BlueStar Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 There's a difference between losing your mind over some random piece of completely unsubstantiated tabloid scuttlebutt and being concerned by "Club's official media partner suggests proven idiot owner is imposing exactly the same idiotic rules he has with other managers". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoot Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 We're not really getting anywhere in this topic are we, so why not just wait and see what happens? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 No quotes, no substance, rumour and conjecture if you ask me. Not worth getting wound up about until/if Rafa puts his foot down and leaves, then we can all lose our shit. Until that point I say we treat the Mirror with the contempt it deserves and usually gets. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 It's Mike Ashley man. When are you suckers going to learn? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Yep. They're acting as if before every single moment of self-destruction, the Keegan blow-up, the Hughton sacking, the Shearer ghosting, the Kinnear hiring (twice!), etc., we were all given ample quotes and long-form think-pieces in the Guardian with Ashley and his crew of bandits waxing lyrical about their vision of the football club. We had as little information then as we do now. So forgive us for bricking it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Rafa's still here man. Why burst a blood vessel. He's calm about it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I will donate 100 pounds to the Sir Bobby Robson foundation if he is still here come the first match of the new season next season, regardless of league we will be in. I'm not a gambling man. But I'm going to stick the same figure on the same outcome. This won't end well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heron Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I will donate 100 pounds to the Sir Bobby Robson foundation if he is still here come the first match of the new season next season, regardless of league we will be in. I'm not a gambling man. But I'm going to stick the same figure on the same outcome. This won't end well. Quoted. For Sir Bob's case. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 Yep. They're acting as if before every single moment of self-destruction, the Keegan blow-up, the Hughton sacking, the Shearer ghosting, the Kinnear hiring (twice!), etc., we were all given ample quotes and long-form think-pieces in the Guardian with Ashley and his crew of bandits waxing lyrical about their vision of the football club. We had as little information then as we do now. So forgive us for bricking it. I'd almost wiped that particular episode from my memory. On 16 June 2013 in a series of telephone interviews Kinnear claimed he had been appointed as Director of Football for Newcastle United. In a Talksport interview over the telephone on 17 June 2013, Kinnear claimed to have replaced someone called "Derek Lambesi" (sic) as the club's director of football, signed Dean Holdsworth at Wimbledon for £50,000 (actually £650,000), sold Robbie Earle (retired a year after Kinnear left), signed goalkeeper Tim Krul when he was previously manager (actually signed by Graeme Souness three years prior) and has been awarded the LMA Manager of the Year award three times despite only winning the award once, he also said he'd never been sacked in his life. Kinnear claimed to have signed John Hartson on a free when he in fact paid £7.5 million for the striker. He also mispronounced the names of Yohan Cabaye, Hatem Ben Arfa, Shola Ameobi, and others in the Talksport interview. The appointment, a three-year contract, was confirmed by Newcastle United on 18 June. The confusion around Kinnear's appointment to the role was criticised by former club chairman Freddy Shepherd in an interview with BBC Sport. Kinnear drew criticism when the 2013 summer transfer window closed with Kinnear failing to make a single permanent signing, lone recruit Loic Remy having been signed on loan from QPR. This criticism intensified at the end of the 2014 winter transfer window with Kinnear failing again to make a permanent signing, this after the £20 million sale of midfielder Yohan Cabaye, with Luuk de Jong having been brought in on loan from Monchengladbach. On 3 February 2014, Kinnear resigned from his position of Director of Football at Newcastle United Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I will donate 100 pounds to the Sir Bobby Robson foundation if he is still here come the first match of the new season next season, regardless of league we will be in. I'm not a gambling man. But I'm going to stick the same figure on the same outcome. This won't end well. HTT man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 I will donate 100 pounds to the Sir Bobby Robson foundation if he is still here come the first match of the new season next season, regardless of league we will be in. I'm not a gambling man. But I'm going to stick the same figure on the same outcome. This won't end well. Good on ye HTT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 "Strongly placed to win promotion from the Championship, Newcastle have ample cash reserves but Mike Ashley, their owner, has provided Benítez with a rather less generous budget this month than had originally been envisaged" https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/20/newcastle-andros-townsend-crystal-palace Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 "Strongly placed to win promotion from the Championship, Newcastle have ample cash reserves but Mike Ashley, their owner, has provided Benítez with a rather less generous budget this month than had originally been envisaged" https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/20/newcastle-andros-townsend-crystal-palace And people are wondering why we're worried. We sold so many fucking players in the summer, made a massive profit, and Ashley is still being a tight-fisted, miserly cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Benitez may not be willing to walk till he's got us up but if we starve him from cash going up he'll surely walk. He's no fool and will have no intention of being in a club that doesn't back him. He's walked for less before. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Benitez may not be willing to walk till he's got us up but if we starve him from cash going up he'll surely walk. He's no fool and will have no intention of being in a club that doesn't back him. He's walked for less before. He'll walk if he's been given promises about money and that's denied. For all we know he may have told when he came last summer what the budget's would be until we stay up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Benitez may not be willing to walk till he's got us up but if we starve him from cash going up he'll surely walk. He's no fool and will have no intention of being in a club that doesn't back him. He's walked for less before. I think you're right. He's too honourable to walk away now. Ashley will never change. All he cares about is just being in the premier league. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 King of brinksmanship this prick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Benitez may not be willing to walk till he's got us up but if we starve him from cash going up he'll surely walk. He's no fool and will have no intention of being in a club that doesn't back him. He's walked for less before. I think you're right. He's too honourable to walk away now. Ashley will never change. All he cares about is just being in the premier league. Sadly true Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Funny how he's stopped backing Benitez when his best pal Pardew is available again Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 I think we may be soiling ourselves prematurely over one transfer window here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 I think we may be soiling ourselves prematurely over one transfer window here. Summer is the real test IMO. It probably is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stal Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Funny how he's stopped backing Benitez when his best pal Pardew is available again This occurred to me when he was sacked by Palace and quite frankly terrifies me. I don't want to inflict him on any club (bar the obvious exceptions), but I kinda hope someone somewhere hires him so we don't have to worry about the smarmy arserag dirtying our club again. Either that or he gets TwentySixteened. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 We've been relegated, we've had to sell players to make up the shortfall of being relegated so there's little money left in bank for additional signings. I think that is likely the reason for our struggles in the transfer market so far. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 I think we may be soiling ourselves prematurely over one transfer window here. I am not so sure. Rafa is the most meticulous manager we've ever had - our Summer transfer activity was proof of that - there was no messing around. Rafa would have identified his Jan transfer targets months is advance. He always mentions how he's in constant comms with Lee Charnley so it would have been with a budget in mind. Something has definitely occurred. We've been relegated, we've had to sell players to make up the shortfall of being relegated so there's little money left in bank for additional signings. I think that is likely the reason for our struggles in the transfer market so far. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/20/newcastle-andros-townsend-crystal-palace Strongly placed to win promotion from the Championship, Newcastle have ample cash reserves but Mike Ashley, their owner, has provided Benítez with a rather less generous budget this month than had originally been envisaged Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiresias Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 We've been relegated, we've had to sell players to make up the shortfall of being relegated so there's little money left in bank for additional signings. I think that is likely the reason for our struggles in the transfer market so far. Except the info that Benitez was expecting funds to be available and they haven't been. Think Ashley's decided we're going to go up so doesn't need to spend any more money and will go back to the buying shit cheap and flogging it. Doubt Benitez will be impressed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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