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Bear Heed said:
A Mag mate, who was there, was saying she thought the club should've done the decent thing and marked Bruce's 1000th game in some way, even if it was just a mention on the big screen. Personally I doubt the club even thought about it or, if they did, decided they couldn't trust the supporters not to boo. Either that or they just care about presenting the right image, ironically the entire reason they bought the club.
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Shows how horrible the mags are for blaming Bruce for all of this, when they know exactly that Ashley is the cause of all this.
Bruce has acheived largely the same outcomes as their hero, Benitez (until this season)

And he's one of their own, yet they treat him like absolute shit. What horrible people.
 
Stormo said:
Imagine if theyre 12-15 points adrift come January. Spend a shit load on players the fans want rather than who would get them out of it and gan down. I would love it if that happened, love it.
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12/15 points adrift when Norwich, Watford and Burnley are in same division ? Nice dream but......
 
gipetto said:
A fantastic city? It's a decent city, which is way over-rated by the people that live there.
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Maybe some will. I don't live in Newcastle and I think it's a great city.
gipetto said:
I don't think there's many worthwhile commercial opportunities to be had in Newcastle tbh. They've likely bought the club to simply compete with Qatar/Dubai and attempt to improve their image.
The only ones that will be interested in investing in the city will be the Reuben brothers, who already do that anyhow.
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Of course and now others are potentially looking into it. It could become even better. Time will surely tell.


gipetto said:
We're talking about a fund worth 300bn, why would they mess about investing in a city like Newcastle when they can be investing in places like London, NY, Berlin, Paris, Shanghai etc. It won't offer the returns they want and they won't want to lose money investing in a city in the NE that they have no real affinity to.
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That depends on how you want to look at it.
London's been and is being done to death. Why would anyone want to play catch the scraps when they have a city like Newcastle and the north east in general, which will likely benefit Sunderland massively over the coming years. IMO.
 
On radio Newcastle whenever the opposition score whether it's us v someone or Newcastle V. someone the commentator's voice stays flat - almost to deaden the impact. But it goes up if the north east team score. Martin Tyler did exactly that yesterday as if he was supporting Newcastle. Either Dembele ran over his pet dog or Sky just openly support the scum now??
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PTR said:
Shows how horrible the mags are for blaming Bruce for all of this, when they know exactly that Ashley is the cause of all this.
Bruce has acheived largely the same outcomes as their hero, Benitez (until this season)

And he's one of their own, yet they treat him like absolute shit. What horrible people.
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The cause of all what? There are a lot worse football club owners than Ashley. Don’t buy into their propaganda that Ashley was the root of all evil.
 
gipetto said:
A fantastic city? It's a decent city, which is way over-rated by the people that live there. I don't think there's many worthwhile commercial opportunities to be had in Newcastle tbh. They've likely bought the club to simply compete with Qatar/Dubai and attempt to improve their image. The only ones that will be interested in investing in the city will be the Reuben brothers, who already do that anyhow.

We're talking about a fund worth 300bn, why would they mess about investing in a city like Newcastle when they can be investing in places like London, NY, Berlin, Paris, Shanghai etc. It won't offer the returns they want and they won't want to lose money investing in a city in the NE that they have no real affinity to.
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Just a little point, the fund is "worth" £300bn.
Not sure why everyone is focussing on this number. The huge majority of this money is tied up in long term investments, isn't it? That's the point of a sovereign wealth fund - to draw a regular income from in the long-term. Having free cash sitting in that fund achieves nothing.


Don't get me wrong, they won't be short of cash. But they don't have 300 billion to spend!
 
cluffy said:
On radio Newcastle whenever the opposition score whether it's us v someone or Newcastle V. someone the commentator's voice stays flat - almost to deaden the impact. But it goes up if the north east team score. Martin Tyler did exactly that yesterday as if he was supporting Newcastle. Either Dembele ran over his pet dog or Sky just openly support the scum now??
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Imagine being spurs fan watching and impartial commentator does that.
 
Nukehasslefan said:
They know exactly what they've bought. They've bought a fantastic football club in a fantastic city. A one club city..
They also know the squad. Stavely and co are not stupid. They know it needs a massive overhaul to get anywhere near the set up of the elite clubs.
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Ashley spent 79 million on transfers in 2019/20, Stavely has said you've got 50 million to spend on player transfers. Doesn't look like you'll be getting the massive overhaul that you seem to expect.
 
OzzyMac said:
Ashley spent 79 million on transfers in 2019/20, Stavely has said you've got 50 million to spend on player transfers. Doesn't look like you'll be getting the massive overhaul that you seem to expect.
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5Live were almost wetting themselves yesterday, it'll probably buy a decent fullback.
 
OzzyMac said:
Ashley spent 79 million on transfers in 2019/20, Stavely has said you've got 50 million to spend on player transfers. Doesn't look like you'll be getting the massive overhaul that you seem to expect.
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When did Staveley say this?
And January is not long term.
I don't expect massive overhaul in January. I don't expect anything to be fair.
I'll hopefully enjoy progress if it comes.

As for Ashley, I'm not against the man but things did need changing due to the bitter hatred of him which has become untenable and poisonous of which all parties are to blame for that, massively including certain sections of fans.
 
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