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Mike Ashley (former owner) (still alive)


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Guest neesy111

Optus Sport pre game coverage over here in Australia, not sure if it's an exclusive thing or just rebroadcast. Ian Wright is also there.

 

It'll be the PL global broadcast.

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I noticed Phil Neville joined a long list of pundits praising Ashley for being a good businessman. I'm fairly sure owners at other Premier League clubs are successful businessmen, but are still able to run their football clubs competently yet we only hear the good businessman comment when it comes to Ashley. Its a discussion about football what Ashley does at Sports Direct means nothing in the context of how he is poorly running Newcastle.

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When people claim he’s a good businessman, it just shows how little they know on the topic. They have no idea how his poor decisions at SD via his employment issues, his horrendous acquisitions and other strategic decisions over the past few years have mostly failed and degraded the share price of his company - coupled with the fact that his entire business model contradicts e-commerce :lol:

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I noticed Phil Neville joined a long list of pundits praising Ashley for being a good businessman. I'm fairly sure owners at other Premier League clubs are successful businessmen, but are still able to run their football clubs competently yet we only hear the good businessman comment when it comes to Ashley. Its a discussion about football what Ashley does at Sports Direct means nothing in the context of how he is poorly running Newcastle.

 

Good businessmen don't buy football clubs because it's good business. They buy football clubs because it is a passion that their good business sense affords them the opportunityy to facilitate.

 

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When people claim he’s a good businessman, it just shows how little they know on the topic. They have no idea how his poor decisions at SD via his employment issues, his horrendous acquisitions and other strategic decisions over the past few years have mostly failed and degraded the share price of his company - coupled with the fact that his entire business model contradicts e-commerce :lol:

 

You could just point out to people that whilst other clubs have raised commercial income by significant amounts in the last decade, Newcastle's has stayed flat, barely showing any increase since he took over.  That's all despite the club being on TV far more and having a much greater media following than most other teams in the bottom of the Premiership.  At a time when games are being broadcast more and more both at home and abroad Ashley has been completely unable to raise the club's profile and bring in additional sponsorship.

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Was only today thinking it would be typical if one day he took over Primark! :lol:

He couldn’t. They are too far out of his financial clout.

I could see Primark releasing a Primark Sports brand to go up against him to be honest.

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I noticed Phil Neville joined a long list of pundits praising Ashley for being a good businessman. I'm fairly sure owners at other Premier League clubs are successful businessmen, but are still able to run their football clubs competently yet we only hear the good businessman comment when it comes to Ashley. Its a discussion about football what Ashley does at Sports Direct means nothing in the context of how he is poorly running Newcastle.

Aye, seen Phil Neville  on MOTD. Says it should be about staying up now before moving on to the next step, but for that to happen we all have to be pulling in the same direction. As if Ashley's blameless and it's the fans fault.

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Guest chopey

I hate that line of thinking, I don't want to pull in the same direction as Ashley!! Because I firmly believe that it's the wrong direction

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What I dont understand with Ashley and the way he does business.

-When Pardew did great the first season we did not invest

-A few years later he appoints McClaren(just sacked in Championship) and let him go on a spend a lot of money

-McClaren gets sacked and later Benitez comes in and get almost no money

-Benitez leaves, and they appoint Bruce(just sacked from championship club) and let him spend money.

 

Why do they keep appointing shit managers and let them spend money, while 1st season Pardew and World Class Benitez get nothing. I would say thats a bad football businessman and businessman.

 

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