jdckelly Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 frankly every player should just hand in a transfer request they can all do better than waste part of their short career here Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Ashley again displaying he knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Fuck Fortiter Defendit Triumphans, that should be the club motto. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Caulkin about to talk rafa and nufc on bbc 5 live Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sempuki Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Agree with the headline: https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/17726604.mike-ashley-hasnt-just-lost-a-manager-he-has-unpicked-the-bond-that-was-holding-newcastle-united-together/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiedean Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 frankly every player should just hand in a transfer request they can all do better than waste part of their short career here You can guarantee anyone half decent will be gone Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Sigh Followed the NY Knicks forever. When Dolan let Donnie Walsh walk away I swore I'd never watch them play until Dolan was gone. Same goes for Ashley and NUFC. 'Sup fam. CFlan[/member] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonArmy1892 Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 God, this is starting to sink in. I’m devastated. Gonna need professional help. Aye, massive part of my life gone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRC Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 The ones that stay will see their value plummet. Can't see another manager getting the best out of Lascelles and Schar like Rafa did. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-more Mag Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Newcastle United Football Corporation. There should be no pretense this is anything resembling a club. It's a corporate husk of what used to be a club. I'll be damned if I'm going to support a corporate shell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest covmag Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Caulkin knows the craic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbelievable Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Caulkin about to talk rafa and nufc on bbc 5 live "The saddest thing about Rafa is he has given people hope, because now they feel even worse" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conjo Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Really breaks my heart. I see the threads on here: Sean Longstaff, Miguel Almiron, Rafa Benitez, Salomon Rondon, Ayoze Perez. Just thinking about what this club could achieve if it only operated like a normal club. Ashley is going full on, blantant heel now (edit: he already had, but don't think he had in his mind). I'm not spending money on football on tv, im not spending money on the club or sports direct or any associated companies. Granted, the only difference in that list is that I had a football subscription to watch PL last season so not much will change. Only connection to the club will be visiting this place to see if the fat cunt has keeled over or sold the club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Your "nice guy" caused this, Jamaal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Little Waster Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Has anyone got a gif of Rafa putting his geps in his pocket ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 We're now in a much worse position than we were when he came in. All the last three years have done is postpone the inevitable. Mike Ashley always wins in the end. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonArmy1892 Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Your "nice guy" caused this, Jamaal. Aye, fuck off Jamaal tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zero Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 I have had a second thought: may be this was the last obstacle for the takeover, and now we will be sold very soon There was always one big question in my mind throughout the takeover: why would Ashley sell us if Rafa is here? Rafa has been performing magic and able to give Ashley minimum 30m (rough figure) profit per year. You may not grasp how significant it is but I can tell you assuming the club is worth 350m, it’s close to 8.5% return per year (and excluding the advertisement) which is f***ing attractive. Newcastle United is close to a cash cow under Rafa. No businessmen will sell such a cash cow unless other party offered astronomical money. We all know that a big reason for Ashley to sell the club was because if Rafa left, the cash cow status will be gone and he needs to provide a lot of new funds for the new manager to improve the squad. So it’s a great timing to cash in and quit, hence the BZG story. In other words, why would Ashley sell the club if Rafa is willing to stay and help to generate 30m per year into his pocket? And if the club was to be sold shortly, the new contract was meaningless because surely BZG will negotiate with Rafa separately in relation to the working condition between Rafa and BZG. Those terms (50m all inclusive per year etc) only applies when the club was not sold. So to me, the negoatiation of the new contract itself always contradicts with the news that Ashley has agreed to sell the club to BZG. Hence I always ignore these news. However, the statement issued by the club today suggested otherwise. It’s real that the negotiation was carried between Ashley and Rafa, which means the club would not be sold to BZG shortly. However, again this contradicts with the statement issued by BZG, which claimed that the price has been agreed between BZG and Ashley. So what was Ashley doing? On one hand agreed the price with BZG and on the other hand persuading Rafa to stay and work on his own terms (I.e. the club will not be sold)? The only logical explanation I can think of now is, Ashley priority was to retain Rafa / the cash cow status (the terms offered would still generate huge profit to Ashley, I guarantee you this). The BZG takeover was the plan B in case Rafa decided to quit. Which is, Ashley has agreed the price with BZG but he would not finalise the deal until his first priority is gone. This was also in line with recent development of the BZG story. After the proper test no more news has come out and it appears to be hold up by someone till now. Hopefully the club will be sold shortly now as Ashley’s first priority has gone. And again, thanks Rafa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 I expected this to happen, but for some reason I'm slightly shocked in a weird way anyway. Just just can't fucking believe how stupid Ashley is! Supported the club since 93. I mean I know what Ashley is, he's a useless cunt of the highest degree and has done mistake after mistake and bad after bad after bad but I have to say this is the most idiotic thing ever in every way and in so many ways. It's impressive I guess the reason I'm slightly shocked is how anyone can be this stupid, even Ashley. But yeah, if someone can be/do it it's Ashley I guess. Fucking hell! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Gonna be great hoping we lose again next season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlies Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 I give up. The the cunts officially broke me. Fuck this shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_69 Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 ........and yet we all know there'll be 50,000 mugs in the stadium at the first home game of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdm Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 I have had a second thought: may be this was the last obstacle for the takeover, and now we will be sold very soon There was always one big question in my mind throughout the takeover: why would Ashley sell us if Rafa is here? Rafa has been performing magic and able to give Ashley minimum 30m (rough figure) profit per year. You may not grasp how significant it is but I can tell you assuming the club is worth 350m, it’s close to 8.5% return per year (and excluding the advertisement) which is f***ing attractive. Newcastle United is close to a cash cow under Rafa. No businessmen will sell such a cash cow unless other party offered astronomical money. We all know that a big reason for Ashley to sell the club was because if Rafa left, the cash cow status will be gone and he needs to provide a lot of new funds for the new manager to improve the squad. So it’s a great timing to cash in and quit, hence the BZG story. In other words, why would Ashley sell the club if Rafa is willing to stay and help to generate 30m per year into his pocket? And if the club was to be sold shortly, the new contract was meaningless because surely BZG will negotiate with Rafa separately in relation to the working condition between Rafa and BZG. Those terms (50m all inclusive per year etc) only applies when the club was not sold. So to me, the negoatiation of the new contract itself always contradicts with the news that Ashley has agreed to sell the club to BZG. Hence I always ignore these news. However, the statement issued by the club today suggested otherwise. It’s real that the negotiation was carried between Ashley and Rafa, which means the club would not be sold to BZG shortly. However, again this contradicts with the statement issued by BZG, which claimed that the price has been agreed between BZG and Ashley. So what was Ashley doing? On one hand agreed the price with BZG and on the other hand persuading Rafa to stay and work on his own terms (I.e. the club will not be sold)? The only logical explanation I can think of now is, Ashley priority was to retain Rafa / the cash cow status (the terms offered would still generate huge profit to Ashley, I guarantee you this). The BZG takeover was the plan B in case Rafa decided to quit. Which is, Ashley has agreed the price with BZG but he would not finalise the deal until his first priority is gone. This was also in line with recent development of the BZG story. After the proper test no more news has come out and it appears to be hold up by someone till now. Hopefully the club will be sold shortly now as Ashley’s first priority has gone. And again, thanks Rafa. It’s got nothing to do with takeover. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Caulkin about to talk rafa and nufc on bbc 5 live "The saddest thing about Rafa is he has given people hope, because now they feel even worse" Word! :( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonArmy1892 Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 "The process to appoint a successor will now begin." They wouldn't have put that if a takeover was imminent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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