Takeover (Covid-19/20)

It's Lee ryder he knows less than the guy in the street

 

Lee ryder contacts the club!

Ryder " is Castore buying the club shop and early sign of the Saudi takeover?"

Club "no"

Lee ryder " OK great"

 

You would think. But the thing that puts me off it being takeover related is the treatment of the staff.

It’s hardly a nice gesture.

 

It's a handy excuse for Ashley isn't it.

Oh the new owners don't want you! He just doesn't want to pay them

 

Does anyone wanna get on chopper watch? Apparently Ashley’s chopper was in the toon this morning???

 

Barnes or Charnley I assume.

Basically this takeover is going to go through.. Its really as simple as that.

Delay delay delay was the game

 

I think it's all nonsense,Castore have a similar set up with Rangers.Is Shearers still open?

 

But what happens when they stop making our shirts?

 

What do you mean?The Puma deal is probably up so Castore are the new kit supplier and when they stop making our shirts we'll get another supplier,as regards it's a sign of a takeover

 

You don't think the reubans link to castore is significant?

 

Shirt makers don't normally run the club shop

 

Puma did,the last time I was in the club shop all you could get was cheap replica shirts and very little other merchandise.

 

That's sports direct for you

 

The letter mentions new owners more than once including "the anticipated transfer of ownership of the club"

Short term - refurb and Castore

Long term - Billions

 

Yeah should have added retro shirts,it wasn't always that way though,I used to buy bits of golf stuff with the crest but all that was gone the last time I was there.

 

I haven't been in for at least 6 years but when I did go in it was crammed full of stuff

 

This

 

I hope I'm wrong but Castore didn't have a great start last season with Rangers,looks like a cheap option to me and Ashley was selling their gear much to the consternation of Rangers fans.

 

Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley is understood to have passed on control of the main club shop at St James' Park.

However, it is believed the decision is down to incoming new kit sponsors Castore wanting to take on the running of the store and not an early sign of the club's Middle East takeover situation involving Saudi Arabia's PIF, Amanda Staveley and the Reuben brothers.


https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/spo...ews/newcastle-united-club-shop-story-20382058

hmmm what to believe.

 

It's clearly a bit of both. Castore do it this way, whether they do it well or not remains to be seen. Refurb is inevitable, with big SD **** everywhere and Puma logos too. However the redundancy tells me it's something more as I also see it as a way of Ashley pulling his Frasers Group away from Newcastle United, which can only be seen as a good thing. As a man who really only understands shops, it's a sign of his intention to shut down SD's operations and put the shop back under the club, which will then be leased, operationally, from St James Holding (NUFC). Castore won't "own" the shop - but more importantly, Sports Direct DEFINITELY won't own the shop!

The point is the redundancy letter states new ownership, which we can't ignore. You can't print that in a national newspaper without checking the source and having supporting evidence to back it up.