Newcastle United Blog.

Mike Ashley is now prepared to take £80m for Newcastle United but will there be any takers? Amidst another petulant stab at the fans in yesterday’s Times, Mike Ashley announced: “Barry Moat has been driving me mad for two years. If he wants to buy the club, he’s got a one-off opportunity to come up [...]

Alan Shearer reveals that whilst he’d take the Newcastle United manager’s job today if it was offered, he’s prepared to get on with life in the interim. With Barry Moat’s bid – or indeed anyone else’s bid – looking less likely to succeed as time goes on, Shearer’s chances of becoming Newcastle manager this season [...]

Nothing much new has happened at Newcastle United, although rumours about Barry Moat give me something to write about. For various reasons I’ve spent the last 5 days largely out of touch with any football news at all, neither having time to read a paper nor to browse the internet. Upon checking the news this [...]

The traditional Sunday trawl of the back pages has begun, except technically I’ve gone all modern these days and access the back pages online (partly because I’m hungover and don’t fancy the walk to the paper shop). Anyway, so what do they have to say? Well first of all, an amusing story of Freddie Shepherd [...]

With the air thick with takeover talk, real or imaginary, now feels like a good time to throw in a spanner, or two. It is widely acknowledged that, under impossible circumstances, Chris Hughton and his staff have done an astounding job thus far managing Newcastle United. With a pre-season filled with doom-laden mutterings of “Doing [...]

Some newspapers are reporting that a South African businessman is now interested in Newcastle United. I rather suspect this could be a case of ‘here we go again’ as bids are rumoured and then fall by the wayside but you never can tell with this sort of thing – very occasionally a rumour turns out [...]

The press are reporting that Barry Moat has made a ‘substantial’ offer for Newcastle United. If I had a pound for every time I’ve quoted the press about someone being just about to take over Newcastle United I’d probably be able to buy the club myself. And then there’d be changes I can tell you. [...]

Former Newcastle United owner Freddy Shepherd has been having his say on Keegangate, as is his wont in such situations these days, and of course that called for a comparison with his time at Newcastle and how things were so much better back then. Freddy said: “There are no winners [I say no winners, you [...]

Reports in The Mail and The Mirror are suggesting that Newcastle United may be sold by the end of this week. We’ve heard it all before of course but one of the newspapers will get it right one day and maybe it’s today. Last week Newcastle issued a statement saying that Ashley’s £100m asking price [...]

According to a statement the club made to The Journal, Ashley’s £100m asking price has been met and ‘all parties are at the sale and purchase stage‘, which sounds a bit different to any parties I’ve been to. The Journal then goes on to speculate that it could still be some time before the takeover [...]