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Same as it's a waste of time for us.  10.5 years wasted and counting.  It's pathetic.

 

In 2009 my subtitle on here was 'jazzing to the beep tone of a life support machine' and nowt's changed like, what are we even doing?

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PCP just need to sit tight until we are safe. They can then put in a revised bid without need of relegation clauses.

 

Ashley has to sell then, otherwise he will lose Rafa (a key element in PCPs interest in the first place). He will loose a section of the home support going to games next season (numbers anyones guess). And he will own a club that could easily end up following in ******lands footsteps.

 

If we manage to clamber to safety Ashley will almost certainly up his asking price. He will not give a fuck about losing Rafa, or what would be a small section of the support. He'll pocket as much of the premier league money as he can, bring in another yes-man manager and continue gambling on survival with as little investment as possible.

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Same as it's a waste of time for us.  10.5 years wasted and counting.  It's pathetic.

 

In 2009 my subtitle on here was 'jazzing to the beep tone of a life support machine' and nowt's changed like, what are we even doing?

 

Exactly, they've even stopped feeding us 5 year plans where we're following the Aston Villa model or whatever the last few years.  Not even pretending to run us as a sporting institution should be run anymore.  Just milking Rafa til the next half-arsed plan.

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PCP just need to sit tight until we are safe. They can then put in a revised bid without need of relegation clauses.

 

Ashley has to sell then, otherwise he will lose Rafa (a key element in PCPs interest in the first place). He will loose a section of the home support going to games next season (numbers anyones guess). And he will own a club that could easily end up following in ******lands footsteps.

 

If we manage to clamber to safety Ashley will almost certainly up his asking price. He will not give a fuck about losing Rafa, or what would be a small section of the support. He'll pocket as much of the premier league money as he can, bring in another yes-man manager and continue gambling on survival with as little investment as possible.

 

We'll have more money to play with next season. I reckon he'll be thinking to himself, if we stay up he can become a hero again by spending like he did with McClaren. He really is that deluded.

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Tomorrow. 0-1 and Staveley whacks in 300million with no Santa's.

 

Love your optimism.

 

I've got us down for a 2-0 win tomorrow.

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Except the room we were talking in — grey, wood-panelled walls — was where Theresa May based her leadership campaign for the Conservative party. Staveley is not really political, she says, but she has the prime minster on speed-dial and counts her as a friend.

 

Staveley out.

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“We would love to buy Newcastle. The fans are phenomenal, the club could be huge and a big success if run properly. You need a world class manager. If Rafa isn't there at the end of the season we would have to rethink this transaction."

 

3:43 pm · 19 Jan 2018

 

 

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  Staveley-led consortium won't walk away from Newcastle bid as long as Benitez is manager

 

Staveley committed to club despite accusations from owner Mike Ashley that the Dubai financier is wasting his time

 

Mustafa Alrawi

 

January 19, 2018

 

Updated: January 19, 2018 07:36 PM

 

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Rafa Benitez, manager of Newcastle United, is considered by Amanda Staveley to be doing a phenomenal job at St James' Park under difficult circumstances. Getty Images

 

The consortium trying to buy Newcastle United remains interested in the English Premier League club as long as Rafa Benitez is the side’s manager, the Dubai financier leading the bid said.

 

Negotiations, ongoing since October, have become fraught in recent days after hopes of a deal seemed to fade in the New Year with the parties unable to agree terms amid worries over how relegation from the Premier League would change the financial status of the club.

 

However, the PCP Capital Partners-led consortium remains a buyer of Newcastle until the summer at least, unless Benitez leaves. The Spaniard is doing a phenomenal job with an understrength squad, according to PCP’s chief executive Amanda Staveley.

 

"The three separate bids we put in, as they changed in October going into late November, all had one consistent part to them throughout and that is we must have Rafa remain as manager," Staveley said.

 

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Read more:

 

Newcastle United fans fearful over Benitez’s future after Amanda Staveley takeover deal ends

 

Newcastle takeover hangs in the balance as Ashley holds out for £300m from Staveley

 

Staveley PCP takeover could take Newcastle back to 1990s glory days, says former FA executive

 

English football's economic miracle driving Staveley's Newcastle bid

 

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If Benitez were to leave the club, either before or at the end of the season, then PCP would potentially walk away from the deal, said Mehrdad Ghodoussi, PCP’s managing partner and Staveley’s husband.

 

“We would love to buy Newcastle. The fans are phenomenal, the club could be huge and a big success if run properly,” said Ghodoussi, a former investment banker. “You need a world class manager. If Rafa isn't there at the end of the season we would have to rethink this transaction."

 

On Wednesday, the sale appeared to already be on the rocks after a source close to Mike Ashley, Newcastle’s owner, told Sky Sports that there was no deal even under discussion with Staveley and PCP. The source said that “attempts to reach a deal with Amanda Staveley and PCP have proved exhausting, frustrating and a complete waste of time”.

 

BREAKING: Source close to Mike Ashley: "It is only right to let the fans know that there is no deal on the table or even under discussion with Amanda Staveley and PCP. Attempts to reach a deal have proved to be exhaustive, frustrating and a complete waste of time." #SSN

 

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) January 16, 2018

 

PCP Capital Partners, however, insists it is in for Newcastle for the long haul. Even relegation from the Premier League would not alter the appetite for club - although the price would be impacted substantially - as long as Benitez remained manager.

 

The Spaniard has already experience one relegation with Newcastle, taking them back up to the Premier League at the first attempt last season. He has appeared to be hyper focused on his job, as is his nature, but fans fear he could leave St James’ Park if a sale looks increasingly unlikely.

 

Newcastle are currently 15th in the table, just three points above the teams in the relegation zone. They play league leaders Manchester City away on Saturday evening.

 

 

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I just think its likely Ashley wants 300-350m. We've all known from the start he wanted money above 250m, this hasnt happened. Whats the basis for the "its all a game, he'll never sell" posts?

He lied again about the lack of realistic communication, but thats a given. Still, clauses for 50m are not little footnotes in a negotiation.

 

Staveley has not bid near this amount, without clauses. She is also stating she was going to spend 200m on transfers/the training ground. I mean realistically, if she really wants the club he may just think there is the option to give him more & simply spend less on transfers.

 

Its basically just two sides who aren't budging waiting for the other side to back down. With the current television deals going insane all the time, 50m really shouldn't stop a negotiation of this size.

 

I think they are playing games with eachother.

 

1: Staveleys pov was that she has leverage, due to the transfer window, Rafa giving the club value, the fans patience. So she expects him to feel pressure & time constraint for the deal.

2: Ashleys pov is that he's an absolute lunatic, who routinely loses/wins large sums of money at casinos gambling (based on multiple stories online) & is not the kind of person who will bow to any leverage of any kind. He doesn't care about logic, pressure etc he will expect to come through it all.

 

So really she'll need to get closer to his valuation to persuade him to not gamble on us anymore. The media comments are just attempts at putting pressure on the other side again for me.

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After reading all the transcripts and tweets and well written article's and direct quotes I think I've worked out exactly what Ashley wants.....................a good hard punch in the Fucking face

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PCP just need to sit tight until we are safe. They can then put in a revised bid without need of relegation clauses.

 

Ashley has to sell then, otherwise he will lose Rafa (a key element in PCPs interest in the first place). He will loose a section of the home support going to games next season (numbers anyones guess). And he will own a club that could easily end up following in ******lands footsteps.

 

If we manage to clamber to safety Ashley will almost certainly up his asking price. He will not give a fuck about losing Rafa, or what would be a small section of the support. He'll pocket as much of the premier league money as he can, bring in another yes-man manager and continue gambling on survival with as little investment as possible.

 

he's ran out of yes men and gambling. If he doesn't sell he has killed the club and will never get anything like he can possibly get for it in the next 6 months ever again.

 

It's plain to see to anyone looking that we have finally got a possible buyer who is open with their future plans for the club, and has only been held back from giving fatty his current price due to his tight arsed mis-management of the club, hence the need for clauses.

 

If we are safe from relegation later in the season and PCP decide to match his offer, and he ups it to £400 million due to potential TV deals, who's to say that PCP won't say OK then, here you go?

 

 

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Again that looks like a scarcity tactic. There's no reason to put that information out into the public domain, they are trying to create a time constraint. They could just wait & then quietly move on if Benitez leaves.

 

Its the same reason sales have a time that counts down on their site, Ebay have the "only a few remaining" sign lit up etc You have to give a time constraint to add perceived value to the offer.

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I just think its likely Ashley wants 300-350m. We've all known from the start he wanted money above 250m, this hasnt happened. Whats the basis for the "its all a game, he'll never sell" posts?

He lied again about the lack of realistic communication, but thats a given. Still, clauses for 50m are not little footnotes in a negotiation.

 

Staveley has not bid near this amount, without clauses. She is also stating she was going to spend 200m on transfers/the training ground. I mean realistically, if she really wants the club he may just think there is the option to give him more & simply spend less on transfers.

 

Its basically just two sides who aren't budging waiting for the other side to back down. With the current television deals going insane all the time, 50m really shouldn't stop a negotiation of this size.

 

I think they are playing games with eachother.

 

1: Staveleys pov was that she has leverage, due to the transfer window, Rafa giving the club value, the fans patience. So she expects him to feel pressure & time constraint for the deal.

2: Ashleys pov is that he's an absolute lunatic, who routinely loses/wins large sums of money at casinos gambling (based on multiple stories online) & is not the kind of person who will bow to any leverage of any kind. He doesn't care about logic, pressure etc he will expect to come through it all.

 

So really she'll need to get closer to his valuation to persuade him to not gamble on us anymore. The media comments are just attempts at putting pressure on the other side again for me.

 

Correct.

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Again that looks like a scarcity tactic. There's no reason to put that information out into the public domain, they are trying to create a time constraint. They could just wait & then quietly move on if Benitez leaves.

 

Its the same reason sales have a time that counts down on their site, Ebay have the "only a few remaining" sign lit up etc You have to give a time constraint to add perceived value to the offer.

 

Well, even the Ebay countdown can't force people to pay whatever the seller dreams of in an ideal scenario. The seller has to sell to the highest bidder at the end of the countdown. Which is PCP.

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