tmonkey Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Souness' appointment made us a national laughing stock. I remember this forum being sick to the hilt, phone ins with suicidal fans, other fans both IRL and online ROFLing their heads off, etc etc. EVERYONE who followed the game knew he was one big clown of a manager, a complete moron living off the reputation of being a great player. It was just another stunning example of how out of touch with the real footballing world Shepherd was. Only a complete moron or someone utterly ignorant of the current game would look at Souness' CV and say "hmmm, he's a pretty decent manager you know". s*** teams, s*** football, clueless manager, sacked a few times, lots of high profile/embarassing fallouts with talented players, so on and so forth, everyone knew what this guy was about - his Blackburn team were even two places below us at the time of Sir Bobby's dismissal, with the man himself being on the verge of the sack. What Shepherd was thinking, only he knows. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Souness' appointment made us a national laughing stock. I remember this forum being sick to the hilt, phone ins with suicidal fans, other fans both IRL and online ROFLing their heads off, etc etc. EVERYONE who followed the game knew he was one big clown of a manager, a complete moron living off the reputation of being a great player. It was just another stunning example of how out of touch with the real footballing world Shepherd was. Only a complete moron or someone utterly ignorant of the current game would look at Souness' CV and say "hmmm, he's a pretty decent manager you know". s*** teams, s*** football, clueless manager, sacked a few times, lots of high profile/embarassing fallouts with talented players, so on and so forth, everyone knew what this guy was about - his Blackburn team were even two places below us at the time of Sir Bobby's dismissal, with the man himself being on the verge of the sack. What Shepherd was thinking, only he knows. and erm.....maybe someone else Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/americans-favourite--to-take-over-newcastle-1705349.html Americans favourite to take over Newcastle By Michael Walker Monday, 15 June 2009 There appears to be some confidence in the City of London that the proposed sale of Newcastle United has entered a new phase and that an as yet undisclosed American consortium is favourite to buy the Championship club from owner Mike Ashley. Whether Ashley gets the £100m asking price remains to be seen but there are suggestions a preliminary agreement could even be announced this week. Ashley only formally put the club back on the market a week ago, but it is likely that he decided to sell as soon as relegation from the Premier League was confirmed at the end of May and broker Keith Harris of Seymour Pierce was reportedly commissioned to find a buyer soon after. There have been several parties linked with a bid and an American interest has been mentioned from the beginning. It is said that Newcastle have prepared their accounts for due diligence and that the process could be quicker than usual. There is a feeling of the last days of the Ashley regime at St James', from where the managing director, Derek Llambias, was allegedly absent for the bulk of last week. Llambias had suffered the embarrassment of having his company BMW repossessed by a local hire firm. The possible proximity of a sale of the club has also meant that player sales have been placed on hold. But Michael Owen, a free agent, has had a personal brochure produced to advertise his talents, playing and commercial, by his representatives. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 I'm totally bored of this saga already. When does the football start again? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 I'm totally bored of this saga already. When does the football start again? Read the sticky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 I wonder where I can get a copy of Michael Owen's "personal brochure". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Would the yanks understand that we're not in the highest division or that we are able to get back there? Seriously though, I would quite like us to have American owners. Without even knowing who they might be (if they even exist), I prefer them to Shepherd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 We're gonna sign Landon Donovan! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Would the yanks understand that we're not in the highest division or that we are able to get back there? Seriously though, I would quite like us to have American owners. Without even knowing who they might be (if they even exist), I prefer them to Shepherd. In the Randy Lerner mould, yes please. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 If it's a consortium of Americans experienced in owning a "sports franchise", I'd be all for it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incognito Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 If it's a consortium of Americans experienced in owning a "sports franchise", I'd be all for it. In which case it's probably Ronald McDonald. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 If it's a consortium of Americans experienced in owning a "sports franchise", I'd be all for it. In which case it's probably Ronald McDonald. In the hollywood version it'll be a heartwarming tale of four successful ex-frat boys out to save the club that shares the name of the brown ale they pounded down nightly while in college. Along the way they learn a little bit about football, and a lot about life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
womblemaster Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 as long as they dont load us with debt, like the cheeky monkeys who got manu Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 If it's a consortium of Americans experienced in owning a "sports franchise", I'd be all for it. In which case it's probably Ronald McDonald. In the hollywood version it'll be a heartwarming tale of four successful ex-frat boys out to save the club that shares the name of the brown ale they pounded down nightly while in college. Along the way they learn a little bit about football, and a lot about life. Maybe we'll get Al Pacino as manager. Great half-time speeches. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 as long as they dont load us with debt, like the cheeky monkeys who got manu A leveraged buyout would depend on the club having a decent turnover to fund the debt. We don't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomson Mouse Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/americans-favourite--to-take-over-newcastle-1705349.html Americans favourite to take over Newcastle By Michael Walker Monday, 15 June 2009 There appears to be some confidence in the City of London that the proposed sale of Newcastle United has entered a new phase and that an as yet undisclosed American consortium is favourite to buy the Championship club from owner Mike Ashley. Whether Ashley gets the £100m asking price remains to be seen but there are suggestions a preliminary agreement could even be announced this week. Ashley only formally put the club back on the market a week ago, but it is likely that he decided to sell as soon as relegation from the Premier League was confirmed at the end of May and broker Keith Harris of Seymour Pierce was reportedly commissioned to find a buyer soon after. There have been several parties linked with a bid and an American interest has been mentioned from the beginning. It is said that Newcastle have prepared their accounts for due diligence and that the process could be quicker than usual. There is a feeling of the last days of the Ashley regime at St James', from where the managing director, Derek Llambias, was allegedly absent for the bulk of last week. Llambias had suffered the embarrassment of having his company BMW repossessed by a local hire firm. The possible proximity of a sale of the club has also meant that player sales have been placed on hold. But Michael Owen, a free agent, has had a personal brochure produced to advertise his talents, playing and commercial, by his representatives. Why on earth would they do this? You could hardly picture Wenger opening his post and rushing to the Chairman to buy this exciting centre forward he hadn't known of before. It also smacks of desperation, desperately trying to sell his commercial value over his playing talent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 If it's a consortium of Americans experienced in owning a "sports franchise", I'd be all for it. In which case it's probably Ronald McDonald. In the hollywood version it'll be a heartwarming tale of four successful ex-frat boys out to save the club that shares the name of the brown ale they pounded down nightly while in college. Along the way they learn a little bit about football, and a lot about life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 If it's a consortium of Americans experienced in owning a "sports franchise", I'd be all for it. In which case it's probably Ronald McDonald. In the hollywood version it'll be a heartwarming tale of four successful ex-frat boys out to save the club that shares the name of the brown ale they pounded down nightly while in college. Along the way they learn a little bit about football, and a lot about life. that is actually brilliant. i hope i'll dream that through later Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaliMag Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 My guess is that it is AEG and Anschutz... that is who was looking into buying Newcastle in the fall. Talks broke down over Ashley's price... now that the price is lower ... well things could be looking up. If it is AEG expect everything to be sponsored and the first XI to be perpetually on tour during the off season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 My guess is that it is AEG and Anschutz... that is who was looking into buying Newcastle in the AUTUMN. Talks broke down over Ashley's price... now that the price is lower ... well things could be looking up. If it is AEG expect everything to be sponsored and the first XI to be perpetually on tour during the off season. fyp Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 oh no, theyre teasing us with hope again..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 oh no, theyre teasing us with hope again..... once again " its the hope we can't stand" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest VegasToon Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 I am still hoping for Mark Cuban. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 I am still hoping for Mark Cuban. He'd spend the transfer budget on fines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/columnists/patrick_barclay/article6498878.ece Time for fans to stop moaning and start Tyneside takeover Newcastle United supporters suffer more than most from the crocodile-tears technique of journalism, which purports to speak for “loyal fans” who “deserve better” than to spend their “hard-earned money” on an underachieving institution. All the journalist has to do is fill in the name of the club and often, down the years (most recently during the regimes of Freddy Shepherd and Mike Ashley), it has been Newcastle. Why? Because Newcastle are a big and significant club with a lot of fans who, congregated in grief, can be photogenic: helpfully garbed in the club’s distinctive stripes, burly, male and incongruously sobbing. The picture with which we are all familiar — and not least since Newcastle’s latest relegation a few weeks ago — can be worth an extra thousand words. And what does the reader get out of it? A comforting sense that they are poor fools, I imagine. A reflection that not since Monty Python and the Holy Grail have so many people been so amusingly misled by the notion of a messiah. But it is all a caricature, of course. Many Newcastle supporters are sensible. They know that there is only one Kevin Keegan, that the extraordinary personal qualities that enabled Keegan, with the support of Sir John Hall, to raise Newcastle into the Premier League in 1993 and produce football of such quality and adventure as to be a factor in the popularity of the League as a whole cannot be assumed to reside in others who have happened also to be inspirational players for the club, even Alan Shearer. These people were not among the 20,000 nitwits who, when Shepherd signed Michael Owen in 2005, packed the Gallowgate End to provide a backdrop for the striker’s first photograph in the black-and-white shirt that he was to wear thereafter with such frustrating (though not surprising) infrequency. The intelligent ones knew a mistake when they saw one and, when Ashley waddled along two years ago and started giving key posts to little-known Londoners (and, even worse, undermining Keegan with Dennis Wise), they were even more embarrassed. If the erstwhile Loadsamoney had offered them a drink, they would have politely declined and moved to another bar. They expected relegation and now, I hope, are ready to seize the opportunity that began to knock when desperation induced Ashley to test Shearer’s messianic properties. Of the eight matches that could have kept Newcastle in the Barclays Premier League, one was won and the inadequacy of this was good news for sensible fans, especially the hundreds whom I mentioned a few weeks ago as having formed an association with the intention of getting involved in the club’s next ownership. Ashley, who once hoped to make a quick profit, has little choice but to watch his losses mount. The latest leaks are that he would accept £100 million for something that has already cost him at least £250 million. Let us assume that the true price is £75 million. This verges on the realistic. If we further assume that there are 100,000 Newcastle supporters in the United Kingdom and as many in the rest of the world, the price works out at £375 a head, or considerably less than the cost of a season ticket, or half a pint of beer a day for a year. All they have to do is stop moaning, get together and do something about the way their club have been run for as long (the Hall era apart) as any of us can remember. The examples of supporter involvement in Spanish clubs such as Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao are there to be followed. If clever, the supporters could get all their money back or even make a profit out of the club (an old Shepherd trick that, on reflection, they may prefer to eschew) because economic conditions will eventually improve and so, if the club are sensitively operated, will Newcastle’s fortunes on the field, attracting overseas or even native investment. So now is the time. The price is right. Let these people google Supporters Direct, an organisation set up for the purpose and already experienced in reviving smaller clubs, and get on with it. Let them put their “hard-earned money” where their mouth is. Otherwise, though unquestionably “loyal fans”, they will not “deserve better”. he makes it sound so easy..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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