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Brian Griffin said:
Mate. I don’t bullshit.

I’ve posted stuff on here and by PM to people before it’s been common knowledge.

I posted the Benitez news first on here. And also told people who the replacement would be.


Believe what you want mate.

My source is top notch. In football things change fast, so I sometimes take a risk with stuff. Sometimes what I’ve been told changes - but I don’t lie.
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Nah, ya talking shite pal, either shut up or post it.I can guess half the so called in the know.What Benitez news? When did you say about replacement? Bruce was 11th choice.
 

Sima said:
To be fair it wasn't a stretch to say Rafa would be leaving at the end of the season. I was saying it all of the way through last season, for example.

I'll give you the next appointment though as you're on record as giving clues, one of which was ex-Sunderland manager which turned out to be the appointment that happened.

Doesn't mean your source wasn't feeding you shite about the only reason Rafa leaving was due to his salary in an attempt to smear his name which holds a lot more water than his ex-paymasters and not what he is record as saying multiple times.
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In fairness to them, they wouldn't know I was posting it on here.

In fairness to me, I was more specific than just saying it was an ex Sunderland manager - I did allude to Greggs as well 👍

My source has nothing to gain from slagging RB off - they had a good relationship from what I can tell. I could post a whole load of other stuff on here, but I haven't...I'm not that much of a twat. But I have PMd people the whole story and I believe it to be true.

In terms of the training ground, I've been told this was never an issue. The £3.5m uplift was.
Gorillacop said:
Nah, ya talking shite pal, either shut up or post it.I can guess half the so called in the know.What Benitez news? When did you say about replacement? Bruce was 11th choice.
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Bruce was 1 of 3 being considered.

He wasn't 11th. Nice paper story though.
 
Brian Griffin said:
In fairness to them, they wouldn't know I was posting it on here.

In fairness to me, I was more specific than just saying it was an ex Sunderland manager - I did allude to Greggs as well 👍

My source has nothing to gain from slagging RB off - they had a good relationship from what I can tell. I could post a whole load of other stuff on here, but I haven't...I'm not that much of a twat. But I have PMd people the whole story and I believe it to be true.

In terms of the training ground, I've been told this was never an issue. The £3.5m uplift was.


Bruce was 1 of 3 being considered.

He wasn't 11th. Nice paper story though.
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Sounds like it for him to be thrown under the bus and be labelled as 100% money-orientated. Guess it must have rapidly deteroriated at the end?
 
Brian Griffin said:
In fairness to them, they wouldn't know I was posting it on here.

In fairness to me, I was more specific than just saying it was an ex Sunderland manager - I did allude to Greggs as well 👍

My source has nothing to gain from slagging RB off - they had a good relationship from what I can tell. I could post a whole load of other stuff on here, but I haven't...I'm not that much of a twat. But I have PMd people the whole story and I believe it to be true.

In terms of the training ground, I've been told this was never an issue. The £3.5m uplift was.


Bruce was 1 of 3 being considered.

He wasn't 11th. Nice paper story though.
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Who were the other 2
 
Its coming to down bickering over £3.5 million a season then. The amount it would cost Ashley to guarantee Premier football every season while Benitez manager. £65 million spent & that figure is going to have to climb in January. And maybe again next summer just to get back to where now are. And this is the owner people say are daft spending fortunes just to compete at lower end top 10.
 
Sima said:
Sounds like it for him to be thrown under the bus and be labelled as 100% money-orientated. Guess it must have rapidly deteroriated at the end?
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No idea.

All I was told was that his party wanted £9.5m and there was nothing else involved in the negotiation.

I was also told SB was the preferred candidate from day 1 - this was more than 2 weeks before he was announced.

I posted it all on here.
 
Roker Mackem said:
This thread could
Roker Mackem said:
This thread could get lively in 5 mins
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If the usual crew turn up, tbf I’ve enjoyed a balanced argument to the usual bilge thrown at us, but I’m sure ya right.
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Brian Griffin said:
No idea.

All I was told was that his party wanted £9.5m and there was nothing else involved in the negotiation.

I was also told SB was the preferred candidate from day 1 - this was more than 2 weeks before he was announced.

I posted it all on here.
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Who were the other 2, you are avoiding it.
 
Benjamin said:
Its coming to down bickering over £3.5 million a season then. The amount it would cost Ashley to guarantee Premier football every season while Benitez manager. £65 million spent & that figure is going to have to climb in January. And maybe again next summer just to get back to where now are. And this is the owner people say are daft spending fortunes just to compete at lower end top 10.
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When he inevitably gambles more in January and fails, he can play the saviour again by claming he is doing the club a favour by loaning money. By his own admission the two times we have been relegated have ultimately been his fault so it's hard to have any sympathy for him or be grateful for him when he dips into his personal stash.

£3.5m, man. It cost more to release a mid-table championship manager from his contract. What a buffoon.
 
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Sima said:
When he inevitably gambles more in January and fails, he can play the saviour again by claming he is doing the club a favour by loaning money.

£3.5m, man. It cost more to release a mid-table championship manager from his contract. What a buffoon.
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Benetiz isn't worth more than £6m when you consider what other managers of a similar ilk in the PL earn.

It wasn't £3.5m - it was £3.5m P/Y, so £10.5m in reality.
 
Brian Griffin said:
Benetiz isn't worth more than £6m when you consider what other managers of a similar ilk in the PL earn.

It wasn't £3.5m - it was £3.5m P/Y, so £10.5m in reality.
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Would other managers of a similar ilk come to Newcastle United? Probably not.

Again, it depends what your weighing it up against, £10.5m over three years for someone who can (reluctantly) manage on a meagre NET OMGZ budget and comfortbaly keep the team earning £100m a season seems like good business to me. That's without going into, albeit up in the air, how much has been lopped off the gate receipts due to Rafa leaving.
 

I'm not mate.

I've no idea how true or how far down the line those approaches came, but my source, 100% in the know, told me that SB was the preferred choice, and Wenger and Gatusso were the other considerations.

It was also suggested by somebody that 'their' preferred choice was Pardew. Somebody else in the club said that couldn't happen - 'at the moment' - read into that whatever you want.

But I'm not a bullshitter.
 
Pardew hasn't got the stones to come back imo after he was in tears on the touchline that time.

Having said that though, our matchgoing support are totally meek these days so I'd dare suggest they'd probably put up with it. Considering who we've currently got in the dugout.
 
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Brian Griffin said:
I'm not mate.

I've no idea how true or how far down the line those approaches came, but my source, 100% in the know, told me that SB was the preferred choice, and Wenger and Gatusso were the other considerations.

It was also suggested by somebody that 'their' preferred choice was Pardew. Somebody else in the club said that couldn't happen - 'at the moment' - read into that whatever you want.

But I'm not a bullshitter.
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You know jack shit, Ashley wanted Bruce over Wenger? Ok imagine you are right and that’s a fact, can you understand why we think Ashley is off the map at times.

Mate , you have no idea how stupid your post sounds, unless we are owned by an idiot, you agree?

Bruce over Wenger?
 
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