Kitman

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Ashley's ambition is to make a profit on his shares without having to dip into his pocket any further. I think he wants to build the value of the club to the point where someone will buy his shares off him. He has no affection for us and I think he doesn't give a shit whether we win anything or not. imo the reason he didn't buy enough players in the summer was because he thought he could increase the net worth of the club without it; the reason he bought the players in January was to protect his investment in the club against the financial disaster of relegation, especially with significantly more money on offer next season for being a premiership club. I just don't think the football - in the sense we look at it - matters to him much. We're just another business he owns which needs to give him a return on investment, I don't think he cares about Newcastle, the club or the fans at all. Maybe turning around a struggling business gives him a hard on. I think he's happy to build the business organically if it makes financial sense but he's not going to do it for the sake of winning one of the cups. I don't see us spending much in the summer tbh, I think we'll still have a small squad of purples and we'll move on a few of the second tier players who weren't up to it, and looking to pick up cheap development players to replace them from Graham Carr's notebook. Pardieu will still be our manager. We will still require lots of luck to be successful. I think we'll carry on in this vein until he can shift his shares. So I don't think he's a football genius, he seems pretty good at business though. I don't follow NUFC for the financial results unfortunately.

Good

Was surprised he got the sack at Soton.....I hope he gets time to build something at Reading, most managers seem to get bugger all time these days

I'm sure they'll enjoy rattling around in their new half full stadium watching Fat Sam's scientific method......

Dunno if he's any good but it's a memorable name

The amount Villa and the mackems have spent to assemble poor quality squads is mental. Interestingly they also have a manager in common.

That's an ugly run in

Owen should give up with this shite. He wouldn't have stayed even if the club had offered him a new contract after relegation. In fact iirc he went on record saying he wouldn't drop down a division, even if we could've found the money to pay his bloated wages. So what's he on about? The truth is people hate him not because he didn't sign a new contract, but because he did fuck all for us after we paid a huge transfer fee and paid him huge wages. And all the while he gave every appearance of not giving a flying fuck about our predicament, spent more time with his horses than his team-mates and didn't have deal with the consequences of relegation. And throughout all of this, he's not once said sorry because he can do no fucking wrong. The twat.

You're right. Although if their agents gave a toss about them, they could do the same.

I agree, we've been lucky to have Harper. Most would've done a Shay Given years ago.

"I have a wound" Makes it sound likes he's been duelling....

Very happy with this news. As it happens it's a get out of jail card for the FA, as they clearly should have banned Mcmanan for several matches. Instead they've shown it's possible to get away with it if you have no history and your chairman has cronies on the FA. If it had been Tiote he wouldn't pull on his boots again till next season.

Could do with the win, if only to put the fear of relegation behind us

Yes. Couldn't give a shit about whether he plays for England tbh

Yeah, and I think he's had injury problems too as Tooj mentioned

I expect his idea of conditioning isn't a rake of booze followed by a McDonald's either......

I don't think they'll see much of their money back either way. I'm doubtful WHU will shell out top dollar for him.

I agree.....I think the swap thing's an invention of the press......and the evolution of the team suggests he's not the sort of striker we'd be interested in anyway (unless he was available for a bargain price, which LUFC wouldn't swallow)

Not sure I believe he could be finished....

600 votes from 11 year olds in Singapore. Errr probably, according to Leazesmag....

wtf is Nufc Blog anyway? Isn't that the bloke that just reposts articles from the press, adding "what do YOU think?" at the end?

You're not meant to take it literally, man It's poetry....

I reckon that'd be smoothing out bumps in the poll. Or something.

Are you on the sauce already CT? I've no idea what you're trying to say here