There is a very strange report from L’Equipe that Mike Ashley has turned down a deal of €400m from another Emirati group that had involvement from Peter Kenyon.
It does not appear that this group is connected to the Bin Zayed Group or their reported takeover.
Newcastle : Mike Ashley ne veut plus vendre, Bruno Genesio s'éloigne https://t.co/CImMGogXRo pic.twitter.com/LK3nageYEg
— L'ÉQUIPE (@lequipe) July 16, 2019
The report has comments attributed to Bruno Genesio’s agent saying that he was the choice of the group to become the manager if the takeover occurred.
This is what the L’Equipe report states that Genesio’s agent Pini Zahavi has stated:
“He was their candidate. We will find something else for Bruno.”
We have to wonder what is going on with the reports from France today and if they are just getting partial information. This could explain the report from Le Progres which stated that Genesio was due to be appointed.
The report also dubiously claims that Michael Chopra led a group in a failed takeover as well. This no doubt arises from his comments on talkSPORT this morning where Chopra claimed he put a Saudi group in touch with Lee Charnley about their interest in buying Newcastle.
Unfortunately, all of this seems to be just speculation based on unsubstantiated claims. Unless something else more substantial comes to light, all signs point to a Steve Bruce appointment.
127 comments so far
RobLeenio
Jul 16, 2019 at 7:55 PM
Comment #41In my life, why do I give valuable time to people who don’t care if I live or die?
– Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now by The Smiths
Is Tramp channeling his inner Morrissey?
😉
Tongue in Sheikh
Jul 16, 2019 at 7:55 PM
Comment #42Looney Balooney the dickweed of Dinnington
oldarse
Jul 16, 2019 at 7:56 PM
Comment #43welshgeordie9 Locals call him Dinnington dick or Billy no Mates.
Jib
Jul 16, 2019 at 7:57 PM
Comment #44My cat is a Sunlun supporter
Spend time with that twat
No siree
bettyswallocks
Jul 16, 2019 at 7:59 PM
Comment #45Brucie will need broad shoulders and thick skin to cope with the shitstorm coming his way. He obviously thinks he can handle the pressure and must believe he’s heaven sent as the new messiah.
If he has fallen from heaven he obviously landed face first !
lochinvar
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:01 PM
Comment #46Steve Bruce was absent from Sheffield Wednesday’s friendly at Northampton amid Newcastle interest.
Well he can stay away as long as he likes and from Newcastle as well
I’m the tolerant older guy who supports the toon with a passion but Bruce is a backward step if he ends up at SJP.
Charnley should be dismissed for incompetence.
He’s taking the club back to the dark ages while most teams in Europe have entered the Age of Enlightenment
RobLeenio
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:01 PM
Comment #47For all of the frog and his repetitive nonsense, shill accusations and braying repetition of inaccurate data.
For all of catchy from Norway and his insane ramblings and misguided use of stats to prove Rafa was useless
For all of bladeuser and his ridiculous rants against all and sundry
With all of these posters, I’ve been able to have a reasonable conversation with them and they’ve made me chuckle.
I’ve never ever wanted any of them to leave the blog.
Tony, you’ve bright me to a new low. Please disappear and never darken our door again, you’re just embarrassing.
oldarse
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:01 PM
Comment #48Yeh that face blind cobblers thumb comes to mind
Nufc-83
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:02 PM
Comment #49Our Toon I think you hit the nail on the head with your post. Even if you don’t go the games and watch on telly I would expect every toon fan to want us to win and do well this season. People who are saying I hope we get relegated need to go and support the scum or Gateshead!
Swlabr
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:02 PM
Comment #50@18…that’s jolly nice of you Tony, but to be fair, most women do.
fog on the tyne
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:03 PM
Comment #51Well said rob bonny lad. Well said
Nufc-83
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:04 PM
Comment #52Just to add to all this I think the Frog should be the most respected poster on here now. While people were saying they are ITK on the takeover and Rafa won’t leave he continued to suggest the worst would happen and that has all come true! If anyone was to be listened to all this time it was the Frog!
oldarse
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:06 PM
Comment #53He is listened to all the time once on he’s never off
Tongue in Sheikh
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:07 PM
Comment #54In the red and white corner, we have Mr Sad Baloney himself, the whiner of Washington, dickweed of Dinnington, the repetitive Rokerite. Watch him face off against everyone on the blog, throwing weak punches, eventually knocking himself out and pissing his pants
Just a fan
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:10 PM
Comment #55Tramp says.
We spend so little time on this earth so do what we really like to do.
So I’m taking his advise and I’m going to enjoy the match.
Thank you.
Jib
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:10 PM
Comment #56Tony Baloney
RobLeenio
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:11 PM
Comment #57Nufc-83, call me deluded but I’m not quite ready to abandon all hope yet.
I’ll give the frog credit when it’s due. I’m actually looking forward to a time when we can actually talk footy together.
oldarse
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:12 PM
Comment #58JIB HAHAHAHAHAHA
RobLeenio
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:13 PM
Comment #59Jib that clip is funny as 😀
lochinvar
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:15 PM
Comment #60In the last 4years Sports Dire share price has fallen from 800p to 235p today.
Ashley owns about 62% of the company so maybe someone can indicate just how much he’s lost. No wonder he wants to delist the business from the stock exchange.
House of Fraser is on the brink of extinction.
Hardly a role model for business is he ?
toon22
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:15 PM
Comment #61It’s never MAs fault
Frank pingles come sock
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:20 PM
Comment #62Perez 1-0 Leicester
That took long
Frank pingles come sock
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:21 PM
Comment #63Bruce Out
Charnley Out
Ashley Out
The next Mike Williamson
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:22 PM
Comment #64I’m pinning my hopes on the Chopra led takeover. Sounds legit to me.
Frank pingles come sock
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:22 PM
Comment #65Match prediction
Wolves 3 – 0 Mash Holdings limited
Tramp
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:23 PM
Comment #66RobLeenio
Heaven… and my missus know I’m miserable now.
It just never ends and I think it’s important that we remind ourselves what is important.
NUFC hasn’t been important in my life for many years minus a glimmer of hope under Rafa.
Why put ourselves through it.
This isn’t even a football club.
I played football with my 10 year old niece in the garden last night, we used a tennis ball and my shoes for goalposts.
Give me that every week instead of even watching us on the TV.
I couldn’t care less anymore, what are we supporting?
Really, ask yourself that. What exactly are we supportig?
There’s no more love for NUFC whilst MA is the owner.
It means nothing.
BoycottNUFC.
The next Mike Williamson
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:25 PM
Comment #67Perez will be worth 60m next year. Madison and Tielemans will be worth 80m+. Leicester are doing everything we should be doing.
optimistic prime
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:26 PM
Comment #68Loch
The thing to work out is how much the rest of the shares are worth
bettyswallocks
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:26 PM
Comment #69Frank Pringles …………. Very apt. Sad but true.
lochinvar
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:28 PM
Comment #70Keep calm
Bruce Out
Charnley Out
Ashley Out
Please rephrase
Bruce don’t come in
Charnley out out out
Ashley do one
bettyswallocks
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:28 PM
Comment #71Steve Bruce was spotted today at a plastic surgery clinic. He was picking his nose!
optimistic prime
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:30 PM
Comment #72Charnley is pretty good at getting managers in, he manages to destabilise two clubs and takes forever to do it.
Go Lee
toon22
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:33 PM
Comment #73Two small roundabouts in Shirebrook
😉
Mister Tuff
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:33 PM
Comment #74I had a vision last night – it is possibly a sign from the Heavens that a take over is still on. Those on the blog with knowledge of these matters please examine this evidence to verify whether it is a sign or not.
The Vision.
Chopper and Plane watch bloggers have been monitoring the night skies for anything which may be a sign. They understand with a full moon things might be seen against the backdrop of the moon.
Eureka – something is spotted . Two silhouettes – one is identified as a helicopter flying north and the other is identified as being the silhouette of a magpie in flight (after verification by a bird spotter).
The evidence is immediately reported to Eds’ Blog – the usual suspec… I mean those with knowledge of these matters immediately cream their duds and declare that the takeover is a goer. Plenty of high fives and whoopees.
About half an hour later sheepish plane and chopper spotters, with tails between their legs, announce to the blog that their initial report was erroneous – and that the items silhouetted were just a couple of dollops of bird shyte on the lense of the telescope.
The next Mike Williamson
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:33 PM
Comment #75Tramp. I think a lot of people are thinking the same. Is it worth it? I quit watching england ten years ago and I’ve saved myself a few thousand hours of players I don’t like boring me to death. If next season has Ashley and Bruce I’m out until ownership changes. I feel sorry for the players who I like and who seem to care for the club.
oldarse
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:33 PM
Comment #76They reckon Madame Tussauds took a cast of SB head and stuck it on Frankenstein’s Monster
RobLeenio
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:34 PM
Comment #77Tramp you have a good point. Several in fact. Apologies for making light of them with my reference to The Smiths.
Bet nobody’s ever said that before, mind you.
I do think when you strip away all the money, politics and nonsense from football, like when you’re playing with your niece, it’s a beautiful game. At the moment, I’m disillusioned with the whole thing.
willowdalerez
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:35 PM
Comment #78Our Toon
I’m with you about Steve Bruce. On that poll Neil put I was part of the 30% who said they’d support him even if they weren’t happy about his appointment. Nothing inconsistent in our position.
My question is why the hat on for Bruce by the other 70%? He hasn’t even taken a practise and they are out for his head. The focus of our ire should be Ashley and because of his uselessness in transfer windows Charnley.
Bruce will be a mediocre manager but he’ll probably keep us up if Charnley brings in a half decent striker (note to Charnley must be at least 6 feet tall we are chock full of 5’10” in a position where ht does count) and a replacement for Diame at DM.
My problem is the same as it ever was, even with Rafa we were never going to be able to compete for anything and that’s why he left… Why stay to prove you can help a weak squad overperform and overcome injuries in a squad where multiple positions have no decent cover at all (still have no natural LB if Dummett goes down and no Kenedy this time around to reassign from winger).
We’re a proper yoyo club and that’s the way Ashley likes it. Pick your absolute dream manager slot him in at Ashley’s NUFC and the best we will be is an upper-half bottom-half side with the occasional top half finish on the “Pardew principle” of random luck alone.
Those are the facts ripping Steve Bruce apart won’t change any of them.
bettyswallocks
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:38 PM
Comment #79Kind of hard to come up with anything other than nose jokes considering that’s all he is.
I’m sure he nose them all.
toon22
Jul 16, 2019 at 8:38 PM
Comment #80The traitor and his mackem mates will get a warm welcome
😉