Reports the £250,000,000 will be rejected in the Mirror today: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...tml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 Tbh if the initial offer was £300m and now it's £250m I'd tell her to do one as well.
I'm not so sure the initial offer was anywhere near £300m. Ashley has got some serious thinking to do given the club's value is decreasing game by game in this current run.
What he should agree to is a DP of 250million and then a bonus payment of 2million for every point we get between now and end of season. Could lead to some very interesting tactics during the rest of the season. Essentially get to 40points as quick as you can and then lose all the rest of the games. That would ensure we stay up and result in a final price of 300million. Tell Rafa what he saves AS in payments to Ashley he can have for a summer transfer budget. Could see Haidara and Colback getting extended runs under that formula.
Seriously there will be none of this take it or leave ****e. There will be an offer on the table and they will negotiate. They'll either reach an agreement or they won't. Clearly there has been a seismic shift in who has the whip hand due to our form. So there will be a little posturing from the buyer now. Purslow's comments are probably correct and exactly what most of us were now expecting. Mike won't sell cheap and loves a gamble anyway. So if they sit firm on a low offer, he'll just say ok, I'll spend a little in Jan and secure PL status then you'll have to give me what I want. Whether we survive is anyone's guess, that is the nature of being a promoted club with an inferior squad. If the reports of the relegation clauses are true - if I was Mike in that business situation I'd tell her to **** off (although not in such unprofessional words). No sane businessman is going to go for that.
The relegation talk is utterly pointless, you don't buy a business based on what it is doing today. Imagine a fancy dress costume shop putting it's price up based on the fact that it's Halloween in 6 weeks. The offer for Newcastle will be based on the fact that your club is high-risk for relegation, whether Ashley likes it or not, that was the case on 1st September when the transfer window closed. Ashley's value will be higher than what the club is worth because he's personally invested but any potential new owner won't give a **** about that, the eventual figure will be somewhere between what Ashley is asking and what the buyer wants to pay and almost always the buyer will get closer to their end.
Either way i think this could be good news for us. If Ashley is indeed intent on selling the club then he either has to accept the offer as it stands, or invest in the team in Jan to ensure that we don't get relegated and bank on a deal being done in the summer next year. I for one don't think he likes being dictated to and he will hate the fact that a deadline has been put on the offer, I bet he is making some very derisory sexist remarks at this very moment. He's a gambling man as we all know so I have a funny (nasty) feeling that he might call their bluff and reject it to see what happens.
Correct.............. its all pure speculation. Regardless of how unprofessional we all think (know) Ashley is, its not him and Staveley meeting up in the local KFC to hammer out a deal. Its his lawyers and her lawyers and neither party will be feeding the local or national press with updates. Its the ubiquitous 'source' who is often quoted ................. which id jurno speak for 'we are just making it up' We all just need to sit it out, but I cant see anything happening now until early next year at best. More probably at the end of the season but potentially if we secure PL status early............. so not before the last game of the season!!!!
The article in one of the broadsheets this morning said that if the negotiations finish up by Christmas then it can take up to a month for the League to ratify the takeover. That will leave precious time for the transfer window. And if that happens then the value of the club will drop because of the real danger of relegation. So, yes, there is a deadline of sorts. If it's not done before Christmas then the sale may just not go ahead.
Its looking like the summer it has to be said. I think we will reach an impasse in what Mike wants and what they are willing to pay with the risk attached. They do know the score, they've known it since before the season started. We were always going to be in a battle to be in the division. Not withstanding our transfer business which was minimal and average, we are a promoted side. History tells you they are nearly always in the mix. We were always a risk to any prospective buyer surely? It just depends how you view it. Is Mike wanting too much for a relegation threatened outfit, or do they want to pay too little for a relegation threatened outfit. Probably a bit of both. That is where negotiation comes into it.
Value is way off for me. Problem we have is Mike attached his loans to the club when in reality that's got **** all to do with the value. He should snap their hand off for 250m.
Does anyone still think we'll be bought if this drags on until the summer and we're relegated? I reckon if Rafa walks, not a chance. Amazing how we've had no real offers until this guy showed up!
If Mike is serious about selling, then surely Rafa can ask for the funds he wants. How much would his walking out knock off the sale value of the club?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/5091764/amanda-staveley-newcastle-mike-ashley-curry/ Well, well. We can only hope they came to some sort of agreement. 30 days for the FA to run their fit and proper checks doesn't leave much time to get a deal done if a takeover were to make any kind of difference to this season.
Ashley s top shirt button is suspiciously undone. I wonder if he whipped his shirt off mid meal and performed a belly role for Staveley, before throwing up on a waiter. The guy fist pumping the air has just realised that no one has paid the bill and they have all gotten out without anybody realising it.
