[Albion] Newcastle United

[El Presidente]

They’ve made a profit in their transfer dealings in the past two years so there have been a few good signings too.

I’m not sure it’s Ashley’s own money, he’s probably taken it from Sport Direct’s marketing budget.

Anyway, he wants to generate a huge profit from the sale of the club (much like a DIY mogul wanted a profit from the sale of our ground) and is demanding offers of £350m - £400m.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp....nited-up-for-sale-mike-ashley-amanda-staveley

Worst owner in the Premier League.

Worse than the Oystons at Blackpool?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Worse than the Oystons at Blackpool?

He did say worst 'in the Premier League' to be fair.

His attempt to conflate Ashley's attempt to sell the (entire, healthy) club, with Archer's asset stripping of the Albion, is complete nonsense though, obviously.

 

[schmunk]

Worse than the Oystons at Blackpool?

Nobody's worse than the Oystons.

Nobody.

 

[Frutos]

I will love it, love it if we beat them.

 

[Springal]

Mike Ashley is nowhere near a bad owner. Fans are upset because he’s not ploughing £100M+ into the team but why should he ? They finished 10th in their first season back FFS!!

 

[Mellotron]

Quite. They lost a fortune that season but the fans were still moaning that they had "not spent any money".

Highest wage bill in Championship history.

 

[blue-shifted]

Shearer always goes on about how they've made a profit in the last 2 years. It's a pretty selective stat. The season they got relegated they spent a fortune to get straight back up and basically had a premier league squad. How much must they have paid Matt Ritchie to get him to drop a division?

 

[Stat Brother]

Pardew has only 18 months left on his Newcastle contract.

 

[TheJasperCo]

I'll stand up against Ashley, just as soon as the season ticket buying, game going, shirt wearing, concession buying, Sports Direct shopping, horse punching Geordies do.

Hey, HEY there. You can accuse them of being horse-punchers, and you can say they're shirt-wearing, game-going ticket-buyers, and you can say they're concession-buying SD shoppers, and you can accuse them of being Geordies...but don't you ever...wait what was the other thing?

 

[Weststander]

Things looking up:

Just beat petro-$ royalty in ManC.

The record £20m signing of midfielder Miguel Almiron. Is Mike Ashley finally opening up the purse strings, in the same way that tight-fisted Gold/Sullivan did last summer with a £100m spend?