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Kevin Keegan is not claiming £25m from Newcastle United according to The Sunday Express. Keegan’s constructive dismissal claim, which the ‘judges’ retired to consider over the weekend, has been plagued with rumours of £25m claims that will put the club into administration. Yet a ‘close Keegan aide’ told the Express: “That is just malicious nonsense. [...]

According to The Sun (titter ye not) Kevin Keegan is demanding that Mike Ashley pays him £25m to settle their compensation battle. The figure includes £9m payable for the remainder of his 3 and a half year contract with Newcastle United plus £16m as compensation against the loss of future earnings. This is of course [...]

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 [...]

It’s the News of the World, so don’t take it too seriously, but they claim that Keegan has a bunch of emails that will prove Mike Ashley made his position untenable and he was therefore constructively dismissed. ‘Sources close to Keegan’ (hmm) claim that the emails will blow Ashley’s case out of the water. One [...]