Conjo Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 If he can't make money from stripping down everything to the bare bone while advertising his tat for free & make the club shop into a SD shop that won't benefit the club itself at all then he won't buy anything. 9 minutes ago, Big River said: I don't mind this. couldn't care any less about Reading, so it might be nice to have a team to passionately root against again. imagine if he appoints Bruce Honestly wouldn't wish him on anyone. I'd go as far as saying I wouldn't even get enjoyment out of it if he bought Sunderland. I just feel pity for anyone desperate enough to want him as an owner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 Reading have been hit with a winding up order. Looks like he’s going to get them super super cheap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 Aww FFS - I'm always hopeful when this thread is at the top of the page - sadly not this time yet again! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 His ability is to make everything he touches Poundland. He bought us as House of Fraser and instead of returning us to former “glory” turned us into Poundland. So if you class Reading currently as “failing corner shop” there’s a chance he’ll improve it to Poundland. It will however be devoid of any soul or competitiveness with no ambition other than survival. That may be appealing to Reading fans currently but once Groundhog Day kicks in every season for a decade they may think differently Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 2 hours ago, Big River said: I don't mind this. couldn't care any less about Reading, so it might be nice to have a team to passionately root against again. imagine if he appoints Bruce we can just sit back and enjoy the ride. hopefully it ends in financial ruin or death Payback for the Pardew subs tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 (edited) The only money he'll allow to be reinvested into the club is whatever percentage of what they make anyway that he feels like at any given time. Doesn't even have the threat of losing Premier League participation money to motivate him which was the only reason he allowed anything above a pittance to be spent here. Their fans used to celebrate goals on the terraces like a boundary at the cricket - can only imagine the atmosphere when they realise the plan is to do the bare minumum forever. Edited October 31, 2023 by Wolfcastle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 Has a club/fanbase ever poopoo'd our warnings and ended up right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 29 minutes ago, Mike said: Has a club/fanbase ever poopoo'd our warnings and ended up right? It’s bizarre that other fans still do. No-one knows what went on at a club better than it’s own supporters - I tend to pay heed to what others say about owners/managers/players. You can approach things with scepticism, of course, but the noise coming out of Newcastle re Ashley should have been deafening. But the likes of Reading will be infused with regional-based bigotry and years of shite spouted by sympathetic elements in the press. The ‘deluded Geordies’ narrative. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBrownBottle Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 The funniest part will be the bit that the Reading fans don’t know. That’s that Ashley doesn’t know anything about football, and doesn’t appear to enjoy it very much. He learned nothing in a decade and a half at NUFC - the mistakes were the same, the philosophy was the same. Repeated failures punctured by two lucky breaks - Graham Carr’s scouting at the start of the 2010s, and Rafa’s approach in 2016. And that’s it - 14 and a bit years of the doldrums, having taken over a club which had a higher turnover than Spurs and Man City in 2007 despite finishing bottom half that year. He couldn’t be told he was wrong, and refused to learn anything. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abacus Posted October 31, 2023 Share Posted October 31, 2023 His PR machine is certainly effective. Whereas when you live it as a fan you'll know it's like being waterboarded. Lost my love of going to the game for a while due to that total idiot. Caused rifts with match-going friends as a result at the time, while he tried to suck the lifeblood out of the club. Still think that's why we all celebrated the takeover so much, it was like being reborn. Now, the chat all round town is about who we play next, tactics, players, what we might be able to hope for - like it always was before and should always have been. I genuinely don't want any football fan to suffer that no matter how desperate things seem. At one point, I'd have taken the club going under just to be able to start again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishops Finger Posted November 1, 2023 Share Posted November 1, 2023 6 hours ago, Mike said: Has a club/fanbase ever poopoo'd our warnings and ended up right? West Brom done well? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danh1 Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 Not dead yet. He’s bought Headingley https://x.com/mailsport/status/1720204175697420476?s=46 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 When will people realise that liquidation is better than Mike Ashley owning you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 11 hours ago, Danh1 said: Not dead yet. He’s bought Headingley https://x.com/mailsport/status/1720204175697420476?s=46 £1 million a year to rent it back, Jurys Inn hotel in Newcastle is currently up for sale for the same sort of price and their rent is £270k a year Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 18 hours ago, Danh1 said: Not dead yet. He’s bought Headingley https://x.com/mailsport/status/1720204175697420476?s=46 Thought that said Headstone for a second. Tease. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) I see this absolute fucking cunt has removed some of the stories of the background of the region from the entrance to the red mall of the Metrocentre from the multi-storey car park. In place he’s covered the lot in grey pattern and a few logos. Fucking vandal. I apologise unreservedly for getting everyone’s hopes up. Edited December 22, 2023 by Sima Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Prontonise Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 1 minute ago, Sima said: I see this absolute fucking cunt has removed all of the stories of the background of the region from the entrance to the red mall of the Metrocentre from the multi-storey car park. In place he’s covered the lot in grey pattern and a few logos. Fucking vandal. I apologise unreservedly for getting everyone’s hopes up. He doesn't own it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) 2 minutes ago, El Prontonise said: He doesn't own it... Says he owns 61.7% of Frasers Group according to Wiki. Edited December 22, 2023 by Sima Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Prontonise Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Sima said: Says he owns 61.7% of Frasers Group according to Wiki. Fraser's group doesn't own the metro centre, your getting very paranoid at any changes the centre is doing. Edited December 22, 2023 by El Prontonise Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Just now, El Prontonise said: Fraser's group doesn't own the metro centre. Never said they did. I’m referring to the outer wall of his new unit (the old Debenhams) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Prontonise Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 1 minute ago, Sima said: Never said they did. I’m referring to the outer wall of his new unit (the old Debenhams) No, you said it was from the car park. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) 3 minutes ago, El Prontonise said: No, you said it was from the car park. It is. Do you know the layout of the Metrocentre? The Multi-storey pedestrian entrance backs onto the old Debenhams (now Sports Direct/Flannels/Everlast gym). His shite is plastered on the right-hand side as you walk in on Level 3. Edited December 22, 2023 by Sima Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattypnufc Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 Every time I see this bumped I expect it to be about him suffering some kind of demise. Alas not yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Prontonise Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) 2 minutes ago, Sima said: It is. Do you know the layout of the Metrocentre. Yes I worked there. They only pay for the shop floor they rent, everything else is down to the management of the centre including car parks for the main mall. But forget it, the bloke has clearly won with stupid posts from yourself FFS. Give your head a shake. Edited December 22, 2023 by El Prontonise Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima Posted December 22, 2023 Share Posted December 22, 2023 (edited) 2 minutes ago, El Prontonise said: Yes I worked there. But forget it, the bloke has clearly won with stupid posts from yourself FFS. Give your head a shake. Fuck off. Just admit you jumped in two-footed and you were wrong. Edited December 22, 2023 by Sima Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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