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Mike Ashley's disregard for Newcastle taken to a new level

 

https://dailym.ai/2QXJYpW

 

‘I have never looked at the club website,’ Ashley replied. ‘And I have to be exceptionally bored to read the programme. You will get more sense out of the Beano’

 

The first time I've seen a picture of that cunt Jimenez.

 

likewise - KK looks old in that photo mind.

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Mike Ashley's disregard for Newcastle taken to a new level

 

https://dailym.ai/2QXJYpW

 

‘I have never looked at the club website,’ Ashley replied. ‘And I have to be exceptionally bored to read the programme. You will get more sense out of the Beano’

Is he trying to show off? [emoji38]

 

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Mike Ashley's disregard for Newcastle taken to a new level

 

https://dailym.ai/2QXJYpW

 

‘I have never looked at the club website,’ Ashley replied. ‘And I have to be exceptionally bored to read the programme. You will get more sense out of the Beano’

 

The first time I've seen a picture of that cunt Jimenez.

 

likewise - KK looks old in that photo mind.

 

Tony jiminez and Dennis wise just look the epitome of a couple of absolute cunts and that Jeff vetere.....jesus Christ man

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It’s noticble that everyone who Ashley has appointed in the boardroom or advises him have all been people with dubious characters and with piss poor CVs, it’s as if no one of sound character or sound expertise wants to work with him and the odd one that does, doesn’t stay around long.

 

We all know he needs yes men because he’s a man child and that’s one of the reasons such people like Pardew or Barnes have been or are employed by him and at the club, but the main reason is that no-one worth their salt would want to work with him, be pals with him or if someone does end up employed, stick around long enough or that he can keep a hold of them.

 

Mort, KK, Hughton, Shearer, Rafa etc. Charnley is only there because he’s getting a salary way above his skill set and even then his salary in comparison with other MDs is poverty spec. Pardew was rescued from the scrap heap which coincided with him owing a debt to someone he couldn’t repay and was so happy just to be here he bent over constantly relishing the fucking he got. Even so by the end he had had enough too. Helped by the good folk at SP of course.

 

Bishop needs his money, Barnes only to happy to do whatever he’s told to keep his job, Beardsley, Moncur, Carver et al likewise. Ironically, Kinnear out of them all, if sober wouldnt even have touched us with a barge pole, he signed on twice because he was far too pissed regardless to say no. His I’ll health was actually a blessing in disguise...

 

Wise, Vetere, Jimenez all cunts, and in Wise’ case desperate to cling onto the gravy train game following his piss poor stint in management, mediocre playing career and piss poor character outside of Chewlsee, the other two finding kinship in Ashley who is as dodgy and shady as they are which they needed to become players in the business of football. Or so they thought.

 

And where are they now? What have they achieved? Which club or manager uses them?

 

KK thought fuck that and Ashley knew in Hughton he was dealing with a professional, someone with integrity and who would have never bent over to be fucked like Pardew.

 

That’s why Ashley got rid of him, and Nolan, Barton and Enrique because they wouldnt put up with his shit or challenged him over it, like KK did and Rafa has done constantly.

 

But only out of loyalty to his players and a love for the fans, that and he looks at the likes of Ashley and his cronies in the kind contempt, if Ashley and co were a bees nest, Rafa just loves to poke it, especially knowing he holds all the aces as he can leave with his CV not only entact, but enhanced.

 

He kind of has them by the balls right now because when you keep acting the cunt and continue pissing on people’s chips, even those that are desperate for a job or some money will show a wide berth or stay well clear.

 

Ashley has run out of credit in many ways and Rafa is his last chance. He either submits and backs him lock stock, sacks him, or sells up and be done with it all.

 

He won’t submit, he doesn’t have the humility or grace and sacking him will backfire on him spectacular so he will have to compromise and that will be the agenda between now and January between him and his puppets which I believe the appearance at Palace was all about. But Rafa is too Wiley to fall for a leopard changing its spots...

 

The small things right now like the cleaning of the stadium, Ashley attending a game, SD about to announce they are now paying for the advertisement at SJP is Ashley clinging on in a last desperate attempt to keep the wolves at bay.

 

It wouldn’t surprise me if Ashley went to Rafa and tried to reach a compromise, but with the caveat that Rafa and let’s say Lascelles call on fans to ceasefire, to stop chanting nasty things and holding up banners and protesting outside his shops, to leave SD twitter and Facebook pages alone.

 

Rafa does so at his peril and us fans too.

 

Ever played Mortal Kombat? Finish HIM!

 

#AshleyOut

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I love HTT!

 

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/newcastle-fans-dont-really-care-13313742

 

Newcastle fans don't really care if their club counts as big or not — they just want it back

 

Mike Ashley has been deliberately, bafflingly downsizing this great institution for a decade so no wonder it seems diminished

The one thing guaranteed to boil a fan’s blood is outsiders questioning the size of their club.

So tin hats should have been donned at talkSPORT, when Danny Murphy argued Newcastle aren’t big because they yo-yo between the Championship and the Premier League.

 

And possibly that fella from The Bodyguard hired when presenter Ian Abrahams also said the only reason 52,000 fans turn up every home game to support a team that hasn’t won anything since colour TV was invented is there’s nothing else going on in their city.

The barbs failed to make much of an impact with Geordies though.

 

An apathy summed up by a writer on Newcastle fanzine The Mag , who argued that mounting a defence was redundant “when you have an owner that not only has no interest in the health and success of his football club but actually works against it being successful.”

Like everything at Newcastle United, all roads lead back to Mike Ashley, who has sucked so much out of this great football club over the past decade it’s no wonder it seems diminished in size.

 

Take Kevin Keegan, who has a book out in which he says that when he managed there he was “treated like dirt” by Ashley and co and was appalled at their “disregard for people.”

 

I’m sure current manager Rafa Benitez, after 30 months of being treated with similar contempt would agree. But the fact that he is still there, and fighting to turn things around, should answer questions about the size of Newcastle.

 

A manager of his calibre doesn’t hang round small or medium-sized clubs.

The Champions League and double La Liga winner knows more than most what it’s like to be asked by owners to over-perform while being under-funded, so they can flog the club for a profit.

 

He had that with Tom Hicks and George Gillett at Anfield.

Sadly for him he was sacked a few months before the club was sold in 2010 for £300million. Since then, under decent owners with a vision, Forbes now value the club at £1.5 billion.

 

Informed sources say that £300m is probably £50m short of what Ashley would settle for now if the offer came with no clauses attached

It’s doubtful any new owners could grow Newcastle’s value five-fold in eight years, as Liverpool have a far bigger global fan base. However it’s worth remembering that in that time Fenway Sports Group have only won a solitary League Cup.

 

But they have hired good decision-makers, bought good players, invested in the infrastructure and developed the club commercially.

Imagine if Newcastle had done that for the past decade.

 

If they’d been free to grow commercial revenues outside being exclusively a Sports Direct advertising hoarding.

Or invested in the academy and training ground. Or bought a player for more than the £16.8m they paid for Michael Owen in 2005.

Or if Ashley hadn’t chosen to make a £21m profit on transfers this summer and instead kept his promise to Benitez that “every penny” the club raised he would get to spend on players.

 

If Benitez was given the backing most managers with 50,000-plus gates receive, he’d have Newcastle challenging for a top-six place instead of fighting to get out of the relegation zone.

The truth is, we don’t know how big a club Newcastle are in the current context, because they’ve deliberately been down-sized by a man consumed with motives nobody understands.

Any visitor will tell you there is plenty going on in the city. But sadly the one thing that’s NOT going on is businessmen working out how to buy the club from Ashley and help it fulfill its potential.

 

While that’s not happening, fans aren’t too worried if their club doesn’t look big to outsiders.

They, more than anyone, know it’s been shrunk like a cheap replica shirt put on the wrong wash cycle.

They don’t care what size it appears, so long as they get it back.

 

 

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The Met police are having to deal people being stabbed on the streets of London pretty much every day amongst other general crime. I can see how they are going to send officers around to arrest people about a trust pilot review. Even if what is said is illegal then it would be a civil case, not a criminal one. So if Bishop really is reporting tweets and reviews to the police then he should be done for wasting police time.

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Perhaps Giggs, but this is a great article. Glad to see the tide is turning even with one of our supposed media partners.

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/newcastle-fans-dont-really-care-13313742

 

 

Newcastle fans don't really care if their club counts as big or not — they just want it back

 

The one thing guaranteed to boil a fan’s blood is outsiders questioning the size of their club.

 

So tin hats should have been donned at talkSPORT, when Danny Murphy argued Newcastle aren’t big because they yo-yo between the Championship and the Premier League.

 

And possibly that fella from The Bodyguard hired when presenter Ian Abrahams also said the only reason 52,000 fans turn up every home game to support a team that hasn’t won anything since colour TV was invented is there’s nothing else going on in their city.

 

The barbs failed to make much of an impact with Geordies though.

 

An apathy summed up by a writer on Newcastle fanzine The Mag , who argued that mounting a defence was redundant “when you have an owner that not only has no interest in the health and success of his football club but actually works against it being successful.”

 

Like everything at Newcastle United, all roads lead back to Mike Ashley, who has sucked so much out of this great football club over the past decade it’s no wonder it seems diminished in size.

 

Take Kevin Keegan, who has a book out in which he says that when he managed there he was “treated like dirt” by Ashley and co and was appalled at their “disregard for people.”

 

I’m sure current manager Rafa Benitez, after 30 months of being treated with similar contempt would agree. But the fact that he is still there, and fighting to turn things around, should answer questions about the size of Newcastle.

 

Managers as good at Benitez at clubs with such crowds should expect more financial backing  (Image: Action Images via Reuters)

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A manager of his calibre doesn’t hang round small or medium-sized clubs.

 

The Champions League and double La Liga winner knows more than most what it’s like to be asked by owners to over-perform while being under-funded, so they can flog the club for a profit.

 

He had that with Tom Hicks and George Gillett at Anfield.

 

Sadly for him he was sacked a few months before the club was sold in 2010 for £300million. Since then, under decent owners with a vision, Forbes now value the club at £1.5 billion.

 

Informed sources say that £300m is probably £50m short of what Ashley would settle for now if the offer came with no clauses attached.

 

It’s doubtful any new owners could grow Newcastle’s value five-fold in eight years, as Liverpool have a far bigger global fan base. However it’s worth remembering that in that time Fenway Sports Group have only won a solitary League Cup.

 

But they have hired good decision-makers, bought good players, invested in the infrastructure and developed the club commercially.

 

Imagine if Newcastle had done that for the past decade.

 

If they’d been free to grow commercial revenues outside being exclusively a Sports Direct advertising hoarding.

 

Where would Newcastle be if Ashley, circled, invested in the club the way Liverpool's owners have?  (Image: Newcastle Chronicle)

 

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Or invested in the academy and training ground. Or bought a player for more than the £16.8m they paid for Michael Owen in 2005.

 

Or if Ashley hadn’t chosen to make a £21m profit on transfers this summer and instead kept his promise to Benitez that “every penny” the club raised he would get to spend on players.

 

If Benitez was given the backing most managers with 50,000-plus gates receive, he’d have Newcastle challenging for a top-six place instead of fighting to get out of the relegation zone.

 

The truth is, we don’t know how big a club Newcastle are in the current context, because they’ve deliberately been down-sized by a man consumed with motives nobody understands.

 

 

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Any visitor will tell you there is plenty going on in the city. But sadly the one thing that’s NOT going on is businessmen working out how to buy the club from Ashley and help it fulfill its potential.

 

While that’s not happening, fans aren’t too worried if their club doesn’t look big to outsiders.

 

They, more than anyone, know it’s been shrunk like a cheap replica shirt put on the wrong wash cycle.

 

They don’t care what size it appears, so long as they get it back

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