Chronicle: Ashley to Invest in Young Talent, Cull Current Youths

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mike seems to be taking us seriously just lately i am happy he never sold anyone so if he thinks he can sort the other squad out what we got to lose
 
Anyone else think that Thin Mike, having lost a lot of weight, is feeling better about himself recently and is therefore doing good things for the club?
 
CheickyTiote said:
Anyone else think that Thin Mike, having lost a lot of weight, is feeling better about himself recently and is therefore doing good things for the club?
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quite possibly he could have had a bet with llambias and lost ha ha you lose weight mike you must invest
 
CheickyTiote said:
Anyone else think that Thin Mike, having lost a lot of weight, is feeling better about himself recently and is therefore doing good things for the club?
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Plausible, once you feel better about yourself you do generally have a better outlook on things and what better way to continue that than by pumping more money into a club flying high in the league.
 
and STILL some of you will not forgive him. What the **** is it going to take for you to back YOUR owner?? Its a bit ridiculous of you lot. As if you have some higher proven skill in owning football clubs and that you would do so much better, when in actual fact you probably would have failed worse than Ashley and left by now. The sooner you back MA the sooner things will run more smoothly
 
In other news man set to walk on moon.
This isn't exactly a new development, its been his plan since buying the club.
Allardyce was given a million to spend on Ben Tozer.
Kadar and Vuckic were part of the youth players from around the world bought for the future idea.
 
Great policy but like somebody already said I didn't think this was news. One of his first ever statements after buying the club said the same and the recruitment has been going on for years.

The current cul list is new but the rest has been said before.

I'm only dissing the news worthiness of this btw and am totally behind the decision. With the fairplay rules having an affect, look at the lack of spending this window, creating your own quality players is obviously the way forward.
 
Colly NUFC said:
Sounds good to me, if we're willing to play Danny Simpson at centre half instead of our reserve centre back then its clear the same stringent scouting that goes into our first team signings needs to be applied to our youth players too. I'm not advocating a complete clearout, but sounds very promising to me. Don't forget a lot of the non local players in our reserves are from the Wise era, even if that does include Tim Krul.
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I am sure I saw him play against Palermo in 2006 which was wayyyy before that urchins arrival ;)
 
Wise was going to sell Krul for a few hundred grand a couple of seasons back. Possibly to Feyenoord. I think it got as far as Krul being at the airport before the plug was pulled.
As for the list of names its a seasonal thing. In theory we should be having a squad of 25 qualifying from the reserves to the first team every other season but the first team pool only turns over every five years at least.
Players are getting recognised from a younger age so are in the fans discussions longer, but not many bridge that gap from reserves to professional football.
 
Tash. said:
To be honest, as long as Mike doesn't do stupid things like take off the Newcastle United symbol from the Stadium to put Sports Direct signs there or much more stupid ****, I wouldn't mind keeping him as an owner.

He's not pumping bolt loads of money into the club, but I can't argue with some of his policies.

Granted it's the scouts who found all the players, but he still could have just been like the venkeys and bought no one.

Mike Ashley is definitely not the perfect owner and I don't like him, but we could do far worse.
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So better the devil you know?

I just hope he's switched on enough to keep Carr here. He's been working wonders!
 
mag la rue said:
Wise was going to sell Krul for a few hundred grand a couple of seasons back. Possibly to Feyenoord. I think it got as far as Krul being at the airport before the plug was pulled.
As for the list of names its a seasonal thing. In theory we should be having a squad of 25 qualifying from the reserves to the first team every other season but the first team pool only turns over every five years at least.
Players are getting recognised from a younger age so are in the fans discussions longer, but not many bridge that gap from reserves to professional football.
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dennis wise needs a bullet he is a ****er and brought bad luck with him to our club
 
Tash. said:
I know we're being sensible, but I'm hoping if we're gonna really push on, that if there's players we could really use, or players that we have now that we want to keep, that we raise the wage cap a little bit.

I can't see the harm if Ba scores around 25 goals this season and ends the season on a high, that if a bigger club comes in for him, we convince him to stay with a pay rise.

I think Ba is easily worth 65k a week plus goal scoring bonuses. I reckon we should pay that if we need to to keep him.
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Pointless. If a top club offers 100k a week then us going from 50 to 65 wont make a difference to the player.
 
Smudger said:
Pointless. If a top club offers 100k a week then us going from 50 to 65 wont make a difference to the player.
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Yeah. If Liverpool/Chelsea/City/etc. come in offering big bucks then there's not much we can reasonably do. We simply aren't on the same level financially as they are.

That being said, I do think the wage cap will be raised, if the club continues to perform well and bring in the money to pay for it. What's not going to happen is fat contracts that the club can't afford being given to players who don't deserve them.
 
That's cool I guess, but we can't rely solely on youth, we still have to be prepared to spend some money. Good to see that we're planning on keeping Vuckic, Streete, Alnwick and Abeid who are destined for great things if they keep going the way they're going.
 
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