frankpingel Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Excellent JS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Five o Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Well summed up JS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Nutshell JS Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONTEMPI Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Yep spot on JS. There are so many gullible people that believe he's trying progress us, when ultimately none of this spending would have happened if we'd have been mid table. Personally I hope it blows up in the fat cunts face. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggs Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Can't argue, the structure of the club from top to bottom needs to be completely changed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuy_O Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Ok it might be too late but at least we are now showing g some ambition buy spending big. I'm not digging at you personally like, but it's really beginning to irritate me now reading and hearing this stupid phrase over and over again. Ambition with regards to what exactly? 'Showing ambition' is appointing and listening to a knowledgeable, clued up director / board of directors and going after a good / successful manager that could potentially win you something. Showing ambition is not appointing the reserve team secretary, Alan Carr's f***ing dad and an old, useless puppet of an ex-player and vehemently going after Steve f***ing McClaren. Not once, not twice but three times? Don't get me started on the likes of John Carver being given the reigns. 'Showing ambition' is going after players and building a solid team that can win you games. Showing ambition is not getting mostly medicore, half arsed players that don't fit or belong in your team and putting them on 5 and 6 year contracts, in the blind hope that they do well so you can make more money. On a similar note, forcing out and giving away arguably one of your best players and then spending circa £40m trying to replace said player by signing a Ligue 1 flop of the season (who knocked the club back previously), another who was either not interested, not tried or frankly not good enough and then a Spurs cast off who's barely done anything of note nor turned out this season? That's not ambition, it's f***ing stupidity. What's worse, they're only a handful of examples over his 8 year tenure. 8 years. You think Ashley has somehow just now decided he wants to be ambitious with the club? You don't think being on the verge of falling off the gravy train in 18th place is reason enough they are pissing all the club generated revenue up the wall? The whole thing is a massive gamble. Kinnear was a gamble. Carver was a gamble. McClaren and this transfer window will be this years gamble. There's no ambition or plan here aside from propping up the league for the benefit of Sports Direct. Boom. Thoughts into words there. Great post, well said. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Ok it might be too late but at least we are now showing g some ambition buy spending big. Spending big is not the same as spending well....and in my view they only get 6/10 for that.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlin Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Ok it might be too late but at least we are now showing g some ambition buy spending big. I'm not digging at you personally like, but it's really beginning to irritate me now reading and hearing this stupid phrase over and over again. Ambition with regards to what exactly? 'Showing ambition' is appointing and listening to a knowledgeable, clued up director / board of directors and going after a good / successful manager that could potentially win you something. Showing ambition is not appointing the reserve team secretary, Alan Carr's f***ing dad and an old, useless puppet of an ex-player and vehemently going after Steve f***ing McClaren. Not once, not twice but three times? Don't get me started on the likes of John Carver being given the reigns. 'Showing ambition' is going after players and building a solid team that can win you games. Showing ambition is not getting mostly medicore, half arsed players that don't fit or belong in your team and putting them on 5 and 6 year contracts, in the blind hope that they do well so you can make more money. On a similar note, forcing out and giving away arguably one of your best players and then spending circa £40m trying to replace said player by signing a Ligue 1 flop of the season (who knocked the club back previously), another who was either not interested, not tried or frankly not good enough and then a Spurs cast off who's barely done anything of note nor turned out this season? That's not ambition, it's f***ing stupidity. What's worse, they're only a handful of examples over his 8 year tenure. 8 years. You think Ashley has somehow just now decided he wants to be ambitious with the club? You don't think being on the verge of falling off the gravy train in 18th place is reason enough they are pissing all the club generated revenue up the wall? The whole thing is a massive gamble. Kinnear was a gamble. Carver was a gamble. McClaren and this transfer window will be this years gamble. There's no ambition or plan here aside from propping up the league for the benefit of Sports Direct. Brutally accurate. ..and totally correct - great post JS. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nortoon Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 What is baffling is how much cheaper it would be for him to just attempt to hire knowledgeable people compared to the likes of Charnley, who would in turn run the club well, and create a structure within the club. Instead he just has some yes-men do the bare minimum and then panic-buy once it looks like relegation. Maybe in 10 years' time he will realise running a football club is not the same as selling crappy t-shirts. If the team is shit you can't always bail it out in January with money. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Pinkman Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Some of the details of Sport Directs retail deal with Rangers does not bode well for us. http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/35495352 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Absolutely nailed on that he'll be a massive leech to the club for years to come even after he's left, if he ever does and doesn't liquidate the club on his death. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 They get 4p in the pound This sort of shit can't be legal, man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-421 Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Some of the details of Sport Directs retail deal with Rangers does not bode well for us. http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/35495352 7 year notice to end the deal Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
timeEd32 Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 That is really amazing what he did. Infiltrated the club with his henchmen, pushed through a retail deal that guarantees him 96% of the profits for over half a decade, and then ran off. If it weren't so disgusting on a number of levels it would be quite impressive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/amateur-football/mike-ashley-shouldnt-blamed-newcastle-10846479 :anguish: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 The interest of fairness can fuck off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/amateur-football/mike-ashley-shouldnt-blamed-newcastle-10846479 :anguish: What a crazy article. It's the fat man who put these people in charge who can't deliver results when spunking £80m in one season... and he only had to spend £80m because of the years of chronic under investment. Fucking joke. The whole article is one massive contradiction, it's not his fault, but it's his fault. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/amateur-football/mike-ashley-shouldnt-blamed-newcastle-10846479 :anguish: Thick as fucking mince. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 "It's not Ashley's fault...it's Charnley, Carr and McClaren's." Followed by: "If Ashley is guilty of anything in the club’s current predicament on the park it would be his selection of departmental heads – Lee Charnley, Steve McClaren, and Graham Carr." Fucking hell...the Chronicle really is the cesspool of journalism. That's fucking hilarious Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 These clumsy attempts to look balanced piss me off. The vast consensus and weight of evidence suggests he is a seismic cunt. Accept it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 An absolute car crash of an article. As has been pointed out, he sets out with the agenda of absolving Ashley of blame. He then lists the failings of the triumvirate of bellendery - Charnley, Carr and McClaren - the very men appointed by Ashley. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Charnley has to be one of the most outrageous appointments in football TBH. Entrusting a business of this size to a bloke with absolutely no qualifications to run it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Don't worry lads, it's not Ashley's fault, all he did was appoint the three incompetent people at fault Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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