Just when we are celebrating the start of a season defining unbeaten run the BBC publish this. What have we all done in our collective pasts to deserve to be submitted to such heartache.
It's actually good news IMHO. He's shown he's willing to back his managers recently. Granted he has a bad history but maybe, just maybe he was badly advised and chose the wrong people? He's a stubborn billionaire so when we go down it will hurt, and hurt badly. I honestly think he will back us financially to come back up which, along with the parachute payments will give us a distinct advantage. What came out of the big interview he did (and Rafa's subsequent comments) is that he does nothing more than appoint the board and hand over the money.
It was tongue in cheek to be honest. Actually agree with you that it's probably not bad news at all. Hopefully spending 80million and seeing us relegated will persuade him he doesn't want to get into that situation again.
So he has 2 jobs, one hand of cash and the other appoint the board - well he has royally ****ed up the board!
Yes he ****ed up with the board, another in a long list, but just maybe he has had the light go on, he has the one big advantage over teams like Leeds and Portsmouth that have dropped and gone, he has the money to be able to buffer the impact of dropping and mount a realistic campaign to return to the Premier League at the first time of asking. That in the event of relegation may even give him the ability to convince Rafa to remain and rebuild a team not just for the initial target of promotion but the onwards challenge of becoming a real force in the Premiership, relegation would be a disaster but not the end of the road, one bright spark will be the emergence of Armstrong who has had a good spell at Coventry and would be of benefit next season if we end up in the championship.
He's come out and said you've got **** all left in the bank and you lot shouldn't go crying to him when there's nothing left. He regrets buying your club. I wonder just what the **** Rafa Benitez is thinking reading that ****. What a muppet.
I think the comments from him are ill thought out personally. On one hand he is wedded to the club in some sort of supposed heart felt attachment. On the other he regrets buying the club and getting into football etc. He is right in that he has given freedom to get this right this season and invested heavily. Regardless of previous lack of investment we have spent 80 odd million. He still must carry the can as the board he put in place has proved incompetent. McClaren was a terrible appointment, but so is Charnley and Carr. They were clearly not the right 3 people to sort out the ills last summer. I just think timing wise, why do this interview now? We have a new manager who has generated a bit of feel good in the support and we are right in the middle of a battle to stay up. He knows that him commenting will always attract negativity whether he is honest or right/wrong. So why not button it and let the current situ run its course? I don't have a massive problem with him this year but he can't just abdicate himself of responsibility, he appointed the ****ty board.
I'm wedded to my wife and as a result I have no money left, so I have every sympathy for him on that front!
We've spent the money that we had saved up over the last few seasons which puts us in the same position as most other clubs now. In fact we're probably still better off as most clubs spend money they don't have. There is a tidal wave of cash flooding into Premier League clubs now so if we stay up there will be more money to spend. If we don't stay up I think player sales (and not too many of them - the ones that we'd want rid of anyway) will bring in enough to cover losses and replacements. Ashley wants the club to spend what it has but not make losses and rely on him for handouts. It's fair enough. If we do run up losses through relegation he'll pick up the tab as he did the last time. I agree on the timing of the comments but you do get the feeling the penny has dropped that he doesn't know as much as he thought he knew and maybe he has learned a few lessons.
Yes, he spent a load of cash this year, money that he has pillaged from our club over countless transfer windows of making a healthy profit. He's put it in the hands of Carr, who knows sod all about football. He might as well of hoyed it in the Tyne. Not the way to run a football club imo.
For Mike, the club just kind of sits there. His analogy is bang on, a marriage of convenience is correct - he got advertising, we got sound finances. All the joy, excitement, passion disappeared after the honeymoon.
I don't really believe him either way, he seems full of waffle to be honest, why the **** was he trying to buy Rangers, another football club if he regrets getting into football?
thought you lot liked reading into things? McWally said, when asked where he thought Newcastle would finish this year, "ask me after ten games" which every supporter and pundit heard as "judge me after ten games" which everybody did, well, everybody aside from the board. what's different here? Ashley said he regrets getting into football, Newcastle are his only link to football (not including the tat he sells in his shops), ergo he regrets buying Newcastle.
To be fair, buying NUFC was his way of getting into football....................... so as unpalatable as it may seem, the guy regrets buying the club. Its not a slight on the club and more an acceptance that he is a clueless ****er.
Not sure what is a surprise about this announcement. I have said from day 1 that relegation will make it impossible for Ashley to sell the club, despite the wishful thinking of many of our fans.
Indeed. Nobody is interested in his price when we are a PL club........................ so being a Championship club certainly wont make us any more attractive.............. and you can guarantee that Ashley will be firm on the price, regardless of which league we are in. His personal 'fortune' has taken a battering in recent months with the plummeting price of SD shares, so he wont be looking to write any more money off just yet. In his tiny mind we will just bounce straight back up like we did last time and he will be prepared to ride that out for 12 months.
