aimaad22 3416 Posted September 21, 2014 Share Posted September 21, 2014 Probably not. Pardew would be too scared that he might win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooper 940 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Cheap 'n' Cheerless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26140 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Looks like he still has the gambling instinct having bet up to £43m on the price of Tesco shares. Not something I'd be too keen on doing at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil 6 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Looks like he still has the gambling instinct having bet up to £43m on the price of Tesco shares. Not something I'd be too keen on doing at the moment. Not a gamble really. They falsified sales and took a 1.2bn hit on the failed us venture. So buying shares in a low risk main stay UK company at half the price of the annual peak is a very good financial move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26140 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Well coming from you that's confirmation for everyone to dump their Tesco stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 Well coming from you that's confirmation for everyone to dump their Tesco stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howmanheyman 26590 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Didn't know where to put this but considering the hassle the club had getting academy status granted to them under the football genius' watch I thought I'd put it here. I've noticed yet again our young'uns getting beat, nothing new as they always seem to every time I look on nufc.com. This time the U18's were beaten 1-5 at home to Liverpool's bairns whilst at the same time the U16's were taken apart by a scoreline reading 11 (eleven) - 2 by their red counterparts. What the fuck's going on? I sometimes run on a public footpath that bisects the academy and one time when I noticed they were having a training game I stopped for five minutes to see how they were getting on, One thing that stood out is that they didn't seem that good! Another was a scouse voice shouting out stuff like getting stuck in etc which I took to come from Everton man, Dave Watson although I couldn't make him out as he had his back to me. I tell you what, we're not exactly churning the players out of our 'reserves' the last few years are we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8944 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 It's cos they're wurkn clahss an fick, innit /Pardew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 4949 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 It's cos they're wurkn clahss an fick, innit /Pardew God, I'd forgotten that he made those comments... the guy is such a fuckwit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26140 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Not to mention that our U-21s finished last season second from bottom of a 22 team league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitman 2188 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 You'd have thought this was one area they'd move heaven and earth to get right. Decent squad players costing next to nothing would have the heirarchy coming in their saggy y-fronts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 8864 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Well at least all those young players we buy from abroad do flourish ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aimaad22 3416 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Aye all the promising title winning full internationals we bring in from the continent go on to achieve great things here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 9926 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Football Making A Fool Of The Business Genius http://www.football365.com/faves/9496190/F365-Says Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 I've never hated anyone more than Ashley ever in football, and I mean ANYONE. Thick fat cunt who has fluked £4 billion quid. I hate him that much, I hope he dies. That's a horrible thing to say, but it's how I feel. Newcastle United are THE most stagnant club on earth and I mean that. We are ten times the club Leeds are. Truthfully we have as many people who have jacked it as are going now and we're still getting 50,000. Newcastle are like a can of red bull who have lost their fizz completely. Stinking, shit, demeaning, hangover from the hell of hell, with a fat cunt devil going HAAA HAAA HAAAAAAAA. I honest to god know it's a morally disgusting thing to say but I'd be delighted if he died, I'd feel fucking great, and would be back from my 6 month abandoning of the club quick as fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoog 0 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 From the Telegraph: Mike Ashley's loyalty to Alan Pardew has been agonising for Newcastle United's fans, which may just be the purpose of it, assuming Big Mike enjoys seeing the supporters suffer. There is a sadistic edge to his willingness to go on sitting on top of a club that is going nowhere fast. Back when Ashley thought that acquiring a Premier League football club was like enjoying a huge night out, "he was buying a lot of chips and drinking a lot of beer," to quote one Newcastle fan, in his attempts to join the Geordie clan. Arguably the most reclusive and publicity-phobic billionaire in Britain was full of bonhomie, as he still is, financial journalists say, when he is around people he trusts. The quote about Pardew having one more game to save his job - swiftly retracted via lawyers - was delivered to a reporter as Ashley leaned against the wall of The Golden Lion pub in Soho's Dean Street, supping with a friend. In a Radio 4 profile in March, the former financial journalist Jenny Davey portrayed him as quite the lad about town: "large" and "loud" in a London club. "He's very comfortable with who he is and he surrounds himself with people he's known for a very long time," she said. "They go out on a Saturday night." This is the cockney mafia Newcastle fans have long accused of turning their club into a remake of Get Carter, with Ashley as an out-of-shape Michael Caine. Yet the brains behind the retailing giant Sports Direct is every inch the modern Thatcherite capitalist; the sort of tycoon Martin Amis might draw. Ashley, the BBC profile told us, started with one shop in Maidenhead, does deals on his mobile and once spoofed for a £200,000 legal bill (and lost). The loadsamoney element to Ashley's rise brings out the snob in the business community. Hiring the amnesiac Joe Kinnear as director of football and doing deals with the payday loan firm Wonga are all part of his anti-Establishment ethos. Dennis Skinner, the Labour MP in whose constituency the main Sports Direct hub sits, claims Ashley has refused to answer his letters about union representation and providing jobs for local people. Eager to find out more, the BBC emailed friends and associates but received no reply. They claim Ashley's PR minders even refused to confirm his birth date. One source said "he frustrates to an immense degree." Yet, in his seat at St James' Park, Ashley hides in plain sight, and allows Pardew to butt opposition players (Hull's David Meyler) and abuse fellow managers (Manuel Pellegrini). Newcastle's fans have turned their rage on Pardew, understandably, because off the pitch, under Ashley's management, the club is sound. With Premier League 'prize money' of £77.3m in 2013-14 (an increase of £32.2m), and wage to income ratio of 64 per cent - below the Premier League average of 70 per cent - Ashley can afford to gamble on the wisdom of his scouting and recruitment network, much improved since the days of Dennis Wise. The £130m interest-free debt to the owner is the only financial burden: a relatively minor one, in this age of £3 billion Premier League TV deals. No wonder he denies wanting to sell, though he has tried to escape at least once in the past. This is a man, remember, who made £929m in a single day, floating his sportswear company, and is worth an estimated £3.75 billion. He has never shown the slightest sign of wanting to transfer large amounts of his wealth to superstar players and their agents. His Britishness is a bit of a curse. An American speculator running the club by email from New York would attract nothing like this scrutiny. But the fans have one form of leverage. Just one. Ashley's love of money will not permit him to wreck such a good asset. Newcastle are a great football club now and they will be a great football club when he has moved on to some other portfolio opportunity. The £25m transfer spend he sanctioned in the summer was not so Newcastle could drop back to the Championship. It was a classic act of consolidation to keep the team treading water. Newcastle, though, are second-bottom, with three points from six games, and have won only five of their 25 league matches in 2014. On any objective reading the players are not fighting to help Pardew keep his job. At Southampton they seemed to go stone cold on him. Pardew will be sacked, for that reason, mainly, and Ashley will seek a new man to run his stable, ambition-free, retail unit otherwise known as Newcastle United. Only the threat of a second relegation breaks the stalemate, concentrates his thoughts. One day he will do the decent thing and sell the club on to someone who cares. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/newcastle-united/11131134/Newcastle-United-owner-Mike-Ashley-must-do-the-decent-thing-and-sell-up-to-someone-who-cares-about-the-club.html That'll be the Telegraph banned from press conferences next... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26140 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Too late, they were banned last month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2759 Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 "Due to recent events, such as Sandy Easdale's meeting with convicted fraudster Rafat Rizvi, his broken promises of having investors lined up and the selling of our stadiums naming rights to Mike Ashley for £1.00, Sons of Struth have received an increased level of calls for tougher action against the board, Sports Direct and, Easdale-owned McGills Buses. Recent polling of our members resulted in 99.35% calling for the removal of Sandy Easdale as a Rangers director and 97.19% wishing Mike Ashley to cancel his 7 year contract for the naming rights to Ibrox, 92.87% want to boycott McGills buses and 87.47% want to boycott Sports Direct in attempt to achieve the removal of Sandy Easdale and cancellation of Mike Ashley's naming rights agreement. 89.64% of those polled want to see some sort of boycott at matches with an aim of removing Sandy Easdale. The general feeling amongst our members is that he lies to fans and shows no respect to his position through his close association with Jack Irvine and his meeting with a man on Interpol's most wanted list. His words and actions are disrespectful to the position he holds as a director of Rangers Football Club. Our firm belief is that Sandy Easdale is an obstacle to future outside investment and, despite his recent outlandish claims that the fans' actions may put the club's future in danger, we firmly believe that after 100,000 season ticket sales in three seasons the blame for the clubs perilous financial position lies squarely in the boardroom. The club operate a "football board" which is viewed in the eyes of the fans as nothing more than a vehicle to allow Sandy Easdale a directorship as he may not be eligible for a seat on the PLC board. Does this "football board" have any other purpose? We shall release our intentions for further protests and boycott action in the very near future and in the meantime would encourage the board to immediately remove Sandy Easdale if they wish to avoid this. Sandy Easdale has been heard in the past to claim that if the Rangers support do not want him at Ibrox he would leave. We would ask him to take the hint and go before his association with our club causes more damage. Sons of Struth also call on Mike Ashley to cancel his naming rights contract before the 11th of October. If he still retains the naming rights after this point we will instigate an immediate series of actions aimed at his Sports Direct stores. We would ask all Rangers supporters in the meantime to use discretion when deciding to give either Sports Direct or McGills Buses their custom. We will hold a public meeting of Rangers fans in October at at a venue to be announced." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19719 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 it just got interesting Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley has doubled his stake in Rangers http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-owner-mike-ashley-7870780 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8944 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kid Dynamite 5881 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 He's already said he's not selling us for 18 months. Just in time for rangers starting their next champions league campaign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3180 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 He's already said he's not selling us for 18 months. Just in time for rangers starting their next champions league campaign Have you seen where Rangers are? much longer than 18 months for them to be anywhere near the CL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 13804 Posted October 3, 2014 Share Posted October 3, 2014 He could a 'Scottish Man City' with pocket change man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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