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[Albion] Newcastle United



El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
Helpful Moderator
Jul 5, 2003
39,701
Pattknull med Haksprut
They’ve made a profit in their transfer dealings in the past two years so there have been a few good signings too.

I’m not sure it’s Ashley’s own money, he’s probably taken it from Sport Direct’s marketing budget.

Anyway, he wants to generate a huge profit from the sale of the club (much like a DIY mogul wanted a profit from the sale of our ground) and is demanding offers of £350m - £400m.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp....nited-up-for-sale-mike-ashley-amanda-staveley

Worst owner in the Premier League.

Worse than the Oystons at Blackpool?
 




hans kraay fan club

The voice of reason.
Helpful Moderator
Mar 16, 2005
61,256
Chandlers Ford
Worse than the Oystons at Blackpool?

He did say worst 'in the Premier League' to be fair.

His attempt to conflate Ashley's attempt to sell the (entire, healthy) club, with Archer's asset stripping of the Albion, is complete nonsense though, obviously.
 






Springal

Well-known member
Feb 12, 2005
23,830
GOSBTS
Mike Ashley is nowhere near a bad owner. Fans are upset because he’s not ploughing £100M+ into the team but why should he ? They finished 10th in their first season back FFS!!
 




Mellotron

I've asked for soup
Jul 2, 2008
31,812
Brighton
Quite. They lost a fortune that season but the fans were still moaning that they had "not spent any money".

Highest wage bill in Championship history.
 


blue-shifted

Banned
Feb 20, 2004
7,645
a galaxy far far away
Shearer always goes on about how they've made a profit in the last 2 years. It's a pretty selective stat. The season they got relegated they spent a fortune to get straight back up and basically had a premier league squad. How much must they have paid Matt Ritchie to get him to drop a division?
 


Stat Brother

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 11, 2003
73,638
West west west Sussex
Pardew has only 18 months left on his Newcastle contract. :lol:
 




TheJasperCo

Well-known member
Jan 20, 2012
4,590
Exeter
I'll stand up against Ashley, just as soon as the season ticket buying, game going, shirt wearing, concession buying, Sports Direct shopping, horse punching Geordies do.

Hey, HEY there. You can accuse them of being horse-punchers, and you can say they're shirt-wearing, game-going ticket-buyers, and you can say they're concession-buying SD shoppers, and you can accuse them of being Geordies...but don't you ever...wait what was the other thing?
 


Weststander

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Aug 25, 2011
63,873
Withdean area
Things looking up:

Just beat petro-$ royalty in ManC.

The record £20m signing of midfielder Miguel Almiron. Is Mike Ashley finally opening up the purse strings, in the same way that tight-fisted Gold/Sullivan did last summer with a £100m spend?
 


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