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Uefa would allow Ashley, in theory, to own Newcastle as he does and become more involved at Rangers. The rules state he could own up to 49.9% of a club and own another that potentially could play one another in a European competition, as long as Ashley was not seen as the “owner” of Rangers ie enjoying the majority of votingrights and the power to remove directors. This from the Chronicle today.

It has now been revealed that Mike Ashley’s refusal to help Rangers in dealing with their financial crisis, comes as a result of the club refusing to allow the Newcastle owner to take control of the club’s image rights via the Rangers badge and various trademarks. Ashley has put forward a resolution to get rid of the two Rangers directors who refused to agree to the image rights deal in return for an emergency loan to the club. The image rights are worth millions, probably tens of millions, and the two directors weren’t prepared to leave Rangers financially suffocated long-term thanks to giving up this financial stream…a bit like Newcastle United giving tens of millions of pounds of free advertising to the rest of Mike Ashley’s business empire. Ashley followed up this move by then refusing to buy more shares in a rights issue to current shareholders, Rangers looking to generate £4m to help deal with the financial problems. The rights issue fell around £900,000 short of the target. However, Mike Ashley then immediately increased his shareholding to 8.92% by instead buying shares privately, paying £853,000 to investment firm Hargreave Hale. No doubt what signal he is sending out there with the amount almost exactly what the rights issue had fallen short by, with not a penny of Ashley’s private deal going to help Rangers’ current plight. There is now apparent competition for Mike Ashley with a trio of wealthy Rangers fans; Paul Murray, Dave King and George Letham, lining up against the Newcastle owner for control of Rangers. Rangers fans are massively against Ashley as they can see what lies ahead for their club if he wins control, whereas deluded fools such as Barry Ferguson simply see a massively rich man as a saviour of their club.

We all know who'll win that one he'll probably never even go to a game .

http://www.sportsdirect.com/sondico-oldham-athletic-home-shirt-2014-2015-377031?colcode=37703118&src=google&gclid=CJHVgKmXn8ECFc7HtAodVn4AXg&gclsrc=aw.ds Made by Sondico = Ashley, advertising S***** D***** = Ashley

Probably isn't arsed about the football & couldn't give a toss about the fans sounds familiar doesn't it ? Don't forget his indirect interest in Oldham as well via sports direct they own the club shop, renamed the ground, supply the shirts. He may not have bought the club on paper but it looks like he holds all the cards there.

Apparently this is what he does, "parks his tanks on the lawn" is a term I've seen used regarding Ashley.

100% agree Shearer imo was the last old fashioned centre forward a fantastic attitude, commitment & goals. I think a price tag of £100 million would be well justified.

Ha ha ha nice one.

Goals, fret, frast deffinetly £100 miw

Fairy nuff but dont go whingeing when its not working out for you.

Dont forget he didnt have to leave Newcastle he still had years left on his contract. Also the knock on effect was Debuchey leaving as well thanks for what you did here but you've made your bed etc.

Capital One Cup: Manchester City (a) In stark contrast to the £45+ charged for Premier League home games, Manchester City have pegged ticket prices for our Capital One Cup tie later this month. Adult seats are £15, with over-65s and 16-21 year-olds paying £10. U16s are just £1 in the lower tier (level one) and £5 in the upper tier (level two). The club confirm that the lower tier will be sold first, with the upper tier then sold if there is sufficient demand. Season ticket holders and members can apply now, with zero loyalty point requirement. Members sale commences on Wednesday October 15th, for the tie at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday, 29th October at 7.45pm. This from .com hope it helps.

Your very welcome please dont mention it again.

The 2 gentlemen he's trying to oust have obviously declined his very kind offer of free S***** D***** tracksuits for life.

Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has made a bid to oust Rangers directors Graham Wallace and Philip Nash. The call has been issued through Mr Ashley’s MASH Holdings, which owns 4.26 million shares in Rangers, amounting to 5% of the total voting rights. Rangers announced they had received a notice from Mr Ashley, calling for a meeting of shareholders at which such a resolution could be put forward. The notice from Rangers, to its shareholders, said: “The company is currently verifying that the notice is properly constituted. If valid, the board intends to seek to have such notice withdrawn in order to avoid the cost and disruption of an ad hoc general meeting particularly given the company’s forthcoming annual general meeting, further details of which will be announced in due course. “The Board is united in its support of the executive team. If the notice is valid and is not withdrawn, the directors intend to recommend that shareholders vote against the proposed resolutions. A further announcement will be made shortly.” Earlier this month Mr Ashley upped his stake in Rangers with the £850,000 purchase of 4.26 million shares.

Dummet sent home from the Welsh squad with a muscular injury no news on how serious it is yet.

It's going to be hard to attract a marquee striker/s unless its on a very short term deal (I.e. 6 months mercenary) I can't see players wanting to commit full time.

Janmaat out with his hamstring our defence just got a whole lot worse.

Between October 29th & December 28th we're involved in 9 televised games, plenty of opportunity for the SPC group to ramp it up and gain maximum exposure Ahley will hate it.

Yes thats a scary run of games.

I reckon we'll be done by the time the Everton games finished.

Saturday 6th December – Newcastle United v Chelsea (12.45pm) BT Sport Saturday 13th December – Arsenal v Newcastle United (5.30pm) Sky Sports Sunday 21st December – Newcastle United v Sunderland (1.30pm) Sky Sports Friday 26th December – Manchester United v Newcastle United (3pm) BT Sport Sunday 28th December – Newcastle United v Everton (4.15pm) Sky Sports Apparently this is the new telly line up for December.

Looks like its a Taylor job

We are a point worse off than we were in the relegation season after 7 games same position 18th.

Of course its our fault we've been told enough times. Wanting to see decent football played by our team, we've got some cheek.