Posts Tagged ‘Newcastle United gossip’

All appears quiet on the Newcastle front.

Posted June 11th, 2010 by toonsy | 60 Comments

You can blame any multitude of reasons for why there doesn’t appear to be much going on at Newcastle right now, but you can be rest assured that things will be steadily ticking over behind the scenes. You can blame the start of the World Cup for diverting media attention away from Newcastle United, or [...]

Newcastle plan for the future, but please don’t forget the present!

Posted May 9th, 2010 by toonsy | 185 Comments

It is becoming increasingly apparent that Newcastle United are bulding up quite a collection of young players, some of which have already been monitored by some of the biggest clubs in Europe. Now we have another two youngsters that could potentially end up at the academy in the shape of Frenchman Martin Mimoun and Swedish [...]

Ashley’s spin to win?

Posted February 25th, 2010 by bowburnmag | 42 Comments

In another ‘exclusive’ leak from the club, apparently a ‘senior United’ source has been speaking to The Journal, revealing that Newcastle is losing around £500,000 a week at the moment. Now forgive me for doing some simple maths but that equates to roughly £25m a year, which is coincidentally what the NoTW reported over the [...]

NUST claim Mike Ashley is making £7million a month from Newcastle United.

Posted January 11th, 2010 by workyticket | 320 Comments

On the NUST’s website today, Tony Stephenson claimed a source had told the NUST that Ashley has performed the financial miracle of turning a company which lost over £20 million last year, into a company which was now making as much as £7 million per month. This would be the equivalent of approximately £84 million [...]

Toon more years for uncle Joe?

Posted August 5th, 2009 by workyticket | 13 Comments

In an interview with the BBC’s ‘Radio Five Live’, Joe Kinnear has sensationally claimed that Mike Ashley has offered him another two year contract at the club, and added that he is “mulling it over”. He also added that it would still take another three months to fully recover from his triple heart bypass, performed [...]

Gossip du jour… (updated).

Posted June 10th, 2009 by workyticket | 75 Comments

City of London sources pouring cold water on claims from a Singapore-based company, the Profitable Group, that it has held talks with Ashley about a £100m buy-out, a UK-based consortium and an American grouping remain the two parties most likely to buy Newcastle. (Michael Walker – The Independent) Link>> John Gaunt, the Chief Exective Officer [...]

 
 

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