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• 1 HAMMY14 // Oct 13, 2008 at 11:58

  Whooo 1st

• 2 Jamie G // Oct 13, 2008 at 11:59

  Not going to happen, and why would it?
  Ashley is staying and we should all get behind him when the inevitable does happen this friday.

  I will be on this website on friday to give the same message.

  I think for the clubs sake, Wise should follow Jimenez, and we should get back to norm with Ashley appointing a good, experienced PL manager like Moyes, Bruce, Venables.

• 3 Tom_Toon // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:01

  Nobody will bid for West Ham they have something like £200mil debt.

• 4 beyethegreat // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:04

  http://www.newcastleunited-mad.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=411636

• 5 Milner // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:07

  MA will not appoint a new management. He is hit by the finanical crisis and do you think he will still make time to appoint manager and chairman if wise and llbamias left? Now he can only leave things to the 2 and run newcastle, while he is trying to salvage the losts.

• 6 S.Parker // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:12

  I can’t look forward to this guy….

  I think United will be bought by another richman…

• 7 Shane Coghlan // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:12

  You know you want to Anil

• 8 graeme // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:16

  MA may well be suffering with the current financial market meltdown but that doesnt remove his responsibility for NUFC.

  If he doesnt invest in players in January, assuming he’s still here, the chances of us becoming sucked into a relegation battle become much more real.

  If that happens, the value of his asset (NUFC) will plummet quicker than his reputation as a shrewd football club owner!!!

  Its just not in his interest to let the club slip down the table and stay there, it will cost him a hell of a lot more in the long term.

• 9 simon376 // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:19

  I can understand where people are coming from about not wantting a rich owner and Newcastle keeping its id. My only worry is:

  The clubs who are in the top 4 are in europe every season and can get money that way.

  Clubs that have been bought out by rich guys can now challnge the ‘top’ clubs.

  Clubs that are just left as they are and because of the problems in the finance world, just won’t have a hope of moving up at all unless they have a fantastic squad of players.

  As much as I would like to see us be aable to move up on our own merits with players doing well, I just can’t see it. We don’t have the players to do it right now, we need a few more. The only way we can improve is if somebody with a bit of money buys us out and gives some cash to the manager. After 2 - 3 seasons of being up there, then hopefully we could do it via the players we woudl have and not need to worry about big cash injections every year. Hopefully we would then be generating enough cash.

  Lets hope something good hapens this week.

• 10 Nobby's Dad // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:20

  Not going to happen, and why would it?
  Ashley is staying and we should all get behind him when the inevitable does happen this friday.

  =====================================================================

  The club is for sale so why wouldn’t it happen? When you’re selling in a buyers market its difficult to set a deadline, I think the Friday thing is all nonsense.

  Ashley will have bids put in but none will be near what he wants so he’ll be forced to sell for less money. There is no way he is staying because he simply never intended to…he bought to sell at a fat profit….surely this fact is now beyond dispute?

• 11 surey // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:25

  ha ha i have read that before!!!
  Deja vu?????????/

• 12 simon376 // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:26

  I agree Nobbys Dad. I do think a deadline could be the case though. i work with tenders all the time and think it will be the same for Newcastles sale. One date is set for expressions of interest, then I would send an information pack out to them for what we hoep they can provide. Within a couple of weeks by a certain time, offers have to have come in then reviewed.

  I know it will be slightly different for the sale of Newcastle as Ashley wont care how they are going to provide a service unlike tendering, but he will no doubt have a deadline for interest then a deadline for offers. Of course if offers dont come in anywhere near, he might hold on for a while. But as you said, he wants out and always has done. No point staying too long with all the hostility for him, if he can get out and cover his costs, he would be onto a winner I think.

• 13 DanToon // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:28

  MA is not Billionaire anymore! Sports Direct has been hit hard by the recession. My cousin works at the HQ in Mansfield as one of the accounts management team, she’s being made redundant!!

• 14 seetow // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:30

  hahah ed i wouldn’t call 1B measly, would you?

• 15 Lokes // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:32

  No quote, No even the mystery source, nothing!
  I doubt frankly

• 16 Ericles // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:37

  Ashley only ever saw NUFC as a profit making toy. He is nowt but a fat capitalist cat in more ways than one. He is a “new money” johnny-come-lately and the proof of his barrow boy mentality is in those he recruited to run NUFC.
  He will sell to the highest bidder for the biggest wad he can get in the present market situation. It matters not what the fans think, it matters not what any Geordie thinks or wants for the best of the club. Ashley’s asking price means a an Arab or foreign money-bags. As long as we get KK back with some quality back-up and quality players then that will be what we will have to settle for. As long as it is not laundered money because we as fans have already been taken to the cleaners.

• 17 Toon Daft // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:40

  would bloody love it though

• 18 Terry Mac's Crossword // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:44

  Dream scenario in my humble opinion. I don’t particularly like the mega money war games which are warping the EPL but if we don’t join in i’m afraid we’ll get left behind. maybe the north of the tyne could devolve from England and we could join the SPL? Champions league every season . . . could appen.

• 19 jo // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:48

  aye but ericles?-do u know ya wild boar?does it go the whole hog?

• 20 Ever seen a mackem in Milan? // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:48

  I have came to cheer you all up in these sad times! Lets start with the laughing stock that is Tottenham

  SPURS BRA - One for the ladies. This bra, in team colours, comes with good support but no cups- £14:99

  SPURS CONDOMS - Come in sizes from “Little Hero” to “BIG LES”. Ideal for the p****s in the Paxton Road End. - £0:75p for life-times supply. (3)

  Have a nice day!

• 21 jo // Oct 13, 2008 at 12:49

  waaaaaaaa ba ba ba ba ba ba ba bap!

• 22 ryan peacock // Oct 13, 2008 at 13:04

  if we get this bloke top 8 is possible with his huge investment in january and as for next season who knows! but the chances are he will not buy anyone!

• 23 KK FOREVER (Ross) // Oct 13, 2008 at 13:11

  terry mac-god forbid! the two horse race that is the SPL isnt something i’d be especially proud to be a part of.

• 24 Howay50 // Oct 13, 2008 at 13:14

  I hear that NUFC is to be nationalised by Brown and Darling. Sponsorship will switch from Northern Rock to HM Treasury and that Alistair Campbell wants to be in the first XI!!!

• 25 Howay50 // Oct 13, 2008 at 13:16

  Actually would be a bad thing if NUFC were nationalised as with current premiership club debt about to be renegotiated or called in. We might even win the league this year as we will be the only team left…

• 26 Born Again Geordie // Oct 13, 2008 at 13:28

  Three things that you must question here :

  1 . It’s in a Sunday rag

  2. The Sunday rag has Sun in the title

  3. No quote from anyone, just a story made up by the tea boy at the Sun to fill a few column inches.

  They don’t know what to print since JFK told them what he tought of them all. lol

• 27 Born Again Geordie // Oct 13, 2008 at 13:29

  * thought

• 28 Tom_Toon // Oct 13, 2008 at 13:46

  Lets hope the new owners see sense and bring in Terim or Temuri, not bluddy Keegan!

• 29 Punk Skunk // Oct 13, 2008 at 13:55

  Bang on born again!..

• 30 Punk Skunk // Oct 13, 2008 at 13:56

  Bang on TT!..

• 31 beyethegreat // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:02

  my dream manager is van gaal
  he is a good tactician
  a good motivator
  very experienced and proved he can handle pressure whilst at barca
  he also plays good football
  is very charasmatic
  and he could also revolutionise our academyas he should know what it takes to make a good academy has he has worked with 2 of the worlds best in ajax and barca
  he could help with the young players we already have
  taylor
  bassong
  zog
  enrique
  xisco
  krul and the other academy lads

  he speaks good english
  has good knowledge of world football
  can attract big players

• 32 beyethegreat // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:03

  but could we attract him from alkmaar

• 33 scotty // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:07

  Anyone heard the rumor of the club being sold a done deal with shearer as manager???

• 34 Tom_Toon // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:10

  If Shearer or Keegan coms back as manager ill put a bullet in my brain.

  I wouldn’t mind van Gaal at all, just got a feeling about Ketsbaia.

• 35 cause I got the girth // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:11

  scotty - no, and dont even start with such crap!

• 36 beyethegreat // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:13

  tom toon kestsbaia sounds to be one of the best managers around he is the 1st manager of a cyprusian team to get in the champs league and though his squad clearly hasnt the quality to get through he isnt making a bad go of it

• 37 midlandstoon // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:15

  Has anybody seen Nile ranger in action yet?
  Heard he is doing well whats the verdict?
  Would be good to see him and kadar get a shot

• 38 Tom_Toon // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:16

  Exactly, he is one of the best YOUNG managers around with people like Martinez and Bilic.

• 39 sweendog // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:18

  Ashley truly is a disgrace ..

  Anybody of the feeling that Ashley cleared debts etc and might have been good for the club …. just read in the chronicle he hasn’t cleared the debts .. they’ve just been underwritten .. so coming from the point of view that Ashley has invested in the club and sorted it out .. in fact he has done nothing but ruin the club .. shameless greedy fat tw*t

• 40 beyethegreat // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:20

  http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=lyHSPlaUAos

• 41 Punk Skunk // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:21

  Van Gaal would also be v cool!..

  …But i also like what Temuri’s been doin’ with Famagusta…

• 42 Punk Skunk // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:22

  Keegan &(v) Shearer…
  …Am not feelin’ that like!..

• 43 51times // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:23

  Flounce the names Terim and Temuri or anybody you like, you know as well as I they’re never getting the job. Please be realistic, we all know who will get the job once the new owners come in. Whether that’s a good idea or not is irrelevant.

• 44 beyethegreat // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:24

  according to wikipedia katsbaia wants the job though it is wikipeidia

• 45 Punk Skunk // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:24

  Uh Oh!..

• 46 Tom_Toon // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:28

  beyethegreat - yes he does, he said about 2 weeks ago he wants to job: ‘I’ve been a Newcastle player so why not manager’.

• 47 beyethegreat // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:32

  who ever our new manager is i just hope we give him time

• 48 skin d // Oct 13, 2008 at 14:51

  jamie g,why the f##k would anybody get behind ashley.
  the kk saga was just one episode in the mike ashley,s how to run a football club show.
  i for one will never get behind that clown,he is a complete embarassment to newcastle.
  whether people are for or against kk,mike ashley brought him in because of the big sam mess which dont forget he created.
  fat boy couldn,t get anyone else to run the club,after the big sam fiasco,kev was doing that f###ing hippo a favour ffs!!!.

• 49 sweendog // Oct 13, 2008 at 15:02

  skin d .. did you read that in the chronicle … ashley hasn’t invested any money into the club .. how anyone back him is beyond reason.

• 50 Paul // Oct 13, 2008 at 15:30

  skin d, how did Ashley create the ‘big sam mess’ exactly? As for Keegan, he was paid £4 million a year, so he wasn’t ‘doing a favour’, he was doing a very well paid job to bail out his soccer circus. If anything Ashley was doing Keegan a favour, because he certainly couldn’t have found such lucrative employment anywhere else.

• 51 sweendog // Oct 13, 2008 at 15:59

  Paul what has Ashley actually done for the club..
  The only point anybody pro ashley has come up with is the Cleared debts — and now its come out he actually hasn’t in fact done this

  So what has he done which is positive for the club. Greedy fat tw*t has got my blood boiling again.. and he is looking at least 40 mill from his investment .. if there was a god he’d have poisoned one of them copious meat pies he obviously eats loads of.

  RANT OVER

• 52 Paul // Oct 13, 2008 at 16:36

  Well Sweendog, he got us out of the clutches of the swivel-eyed scrapman and his weasel faced assistant who were driving the club toward bankruptcy with leveraged debt and huge dividends for themselves. He underwrote many of the huge debts accruing from that time, stopped the policy of wasting huge sums on has-been and nearly has-been players with little or no resale value and huge wages. Shall I go on?

• 53 canada willie // Oct 13, 2008 at 16:45

  Ashley’s company Sports Direct is tanking and he has lost millions on his other investments in hbos etc. I think he needs the money and really has no other choice than to sell Newcastle, which is only a toy to him

  An offer below 200 million will take it now. If I were Ambami I would throw in a bid below 200 million and see where it goes. No one else is going to be seriously making an offer in today’s market

• 54 clive lancaster // Oct 13, 2008 at 17:16

  Quite apart from what is going on at the moment, I see that there are quite a few Newcastle supporters in South Africa. Is there a Toon supporters branch in South Africa?

• 55 Paul // Oct 13, 2008 at 19:32

  Wouldn’t bet on it canada willie. Ashley raised over £900 million with his Sports Direct IPO, then when the shares dived, he bought back at a much reduced rate. Some you win, some you lose, and some you win even when you lose!

• 56 CLINT FLICK // Oct 13, 2008 at 19:41

  Ah! Betting, that’s the name of the game.
  There are plenty of wealthy gamblers out there who will not be touched by the ’so called’ credit crunch. I’m guessing, russian, ukrainian, arab, etc etc.

• 57 Tom_Toon // Oct 13, 2008 at 19:47

  Russians are very badly affected!

• 58 CLINT FLICK // Oct 13, 2008 at 19:53

  Maybe, but they have ways & means.

• 59 chuck // Oct 13, 2008 at 20:51

  Why would any sane person want to buy a club with a 160m. debt and a fan base consisting of crazies who have driven out umpteen managers
  over the last few years.
  Who are as we speak attempting to drive out the current owner , Why you may ask ?
  Because their hero KK a petulent looser has thrown in the towell because the current owner would`nt waste his money on buying ageing superstars like Henry, which was his answer to the clubs current demise , sad !
  Truth is no one wants a club where the inmates run the asylum, so wise up before we become another struggling lower division team.

• 60 sweendog // Oct 13, 2008 at 21:03

  Paul ,, thats sweet fa … he has done nothing except buy us .. steady the ship then make it infinity worse by underming the manager and recking the club …. he is a greedy wh*er and if I met him in the street I would have a few things to say…
  On a side point, you must be a supporter so why back him… its like lets back the devil as it may work in the short term but we’ll lose everything in the process ..

  Apologies for the new Rant ..

• 61 sweendog // Oct 13, 2008 at 21:07

  chuck .. keegan isn’t a petulant loser but you probably can’t remember him playing football or even guiding our team to second back in the early 90’s .. otherwise you wouldn’t be so flippant with your comments.

• 62 toon mad tom // Oct 13, 2008 at 21:20

  tbh i’m sick of hearing about (Anil Ambani ) interested in buying us, its not goin to happen.

  god i hope i’m wrong

  TOON TOON

• 63 sweendog // Oct 13, 2008 at 21:40

  toon mad tom .. true .. if only the new owner would just buy us and soon..

• 64 chuck // Oct 13, 2008 at 21:54

  Are we talking about the same manager who blew a 12 pt. lead and settled for 2nd.place during that great 90`s era you recall ,which was his best season at the helm and the highlight of his management career , who has quit this club twice and has a history of quitting elswhere when the going gets tough, is this the same guy?
  If that does`nt define petulence , then I dont know what does .
  And yes I remember him playing, I also remember Millburn and many players you probably have never heard of.

• 65 sweendog // Oct 13, 2008 at 22:02

  chuck ..

  pet·u·lant (pch-lnt)
  adj.
  1. Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered;
  2. an irritable or peevish statement or action

  Don’t think so .. rash, head strong yep .. honest,passionate,loves the club yep .. but not petulant..

• 66 Paul // Oct 13, 2008 at 22:23

  On a side point, you must be a supporter so why back him?
  Because I don’t go just go with the majority when the majority have to ludicrously distort reality, be in a state of denial, or just repetedly use mindless obscenities and accusations of sexual deviance with Mike Ashley to sustain their argument sweendog. Though of course, I wouldn’t say that in your case. Newcastle is risking it’s whole future for the sake of a manager who no other major team would touch with a bargepole now. It is a crazy, surreal situation driven by a catatrophic collective mentality that is ripping this team to shreds. Truth is I’m not an Ashley supporter and I am not anti Ashley either. My turn to be angry with him was when he brought Keegan back, because I knew exactly how it would end. However I do think that he has done some good things for the club, and he is a major improvement on those swivel-eyed gets, Shepherd and Hall junior. It’s the fans who are ripping this club to pieces, not Ashley.

• 67 sweendog // Oct 13, 2008 at 22:34

  Paul .. frustration is breeding this mentality .. and the frustration is bread from MA .. watching what he is doing and knowing you are nearly powerless to stop the greedy mess from sucking the club you’ve supported from childhood dry..

  Now the keegan debate a side story .. the most important problem our club has is ashley .. so the sooner ashley is out the better for everybody .. I hope I can get back to simple discussion on whether the manager is getting results or not ..but until then I keep on getting rushes of blood to the head with pictures of ashley milking newcastle dry … he’s worse than them bankers who’ve ruined economies because of their incessant greed.

• 68 Paul // Oct 13, 2008 at 22:56

  “Now the keegan debate a side story”

  Er, no it isn’t, that is the WHOLE story sweendog.

  All evidence suggests that it was the Shepherd -Hall politburo who were bleeding the club dry rather than Ashley. Their dividends were huge, their expenditure was huge and incredibly wasteful, the club was leveraged to the eyeballs and they treated the supporters with far more contempt than Ashley ever did. The club was teetering on the edge of a fianacial abyss in a time of financial confidence when Ashley took over. It is now in fairly decent shape financially despite the fact that we are in one of the worst economic climates in recent times.

  RANT OVER

• 69 Thump // Oct 13, 2008 at 23:21

  “Sunday Sun”

  lol

• 70 Dondatta13 // Oct 14, 2008 at 1:34

  Tom_Toon your attitude, quite frankly makes me sick to the stomach ….

  YOU and the likes of SPYRO and Jamie G are the reason I now only brush through this blog these days.

  Your comment ~34 has me praying one of KK or Shearer takes over the helm at SJP, just to piss you off…..

  This site is filled with non Toon fans and pro Ashley goons and im SICK to the back teeth with it, the sooner we are sold the better I say….

  Ashley has single handedly taken this club through its darkest hour, he is a bungling idiot who the FA should throw the book at for bringing the game into disrepute, to be quite fair.

  GET ASHLEY OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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