Big Geordie Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 Club PR has already started tonight - talk of a £100 million 'war-chest' (over 2 seasons) in the Mirror. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 £22m less than the supposed budget over the last two pathetic summers, then. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hog Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 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! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted April 21, 2019 Share Posted April 21, 2019 Aye - it's all for the lackey's in the media and the sheep to lap up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 He will have even more difficulty selling if Rafa walks Irrelevant when he doesn't want to sell no? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonArmy1892 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Imagine if a sale came out of nowhere though. Scenes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribesman Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 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? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 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 We lobbed an extra £30m onto our wage bill last season for no reason other than to make our results look worse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmojorisin75 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 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 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) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonArmy1892 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 He is mad not to sell now with Rafa here. Value is gonna plummet come 1 July. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimpy474 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonArmy1892 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 It is worth more with Rafa Benitez than Mark Hughes surely? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Not going to factor when you have no grasp of how the actual football side of things links in. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimpy474 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiedean Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 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 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonArmy1892 Posted April 22, 2019 Share Posted April 22, 2019 Sell the fucking club, chubs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmonkey Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 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. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 Eh!!!!! But we pumped our transfer money into those stores to save them jobs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodson Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 The club is safe. Shouldn't there be a press conference about the sale of the club now? Has Kitson said anything more about his rock solid information? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanSkÃrare Posted April 23, 2019 Share Posted April 23, 2019 I can see this going two ways: Rafa stays and gets minimum to spend, or he's off and we'll see Alex McLeish coming in with £120m being splashed to compensate for his inadequacies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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