle takeover five years ago shortly before he left Premier Direct. Sources yesterday stressed that a Moat-led takeover is not a done deal, although he leads the field by some distance.

 

Also:

[He] drives a Range Rover with the registration "NU 1"

 

:snod:

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/aug/07/newcastle-barry-moat-mike-ashley

Newcastle remain in limbo as potential buyer Moat keeps silence

 

• Barry Moat believed to be 60-40 to buy Newcastle

• Local businessman must put money on the table

 

    * Louise Taylor

    * The Guardian, Friday 7 August 2009

 

The odds of Barry Moat buying out Mike Ashley and spearheading a takeover at Newcastle United are said to be around 60-40. Moat, a Tyneside businessman in his early 40s who chaired Alan Shearer's testimonial committee, is understood to be backed by heavyweight investment from the United States. Freddy Shepherd, the former Newcastle chairman, is thought not to be involved although he and Moat are believed to be good friends.

 

Moat has been secretly negotiating with Ashley and Seymour Pierce, the London investment bank brokering the sale, for several weeks, completing exhaustive due diligence on the Championship club. "There have been talks but it's a case of putting the money on the table," a Newcastle source said.

 

Even so, a final price has not been agreed and, according to sources, some "important detail" needs to be ironed out. If a deal is going to happen it will be by the end of the weekend and should Moat's bid fall through, Ashley is likely to be left in charge of Newcastle for another season.

 

It is thought that another potential bidder, almost certainly from the Middle East, is no longer keen to proceed. Sources close to the sale emphatically deny that the sudden emergence of Moat's name is an attempt to flush out a buyer or put pressure on other parties who have developed cold feet.

 

Those close to the deal know that Moat and his backers have deliberated long and hard about buying Newcastle. Indeed, although there is quiet optimism of a successful outcome, they also accept there is still "a real risk" of Moat and his underwriters walking away at the final hurdle.

 

Newcastle's gargantuan wage bill is said to remain "a big issue" and the club's price – Ashley is believed to still want £100m – will be dependent on how many players the club can sell before the weekend. Last night Sébastien Bassong completed his move to Tottenham Hotspur for about £8m and another defender could leave today. Newcastle have agreed a fee with Hull City for Habib Beye, although Aston Villa may try to hijack that deal.

 

Another concern at Seymour Pierce is that Moat, in the business sphere at least, is intensely private and had insisted his identity must be a closely guarded secret during the negotiating process. He has maintained that his name must not be made public until any agreement is concluded and there was a tacit understanding he could walk away if it came out.

 

Moat, who would want to reappoint Shearer as manager, is also worried that too many of the club's current squad appear unsuited to Championship football and that an instant return to the Premier League may be beyond the club. As a box holder at St James' Park – where he used to socialise regularly with Ashley – he has witnessed the team's travails at first hand but, as a businessman, he must decide whether he and his backers can bear the potential cost of two or more seasons in the Championship. It is too early for the unspecified amount Moat invested in the club's academy, at Ashley's instigation, to bear fruit.

 

Best known in the north-east for his former role as a founder and later owner and chief executive of the South Shields-based Premier Direct Group, which sold books and novelty toys, Moat stepped down from the company in 2005 for "personal reasons". Two years later, he spent around £18m on buying 2,566 acres of land in Northumberland from the Church Commissioners for "investment purposes". Moat has a property on Darras Hall but lives in the upmarket Newcastle suburb of Jesmond, where Shepherd is a near neighbour.

 

He is now involved in property development and has a company, Lugano Property Group, in Newcastle. He is also the director of several telecoms companies offering cheap internet‑based calls.

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Compared to Ashley, whose Sports Direct company floated for around £1bn in 2007, Moat is strictly small-time. He made his name as chief executive of Premier Direct, a company who pioneered "workplace selling" of novelty toys – "Choke the Chicken" was another big seller – in which Moat built up a personal stake of around 25 per cent.

 

Rings a bell, remember it pissing off the RSPCA

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/20/choke_a_chicken/

 

If he has had anything to do with painfully unfunny singing fish/hamsters/crocodiles then he can fuck right off, I'd rather have some far easterner who presides over sweatshops and gang hits.

 

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