Newcastle United Blog.

What is Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley up to and is it time for him to let us in on his plans? Mike Ashley still divides opinion at Newcastle. Some people like him and think he’s good for the club and others hate him and would have him hogtied, marched to the Bigg Market and [...]

On looking at Mike Ashley’s transfer spending in the last four seasons, it appears that in total, the club’s overall spending on transfer fees have been by far the lowest in the Premiership, with the club showing a profit of approximately £45,700,000 in the club’s transfer dealings for the 08/09, 09/10, 10/11 and the current [...]

Due to my laptop contracting a rather unfortunate illness, it had been difficult to write about some of the recent events conspiring at the Sportsdirect.com@stjamespark stadium. Nevertheless, being British I shall try to prevail when no hope seems assured, put the kettle on, and soldier on with some recent thoughts I have had this past [...]

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew has indicated that a huge amount of fees go to agents for transfers and such, but just how much classes as ‘huge’? One of the things I picked up on in Workyticket’s transcription of Alan Pardew’s interview is that he (meaning Alan Pardew rather than Worky) claimed we pay huge [...]

Speaking to The Telegraph Newcastle United Managing director, Derek Llambias has said that Newcastle United now have the players that they wanted thanks to acting early in the transfer window, and once again reassured fans that not a single penny of Andy Carroll’s (up to) £35 million transfer fee has left the club. He also [...]

The transfer market is a strange and sometimes scary place, with confusion abound by exactly how much money we apparently have, others have the knowledge only provided by Football Manager and FIFA and you’d be surprised how correct that actually is. The long and short is, we have never had £35m to spend – never. [...]

Mike Ashley’s ’5 year plan’ is to create a self sufficient business model, this is the aim for his Newcastle United project. Now, this should be the aim for any business, and especially where football clubs are concerned with the financial rules set to take effect, and the current state of the economic climate. This [...]

Mike Ashley bought Newcastle United to much fanfare in 2007 via St. James Holdings. Opting against doing the sensible thing and lodging a formal bid, he just went out and bought the stocks, forcing the then hospitalised Freddy Shepherd into advising shareholders to sell, sell, sell! Thus came an end to Shepherd’s reign of terror [...]

Speaking to North East weekly, the Sunday Stun, Newcastle United manager, Alan Pardew has claimed that the club cannot compete with big clubs such as Tottenham or Liverpool on in terms of transfers or wages. This is something which seemed obvious to many fans when promising stroker, Andy Carroll, was spirited away to the latter [...]

Much recent discussion about Newcastle United’s profits and/or losses in the transfer market has convinced one writer that a tedious post about amortisation is necessary. I’ve noticed discussions in the comments on this ‘blog lately about players sold v players bought and the profit or loss that club makes as a result. If, however, you [...]