James Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 The news that Richard Desmond has sold his newspapers for £125m may today be a key moment. We know that Staveley had been priming investors (didn’t another family commit £50m) so assuming Desmond also was part of the consortium more finance is suddenly available. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleBingo Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 http://www.nufcblog.co.uk/2018/02/08/nufc-fan-shares-fascinating-details-of-his-brief-chat-with-mike-ashley-in-central-london-today/ I would have attacked the c*** personally. Would be very tempting to be fair, certainly wouldn't shake his hand and ask him nice questions. If it happened of course, has more than a whiff of Keith Bullshit about it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddy Chibas Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 No interest in dealing with Staveley, even if she comes back with a better offer. Wouldn't surprise me. Whelan made a bitter enemy, in Ashley, with his "hired help (gardener)" jibe. Staveley called him out, another to brand him a liar, and dented the manbaby's famously fragile ego. Mixing business with vendettas is part of his MO. Ashley still did business with Whelan however. Parked his tanks on Whelan's lawn, by acquiring a shareholding (and a board position) in DW's weakened business. Wasn't exactly a mutually beneficial arrangement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 https://twitter.com/bigchrisholt/status/962242997034381313 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chicken little Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 interesting nugget in this guardian article about charlton: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/feb/09/charlton-khakshouri-jimenez-cash-modern-football For a developer, however, Jimenez has a lot of experience in football. He was once a steward at Chelsea, the club he supported as a child. In 2008 he was appointed vice-president of Newcastle United, in charge of player recruitment. Alongside the then director of football Dennis Wise, he was seen as part of a “Cockney Mafia” under the owner, Mike Ashley. Like Khakshouri, Wise and Ashley claimed not just to be associates of Jimenez but friends. As with Khakshouri these friends also came to blows. In 2013 Wise claimed £500,000 in damages from Jimenez, a man he described as “a very close friend to me and my family”, after it was found Jimenez had not put a loan from the Chelsea legend to its “agreed purpose”. That purpose was an investment in the luxury French golf course of Les Bordes. It is the same golf course that features in a current claim brought by Ashley against Jimenez. He says he gave his “trusted friend” £3m as an investment in the club. Both parties agree the investment was never made, but Jimenez says a claim of breach of contract is “fabricated and malicious”. That case is ongoing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 They're all a bunch of untrustworthy wankers, what a huge surprise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 They're just a set of poxy wideboy fucks. The thought of that lot running the show with KK in the background is nauseating. It's a wonder it lasted even the minutely short time it did. A steward at Chelsea ffs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 They are all as thick as thieves. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altamullan Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 They are all thick and thieves. I’d put it that way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Read something the other week that makes depressing sense. Mike Ashley hopes NUFC stay in the Premiership but if we don't he's only spent £30m in transfer fees (not including sales or player wages). Even relegated the club still get £100m+ TV money this season. He'll probably think we'll get promoted again if we get relegated so he'll consider himself in profit. Get promoted, spend £30m, get relegated with £100m+ in the bank, spend to get promoted, yo-yo between the leagues pocketing the cash. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistle17 Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Read something the other week that makes depressing sense. Mike Ashley hopes NUFC stay in the Premiership but if we don't he's only spent £30m in transfer fees (not including sales or player wages). Even relegated the club still get £100m+ TV money this season. He'll probably think we'll get promoted again if we get relegated so he'll consider himself in profit. Get promoted, spend £30m, get relegated with £100m+ in the bank, spend to get promoted, yo-yo between the leagues pocketing the cash. .....Whilst everyone renews their ST and buys the new strips each summer. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelveys Hair Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 I dont know how it is some people still believe this guy makes nothing from the club... The official online club shop is sports direct with a NUFC skin on it and they are not exactly the type of company to just give the money back. Rangers previous merchandise deal with Sports direct was revealed to be 7%.. ie the club received 7p for every £1 sold. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyn davies Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 If we survive to complete in the prem next season then once again Ashley comes out smiling and his attitude of spending nothing comes to fruition, at this rate he could give the club away for nothing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 I dont know how it is some people still believe this guy makes nothing from the club... The official online club shop is sports direct with a NUFC skin on it and they are not exactly the type of company to just give the money back. Rangers previous merchandise deal with Sports direct was revealed to be 7%.. ie the club received 7p for every £1 sold. I dare say we probably get less than 7p to the pound. I'm actually amazed that no reliable journalists have tried to get to the bottom of things such as this along with the other methods being used to effectively steal the clubs money (land behind the Gallowgate is £60 million profit for Ashley and destroys any potential for expansion too). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 is the takeover deal completely dead? We're in no international break but two weeks before the next game. God knows what Ashley can do when there's a long time off between games for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Keeping himself busy by pallying with Sky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 new tv deal is announced you fat cockney bastard and you won't get anymore than what you get now and you'd get even less if we weren't even in the goddamn league. so accept the offer on the table, take the money and bugger off. Build a mansion on Mount Fuji or live the next door to Trump or something. Just sell us you greedy cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliottman Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 new tv deal is announced you fat cockney b****** and you won't get anymore than what you get now and you'd get even less if we weren't even in the goddamn league. so accept the offer on the table, take the money and bugger off. Build a mansion on Mount Fuji or live the next door to Trump or something. Just sell us you greedy c***. Not sure he reads the board mate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NG32 Posted February 14, 2018 Share Posted February 14, 2018 new tv deal is announced you fat cockney b****** and you won't get anymore than what you get now and you'd get even less if we weren't even in the goddamn league. so accept the offer on the table, take the money and bugger off. Build a mansion on Mount Fuji or live the next door to Trump or something. Just sell us you greedy c***. Not sure he reads the board mate. Bishop does that for him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 Newcastle United "does not feel like" a huge club anymore and people "don't want to play for them", says the club's former midfielder Rob Lee. The Magpies are 13th in the Premier League but just two points above the relegation zone. Owner Mike Ashley put the club up for sale in October, but ended talks last month over a potential £250m sale. "It is a shame. The club has been in decline for such a long time," Lee told BBC Radio Newcastle. "Mike Ashley takes one step forward and then three giant steps backwards. "It is time now for change, we need change, we need someone else to take the helm." Businesswoman Amanda Staveley said in January she was still interested in buying the north east side despite failing to match Ashley's valuation of the club. Lee said: "It has become a stalemate. It is complicated with Ashley wanting a certain amount but prospective buyers are only willing to pay a certain amount because of what they value the club it." Rob Lee Former Newcastle skipper Lee won the 1992-93 First Division title with the club and appeared in two FA Cup finals Since Ashley's takeover in 2007, the Magpies have twice been relegated from the top flight before returning at the first attempt and achieved a fifth-place finish in 2011-12 under Alan Pardew. But while all other 19 Premier League sides have broken their transfer records in recent years, some on several occasions, Newcastle's most expensive signing remains the £17m paid for striker Michael Owen from Real Madrid in 2005. In last month's transfer window, manager Rafael Benitez brought in three players - goalkeeper Martin Dubravka, winger Kenedy and striker Islam Slimani - all on loan deals. Lee, who made nearly 400 appearances for Newcastle between 1992 and 2002, added: "There is no point in Newcastle getting into the Premier League then keeping the same players that got them there. "Sometimes you need better players; Bournemouth and Watford have both spent more than us. Newcastle is a huge club but it does not feel like that anymore, people don't want to play for them anymore." "We were challenging the top teams like Manchester United and Arsenal, had trips to Europe, but it all seems so far away now." http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/43069683 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
number9shirt Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 Wang Jianlin is selling his stake in Atletico Madrid Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbemba Youre A Womble Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 Nothing new being said there by Rob Lee. The whole 'big club' stuff bores me beyond belief in every sense that it's used. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitely Content Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 Nothing new being said there by Rob Lee. The whole 'big club' stuff bores me beyond belief in every sense that it's used. Yup. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 What pisses me off with ex players saying this and that is that it’s all sound bites often on the back of something done or said by others. Wanna help? Join a fans movement, become even more critical, take the media to task whenever they spout bull shit about Ashley. Keep laying it into him. Obviously Lee and others have their own jobs and I don’t expect them to start dishing out Ashley Out banners, but they have a certain power to ram home a certain narrative that they often simply choose not to express or when doing so do so in a heard it all before kind of way like now which actually sounds random. I think only Shearer has publicly urged him to sell up? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted February 15, 2018 Share Posted February 15, 2018 Rob Lee has and does work for Sky as a pundit? Criticise Ashley - no more working for them, IMO. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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