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Just curious, is 1m for 17th and additional 1m per place above good or bad offer compare with other clubs?

 

I ain't sure but say we finish 15th, that's 3m share among our first team players, on top from their basic wages and all other kinds of bonus.  No wonder footballers earn that lot nowadays.

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The reason there was no transfer fund was that he gave EVERYONE employed at Newcastle United a 30% bonus for being promoted.  :lol: Even the Foundation got it, people coming away with £5k bonus at the end of the year was canny, and that was just as the lower end of the pay. Players got it too.

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I'm sure Mike Ashley does want to sell NUFC. The only problem is he reportedly wants £450m for it which is way more than other clubs have gone for. He's held on to NUFC too long. The TV money has gone through the roof but so have transfer fees and player wages. The pool of possible buyers will have shrunk again due to the amount of money required to buy and fund a Premiership club. Also, the buyer has to accept that they'll almost certainly lose money rather than make money. We'd therefore need a buyer viewing their ownership of the club as a status symbol (e.g. Abramovich) or as a promotional venture (like the owners of Man City or PSG).

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The reason there was no transfer fund was that he gave EVERYONE employed at Newcastle United a 30% bonus for being promoted.

 

Is that true? How much is that likely to have amounted to, a few million? Surely it's a stretch to say that's the reason we didn't invest properly in the summer. We pulled £11million out of somewhere in our measly reserves, whilst everyone else presumably dipped into their next June moneys. That's been the difference imo.

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Don't buy players, offer bonus for winning cup, don't win cup because you don't have the players to facilitate a cup run, don't pay bonus.  File alongside "I won't leave until we win something.  And - important and relevant clarification - I count us finishing in the top four as winning something."

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Ridiculous way to go on like, nothing more than flimsy pr shite. The annoying thing is that it'll soon get trotted out as another example of Ashley backing his man/pulling money into the club etc. The fact it'll never get paid or is irrelevant. People will see the words: Ashely    bonus    £20m  and add it to the little imaginary kitty they believe he's invested. Fully expect Merson to be one of the first to do so. "he's given 'em twenty million Jeff!" I can hear it now.

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Ridiculous way to go on like, nothing more than flimsy pr shite. The annoying thing is that it'll soon get trotted out as another example of Ashley backing his man/pulling money into the club etc. The fact it'll never get paid or is irrelevant. People will see the words: Ashely    bonus    £20m  and add it to the little imaginary kitty they believe he's invested. Fully expect Merson to be one of the first to do so. "he's given 'em twenty million Jeff!" I can hear it now.

 

Handy we're on Sky this afternoon to facilitate this. Bishop earning his corn while Rafa cries about being 'sick'.

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Erm...he should have given rafa that 20 mil to help protect the league status.  Seems like an empty offer to me as its unlikey we'll win it due to our thin squad.

 

This is a Bishop press release to get yiur average nufc fan moist in their Y-ers and forgetting the appalibng running of the club.

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