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Keith Bishop is working overtime now. He has people spreading rumours that Newcastle have been sold to some Korean bloke now for £300 million. Utter shit.

Literally seen 0 rumours like this.

 

Yeah, Bishop can't post them on Twitter for fear of getting abuse, so he's just telling people in person down the pub. You'll have to wait for it to spread, old-school style.

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Also doing that is the sought of negative PR that Bishop would jump on.

He could spin this by getting her in the papers about how she has been affected by nasty Newcastle trolls on Twitter. He would probably make it look a lot worse than it actually was but it gives her publicity and him a chance to turn the public against Newcastle fans and what we are trying to do with getting Ashley out. He is a PR man he knows how to spin things negatively and let’s not hand him the weapons to use against us.

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Also doing that is the sought of negative PR that Bishop would jump on.

He could spin this by getting her in the papers about how she has been affected by nasty Newcastle trolls on Twitter. He would probably make it look a lot worse than it actually was but it gives her publicity and him a chance to turn the public against Newcastle fans and what we are trying to do with getting Ashley out. He is a PR man he knows how to spin things negatively and let’s not hand him the weapons to use against us.

 

100% this.

 

It needs to be communicated by the Magpie Group asap.

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Martin Samuel - another clueless / Bishop'd cretin

 

 

Ashley made the summer's best signing

 

 

Even if the pre-planned closure of 31 House of Fraser stores goes ahead, Mike Ashley’s takeover is likely to save upwards of 11,000 jobs. So, of course, through football’s distorted lens, the benefit of this is being weighed against Newcastle United’s need for a striker, and cover at left back.

‘At least we now know where all the money has gone in Newcastle, which sort of sums the football club up under this owner,’ sniffed Alan Shearer, equating the disparate strands of Ashley’s business, as if 11,000 individuals, families, mortgages and household budgets, should really be balanced against the noble quest for a slightly higher than mid-table finish.

 

Now we can all see there is a bigger and more successful club in waiting at Newcastle. That they have a fine manager in Rafa Benitez who would surely thrive given a more significant budget and an ambitious brief.

 

So Ashley’s critics have a point. It is time to start looking up at what Newcastle might be, rather than settling for a mundane Premier League existence. Yet to imply the £90million spent on House of Fraser would be better invested in Newcastle squad men displays the most blinkered vision and sense of priority.

 

If you are one of the 11,000 or more House of Fraser employees that will be spared the Job Centre, you may feel a little aggrieved to be told that your new employer’s money would have been more usefully spent on defensive cover.

 

Particularly if this advice comes from a millionaire former professional footballer — as well-intentioned as Shearer’s opinion might be. And no, Ashley did not buy House of Fraser for altruistic reasons. He spied a business opportunity, because he is a businessman, and clinched a deal for £390m less than Chinese conglomerate Sanpower paid for House of Fraser in 2014.

 

Yet a handy by-product of this is that a minimum 11,000 jobs will be preserved.

 

Yes, there are hard negotiations ahead over the 10,000 pension fund members, plus money owed to suppliers and concession holders.

 

It is far from a perfect solution; but when companies go bust it rarely is.

 

Ashley’s Newcastle takeover in 2007 was also the answer to a financial crisis. The reason the club were on the market was that Sir John Hall and the Shepherd family had run up short-term debts of £70m and recorded substantial further losses. Hall had been trying to sell his stake for three years and Ashley paid off £144m in external debts.

 

Indeed, for a club with such untapped potential, it is hard to think of a time in more than a decade when Newcastle hasn’t been for sale. The first reports that Ashley was looking to cash in emerged in 2009 when a compensation claim from Kevin Keegan was considered to have endangered the club’s future, and he would certainly sell now for the right price.

 

It makes the angry entreaties to get out of Newcastle ever more ironic. Ashley would: he just can’t find a buyer ready to take the chance he did 11 years ago.

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Not reading anything that fat mess writes.

 

Let's not get militant and go after minor celebrities on Twitter please, it's proper cringeworthy and can be spun easily (as previously mentioned) by Keith Bishop.

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Martin Samuel - another clueless / Bishop'd cretin

 

 

Ashley made the summer's best signing

 

 

Even if the pre-planned closure of 31 House of Fraser stores goes ahead, Mike Ashley’s takeover is likely to save upwards of 11,000 jobs. So, of course, through football’s distorted lens, the benefit of this is being weighed against Newcastle United’s need for a striker, and cover at left back.

‘At least we now know where all the money has gone in Newcastle, which sort of sums the football club up under this owner,’ sniffed Alan Shearer, equating the disparate strands of Ashley’s business, as if 11,000 individuals, families, mortgages and household budgets, should really be balanced against the noble quest for a slightly higher than mid-table finish.

 

Now we can all see there is a bigger and more successful club in waiting at Newcastle. That they have a fine manager in Rafa Benitez who would surely thrive given a more significant budget and an ambitious brief.

 

So Ashley’s critics have a point. It is time to start looking up at what Newcastle might be, rather than settling for a mundane Premier League existence. Yet to imply the £90million spent on House of Fraser would be better invested in Newcastle squad men displays the most blinkered vision and sense of priority.

 

If you are one of the 11,000 or more House of Fraser employees that will be spared the Job Centre, you may feel a little aggrieved to be told that your new employer’s money would have been more usefully spent on defensive cover.

 

Particularly if this advice comes from a millionaire former professional footballer — as well-intentioned as Shearer’s opinion might be. And no, Ashley did not buy House of Fraser for altruistic reasons. He spied a business opportunity, because he is a businessman, and clinched a deal for £390m less than Chinese conglomerate Sanpower paid for House of Fraser in 2014.

 

Yet a handy by-product of this is that a minimum 11,000 jobs will be preserved.

 

Yes, there are hard negotiations ahead over the 10,000 pension fund members, plus money owed to suppliers and concession holders.

 

It is far from a perfect solution; but when companies go bust it rarely is.

 

Ashley’s Newcastle takeover in 2007 was also the answer to a financial crisis. The reason the club were on the market was that Sir John Hall and the Shepherd family had run up short-term debts of £70m and recorded substantial further losses. Hall had been trying to sell his stake for three years and Ashley paid off £144m in external debts.

 

Indeed, for a club with such untapped potential, it is hard to think of a time in more than a decade when Newcastle hasn’t been for sale. The first reports that Ashley was looking to cash in emerged in 2009 when a compensation claim from Kevin Keegan was considered to have endangered the club’s future, and he would certainly sell now for the right price.

 

It makes the angry entreaties to get out of Newcastle ever more ironic. Ashley would: he just can’t find a buyer ready to take the chance he did 11 years ago.

 

Fucking awful that. Fat cunt x2.

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Keith Bishop is working overtime now. He has people spreading rumours that Newcastle have been sold to some Korean bloke now for £300 million. Utter shit.

Literally seen 0 rumours like this.

https://www.not606.com/threads/nufc-sold.365759/

 

i don't even think that qualifies as a rumour man

 

here, have you heard the club has been sold to japanese buyers...bloke who owns toyota...worth £18bn...not even joking m8

 

there i've just done a rumour

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Why is it Newcastle Utd's responsibility to shore up failing businesses and their 11,000 jobs? Surely the owners of Man U, Chelsea, City and Liverpool are fair better placed to do it then? Does the fat hypocrite even think before he writes that shit and it gets eagerly published for a national audience?

 

 

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Love this ... he goes to the match and buys the shirts , puts ££££ in Ashleys pockets , then rants like a child :  )

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Yes, there are hard negotiations ahead over the 10,000 pension fund members, plus money owed to suppliers and concession holders.

 

They are all going to get the bare minimum. For suppliers, it's reportedly 3p in the pound. For pension fund members, it's whatever the pension guaranteeing system will pay, not Mike Ashley. "Hard negotiations" are unlikely to come into it.

 

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"In Harrods you get some exceptional services. What we would like to do is introduce a 'concierge click and collect' at House of Fraser.

 

"When you go online and say you want to collect goods in-store, you should be able to book a time, book a changing room and book a stylist.

 

"You get that kind of personal shopping service in a Harrods. There's no reason why it couldn't be rolled out nationally across House of Fraser."

 

Right ok, Mike.  :lol: :lol:

 

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"In Harrods you get some exceptional services. What we would like to do is introduce a 'concierge click and collect' at House of Fraser.

 

"When you go online and say you want to collect goods in-store, you should be able to book a time, book a changing room and book a stylist.

 

"You get that kind of personal shopping service in a Harrods. There's no reason why it couldn't be rolled out nationally across House of Fraser."

 

Right ok, Mike.  :lol: :lol:

 

 

wow, ok, seems that mike has missed the last decades development in shopping and the high street then :lol:

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HoF will be asset stripped and it will remain in name only. 

 

Exactly this it will be operated to the same business model as sports direct. The guy is not going to change his business model and ethics. Zero hour contracts and appalling work practices and policies incoming for HOF staff

 

I'd rather do time in some gulag then work for this cunt

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maybe surrounded himself with so many yes men- he doesn't know reality anymore. Hopefully the start of a failure that has ramifications right through his whole empire of tat.

 

Im hoping he has or is now over stretching himself through his rampant greed.

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