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Daily Mail click bait. Staveley bids £300m and will give Rafa £300m transfer kitty

Staveley interested but not at Mike Ashley's price. Lower your valuation cunt.

Shay Given's new book is coming out and he's wrote about Mike Ashley driving him out, and also said he believes Mike Ashley was doing things to deliberately wind the fans up. Very sad, Shay Given was one of the heroes of my youth, the greatest goalkeeper in our history. He occasionally showed his face at one of the Catholic Churches within my high schools diocese. Everyone loved him. An icon of the club's identity and quality.

The club won't find a buyer It is vastly overvalued and Mike Ashley is asking for a £75m profit on his investment. Laughable and undeserved. The whole "you can pay in installments if you want" is destined to shackle this club to the Ashley failings so he can be awarded a profit long after he is gone. The reality is that Newcastle United is highly unlikely to become worth more than it is today. It can achieve a lot more on the football pitch by using its financial position differently, but that will add risk not value. If someone is looking to get into Premier League club ownership for business purposes then we are the last club to do that with and have no potential for financial growth. The cost of the club prices out the local businessmen who would take a positive strategy within the clubs limits, as opposed to the current negative risk aversion bare bones strategy we have under the king of cheap tat.

Doesn't matter if he won't put his own money in. That's not the prerequisite of running a club well. The club's commercial revenue has collapsed under his tenure. The wage bill is now more than Burnley's but less than Watford's. He treat Keegan and Shearer like shit and then out of spite decided to pick a fight with supporters. The club drove the local media out, they stripped the club staff down to skeleton level, they deliberately broke up any section of the ground that opposed the hierarchy. They sold the land around the ground that prevents the club ever expanding on the future. They sacked Chris Hughton, sold Kevin Nolan and Joey Barton because they were making demands on behalf of the fans. They appointed Joe Kinnear making a mockery of the club. They gave John Carver the job and wrote an entire season off against the fans wishes. They refused to listen to fans over managers repeatedly and deliberately, exacerbating the tension. He nearly took us down but we then appointed McClaren who no one wanted who took us down. They covered the stadium in tacky sponsors and we the match goers paid so Sports Direct advertising could be put up for free. They lie all the time. They lied this summer about how much the club had to spend so they could sell early season tickets. Fact is Mike Ashley only puts his hand in his pocket when his lack of knowledge of football puts the club in such a threat that he might lose all of his money. Apparently we are supposed to just accept that as being as good as we can expect. What a horrendous worldview.

You lot all got sand in your vagina's

I am sure I would be able to do the cognitive gymnastics to allow a human rights abuser to win us a trophy, since we have basically got the British version of one now anyway I would prefer someone clean so I can stay on my high horse though. A bit of investment under Rafa and we could be turned into a regular top 8 club I think. Or even just someone who is willing to speculate to accumulate, take a risk on a bigger wage bill and more expensive signings using the financial position we've already got. One of Mike Ashley's biggest mistakes (and this is touched on by the fat man himself) is that he implemented austerity at a time the games finances were about to rapidly expand. MORON. We collapsed on the pitch and completely missed the boat. It is one of the great balls ups of football club ownership in the modern era. Did you know for example that Newcastle United are the only club whose commercial revenues have gone DOWN in comparison to 10 years ago. Everyone else has trebled, quadrupled and more. That is the product of giving free advertising to Sports Direct and not bothering to expand the clubs relationships. Rafa Benitez has been working incredibly hard off the pitch to rebuild this club in the local community. Ashley stripped it of activity, the club was and still largely is ran on a barebones basis. Rafa reconnected the club with the local media, with local schools, local businesses. Ashley had stripped the clubs staff so far back that they didn't have the capabilities or thought on the role other than the basics that the club plays in the community. We also went through a few years of fascist behaviour against supporters who dared speak out in the ground against the regime. Stewards man handling fans to get banners and signs off them if it was negative. The singing section disbanded and split up, forced to move their season tickets. Stripped of their discounts and forced to pay extra. Let's not forget the lies. The oh so many lies. The court case where a judge ruled that the club were lying to Keegan and the public. The lies they continue to this day. It was the clubs mouthpiece in the press that put out across the world that Newcastle United had tens of millions to spend, they were coming back a force. It was a lie to sell season tickets. They never had that money or the intention to spend anything like that. You have to sleep with one eye open under this regime. They drove our King out and then a couple of years later when we fell in love with the closest gentleman to Bobby we would ever see, Chris Hughton, they sacked him because his and the players relationship with the fans was getting too strong, so they installed a puppet and sold all the players who were willing to challenge the leadership inside the club on our behalf. We've been at war and only a tosspot would think we should forgive and forget because Rafa has got a team with a wage bill between Burnley and Watford's into the top half after 8 games. We are not stupid, we are always on our toes ready for the next power struggle between the people and this regime. Rafa has rebuilt this club on and off the pitch. Everything we know about Ashley tells us that at any moment this period of peace could collapse. It very nearly did this summer. The next owners might not be any good, the results on the pitch might not be any good, but it would take something quite monstrous to be worse than a regime that deliberately went to war with its fans. At least the late Freddy Shepherd for all his flaws and mistakes had a desire to be liked, rather than the billionaire child who decided he would give us a fight out of spite. Plenty of billionaires really are mentally aloof people. Low in empathy and excessively driven by their ego. It seems perhaps you don't get that kind of wealth without being a cunt.

Must have been on to something or getting close. I doubt she was killed out of revenge. There was someone several years ago who was on to something about the US government, I can't remember what lines it was along, something to do with George Bush, but he was poisoned in a manner that meant he'd have a slow brutal death via cancer, his brother or family or colleagues I forgot (I've forgotten nearly all of it), they thought and he thought before the cancer finally killed him that Barack Obama sanctioned his murder. Those left promoting that he was on to something and what it was then started saying the FBI were closing down all evidence of his work. Eventually his work and any history of him and the theory disappeared compleltely from trace online. Now you know I am not one for conspiracy theories but I saw with my own search results this journalist completely disappear from online history over the course of a few months. I'd read some of his work and then it was gone. The google hits against his name were shrinking and shrinking. Someone was definitely erasing him out of existence. I can't remember what to search anymore so maybe it has been rekindled in the lunatic fringe online. His work might be back by now.

It's worth mentioning one of those PhD Football finance guys said the other day that Mike Ashley has overvalued Newcastle by £200m. We will either get someone with more money than sense or we will get an utter plonker.

Things can always get worse but what a shit attitude to life that is. Eat your brussel sprouts because kids in Africa are starving. That won't make them taste nice. The fans of this club have been at war with the owners for the best part of 40 years. It's part and parcel of being an erratic team.

The Vietnam War on the BBC is possibly the best documentary I've ever seen. Apparently it took 10 years to make.

Ewe are ya

Unfair comparison, this is Lukaku's first season challenging for the title

@Spike @Tanksie @Danny @Anton

Fixed it. Great news. He's had a great start to the season. Thank you Shelvey for getting sent off and opening the door to Merino

Sounds boring, maybe get Ken Barlow to be in it to raise the profile

Channel4 news did something on these fake news troll factories, I vaguely recall from about a year ago. A lot of them are click bait coming from spotty kids in the Balkans allegedly.

@VanPaddy is about as Irish as Anne Frank

Gareth Southgate has a track record of failure. Failed at Boro, failed with the U21's. The only hope we have of generating excitement at this World Cup is that we might get lucky or by sheer fluke things might click.

4 groups looking to buy the club, 3 of them have started process of due dilligence according to the Times. Amanda Staveley interested in buying Liverpool though.

Get that man a drugs test

More like we found out cockneys are immoral backward scum compared to local lads You can't drive out an owner. Shepherd never wanted to leave. John Hall chose to sell his shares to Mike Ashley because Ashley was a billionaire, nothing to do with fans wanting the board sacked for trashing the team. Hall selling his shares meant Shepherd's shares were automatically triggered. Shepherd, along with Hall, Keegan, Shearer and Robson made Newcastle a thousand times better than the club it was and significantly above the level of ordinary clubs it would have otherwise been naturally. They took it to another level.