wykikitoon 20129 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5219 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Chinese spending looks short lived  https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/05/government-vows-put-brakes-on-chinese-clubs-burning-money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) Chinese spending looks short lived  https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/05/government-vows-put-brakes-on-chinese-clubs-burning-money Aye it's completely unsustainable, especially when you consider they're only allowed 4 non Chinese players each.  Surely it would have become a thing where these clubs would try to upgrade on the non-Chinese players they have, which would have probably meant releasing blokes who still had 3-4 years on their massively ridiculous contracts in order to bring new ones in. Edited January 5, 2017 by Howay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20129 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Chinese spending looks short lived  https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/jan/05/government-vows-put-brakes-on-chinese-clubs-burning-money  That Hulk looks like his name sake.  Needs to loose some timber man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4748 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Mikel is heading out there now, looking forwards to a "new challenge" apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5219 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Aye it's completely unsustainable, especially when you consider they're only allowed 4 non Chinese players each. Â Surely it would have become a thing where these clubs would try to upgrade on the non-Chinese players they have, which would have probably meant releasing blokes who still had 3-4 years on their massively ridiculous contracts in order to bring new ones in. Â I wondered if they had a foreign player cap. It makes the whole thing even more surreal then, you're going to have superstars playing with guys about as useful on a football pitch as you or I would be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30598 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Mikel is heading out there now, looking forwards to a "new challenge" apparently. Â The challenge being to see just how much money he can earn in a shite league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 To be fair where else was Mikel going to go? There's nothing wrong with a professional going to China toward the end of his career for a huge pay day, that's the same as any developing league. Â It's weird when players like Oscar go mind.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5219 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Mikel is 29, mind... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 No he's not. I don't care what his Wikipedia says. Â He nearly signed for Man United in the 80s and he's been playing for Chelsea since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ewerk 30598 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Â It does feel like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10856 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017   Mike Ashley makes £33m loan facility available to Newcastle United ahead of transfer windowDocuments deposited at Companies House show that days before the transfer window opened, Mike Ashley made a loan facility open to NUFC.mike ashley Documents deposited at Companies House, show that Mike Ashley has made a £33m loan facility available to Newcastle United. This was done in advance of the January transfer window opening, with the documents signed on 21 December 2016 and arriving at Companies House on 23 December 2016. The loan facility is made available by Mike Ashley to the football club via St James Holdings Limited, which is a company wholly owned by Mike Ashley, and which was specifically set up to acquire shares in Newcastle United and eventually own the club outright. No comment has been made by Mike Ashley or Newcastle United about the £33m loan facility being set up but the timing of it only days before the transfer window opened, is sure to led many/most Newcastle fans to put two and two together. The club owner does of course own partly or wholly a whole network of businesses, with various relationships and tie-ups between them. Newcastle United has supplied free advertising/promotion to the rest of Ashley’s business empire free of charge for years, though last year Sports Direct announced that it was in talks with Newcastle United and that moving on a proper market price would be paid for this in the future. However, there has been no further comment/confirmation on this matter in the intervening months. In the past, Mike Ashley did make loan facilities available to Sports Direct at advantageous rates to allow the company to operate more freely in buying stock etc on the best possible terms. This loan facility made available to Newcastle United could of course be at least in part to do with normal running costs but NUFC supporters will certainly also see it at least in part of a signal that new players are set to arrive this month. It would be a relative financial disaster for Mike Ashley if Newcastle did fail to win promotion at the first attempt with parachute payments (payable at the end of the season) now front-loaded for clubs that come down, the amounts decreasing after the first season. Nobody stands to gain more than Ashley if the club bounce back and earlier today, Rafa Benitez confirmed that transfer targets had been approached but no deals struck yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30598 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 That's a shocking article. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that this is linked with the transfer window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5219 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Don't think we even need to spend £33m... I'd rather most of that was kept back for next year. We could probably get by spending £10m on cover for Shelvey and just leave it there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10856 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Plus it ignores the £30m profit we made in the previous window, as it's unlikely we're going to spend £63m! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7025 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Plus it ignores the £30m profit we made in the previous window, as it's unlikely we're going to spend £63m! 2 How much less TV money do Championship clubs receive?  Hull City, vying with Newcastle to stay up this time, provide a clear example. In 2012-13, in the Championship, the club’s accounts state they received £2.2m from Football League TV and other league income. Last season, after promotion to the Premier League, that immediately increased more than 30-fold, to £68.2m, a £66m increase for being promoted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 (edited) I wondered if they had a foreign player cap. It makes the whole thing even more surreal then, you're going to have superstars playing with guys about as useful on a football pitch as you or I would be. That's about what it'll look like. I suppose the stadium will be nicer though (Aubemeyang is playing Heaton Stannington there as a warm up for the Olympics if anyone was wondering). Edited January 6, 2017 by Howay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35077 Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 I just hope Gene Clark wasn't on the turnstiles that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10856 Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Linked with Fulham's Cairney and their fans are unimpressed with the prospect of him leaving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35077 Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Linked with Fulham's Cairney and their fans are unimpressed with the prospect of him leaving. Sweet left peg. Apropos of potential transfer targets I was looking at .com just before. I really don't see much point in that place now beyond a stats reference and info on tickets and fixtures. There's literally nowt about any January signings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10856 Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Sweet left peg. Apropos of potential transfer targets I was looking at .com just before. I really don't see much point in that place now beyond a stats reference and info on tickets and fixtures. There's literally nowt about any January signings. Â .com and the Mag have rapidly gone down hill. The latter more because they've simply become a place to advertise shit by letting any tosspot contribute. I include myself in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Kelly 1245 Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Can't say I'd heard of him before today. Â Apparently their manager has said there's no chance he'll be leaving. Â It's nice to hear a manager saying that for a change although I'd wonder how certain any manager can ever be of something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essembeeofsunderland 811 Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 I used to wait for Alan Oliver to inform me that the signing was 'over the line' before getting excited or not.Is he still reporting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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