JawD 99 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 This is the only bit you need to read A wealthy construction company run by the family of terrorist Osama bin Laden has emerged as a front-runner to buy Newcastle United. (Mail on Sunday) You just couldnt make it up. Well, you could. they did! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2991 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 JawD has definitely been groomed as Berb's eventual successor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7318 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 No mention of it anywhere on their site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted July 6, 2008 Author Share Posted July 6, 2008 No, I looked as well, but it was mentioned on the news this morning when they review the papers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted July 6, 2008 Author Share Posted July 6, 2008 JawD has definitely been groomed as Berb's eventual successor. Berb in grooming scandle! You just cant spread rumours like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted July 6, 2008 Author Share Posted July 6, 2008 Here is the rest Arsenal are ready to launch an £18m bid for Dutch striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar. (News of the World) Manchester United chief executive David Gill will tell Real Madrid in person on Monday that Cristiano Ronaldo is not for sale at any price. (News of the World) Arsenal have emerged as favourites to sign Andrei Arshavin after Chelsea ended their interest in the Russian playmaker. (Sunday Telegraph) Didier Drogba has said he is still desperate to leave Chelsea and he could be replaced at Stamford Bridge by Barcelona striker Samuel Eto'o. (The Observer) Tottenham boss Juande Ramos is preparing a £15m bid for Blackburn midfielder David Bentley. (Mail on Sunday) Everton manager David Moyes is also keen to launch a bid for Bentley, if they lose Mikel Arteta to Atletico Madrid. (The People) Sunderland want £10m Everton striker Andrew Johnson after failing in an attempt to sign Darren Bent from Tottenham. (The People) But Black Cats boss Roy keane has been told he will need to offer £12m for the striker after both they and Wigan had £10m bids rejected by Everton. (News of the World) Liverpool are willing to offer Irish defender Steve Finnan as well as £15m plus add-ons to secure Gareth Barry from Aston Villa. (News of the World) The Anfield club are also still interested in Espanyol midfielder Albert Riera despite having a £9.5m bid rejected by the Spanish club. (The People) New Chelsea signing Deco has pleaded with Frank Lampard to stay at the club so they can form a dangerous midfield partnership. (The People) Everton have entered the race to sign £10m-rated Tottenham winger Aaron Lennon. (The People) Newcastle, Portsmouth, Middlesbrough and Sunderland are all chasing Reading striker Leroy Lita. (News of the World) Stoke City are targeting Liverpool goalkeeper Scott Carson. (Mail on Sunday) West Ham are interested in signing Man Utd defender Mikael Silvestre but could be put off by his £60,000-a-week wage demands. (The People) Further doubt has been cast over Joey Barton's Newcastle future after it emerged Kevin Keegan is planning a £5m bid for Chelsea midfielder Steve Sidwell. (The People) West Ham are set to pay £9m for Lazio right-back Valon Behrami of Switzerland. (News of the World) Portsmouth are lining up a £4m bid for Hibernian striker Steven Fletcher. (The People) Bolton are prepared to sell Heidar Helguson and Abdoulaye Meite to raise around £4m. (The People) Sunderland striker Michael Chopra is a £3m target for Wolves. (The People) Paul Ince has made James McFadden his top target for Blackburn and will offer £5.5m for the Birmingham striker. (News of the World) Tottenham defender Pascal Chimbonda could join up with former boss Martin Jol at Hamburg if the German club meet Spurs' £4m valuation of the player. (News of the World) Kevin Kilbane could be on his way out of Wigan and replaced by £3m-rated Birmingham forward Olivier Kapo. (The People) Cardiff want unsettled striker Marcus Bent after Wigan pulled out of a permanent deal to sign the 30-year-old. (The People) Nottingham Forest are hoping to sign Derby midfielder Stephen Pearson and Carlisle striker Joe Garner, both for around £1m. (The People) Eric Cantona is seriously considering Manchester United's long-standing offer to return to Old Trafford as a coach. (Sunday Express) Cristiano Ronaldo, who will have surgery on his right ankle in the next 48 hours, could be out of action for up to three months. (The People) A wealthy construction company run by the family of terrorist Osama bin Laden has emerged as a front-runner to buy Newcastle United. (Mail on Sunday) Arsene Wenger has said Arsenal need to sell every year and buy less expensive players to replace them in order to pay the club's £24m-a-year bill for the Emirates Stadium. (News of the World) Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is resigned to losing assistant coach Carlos Queiroz to Portugal on a deal worth around £1.2m a year. (Sunday Times) Tottenham have approached MK Dons about using their new stadium if White Lane is revamped. (News of the World) Sam Allardyce could return to management with Spanish side Real Mallorca if former Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd is successful with a takeover bid. (The People) Blackburn have rejected a £30m bid for the club from property tycoon Nabeel Chowdery and are holding out for £40m. (The People) Sam Allardyce fears Joey Barton could become suicidal if Newcastle sack him. (News of the World) Manchester United will employ continental-style electric vans to ferry injured players off the pitch next season. (Sunday Express) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torres 0 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 US firm confirms link to Magpies By Saj Chowdhury American investor InterMedia Partners has confirmed it was approached regarding a possible takeover of Newcastle United. Reports this week suggested that representatives of club owner Mike Ashley met with counterparts from the New York-based private equity firm. "InterMedia was approached about a deal, made no offer and has no interest," a spokesman told BBC Sport. On Friday, Newcastle dismissed the claims as "absolute nonsense". It is not known who made the approach to InterMedia. 606: DEBATE Ashley secured a £134.4m takeover of Newcastle last summer and has since ploughed around £100m into the club to address the debt situation he inherited and to strengthen the squad. The owner of sports goods company Sports Direct International also brought back popular manager Kevin Keegan to St James' Park to replace Sam Allardyce. However, despite his investment, both on and off the field, rumours suggesting that he is looking to sell the Magpies at the right price have refused to go away. Story from BBC SPORT: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia 0 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Newcastle, Portsmouth, Middlesbrough and Sunderland are all chasing Reading striker Leroy Lita. (News of the World) whoopdido..... Because the media have had their finger on the pulse when it comes to our transfer dealings this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima 0 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 EXCLUSIVE: Bin Laden family in bid for Newcastle By Daniel King Last updated at 10:37 AM on 06th July 2008 A wealthy construction company run by the family of terrorist Osama bin Laden has emerged as a shock front-runner to buy Newcastle United, a source with links to the club claimed last night. The Saudi Binladen Group, whose chief executive is Osama's half-brother, Bakr bin Laden, and which was founded by their father, Sheikh Mohammed bin Laden, is said to be considering a £300millionplus deal to buy the club and then carry out a lucrative redevelopment of St James' Park and land surrounding the ground. Although the Bin Laden family publicly distanced itself from the founder of Al-Qaeda years before he claimed responsibility for the September 11 atrocities in 2001, any takeover would be football's most controversial yet, as well as taking the number of foreign-owned teams in the Premier League to 10, or half of England's biggest clubs. Newcastle owner Mike Ashley has been dogged by rumours, always denied, that he wishes to sell the club ever since his takeover just over a year ago. However, last night a private investment company from America, InterMedia Partners, confirmed reports that they had been approached by a third party about buying the club. Despite Newcastle describing reports that Ashley had quoted them a price of £420m as 'absolute nonsense', the Americans' statement said: 'InterMedia was approached about a deal, made no offer and has no interest.' But the most astonishing development is the suggestion that a firm connected to the world's most wanted terrorist could be interested in buying the club. Although the offices of SBG in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, were open yesterday, there was no one in authority available to comment on the speculation. Last night a spokesman for Ashley would say only: 'No comment.' Osama bin Laden made his fortune after inheriting shares in SBG when his father died in 1967 but the revocation of his Saudi citizenship in 1994 means he has since, in theory, been unable to access any assets in the country. The stigma of the name would be an embarrassment to the Premier League. But a large multinational company like SBG would pass the 'fit and proper person' test which last year waved through Manchester City owner, Dr Thaksin Shinawatra, despite allegations of human rights violations while he was Prime Minister of Thailand. Representatives of the company are believed to have been in Newcastle in recent weeks for preliminary talks and to examine in detail the site's potential for transformation into a huge retail, leisure and luxury accommodation development. In April last year, just weeks before selling his shares to Ashley, then Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd unveiled blueprints for a £300m revamp of St James' Park, which included raising the capacity by 8,000 to 60,000, plus luxury flats, a hotel and a conference centre. But SBG's plans are even more ambitious and, because of complications related to the location of the metro station which serves the ground, even include the possibility of knocking down the iconic stadium and building a new one on the outskirts of the city. The report of SBG's interest is a stunning end to a typically dramatic week at the club, with midfielder Joey Barton receiving a suspended jail sentence for assaulting former Manchester City team-mate Ousmane Dabo and the confusion over links with Inter- Media and the alleged £420m price tag. But at a more realistic price around the £300m-mark, SBG is understood not to be alone in being attracted by the prospect of combining the kudos of owning a Premier League club with a major property play. Preliminary interest from Indian billionaire Kumar Mangalam Birla is said to have cooled, but the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority are still thought to be in the running. In charge of the Abu Dhabi ruling family's massive oil wealth, ADIA is the richest investment fund in the world with assets worth hundreds of billions of pounds under management, including a stake in New York's famous Chrysler Building - by strange coincidence the location of InterMedia's head office. Ashley is said to have had the chance to walk away with a £30m profit within weeks of his purchase when a Far East consortium came knocking. At the turn of the year, it is understood that his brokers, Kaupthing, mentioned while discussing other business with representatives of Dubai International Capital, that a minority stake in Newcastle might be available. DIC politely declined, not because they wanted to own the whole club, but because the only team they are interested in buying is Liverpool. Some people's imaginations man.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 I know. Still, watch half the country believe. 'The toon is terrarists LOLZ!11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 11080 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 TOON GO BOOM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 BOOM BOOM SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE THE TOON! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 The funny thing is, yesterday we were making up headlines as outrageous as possible and the Sun have bettered us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 0 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Gotta love journos- it's convenented land, boys. As we've seen in the past, planning permission will never be given for a stadium away from the city centre, so they would be wasting their time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Gotta love journos- it's convenented land, boys. As we've seen in the past, planning permission will never be given for a stadium away from the city centre, so they would be wasting their fictional time. FYP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JawD 99 Posted July 6, 2008 Author Share Posted July 6, 2008 BOOM BOOM SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE THE TOON! Almost BOOM BOOM SHEIK SHEIK THE TOON! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asprilla 96 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 BOOM BOOM SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE THE TOON! Almost BOOM BOOM SHEIK SHEIK THE TOON! That's bordering on genius!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Gotta love journos- it's convenented land, boys. As we've seen in the past, planning permission will never be given for a stadium away from the city centre, so they would be wasting their time. should have been given for the Leazes Park site though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 Is Osama buying the club? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 I've always dreamed that Newcastle United would set the Premier League alight....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 I've always dreamed that Newcastle United would set the Premier League alight....... The Bin Laden Group (aka Saudi Royals) makes MA's money look like pennies. I for one hope it happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 11080 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 at least under their rule we wouldn't have cheerleaders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 at least under their rule we wouldn't have cheerleaders. Or be subsidising their hockey teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted July 6, 2008 Share Posted July 6, 2008 I've always dreamed that Newcastle United would set the Premier League alight....... The Bin Laden Group (aka Saudi Royals) makes MA's money look like pennies. I for one hope it happens. Was that a whoosh ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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