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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
Different types of Newcastle supporters will tell you different stories. What Mike Ashley has done thus far was necessary to keep Newcastle afloat. He pumped millions of interest free loans into the club and Supporters didn't criticise that. It was the Kevin Keegan resignation that got people riled and all because apparently Kev wasn't getting everything his own way regarding transfers. I'll be the first to say when he came back he sounded delusional and I could swear he thought he was managing Manchester United with talks over Thierry Henry and other players that wouldn't associate themselves with this club in a million years.
Then the sacking of Chris Hughton brought more hatred towards the Ashley regime and he appointed Pardew whom many questioned his ability compared to that of Hughton. Ashley then made it clear with the Andy Carroll transfer that if you don't want to be here then there's the door and brought in a massive £35million in one of the best bits of business in British transfer history if you look at how it's turned out.
Signings such as Cabaye, Ba, Ben Arfa, Santon, Marveux and Cissé for less money than what Newcastle sold Carroll for is amazing alone. 6 quality players that have done their part this season in a massive way. We have now built a squad capable of actually competing with the top teams for once. With all that talk of £35 million to spend.. Some delusional geordies (The were gonna win the league) ones need to realise that £35 million does not mean it's going to be blown on a single player or even two players, it was invested and so far invested well with the announcement of Newcastle's youth system being scrapped in the summer and millions of pounds are to be spent in bringing talent from different countries to rebuild that from the ground up.
The stadium re-naming is a big disappointment but yet may turn out to be nothing with little to no interest in anyone wanting to take rights of the stadium name. The hatred for Ashley died down some time ago bar the Chav's and Yob's at games that rip hoarding's down and vandalise the stadium over such matter, this is not the right way to do things.
To cap it all of, If Newcastle supporters are angry at the way things have turned out, just take a good look at the league position and the financial status of our club. Freddy Shepherd and his habit of spending money on crap would have ran it straight into the ground if he had kept going.
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So would you describe Mike Ashley (as a Newcastle owner) as like Marmite?
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
The decision by Rangers players to take a 75% pay cut, is something that all clubs should do to prevent clubs going bust.
The amount of money players get is a disgrace for playing 180 minutes of football per week, Some players are on 250k per week. Are they worth that much to kick a ball full of air.
I blame tv companies for adding to the list for paying £50/60.000 per game to the clubs, Clubs should show an example to the fans by saying, for the entire season we will charge the fans £20.00 entrance fee to watch ANY game for a whole season.
PL clubs should also cough up money to help lower league clubs, as this is where they get future stars players from to enrich there teams.
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There is no chance those players will accept any wage cut, they have lavish lifestyles to maintain
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Originally Posted by thenry
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All that and they still find it hard to match Man U
Clearly he should have bought Man U instead