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Club PR has already started tonight - talk of a £100 million 'war-chest' (over 2 seasons) in the Mirror.

 

One said "equivalent of £25m per window", I bet they didn't take in to account that Fatty means for the £100m to cover wages as well!  :hmm:

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out of interest is there club you could roughly equate us to in the PL in terms of not having an owner injecting cash in?  bournemouth, brighton, cardiff maybe?

 

just wondering what the comparison in spends would be for clubs relying solely on TV and commercial income vs ours because that is what the media should arguably be calling out

 

if ashley is going to set the rules of the game then he should be hold to account by them

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out of interest is there club you could roughly equate us to in the PL in terms of not having an owner injecting cash in?  bournemouth, brighton, cardiff maybe?

 

just wondering what the comparison in spends would be for clubs relying solely on TV and commercial income vs ours because that is what the media should arguably be calling out

 

if ashley is going to set the rules of the game then he should be hold to account by them

 

Bournemouth and Brighton are bankrolled by their owners.

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out of interest is there club you could roughly equate us to in the PL in terms of not having an owner injecting cash in?  bournemouth, brighton, cardiff maybe?

 

just wondering what the comparison in spends would be for clubs relying solely on TV and commercial income vs ours because that is what the media should arguably be calling out

 

if ashley is going to set the rules of the game then he should be hold to account by them

 

Bournemouth and Brighton are bankrolled by their owners.

 

are they?  i know bournemouth make the odd big signing but they're hardly throwing money about...brighton have blown a lot since coming up but it's something like £100m over 2 seasons when TV money comes in at +£100m per season

 

would just find it an interesting comparison

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Club PR has already started tonight - talk of a £100 million 'war-chest' (over 2 seasons) in the Mirror.

 

That’s about 1 competent PL player per window.

 

To be fair nobody really spends money anymore in January unless clubs are in danger of relegation. Its still a small amount to spend though over 2 seasons. Did we not spend around £40 million in the summer after promotion yet the budget only goes up by £10 million after 2 years in the Premier League?

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out of interest is there club you could roughly equate us to in the PL in terms of not having an owner injecting cash in?  bournemouth, brighton, cardiff maybe?

 

just wondering what the comparison in spends would be for clubs relying solely on TV and commercial income vs ours because that is what the media should arguably be calling out

 

if ashley is going to set the rules of the game then he should be hold to account by them

 

Rules :lol:

 

We lobbed an extra £30m onto our wage bill last season for no reason other than to make our results look worse.

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out of interest is there club you could roughly equate us to in the PL in terms of not having an owner injecting cash in?  bournemouth, brighton, cardiff maybe?

 

just wondering what the comparison in spends would be for clubs relying solely on TV and commercial income vs ours because that is what the media should arguably be calling out

 

if ashley is going to set the rules of the game then he should be hold to account by them

 

Rules :lol:

 

We lobbed an extra £30m onto our wage bill last season for no reason other than to make our results look worse.

 

no i'm aware of that but he's saying "no cash injections" and the media just peddle it verbatim, was wondering if there were comparable clubs to us you could point at and call it out (if you were a competent journalist)

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One of the things that fucks me off the most regarding a sale is that he seemingly wants £300-400m for us, yet he runs us like we are worth about 5p and claims the club don't have any money any chance he gets. Make your mind up, cunt.

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Value of the club never changes, it's always more than anyone offers. He says £300m, gets an offer for it suddenly it's £350m. We stayed up, the toilets have had a spring clean, they put up a new Alba 32' HD Ready TV in the staff canteen....you know any excuse so his bluff can't be called.

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It is worth more with Rafa Benitez than Mark Hughes surely?

 

Be it common sense and people with an ounce of brains between their ears aye, but Ashley operates in a world where common sense doesn't exist.

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Value of the club never changes, it's always more than anyone offers. He says £300m, gets an offer for it suddenly it's £350m. We stayed up, the toilets have had a spring clean, they put up a new Alba 32' HD Ready TV in the staff canteen....you know any excuse so his bluff can't be called.

 

Alba  ;D ;D ;D

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https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news/2040757-mike-ashley%E2%80%99s-house-of-fraser-served-notice-to-quit-town-centre-store

 

According to The Guardian M&M Asset Management, which owns the Stamford Quarter, agreed to accept no rent for a year under a short-term lease.

 

The deal was just one of several struck by the Sports Direct boss after he bought the chain out of administration last year.

 

He also drew up a deal to save the House of Fraser store in city centre Manchester from closure.

 

According to The Guardian little progress has been made in the last seven months and M&M appears to have lost patience.

 

The company has decided instead to convert the store into flats.

 

Iain Minto, M&M’s shopping centre director, said: “We can’t sit around and wait forever for House of Fraser to do something.

 

“Sports Direct have been in this building for nine months and at the moment they’re still trying work out what to do with the wider business.

 

“We don’t want the building to sit there forever and a day, we want to invest in the town.

 

“You have to bear in mind that there are nearly 60 House of Fraser stores across the company.

 

“I imagine there will be other landlords with House of Fraser, scratching their heads wondering what to do with the space.”

 

 

Richard Hyman, a retail analyst said that despite Ashley’s promises about saving House of Fraser, the businessman was unlikely to be concerned at the prospect of losing stores.

 

He said: “People may have been naive to think that these shops would be saved as retail businesses trading as House of Fraser, which is clearly not viable as it is.

 

“I suspect that Ashley has sold a big chunk of the stock he bought and that was the pivotal element in the transaction to him.”

 

Looks to be the real reason he bought HoF, as some predicted.

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