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That’s 4 now.

The debt should have been eaten as part of his buying cost, that was his fault for being the type of person he is and not conducting due diligence. Obviously I know that won’t happen, the thing is though iirc Charnley specifically mentions that the £111m ‘loan’ won’t be being recouped as the £33m was (which we owed Ashley because his stupidity resulted in relegation), it’s seen as long term and will be tacked on to any purchase price aka a way to ward off any potential buyers. As as for what should be available, the very fact they’re setting a number shows they’re being nob heads what clubs do that? You base your budget off of needs, forecasts, and current balances. They’re more than happy to figure future expenses into their calculation of budgets but will ignore future income. Aye they are withholding funds over that amount, they just paid Ashley £33m back and iirc they paid him £10m or so somewhat recently as well. I think we brought more money in last season than Leicester from tv rights and were basically tied with Everton for 7th out of the whole league, so aye I absolutely do think they are restricting our transfer funds heavily. If they did hand Rafa £50m plus a percentage of player sales, with the money going to transfer fees as the wage budget should be separate due to the more long term nature of it, that would be fair enough (of course we’d be ignoring the 10 years prior of underfunding) but as I say that isn’t what they’re proposing

The best part is literally everyone was saying this would be the case but they completely ignored it. Who would have thought the players would get sick of a former super sub Norwegian troll banging on the “this isn’t the Manchester United way” drum. I just hope the owners don’t click on that this Woodward doesn’t have a fucking clue what he’s doing.

I absolutely know the reason I was just pointing to the Bournemouth example as further evidence that what they’re saying is utter shite. Iirc KD quoted it as being £33m into Ashley’s pocket, which as you say would buy us a good player, or we could equal our prior record signing twice. I think if you’d have given Rafa a £30m midfielder, or two £15m ones we’d easily be challenging for “best of the rest” and would not have been discussing relegation all year. I agree that paying the Ashley ‘loan’ would be a potential positive but as you say it is wishful, it’ll be added back on at some point in the near future. The issue is the £50m isn’t £50m, it’ll include wages and if you sign one player on £50k a week for 5 year that’s £13m, you also have to add in his agents fee for the transfer and any other bollocks.

Until I hear Bournemouth have fell into a financial problem (while in the PL) it’s impossible for me to give Charnley and Ashley’s utter twaddle about financial restraint even remotely plausible. As zerosum says Bournemouth is a club which struggles for gates basically a third of our average, they’re making nowt compared to NUFC domestically or Internationally through tickets/merchandise. I think a good chunk of their squad cost more than Almiron, and even if you take them out there won’t be many that are as cheap as our usual penny pinching signings. If they can fund all that and be fine then there’s no reason whatsoever NUFC can’t match their spending.

Threads like that sum them up. Fat, cheesy chip covered losers going on about football hooligans. All of it coming from just seeing a few Dutch blokes that had watched the toon game there’s no connection, they probably wanted to see a PL game and we were at home so it’s a pretty easy trip for them. The Feyenoord thing man they then make up a connection between us and Ajax, which exists because Feyenoord like mackems and hate us. Hopefully they keep going with that and we can figure out how every fan base feels about the Tyne Wear rivalry. The odd comment in that thread was the bloke who felt he had to spell out that it goes against the grain to say he felt it was harsh for Feyenoord fans to stab normal Newcastle fans who weren’t looking for bother. If that type of opinion really is going against the grain then that site should just be shut down tbh, yet again that ‘classy’ fan base proving they are scum.

They currently have a thread about how kids will be starting primary school and there hasn’t been a Newcastle win over the tramps in their lifetime. When someone pulled him up saying it’s been 8 years his response was “unless we get back to back promotions it will be though” they can’t honestly think they’re gaining some moral high ground on this as they’re too fucking shite to be in the same league as us.

10 points clear of relegation. What an amazing season it has been. Massive thanks to Charnley and Ashley, just glad our training facilities didn’t cost us points. Dummett had a quality game as well, won nearly every header in the box.

Wijnaldum in 2015 v Norwich apparently, so yonks ago

Get the FUCK in Ayoze, excellent hat trick. Fuck off you bunch of cheating bastards, would be happy to see them go down.

This fucking ref is doing about all he can to help them win the game.

I’d have rather seen Ki go off tbh, unless Hayden is knackered he’s been a lot better than Ki today.

Our lot look fucking half asleep

They’ve absolutely been targeting Almiron all match and this wanker of a ref is doing fuck all about it.

Aye as good as we were first half we’ve been equally as poor second half.

What a diving bastard only fell over when he realized he wasn’t getting the ball.

That’s my biggest worry about VAR, it’ll clear up some of the offside shite but whenever there is a ‘controversial’ decision to be made the pundit ref basically always backs the refs completely wrong decision even given all the replays you could want. So I’m worried it’ll not change them, no doubt it’ll help the “big sides” though.

Aye the distance from goal shouldn’t come into it our two players were completely free and Ward Prowse knew exactly what he was doing the posh gimp. It was cynical and he was the last man, of that was 25 yards out it would have been a red.

Rondon is class as well, he’s a lot quicker than he looks like he will be and has a class touch, he’s going to be a massive miss next season after we opt to sign some shite 22 year old prospect striker instead of him.

Fucking class that, Perez is absolutely on fire at the minute

Fucking get in there Ayoze. Absolutely well deserved, been pumping these shit cheating cunts for 27 minutes. Just saw a 60 year old blokes with geps I’m doing Ayoze’s celebration best not do that mate. This lot are kicking us up a height here.

Aye, I find it pretty unlikely that if that was Hazard or someone it would have been a yellow.

Imo tackles like that should be a red. No one was catching Almiron so how is that not last man despite being in our half, I hate that type of refereeing.

Don’t worry Lee we will be losing plenty next season.

Kicked off and no thread. How apathetic are we Started well, 3 points here and even Noelie/ Troopers bed sheets will finally be dry.