Crumpy Gunt Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 According to todays (Thursdays) Sun. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menace Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 He's holding out for more Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicky Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Well, thats good anyway. Wouldn't really blame him if he had done, given the debts they uncovered! Will look forward to seeing the full story. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olliemort Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Thats bullshit tbh! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Watch it be a joint bid for the club from Shepherd & Blair...might be what they were discussing over cocktails in Benidorm. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicky Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 NEWCASTLE have been the subject of a takeover bid one month after Mike Ashley’s £131million buy-out. SunSport can reveal a group of Chinese investors negotiated to take over the Toon and hand billionaire Ashley a £20m profit. An American-based investor also declared an interest in rivalling the Chinese bid. A Toon insider confirmed: “Ashley got this club relatively cheaply and is now being offered the chance to make a big profit.” Ashley decided not to sell. http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002390000-2007360719,00.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Let them be shirt sponsors and give us all our transfer money... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gray Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 i thought this was going to be a luque thread Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest onetallpoppy Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 how close do you think this was to happening? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 The press making shit up to try and unsettle NUFC - there's a first. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 What a load of utter shit. Not even worth discussing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 More proof of the media being given nothing by the club/Ashley/Mort and having to make things up to fulfill their "NUFC Story" quota. It sells papers though, which is all that they're bothered about, I suppose it's the nature of the beast at the end of the day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Some Chinese bloke may have just rung up with a £153m offer, given the low level of the share price when he bought the club though, even thats not a good offer. Nothing to worry about. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 As if he'd take all this on to make £20m. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quailman Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Exactly, all the work that he has put in to make the takeover (20mil is pocket change eh?)... He has plans for the club, it's pleasing to see. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 22bnw Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 It's shocking how unreal they'll get to unsettle things. I thought we'd see an end to all the s*** when it all turned out well with Chris Mort, obviously too much to ask. Unbelievable. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 The press making shit up to try and unsettle NUFC - there's a first. Aye. I'm considering setting up some kind of NUFC presswatch things are getting so bad. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chicago_shearer Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I would love to know who the "NUFC insider" is. A disgruntled local journalist with an axe to grind? Or just a London journo's imagination? A presswatch is a really good idea, but an even better idea would be for the club's website to cut ties with PremiumTV and establish their own independent website with a proper press office. Junk like this or the Keegan DoF story or the constant Martins wish thinking from Arsenal suppoprters at the tabloids deserve a rapid, official denial. Every time. You can't ignore this tabloid rubbish or let a story grow. These tabloids can do minimal damage if the club is prepared to be as persistant as they are. I hope the club's strategic review includes public relations, because they could do a lot more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EthiGeordie Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 It is a total fabrication the London based journalists has to write something negative about newcastle every day so I see it as my daily suppliment. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ridzuan Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Dont care how much profit or how big the takeover is.Now is not the right time and I hope Ashley will do the right thing and not agree to any of the rubbish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzzieMandias Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I wouldn't be surprised if there's some truth in the story. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazza ladra Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 You think it might be those My Football Club dudes? I heard they finally raised the dough. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legacy Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 You think it might be those My Football Club dudes? I heard they finally raised the dough. It's like one big game of FM.. but in real life, for example every memeber has to complile a formation to play for that week and the most popular formation gets put out on the pitch, can you imagine if we had this at Newcastle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raconteur Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I would love to know who the "NUFC insider" is. A disgruntled local journalist with an axe to grind? Or just a London journo's imagination? A presswatch is a really good idea, but an even better idea would be for the club's website to cut ties with PremiumTV and establish their own independent website with a proper press office. Junk like this or the Keegan DoF story or the constant Martins wish thinking from Arsenal suppoprters at the tabloids deserve a rapid, official denial. Every time. You can't ignore this tabloid rubbish or let a story grow. These tabloids can do minimal damage if the club is prepared to be as persistant as they are. I hope the club's strategic review includes public relations, because they could do a lot more. That's an excellent notion - in theory. In practice though, we'd be making a rod for our own back in that every time a story isn't denied vehemently it gains credence. It also removes any "wiggle room" - for instance the club may not actively want to sell Oba, but wouldn't be averse to the idea if someone came knocking either. Editorial independence for the club website is essential though, and a presswatch might not counter the flow of shite in the press, but would hopefully at least reduce the more outlandish notions that are represented as "news" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest black Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 It's complete bollocks and probably the sort of trash journalism we will have to put up with for quite a while now the club has made a staunch attempt to move out the "bad" player element of the club - I'll give Barton the benefit of the doubt because even the tabloids know Sam's in with a good chance of turning him around. Anyone remember these comments from Mort in the Journal on Aug 2: “It is not a short-term project for Mike Ashley or myself and I want to put that to bed straight away,” said Mort, who has revealed he will spend the majority of his time in his office at St James’s Park, despite keeping his family home in London. “If you look at the companies Mike has bought, like Dunlop and Slazenger, he has developed them over a period of 20 years. “He does small investments like he did in adidas, which he then sells on, but that is not a whole business, it’s a minority stake. He has bought an entire asset here and the plan is to develop it over a lengthy period of time, not turn things around quickly and sell it on again. “We are here for the long term, this is a long-term project. We are looking at how to take the club forward over various timescales. We are looking at the short term, which is making sure the team is a strong as possible for the start of the Premier League season, which means getting the squad and staff right. “Then there is the longer time frame, like property development, which we haven’t really looked at yet at all. We have to get the foundations right here to sustain long-term goals.” Sort of blows the possibility of a quick ownership turnover out of the water doesn't it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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