Sunday Times journalist Duncan Castle has been talking about the potential Newcastle United takeover on the Transfer Window podcast.
And he has said that unscrupulous owner Mike Ashley has put a timeline of two weeks to see if anybody is ready to buy Newcastle United.
That’s not a long time since it was back on Sunday, May 26th when the news broke that the Sheikh Khaled led Bin Zayed Group were all ready to buy the club.
They said they had agreed on a high £350M price with Ashley to buy the club.
So what’s been happening in the four and a half weeks since the news broke?
And how and why does Ashley not know the situation of the takeover at the moment?
We think it’s Ashley who’s been delaying any deal because, in truth, he doesn’t really want to sell the club and lose all that cheap worldwide advertising for his Sports Direct company.
But this latest complete and utter shambles he’s created at Newcastle by refusing to give in to Rafa’s demands for more control over transfers at the club makes it curtains for Ashley on Tyneside.
And as we keep saying – if he’s going to sell the club this summer why is he so bothered about giving Rafa what he wants?
And we should let him know this is his final vindictive act against Rafa and the fans – there is no way back.
If, as expected, he announces the club will not be sold in two weeks (or later), then there’s just no way he can continue to take us down.
Without Rafa and a number of his top players, who will now undoubtedly want to leave Newcastle, Ashley could own a Championship club for the third time next May.
He cannot be allowed to destroy Newcastle United FC – it’s our club.
He’s never been a fit and proper owner at Newcastle, and we should do all we can do to legally and peacefully get him out of Toon.
Newcastle United will then come alive again – and hopefully under the fantastic and inspiring leadership – once again – of manager Rafa Benitez.
This blog will do anything and everything we can to bring this about.
Comments welcome.
63 comments so far
Toonboi4EVA
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:05 PM
Comment #1Repost
I’ve not caught up with the blog yet.
Just seen this and thought to share.
https://bdaily.co.uk/articles/2019/06/27/metalwork-firm-teams-up-with-nufc-to-solidify-marketing-strategy
Chancel My MBembaship
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:09 PM
Comment #2oldarse – if you don’t like what Ed, Neil and the people in the comments are saying then you’re free to go to another website. I don’t think anyone will notice your absence.
TomaKaThor
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:10 PM
Comment #3God hes so ugly, his appearance really does match his personality, he needs putting down.
Markaccus
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:10 PM
Comment #4He’s a spiteful, vindictive man who enjoys watching everyone suffer. He has it in for NUFC and it’s fans. He will continue to keep us where we are, doing nothing much but barely survive. He will see NUFC die before he does. The CLINT
Captain AmeriMag
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:12 PM
Comment #5BZG and Pinsent Masons must have succesfully negotiated with every type of greedy, money grubbing scum the world has to offer, surely some last minute hijinks from the slug won’t phase them.
Come on boys!! Slay this cockney dragon for us please!!
Rotonda heights
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:14 PM
Comment #6Hilarious when Ash talks about greedy landlords and a lack of transparency. YCMIU !!
thereallowickmag
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:15 PM
Comment #7Does anybody know How much money would SJP and the surrounding land be worth without a football club?
I’m beginning to wonder if that is Ashley’s plan. If let’s say the stadium and land is worth £300 million is his final insult to the city to void them of a club and sell the land to developers?
one fine day
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:15 PM
Comment #8Mister tuff
If it came down to that to get the deal over the line I would say ok fatty you can have the proceeds of the shirt sales for the next 5 years .
Once the deal is done you casually leak go the world who gets money if you buy one .
We then have the backing owner we want .
Wearing the new shirt anywhere becomes the equivalent of wearing Sunderland shirt with “I love Peter Reid ” written on the back.
The official nufc shirt becomes the lowest selling premier league shirt in history after one year and puma walk away job done .
The rest of the real world chuckle at mike every time the sales are released .
Meanwhile our creative fans groups design our own unofficial kit and its acknowledged as the most iconic shirt this century .
Sponsors logo …SBR foundation .each shirt sale results in a donation .
Win win and slug is humiliated
?
Oh and just to add ..
Once the five years is up the new shirt is realeased and guess what happens to shirt sales ?
Not only that adidas ( oh yes) agree to let our fans have imput into the design of the shirt .
The future nufc are then widely known as pioneers who allowed the most important people to the business to be involved in the kit.
By then of course we would have world wide membership off 1 million members give or take and every 2 years 5 designs are up for the fans to vote on which shirt THEY WANT!
Mister Tuff
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:16 PM
Comment #9ofd – that is the way to curb his interest in shirt sale – nobody buy them.
Surely they desire to have the latest top could be resisted until he quits having anything to do with the club.
Cannot remember fully but a while back was there not something about an old (ancient) shirt being resurrected to thwart the threat of getting sued by Tubbs.
Foggy Hall to Timbuktu
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:19 PM
Comment #10Or just buy the shirts from dh gate. Cost you no more than 20 quid aswell.
Mister Tuff
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:20 PM
Comment #11Should add you would still get a few folk buying from Tubbs tat emporiums who might not know the full history of what is going on.
Plus you would get the likes of Jib going in to but his rugby tops and him and tiny tom going in the get their shell suits for their Spanish holidays.
Jib
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:20 PM
Comment #12thereallowickmag
a proper fan knows Newcastle council own SJP
#BoycottTheLeech
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:23 PM
Comment #13Well said Ed.
Now is the time for all NUFC fans to finally come together as one. If it doesn’t happen now after what’s transpired then it never will.
Fat leech out!
Hwtl
Hwtf
oldarse
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:24 PM
Comment #14Chancel My MBembaship as you stated on another thread peeps have a right to post there feelings if you don’t like it just ignore.
Reilly
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:25 PM
Comment #15https://footballtown.com/collections/vintage-clubs-collection/products/the-seahorse
oldarse
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:25 PM
Comment #16RobLeenio its hard mate because like most on here I would be guessing giving peeps false hope I don’t do that mate
geordietom
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:27 PM
Comment #17mister tuff …
or should i say mr not so tuff grow up you dick …where do you go on holiday yeah i know. where ever your missus tells you to go …
one fine day
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:27 PM
Comment #18Foggy hall,
You could but I want this new shirt to be regarded as toxic and anyone wearing it to feel ashamed .
It would lead to anyone wearing it who had secretly bought one simply saying its from dh gate etc..
We can get creative and wear any shirt as long as it’s black and white
There are some iconic clubs around the world we could buy their shirts until fatty is done with
I have an old kappa juventus one with ariston on it for eg which I have worn for years it’s a bit knacked but feels way better to wear than Ashley’s minty offering .
Not just that whenever I get others asking me why I wear I give the the reason why so spreading the good word .
Jib
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:28 PM
Comment #19Mr Tassone tired of being the frog
RobLeenio
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:28 PM
Comment #20Ed, I’ll say again, the sentiment on the blog seems to be that we don’t wish to see this fat, horrible man any more. Please don’t use his image on your articles. There are others that could be used.
How about an image of a cow’s ar$e? Or an empty vessel? Or even just an image of Daniel Lambert, the most famous resident of the town of Stamford, Lincolnshire, who bears more than a passing resemblance to our esteemed (!) owner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lambert
Alternatively, you could use one of the iconic images of the Ashley Out campaign
https://ashleyout.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/logo4.png
geordietom
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:29 PM
Comment #21by the way mr not so tuff you still got your curly perm and a tash …
Tony Baloney
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:33 PM
Comment #22For Count: what I was saying was that I had been through the numbers days earlier and concluded that cash wise a protest wouldn’t hurt Ashley that much. Mainly because of season tickets and because match day revenue now makes up a small proportion of the total revenue of NUFC. With the ground full and most season tickets sold it would take years of attrition of people not renewing for this to have a meaningful effect on cash to Ashley. A relegation would have much more effect as we have seen.
That’s all I was saying about going through the numbers and I don’t know why you are getting so hot under the collar with me about it. I am not the first or only one to say it.
The other part of a boycott is the optics.
magscar
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:33 PM
Comment #23Mr Tuff
Following on your acceptance of the invitation to enlighten with us with your erudite views you break one of your oft repeated beefs – stop mentioning me in your feuds BOO HOO etc.
Well follow your own wishes and leave others out who have not troubled you out – yes you mighn’t get as many hearts but you might feel you can ocupy thr high ground for a few seconds 🙂
Mind your contribution was worth waiting for – insight beyond all our imaginations – hope it’s another few weeks as you work on your next cosmic (sorry comic) summary
Oh and polish up Ladies net ball “joke” it;s well past it’s sell by date and was never even funny first time. In the midst of our anguish can rely on you to turn Blog back to innocent times.
The Blog hangs with bated breadth…….
c-dog
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:33 PM
Comment #24Jib
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:20 PM
Comment #12
thereallowickmag
a proper fan knows Newcastle council own SJP
Maybe I’m not a proper fan but I thought it was just the land that SJP is built on which is owned by the council. Shows what old c-dog knows 😉
richyg01
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:33 PM
Comment #25Hes seaped everything from the club from the bank account to the pitch.
The stadium and facilities are in dire need of investment not to mention the squad.
Newcastle is a one club city, and this is OUR club, we need this fat cnut out of OUR club somehow, the sooner the better.
As Ed says, he is satisfied at mediocrity, merely surviving in the premier league each season gives him a big fat pay cheque which he will not reinvest into the club.
There is NO WAY FORWARD with this guy fleecing us all the time. There needs to be a change and the time for change is NOW!
Reilly
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:36 PM
Comment #26#NUFC have recently had a £9.4m bid rejected from the #WBA for Salomon Rondon. The target man will continue his career at West Brom for now. [Mediotiempo]
WTF 😆
Jib
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:37 PM
Comment #27Saint James Park is the name of the land
doh
RobLeenio
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:37 PM
Comment #28jib, minor point, is it not the Freemen of the City of Newcastle who own the land that SJP is built on? The club own the bricks and mortar, I believe.
one fine day
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:41 PM
Comment #29Captain Amerimag
Enjoying your posts and attitude ..
One thing though ..we just need to tone down the cockney stuff
We call him everything under the sun but leave that bit out .
We want all football supporters to help us get him out if you see my point
If Spurs for example were owned by ant and dec ( I know lol) and we’re been called horrible Geordie bastards would we take kindly to it?
Besides he is from Walsall 🙂 so it dosent quite trip off the tongue
Now Denis wise however is fair game lol
The Sheikh'sMate
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:43 PM
Comment #30Rob, that’s an insult to Mr lambert don’t you think?
Jib
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:44 PM
Comment #31Rob
The freeman have final say in use of the land
Newcastle council actually collect the rent and are shown
as owners at Durham land registry
levithefish
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:45 PM
Comment #32Think Mass advertisement of the fat man’s rival companies by fans during all the publicity might be the only way to make an impact?
JP...from The Rock
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:45 PM
Comment #33Ed- another close up of that fat twat! Aaarrrgghhhh!! Where’s my stress ball!!
magscar
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:46 PM
Comment #34OMG
jumped straight to latest thread to post after Tuff’s re entry to Blog and now see he’s not done and theirs more
🙁
Was just settling to Tsunki’s angle after peace talks, even happily bypassing frog and Tsunki goes and brings back the poster without original contributions with no insight or appeciation of the issues but revels in getting ot on with foes old and new.
Does the Blog really need more artificial division for someone’s amusement? Seems a few do
Asif we didn’t have enough to trouble us 🙁
Tony Baloney
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:46 PM
Comment #35So to optics. As far as Sky are concerned they will only show the protests if they see a big story there. If, say 10,000 boycott that will not matter to them. When there was the 11th minute “walk-in” they hardly mentioned it. Man U fans had the green and gold scarves against the Glazers for years and years, thousands of them and Sky hardly mentioned them. Sky stick with the agenda of their corporate pals I am afraid. And what would you expect from a Murdoch company?
Then you have who Sky choose to show. You have yer big 6 and then the second tier with the likes of us, Everton and Villa. We are still a big team and a big draw. Unless the ground is half empty, which I doubt very much, we will be on Sky. Who else they going to show – Watford and Burnley.
Count: I have not been disparaging or sneering to anyone who wants to boycott. I have explained my position as to why I think it will not work.
I haven’t got an alternative because I simply do not know what will shift the fat oaf. If you sing that he is a FCB he simply smirks. You can say I am defeatist and apathetic. Defeated more like because I don’t know what to do.
If you look at the history of NUFC, protests and boycotts have never forced an owner out. But this time will be different, will it?
Jib
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:47 PM
Comment #36The daft thing is even if the stadium was renamed
the address would still be
St James Park, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, NE1 4ST
Foggy Hall to Timbuktu
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:47 PM
Comment #37OFD
I get what you mean mate. Good idea.
RobLeenio
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:49 PM
Comment #38OK, cheers Jib, that’s one of those urban myths I think.
Tony Baloney
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:49 PM
Comment #39Finally Count: cherry picking what I have said about a boycott so that it is out of context with other things I said is a tactic used very often on blogs so I am not surprised by it. Seems like you just want a fight and I am the one you are picking it with.
one fine day
Jun 27, 2019 at 2:50 PM
Comment #40Geordie tom
I take it mr tuff isn’t joining us on the cruise then ?
Just want know so I don’t blow your excess baggage ?