Its like saying who would you rather take in as a lodger, Ted Bundy or Jeffrey Dahmer.. neither! Our time will come, it has to.. we'll eventually get a decent owner and start enjoying football again.
The problem with Mike Ashley is that he's a fat, pie eating ****. However, most of our fanbase are fat, pie eating ****s so he'd probably come across as very endearing. Seriously though, whatever his issues with the Geordies, he's put a lot of money into that club and brought in some great players. I'd take him as an alternative to the Allams any day.
There's nowt wrong with old Pie Face as an owner, the Geordies have simply never gotten over the fact that he applies business principles to running their club and isn't prepared to bankrupt himself in pursuit of their dream. I've given up trying to explain why the Allam's are so much worse than Ashley to deluded Mags. They simply aren't capable of getting it. I remember one particularly torturous conversation a few years back where a thick as mince Mag I had the unfortunate experience of having to talk to thought that it was ok to call a club Hull Tigers but was horrified at the thought of a club called Newcastle Magpies. One sounded great he felt but the other was just gimmicky.
I don’t normally listen to it, but I remember the day he bought House of Fraser I was in a hire car and had left the radio on TalkSport in preference to working out how to tune it to something better. Caller after caller after deluded caller was ringing in furious that if he had the money to buy another business then why hadn’t he spent it on the Toon? They (and they’re not the only ones) just didn’t get that very few owners are Jack Walker-style fans willing to devote every penny they have to the club.
What has he or hasn't he done at Newcastle that makes him a bad owner? I don't really follow them to comment fully, but it just seems as though he wasn't willing to spend spend spend every penny he personally has to make them into a club that would challenge right at the top
Is there any kind of substantiation for this rumour, or is it just another straw clutching exercise started by a bored FB-er?
I'm no expert, but wouldn't this be a very silly time to buy a football club? This is the daftest of all daft rumours Well apart from the ones I started myself.
It’s obviously bollocks. If our asking price is actually £50m, then we’ve got no chance. I just wonder how active the owners are about selling. Are they getting out into Asia and using the Tiger gimmick to help sell? Or are they sitting there waiting for people to have heard of Hull and make the call?
I think if anything was going to make them more active to sell, it's recent events. The club / them will be losing more and more. They'll probably just loan the club more money though to get through it, get more interest in return and stick the asking price up
There was a newspaper article a few days back from a source that claimed Ashley is already looking at a Championship club. Not in the football-world, but in his Sports Direct one, I do believe one of his trusted 'higher ups' is from the Hull area. Yes, he does things like uses zero-hour contracts for his retail staff and creates odd reasons for why his stores should remain open during lockdown, but in comparison to 'involved in/funding terrorism' and 'human rights/murder' crimes, there's no comparison, but Newcastle fans appear to prefer the latter. In football terms, most fans of other clubs would probably see it as a good job - invested in the squad, broke their transfer record twice (while trying to sell the club), bankrolled promotion from the Championship twice (including the wages to keep Rafa Benitez as manager) as well as bought players from above (such as Mo Diame choosing to drop back down to the Championship rather than play in the Premier League as part of the shambles the Allams were creating).
If we were for sale for £25/£30 million there might be some credence to any rumour.... but we're not.... so its pants...
