Howay

Quality finish by Kenedy

Two bookable offenses from Man Utd in the opening 5 mins, get away with them because “it’s too early” I guess.

Been catching up with it’s Always Sunny’s new season, no idea how it’s still this good 13 seasons in. Also watched Jack Ryan on amazon prime and thought it was canny enough.

Aye, I like Gayle but the Championship is really his level partly down to the fact he thinks it’s his level. To be fair though unless Rondon starts doing something it was a poor move. In any case he’ll be a handy player for us next season in the championship, unless fat cunt wants to cash in on him and sell him to a promotion rival.

Glad to see he’s went with Muto and Perez up top, it’s clear as day Joselu simply isn’t a football player and we may as well put on our more technical forwards against a couple of CBs (Bailey aside) that make some terrible decisions.

I’d love us to win for many reasons but Rafa beating Mourinho and getting him the sack would be fucking phenomenal after the way that horrible, miserable, disrespectful, little arsewipe has acted towards Rafa in the past.

Very true. They’ll play it off like “to them norvvaahn money’s a fivah meaww is like going to a five star restaurant, that’s what a top man mike is”

What’s the point anyway? Even he must know a dinner isn’t going to placate anything, he needs to start allowing the club to invest in the squad or he needs to fuck off.

It’s definitely ours or Cardiff. The squad would struggle to match the fee paid for Pogba, ahead of the game against Leicester there was an article listing some of their players with price tags and there must have been half their starting 11 with fees above our record ffs.

Sounds right, I just remembered the initial tranches being slightly lower which was before Amazon.

He could have bought those two companies without having any ownership of Newcastle. As I say he could also buy signage many places, probably at far higher profile clubs, if he wasn’t hoying money into NUFC. Bobs stores is fucking shite btw, they’re dingy and since the tramp bought them their inventory is nose diving quality wise as Lonsdale etc have come right in. SD won’t do much US business off the signage, they have no presence here besides the Bob store ownership which doesn’t have SD branding, and I can’t see many buying from SD’s site then paying the international shipping plus waiting longer when they could just buy from a US store. Maybe if/when he rebrands but even then there are definitely more impactful ways as opposed to owning a club that is struggling to keep its head above water in the league, it’s not exactly something the US market will be pining to watch then they get every single other PL match. @Alex Agreed on the PL being at saturation, I can’t remember but wasn’t this deal a little lower than the last one? At least domestically?

The oddest part to me is I think it’s likely he was stupid enough to buy it as an investment but despite it being crystal clear what a shite investment it is he’s held it for a decade. The PL money and the inflated prices are a bubble imo, it won’t continue especially with other leagues pushing to compete (such as La Liga doing the game in the US bullshit). This is why he should sell up soon. There’s also the advertising/self promoting angle, which I agree is another motivating factor but as Alex and others have said while it helped in the short term I think it’s detrimental now as his various flaws are being exposed and it’s hitting his business negatively. For example it’ll be far harder for him to turn HoF round now than it would have years ago as he has a public reputation for selling tat, cheapening brands out, etc. SportsDirect have lost a lot of the premium gear, the shoes generally are the tatty bottom tier shoes of the brands, whereas JD manouvered and has targetted the growing athleisure trend by selling the high end sports wear and seem to have blocked Ashley from that market. His moves to try and squeeze the producers and distributors when it looked like JD was dead and buried have most likely pissed them off to such a level it’ll be difficult to repair those relationships now they have real alternatives to sell the high end gear to. With regard to the advertising I think the average return on an index fund tracking the FTSE or DOW is about 7% - 8% a year over his ownership. If he’d sunk £250m into that it’s around £18m a year I’d think, which would buy a fair whack of advertising I would think if you were just targeting the hoardings and if he had left it in and let it compound he’d have a return that he couldn’t imagine owning NUFC. Aye, granted that is hindsight but he could be in a hedge fund with that level of investment where he’d be almost guaranteed that level of return barring a large crash (which would have effected football club and tv rights as well anyway). I only bring up the idea of the index fund to show how straight forward it would have been for him to make far and away better returns with that level of capital, he could have hoovered up real estate or businesses after the crash or other investments along those ideas. TLDR; I’ve no fucking clue why he still owns NUFC, time to sell up bitch tits.

Just more attempted PR bullshit to make it seem like he’s a canny bloke. He’s a fucking cunt, if a bloke come in with £400M cash saying he was going to bulldoze SJP and move the club to London he’d ask where to sign. Just sell and fuck off. This is basically how I think Ashley’s offer of food went down with the squad, replace ginger with fat cunt (not safe for work btw):

I think it’s genuine tbh, as Rayvin said I can’t see Kenyon being the type to be part of Ashley’s shite attempts at getting rid of pressure. The only things I doubt are Ashley being genuinely interested in selling the club, and anyone being interested enough to put up with the bloke during negotiations.

Ryder’s nemesis Craig Hope already did an article about it, he mentioned how Ashley “foot the bill” about four times in the opening paragraph.

Aye agreed tbh, I thought targeting the stores may increase board pressure on him since they’re already a bit annoyed with his antic but really you’re likely right that he’d just shrug it off. Just have to hope a buyer comes along soon and is determined enough to put up with the tosses long enough to get through the sale.

Agreed, for the most part the money is already spent. Even if it’s not the TV money is so vast now I can’t see the cunt being arsed. The focus should be more on his trampy shops iyam, I agree it’s basically impossible for the fans to force his hand but disruption to his company would at least mean pressure from an already pissed off board.

I think at some point Ashley allowed a bit to be spent on the facilities but iirc it wasn’t much, it was an attempt to get that level 1 status which was missed out on. Over the 10 years I think that’s about it though so I’ve little to no doubt the training facilities are shite. The refusal to to put any investment into the training facilities was part of the reason Rafa told the fat bitch to go whistle. The club is just rotting under the cunt.

Aye good post AH.

I know they’ll have been told too but honestly which bloke from Newcastle is that much of a jobsworth to actually go over and take that down? I’d just say I couldn’t get to the front as people stopped me or some bollocks.

Joselu is a joke, the bloke can’t even make proper contact with a ball on the volley when no one is near him. He’d struggle to be effective in League One as he can’t even manage the basics. I’ve no fucking clue what Rafa saw in him he shouldn’t even be a back up.

We’re on the way down unless this fat cunt sells up. We don’t even look half decent against a mid table side at home or Cardiff away.

That looked like a pen to me tbh.

64% passing accuracy ffs, that’s barely what shite League One/League two sides get. There’s basically no quality in this bunch.

Aye, there’s not a whole lot of hope when your striker is completely alone through on goal, then slows down so much Harry Maguire chases him down. Honestly it never looked like he would pull the trigger.