I have to say I hate cowboy builders. You can put every new build developer under that bracket. Millers who built mine are supposedly one of the best. The finishing on my gaff was a disgrace. Needless to say I was their worst nightmare. You could see their faces sink when I explained what I did for a living and sent them a 42 item snagging list on a spreadsheet including timeframes and a traffic light system to track when snagging items were complete They sent a customer service regional manager out to see me. He didn't half make it worse. When I took him round and showed him the issues he said "Ok I can see there are a number issues to sort out. Don't worry I will send my A team in to get this up to standard" - all I could think was "oh aye so who's been working on this house, the ****ing F team?!" Then every box window on the street leaked through the roof. So I came out one morning full of thunder and there stood the customer services manager. "Hi Mr AN Other, we are here to fix the box window. Apologies for the problem with it. This young apprentice was working on all the ones in this street and he has put the sarking board 10mm out. So I've brought him down to apologise to all the residents." I thought I'm not having this ****, chucking some 18yr old under the bus. I gave the **** chapter and verse about quality checking and how apprentices should be encouraged but a senior member of staff should checking all stages of the work. And actually its a failure of Millers working practices and an incompetent site manager. Finished the dressing down and jumped in car, with the whole roofing team sniggering behind his back the cowardly twat. It was the little things like the window cills having butted joints instead of being mitred into the corner. When I queried it they just said "ah it depends which joiner you get". If I said that to my clients I wouldn't have any!
That is most likely probably. Would explain the reason why there is no money. He is however entitled to take that money. But will this mean he will accept less for the club? On this point is anyone else SICK to death of this ****. Can it not just happen so we can all move on.
My opinion is, yes. I think he wants somewhere between £150-200m for the club, as CC also said. The issue is he ALSO wants his loan back. So for something worth, explicitly, about £180m you have to pay £300m to 'buy him out' as it were. For every chunk of money he pays himself off with, the amount needed to buy it goes down. I think this is why it hasn't happened - you can't get loans or investment to pay loans back. Mike bought NUFC for £134m and debts of around £70m (is that right??). Most football clubs have this kind of debt, it tends to be tied up in serviceable overdrafts and borrowing. Our issue is Mike paid it off but wrote a huge IOU from NUFC to MASH, which is why it's so unusual. If Mike was 'normal', the club would be available for sale @ £170m or so, with serviceable debt. But if you had £170m you could buy it, and we'd have been sold a hundred times over. I wonder if Mike realises this?
I'm like you. Everything documented. Just had an extension built and presented them with a timeplan which i monitored weekly. I had the roofer back 5 times to sort stuff I wasn't 100% happy with and same with the kitchen guys. I explained to them that if you pay top dollar and buy a ferrari... you don't expect them to use screws from a skoda. Well happy with the result and all tradesmen were paid on time in full and serviced with lots of cuppas, sarnies, water etc.... along the way.
Yeah...but my total hip operation was more total than yours and I had my other hip done two hours later after I'd run the pain off. Furthermore I bet you've got 2 wooden legs and real feet.
Anyone else excited? We won't buy anyone. The takeover doesn't occur. We get relegated. Rafa leaves. Enter Sol Campbell.
I've had a load of work done to my place over the years, had a downstairs extension which runs down the side of the house, two lads did it and they did a cracking job. Other workman weren't so great. North Eastern Glass were a fecking nightmare joke, shoddy workmanship and pathetic excuses. Stay clear.
I keep waking up every morning hoping to see the headline “Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley is dead” Preferably in some horrific way ala the Saw movies!!
Looks like Keuth Bishop's PR stunt involving Rio Ferdinand and Richard Keys has worked - not one mention of a takeover since.
