WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Tbf without Mike Ashley, this country would go to the dogs. There'd be riots on the streets of every town as people run amok in a frenzied panic that they can't get their hands on a triple pack of 'No Fear' boxer shorts. Even thinking of such a distressing and scary scenario sends a chill down my spine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Tbf without Mike Ashley, this country would go to the dogs. There'd be riots on the streets of every town as people run amok in a frenzied panic that they can't get their hands on a triple pack of 'No Fear' boxer shorts. Even thinking of such a distressing and scary scenario sends a chill down my spine. I think we'd all "do a Portsmouth" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONTEMPI Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 So suppose he buys Rangers. Where does that leave us? His North East megastore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
magpie1892 Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2625535/Liverpool-earners-season-99m-bottom-Cardiff-got-64m.html £75m TV and prize money for Newcastle. £20m for Cabaye. Money from Puma and W*nga. Average gates over the season of 50,000+. I can't wait to see who we're going to buy with this £100+m windfall!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 He's got us by the balls. As much as it pains me to say it, it really is counter productive singing you fat bastard etc. We're making him money and he's that rich anyway he can spite us for as long as he wants. We need to concentrate on Pardew. We need to be more canny with Ashley; he isn't going to roll over through abuse. We're his bitch, no getting away from it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2625535/Liverpool-earners-season-99m-bottom-Cardiff-got-64m.html £75m TV and prize money for Newcastle. £20m for Cabaye. Money from Puma and W*nga. Average gates over the season of 50,000+. I can't wait to see who we're going to buy with this £100+m windfall!!! Just under £79m actually. If we had have hung onto 9th place it would have been £80m. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Gleebals Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Could easily wipe the dept to him, invest £50M a year for 5 years and be no worse off (relatively speaking!). He would certainly be popular then. Maybe this was his grand plan! (then I woke up) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsah Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 Apologies if Giggs, but thought this was an interesting snippet from the Randy Lerner / Aston Villa for sale piece on the BBC: "News of the sale was revealed by BBC reporter Pat Murphy, who said the likely asking price would be about £200m - which is £100m less than Lerner's estimated total investment in the club"... We should be so lucky eh... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27372342 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaizero Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 He's got us by the balls. As much as it pains me to say it, it really is counter productive singing you fat bastard etc. We're making him money and he's that rich anyway he can spite us for as long as he wants. We need to concentrate on Pardew. We need to be more canny with Ashley; he isn't going to roll over through abuse. We're his bitch, no getting away from it. Our name is Reek, it rhymes with weak. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TruToon94 Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 http://www.yankscallitsoccer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Ashley-Strip02.jpg Shows how much of an effect the protests are having on Mike. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Are you for real? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanji Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Those have been around for ages, Tru. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Those have been around for ages, Tru. Giggsosaurus Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Pardew's hand in the top left frame Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Pardew's hand in the top left frame http://i.imgur.com/36QchxH.jpg Moments after. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggs Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Random question do the minutes from the Fans Forum get published or is it closed shop to stop the press and public getting info ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Random question do the minutes from the Fans Forum get published or is it closed shop to stop the press and public getting info ? They do get published. http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,94583.0.html http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,95161.0.html Only it has to go through the club and anyone in violation of the 'club gets to publish first' gets a ban from the forum. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
biggs Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Random question do the minutes from the Fans Forum get published or is it closed shop to stop the press and public getting info ? They do get published. http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,94583.msg4649848.html#msg4649848 http://www.newcastle-online.org/nufcforum/index.php/topic,95161.0.html Only it has to go through the club and anyone in violation of the 'club gets to publish first' gets a ban from the forum. thanks for that Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 How token is that fan forum? It's the football equivalent of Neville chamberlains piece of paper. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawK Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Yet another 'sovereign state' we can't compete with because they have an owner who is a billioniaire... Leicester City. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27387616 Leicester City: Billionaire owner 'will spend £180m' to make top five Newly-promoted Leicester City's owner wants a top-five finish in the Premier League within three years - and will spend the money needed to get there. The Championship title winners have returned to the top flight after a decade-long absence. Billionaire Thai chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha outlined the club's next steps to reporters in Bangkok. He said: "It will take a huge amount of money, possibly 10bn Thai Baht (£180m), to get there. That doesn't put us off." Srivaddhanaprabha added: "I am asking for three years, and we'll be there. "We won't take the huge leap to challenge the league's top five clubs immediately. "Do we have a chance to beat them? Yes, we have, but I think we need to establish our foothold in the league first and then we think about our next step. Nigel Pearson's side collected 102 points on their way to landing the Championship title. And the manager shares his chairman's optimism . "The important thing is we're going with a belief that we can achieve," he said after showing off the Championship trophy to fans in the Thai capital. "It's important we continue to improve everything about ourselves. So, we can challenge for the top five. But, of course, one step at the time." Leicester have qualified for Europe three times, most recently as the 2000 League Cup winners. They went out of the 2000-01 Uefa Cup in the first round, losing 4-2 on aggregate to Red Star Belgrade of Serbia. Srivaddhanaprabha's consortium took over at Leicester in 2010. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Agreed. If only we had a billionaire owner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawK Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Agreed. If only we had a billionaire owner. My point exactly Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
magpie1892 Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2625535/Liverpool-earners-season-99m-bottom-Cardiff-got-64m.html £75m TV and prize money for Newcastle. £20m for Cabaye. Money from Puma and W*nga. Average gates over the season of 50,000+. I can't wait to see who we're going to buy with this £100+m windfall!!! Just under £79m actually. If we had have hung onto 9th place it would have been £80m. Oh, silly me. That makes all the difference. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exiled in Texas Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Yet another 'sovereign state' we can't compete with because they have an owner who is a billioniaire... Leicester City. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27387616 Leicester City: Billionaire owner 'will spend £180m' to make top five Newly-promoted Leicester City's owner wants a top-five finish in the Premier League within three years - and will spend the money needed to get there. The Championship title winners have returned to the top flight after a decade-long absence. Billionaire Thai chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha outlined the club's next steps to reporters in Bangkok. He said: "It will take a huge amount of money, possibly 10bn Thai Baht (£180m), to get there. That doesn't put us off." Srivaddhanaprabha added: "I am asking for three years, and we'll be there. "We won't take the huge leap to challenge the league's top five clubs immediately. "Do we have a chance to beat them? Yes, we have, but I think we need to establish our foothold in the league first and then we think about our next step. Nigel Pearson's side collected 102 points on their way to landing the Championship title. And the manager shares his chairman's optimism . "The important thing is we're going with a belief that we can achieve," he said after showing off the Championship trophy to fans in the Thai capital. "It's important we continue to improve everything about ourselves. So, we can challenge for the top five. But, of course, one step at the time." Leicester have qualified for Europe three times, most recently as the 2000 League Cup winners. They went out of the 2000-01 Uefa Cup in the first round, losing 4-2 on aggregate to Red Star Belgrade of Serbia. Srivaddhanaprabha's consortium took over at Leicester in 2010. This is part of the problem in football these days. One owner decides to write off 180M as part of a pet project without any business justification to the project and the market is dramatically and artificially corrupted. What will Etihad's response be to this....spend 250M to defend their position and then a clubs reasonable budget of 50M is suddenly reduced to an insignificant amount. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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