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Surely these tests should be on-going? Ashley isn't fit to run a football club - he's proved that in practice rather than test so why the fuck didn't the Premier League take action last season? Seriously though, what action could they take? dock points? fine him? everything other than forcing him to sell would just hit the club further. The only time for a fit and proper person test is beforehand, someone at the FA however should be shot with shit for allowing him to pass. I suppose however that hindsight is a wonderful thing, I mean what actually is done at the "fit and proper person tests"? Are you fit? Yeah and you're a proper person? how do you mean? Ive no idea, what the hell proper person is, we'll just say yes eh? Yeah And one last thing, at the first sign of a problem, you wont throw your toys out the pram, sacking the manager and go on a reckless sink the ship massacre culminating in relegation and a disasterous start to the Championship season? are you? emmmmmm no honest great, welcome aboard.

Yep, it was the civil service sports centre until we sold it to the club, leaving us without any proper facilities other than a 5 a side pitch underneath a restaurant.

FABRICIO COLOCCINI is fast growing resigned to staying at Newcastle – but staying on big money. And the Argentinian defender insists United’s off-field strife – not him or his team-mates – is to blame for the Magpies’ relegation to the Championship. Coloccini tops the list of players Newcastle hope to cash in on this summer as the economic reality of life outside the Premier League sinks in. But the 27-year-old believes a move is now looking “impossible” because of the Magpies’ insistence that they will not let him leave on loan. “At this moment, it is very complicated to leave Newcastle because they are asking for too much from any club interested in doing a deal,” said Coloccini. “The club only wants to sell me, not do a loan with the option to sell. My agent has talked to the Newcastle directors and it’s very complicated. “Newcastle are thinking only about getting money back at the moment, but the worldwide financial crisis doesn’t help when it comes to selling a footballer. “It’s true that some Spanish clubs have asked about me, but it’s been impossible to negotiate an agreement.” Meanwhile, Coloccini – a major disappointment since his £10 million-plus move to Tyneside from Deportivo La Coruna last summer – also reflected on relegation. “I’m unhappy about the situation because I came to the Premier League with so much hope and the season was a disaster,” he added. “People have criticised the players but all the problems within the club damaged us on the pitch. “I have never experienced so many changes on the bench during my career, and stability is fundamental for players.” And Coloccini concluded: “If a solution is not possible, I am willing to play in the Championship, but with the same financial conditions.” http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/newcastle...79310-24186809/

A SEASON-TICKET boycott by Geordie fans has pushed Newcastle closer to financial meltdown. And Mike Ashley has received yet another blow as he bids to sell United – a shock £1 million compensation claim from former deputy chairman Douglas Hall. As the wait for a buyer goes on, the crippling reality of season-ticket sales dropping to their lowest level for 17 years is fast beginning to bite. With less than three weeks until the start of the Championship season, the Sunday Sun has learned that under 15,000 new season tickets have been sold. Several thousand fans remain tied to the club after buying three-year season tickets last summer. But the prospect of barely 20,000 season tickets being taken up in total is all too real. With many of the Magpies’ biggest-earning players still on the payroll, Ashley faces a cash flow crisis which could yet scare off would-be buyers. So the last thing he needs is to be hit with a £1 million claim from Hall, son of former Newcastle chairman Sir John. Sources suggest Douglas Hall’s demand relates to “management services” supplied to United before Ashley bought the Halls’ stake in the club for £55.3m in May 2007. It remains to be seen if Ashley will pay Douglas Hall’s claim, particularly as United are understood to be set to agree a compensation deal with former manager Kevin Keegan worth around £4m. Several parties remain interested in buying Newcastle, with the Singapore-based Profitable Group having bid around £70m. Long-time United chairman Freddy Shepherd is still keen on a deal, while reputed rival interest from Malaysia and America is still to be confirmed. http://www.sundaysun.co.uk/sport/newcastle...79310-24186812/ The bit in bold defies belief, I hate Ashley with a passion but frankly I hope he tells fat Douggie to go fuck himself where that ones concerned, what an odious little twat he is.

Ye've got some bedside manner you like. I bet the patients must wait with baited breath for your cheery bed pans every morning.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2009/...ey-alan-shearer Quite sensible and for once, dispels the myths about us fans.

THere you go again with words which I dont understand where Ashley is concerned. Dont get me wrong, Im not having a go or acting all twatful to the new bloke but this belief that Ashley has somehow invested in Newcastle United is beyond me. Yes hes forked out money but its not been invested in the club, its been to save him cash in the long run. Paying a £30m debt so that we dont pay out £1m a year in interest is not investing, not when its at the expense of the team and ultimately got us relegated.

Help, for some reason I cant seem to watch this, not that Ive downloaded it or owt, anyone know where I can get a copy from?

Yet again, you've lost me. Where does this bit come in?

You lost my attention at this point Im afraid.

13 thats the number of threads on Readytogo posted in today that are about us.

Its not as bad as you make it out to be..... theres 3 weeks and a day before the season starts

They moan on about how its unfair that the location is stopping the likes of Crouch signing, well I've got news for you lads, its not the location, being on the North East coast never stopped us signing a player. Its not where you are its what you are, Sunderland, a nothing, shit tip of a place stuck between us and the Boro. Nothing in its own right, just a small area near to Newcastle and Durham. Even when players do sign for them, where do they live? Roker? Seaham? no, Newcastle, on the quayside or in Darras Hall. Fuckers have had 2 months of their fun its time we started to take the piss back.

That list of business partners is great isnt it...... Bank of Scotland - One of ou employees has a bank account with them Dell - The managing director owns a laptop. ESPN - We have bought a years subscription for the rest room. Land Registry - Are investigating us. World Pay - I bought some porn through it last week

All joking aside, I dont think these appear to be the people to take us forward quickly.

I'm not weighing behind their bid or anything like that, i just disagree that a conglomerate of 15 business divisions, with retail brands in each division markets themselves like that. It goes against every rule of channel marketing. I'm only going on my experience of working in and with marketing, not because i have a view on this lot in paticular. The first question has to be 'why'. In the bit i've highlighted you talk about looking to expand their portfolio, so why use a generic umbrella of the investment group when they sell actual brands. If they are not looking to sell their consumer brands but actually get into football ownership, it doesnt make a lot of sense to say their PR over 'getting into football ownership' is just PR, since thats the whole objective. Or are you saying this is to raise their profile as agents of footballers? Again, i'd say PR associated with handling players would be more effective. i'm not convinced either way, just highlighting things that seem illogical to me. Because this is free advertising? because they are a company that deal in this kind of thing and therefore probably need to be seen to be bidding even if they're not. Even if they are interested in buying a football club in Britain but not us, going down the route of announcing that they are serious here will raise their profile for when they do actually bid for some other club. As a global brand overall they want to raise their name and this is a cheap way to do it. Publicity is publicity, I wont ever understand the advertising world, for instance what do BASF get from their adverts on TV? its not even a product, in fact the only product anyone can name of theirs is tapes and nobody uses them anymore yet they spend a fortune showing some fucker climbing a mountain and dont even give us a product to buy? Surely they'd be better advertising in "chemical buyers weekly" or some other related way? http://www.tellyads.com/show_movie.php?filename=TA6380

at the end of the day, what do Profitable get out of pretending they are bidding for a football club if its not publicity? They cant be serious otherwise they wouldnt be breaking the confidentiality clauses that are in place. Even if they were, theres nothing to be gained from going public other than publicity itself. I disagree with your logic though, the Profitable group is looking for publicity, just take a look at their website. http://www.profitablegroup.com/ It starts with a full page advert for Liverpool FC going to Singapore in something they (Profitable) have organised. Why? for publicity, not to get the Liverpool players to sign agreements on management contracts but to promote the Profitable brand. Another look at the news section on the site and you see a number of stories related to UK housing and land deals. Like it or not, people, be they individuals or owners of large corporate businesses are still swayed initially by whether they've heard of a company. Bad example I know but its been used half a dozen times on the TV program Hustle, all you have to do is get the person to see the name of your company a few times or read it in an article in your favourite paper and suddenly you know the name, you know the company and already that first hurdle is over. If they're looking to expand their portfolio in Britain then the first thing they've got to do is get some publicity out there because before the Toon rumours the only thing you could find related to Profitable Group in the UK was details of shady deals involving land. Those stories are now buried under a mountain of google results saying "Steve McMahon this and Profitable toon that". "The profitable group? oh aye Ive heard of them they were buying Newcastle werent they? must be a big company then, could be worth doing business with them".

Hes a good lad that Matt.

Well they have continually been in the papers about this and that....Who knows. I think they might have been on Watchdog once or twice n'all

Simple honest answer? No. There is little chance we can influence the sale of the club, what we can and are doing is promoting the importance of the fans to the buyers. We dont know who they are obviously but we provide information to the press, the club and Seymour Pierce if required. Showing them that regardless of what went on last season, buy this club, do right by it and you'll not find a better place to own as far as the fans are concerned. When this club is doing well the merchandising sales go through the roof, season tickets would be back up to 40k+ and there'd be a queue round the back of the Gallowgate to snap up the couple of thousand general sale tickets. I guess the NUSC could come out publically and ask for information but chances are that the stock answers of "confidentiality clauses" would just be trotted out and frankly personally I dont want to hear Decka open his mouth as I dont trust a word coming out of it. Its got to the point where I long to hear him say "me and Mike are here for the long term, see you next week." as then Id have a glimmer of hope that they were about to depart.

At about the same time Shearer was supposedly identifying players to sign (even though he wasn't manager) and Bassong was being offered a new and much improved contract to stay though so you take everything with a liberal dose of salt. Im guessing the Government will have to mobilise a medical task force up here soon with the dangerous levels of salt we're now taking each day.

Cheers for that HF, Ive passed your comments onto Colin who says the cheques in the post

A lad at work has a mate who did have a good job at the club, as part of his role he had to speak to the manager two or three times a week, every time seemingly when he went to Kinnears office he was sitting watching the telly. Not a game, not research on our next opponents or anything like that but actually sitting watching the likes of This Morning.