Mike Ashley (former owner)

[Big Geordie]

Swiss Ramble will hopefully be getting a good look and will let us know where the money is going/gone. I do also find it hard to believe that we are paying out over £100 million a season, in wages. And Brighton making more commerically? No disrespect to them, but that's the sign of how things have changed at this club during the last 14 years. We are ran with a League 2 mentality.

[Hhtoon]

Wage bills doesn't look too mental compared to others.

 

https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/how-every-prem-clubs-wage-bill-compares-to-their-19-20-league-position/

[Happinesstan]

1 hour ago, reefatoon said:

It’s mental. tea boy’s done good. He’ll be the only person wishing the takeover doesn’t go through as he’ll  have to go back to an office junior job somewhere. Actually he’s probably the fucker scuppering it the devious little twat.

Is the tea boy Ashley's son in law, by any chance?

[Ben]

2 minutes ago, Hhtoon said:

Wage bills doesn't look too mental compared to others.

 

https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/how-every-prem-clubs-wage-bill-compares-to-their-19-20-league-position/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://salarysport.com/football/premier-league/newcastle-united-f.c./&ved=2ahUKEwibjJCenJ7yAhUK5uAKHTFUAWwQFnoECAQQAg&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw07zEZ3O71RiOAucGtYjNcH

 

I reckon this is closer

[toon25]

1 hour ago, Paully said:

Our commercial income was higher than Spurs’ just before Ashley bought us but now we’re £160m behind them and we also generate less than Brighton FFS! But, we should be grateful for him apparently! 
 

 

Fancy having a lower commercial income than fucking Brighton. A team that has had, what, 4/5 seasons playing PL football?

 

Fucking outrageous.

[Hhtoon]

4 minutes ago, Ben said:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://salarysport.com/football/premier-league/newcastle-united-f.c./&ved=2ahUKEwibjJCenJ7yAhUK5uAKHTFUAWwQFnoECAQQAg&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw07zEZ3O71RiOAucGtYjNcH

 

I reckon this is closer

 

No, the other one is straight from accounts (18/19 for us as we delayed filing) which is what we should comparing to.

 

Yours is base weekly wage only of the playing staff and excludes a multitude of others costs - bonuses, sign on fees, the whole management/coaching staff etc plus 200 other employees. 

[Ben]

3 minutes ago, Hhtoon said:

 

No, the other one is straight from accounts (18/19 for us as we delayed filing) which is what we should comparing to.

 

Yours is base weekly wage only of the playing staff and excludes a multitude of others costs - bonuses, sign on fees, the whole management/coaching staff etc plus 200 other employees. 

Fair enough, I just hate that fat fucka so much I'm suspicious of everything he does, the loss wouldn't have been so bad if he put the Strawberry land money in his back pocket, but we should be all grateful because he hasn't called in the the debt he took on himself by not doing DD. 

[Paully]

14 minutes ago, toon25 said:

Fancy having a lower commercial income than fucking Brighton. A team that has had, what, 4/5 seasons playing PL football?

 

Fucking outrageous.

Absolutely disgusting 

[Shearergol]

Do the club employ 250 people? Doing what exactly?

[Ben]

17 minutes ago, Shearergol said:

Do the club employ 250 people? Doing what exactly?

 

Not a lot on furlough

[Yelevats]

He's swindling the money out the club thru creative accounting yet we still owe him 107m ...... its a disgrace.

[Guest reefatoon]

It’s Mikes club, he can do with it how he pleases. We have let him do that for 15 years now with zero complaints, so just keep silent, get your season ticket and carry on with the misery.

[Shearergol]

Does this change the value of the club? AS offered far far too much for it.

[Darth Crooks]

Desperate to leave - my arse

[nbthree3]

 

[Optimistic Nut]

Those querying the wages, guessing that’s about right given the large bonuses he gives for every place above 17th as well?

[Big Geordie]

40 minutes ago, nbthree3 said:

 

 

Shameful.

 

Even when Ashley does sell, the damage he has done to NUFC will exist for decades to come.

 

 

Edited August 7, 2021 by Big Geordie

[gjohnson]

36 minutes ago, nbthree3 said:

 

That's beyond disgraceful....nearly 10 times less anyone in the league??

 

200k, so probably just enough to pay the gas and electric if that

[Espio]

Thank you Premier League for protecting us

[Bizza]

No wonder our training ground looks like a dilapidated 1970s leisure centre

 

 

Edited August 7, 2021 by Bizza

[gjohnson]

42 minutes ago, Bizza said:

No wonder our training ground looks like a dilapidated 1970s leisure centre

 

 

 

Not even that advanced....Looks more like the resort in Carry on Camping

[bigfella]

 

2 minutes ago, gjohnson said:

Not even that advanced....Looks more like the resort in Carry on Camping

 

I can see that resemblance. Brucie's tits are bigger than Barbara Windsor's, though.

[gjohnson]

41 minutes ago, bigfella said:

 

 

I can see that resemblance. Brucie's tits are bigger than Barbara Windsor's, though.

Babs' tits would probably be more motivational as training than the facilities.....pity they weren't great even by the standards of the time

[Conjo]

8 hours ago, Optimistic Nut said:

Those querying the wages, guessing that’s about right given the large bonuses he gives for every place above 17th as well?

 

I can easily believe that, even without bonuses (if those bonuses even exists for the players). Villa will probably over take us next year and Wolves will gain significantly.

[Guest neesy111]

This one is damning.

 

Swiss Ramble on Twitter: "Despite the fall in 2020, #NUFC £153m revenue has grown £27m (21%) in last four years, entirely due to the new TV deal that started in 2017/18. It’s a similar story since Ashley’s arrival in 2007, as revenue has grown £66m, but £80m is from centrally negotiated TV contracts. https://t.co/7pUTGmZRR7" / Twitter