Guest neesy111 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Could be truth in it. He's probably looking at the money to be made from selling players to Chinese clubs. Absolutely shambolic if it is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Bar Diame / Murphy did it ever go away? Doubtful. As long as it's not 100% only buy ill suited players from that management company I'm not too arsed tbh. Doubt we'd have bought Gayle or Ritchie before Benitez, particularly in the Championship. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Could be truth in it. He's probably looking at the money to be made from selling players to Chinese clubs. Absolutely shambolic if it is. This is nailed on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Bar Diame / Murphy did it ever go away? Doubtful. As long as it's not 100% only buy ill suited players from that management company I'm not too arsed tbh. Doubt we'd have bought Gayle or Ritchie before Benitez, particularly in the Championship. Not so sure. Think it's very much get out the championship at any cost and then back towards the status quo of what we were doing previously. Either way there's no need to be overt about it. I imagine he was canny peeved he couldn't bin Rafa mind. Top dollar for what he'll see as a failed manager must be killing him. Hopefully literally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowlingcrofty Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Has attended the last two games too. Definitely something in this. We'll find out soon enough because if he goes back on promises to Rafa then he'll be off in a shot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Bar Diame / Murphy did it ever go away? Doubtful. Gamez too but yeah I agree. I'm most surprised in that article that Rafa only wants one player (a winger) and not a centre mid and/or an attacking midfielder Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliottman Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Could be truth in it. He's probably looking at the money to be made from selling players to Chinese clubs. Absolutely shambolic if it is. Why would the Chinese market be relevant to buying young players? The Chinese teams are all about buying 'names'. Can't see any connection at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Why would Ashley do something that stupid now? He has to know that if anything happens there would be hell up again far greater then anything previous from the fans. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Bar Diame / Murphy did it ever go away? Doubtful. Gamez too but yeah I agree. I'm most surprised in that article that Rafa only wants one player (a winger) and not a centre mid and/or an attacking midfielder Totally forgot he existed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowlingcrofty Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Why would Ashley do something that stupid now? He has to know that if anything happens there would be hell up again far greater then anything previous from the fans. Really though? Seems to me the majority just lie down and take it whenever he does shit like this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Could be truth in it. He's probably looking at the money to be made from selling players to Chinese clubs. Absolutely shambolic if it is. Why would the Chinese market be relevant to buying young players? The Chinese teams are all about buying 'names'. Can't see any connection at all. We buy a young player - on the cheap - he shines, makes a name for himself, is sold for silly money. It's a fairly simple concept. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Could be truth in it. He's probably looking at the money to be made from selling players to Chinese clubs. Absolutely shambolic if it is. Why would the Chinese market be relevant to buying young players? The Chinese teams are all about buying 'names'. Can't see any connection at all. Aye its high profile players that they're going for. They can only have 4 non Asian players so they won't be stocking up on midtable Premier League players Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Why would Ashley do something that stupid now? He has to know that if anything happens there would be hell up again far greater then anything previous from the fans. Because he's Mike Ashley and he lives in Mike Ashley's world. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Ryder just retweeted the story FWIW. I know he's a plonker but he's been getting decent info from the club for quite some time now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seymour Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Bar Diame / Murphy did it ever go away? Doubtful. As long as it's not 100% only buy ill suited players from that management company I'm not too arsed tbh. This I don't think we need to be really concerned about this. Benitez was told he had power over transfers and I still believe he does/will continue too I'm sure Ashley will have recommended to buy younger players for cheap for the sell on value but I do not believe it's like the previous regime where we the club will now only sign u25s Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Ryder just retweeted the story FWIW. I know he's a plonker but he's been getting decent info from the club for quite some time now. He does work for Trinity Mirror as well mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Thought we had the last of the Graham Carr transfer policy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUFC Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Things we do when we are young eh... When did Neil Morrisey meet Ashley? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Bar Diame / Murphy did it ever go away? Doubtful. As long as it's not 100% only buy ill suited players from that management company I'm not too arsed tbh. This I don't think we need to be really concerned about this. Benitez was told he had power over transfers and I still believe he does/will continue too I'm sure Ashley will have recommended to buy younger players for cheap for the sell on value but I do not believe it's like the previous regime where we the club will now only sign u25s How's that not anything to be concerned about, considering everything that's happened under Ashley? If Benitez has full control, what the fuck does it have to do with Ashley at all? Honestly, it's the exact same shit we've seen over and over again. Can only hope it's completely untrue. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Rafa has a history of standing up to owners and taking no shit. If this is true I can't see him hanging around. Was hoping for some incoming transfer news tonight - not this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 People on here shitting themselves too much I think. There is no evidence to suggest that this is true, ok so maybe they are the clubs media partner. However in case you forgot they have recently reported that Delph was a done deal, Cleverly was a done deal when Everton got a replacement in etc. Their sister paper (Chronicle) have even said in the last few days that the club are refusing to name their targets. They maybe the preferred media partners but they know fuck all, the same as every other paper, all they get from that deal is the news to break when something does happen and every so often an interview with Rafa or one of the players about what they had for lunch the day before. Remember when Sports Direct had that news section and they said something about us buying Rooney? The Mirror and to a more significant extent the Chronicle are not getting many sales during football's silly season because they no news to report. Making up an Ashley rumour now means they can drag this story out over a few days with follow ups about what this means for targets now, and what this means on Rafa's future, all the meanwhile you have idiots buying the paper seething over these new rumours and thinking these rumours = the truth. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaKa Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Hmmm ... well this is uncomfortable news. Rafa might well be fine with it though. In general he did look to sign younger players even at Liverpool right? As long as we are getting in good players that the manager likes then hopefully it should be fine. Fingers crossed. Gulp. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlito Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 If this is true then it feels like he's just trying to troll us at this point. Every time we seem to be coasting along and making progress he jumps in and fucks it up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPERTOON Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Wouldn't be surprised if it is true, however didn't Benitez get written guarantees in his contract over transfer policy? Plus if Ashley was to do something like this, there is surely no way even he would be stupid enough to do it at this point in this season considering what is at stake? If he made Rafa walk away that would be him finished in terms of making anything from us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 Can see Benitez resigning in short order if he interferes too much, he has walked out for more reasonable boardroom meddling before. But lets not get all doom and gloom till the transfers do become dogshit again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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