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NUFC/Sportswashing - Summer 2022

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A £140m loan from HSBC, to go with the £10m Staveley borrowed from Ashley, and the £30m she owes the Reubens. Ashley reckons she owes him another £4.5 for legal costs as well.

They are also spreading the transfer fees out in instalments in a way Ashley never did- kicking the can down the road Freddy Shepherd style.

I suppose when you pour money down the drain signing up 30 year old journeymen like Burn and Wood on 2.5 year deals, then finances will end up being a bit tight pretty quickly.

Of course, a few hundred million from the Public Investment Fund would sort all that out, but nearly a year after the takeover and there doesn’t seem to be any sign of that.

Staveley could easily put mag minds at rest in that regard by picking up the phone to Caulkin, as she did so frequently after the takeover, but she seems to have completely disappeared for some reason.

In any case, if you’re not ready to pay the big wages for higher quality players then you’ll not get far for very long, and the mags haven’t shown the slightest indication that they are ready to give a player of Maddison’s quality the sort of contract he’d be looking for at this stage in his career. Not a chance he ends up there imo.

They’ll need to sign someone though. The only attacking players they’ve purchased in 2 years are Wood and Willock. Lower mid table sides can easily end up in relegation trouble when they allow stagnation like that.
 
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Skellington said:
A £140m loan from HSBC, to go with the £10m Staveley borrowed from Ashley, and the £30m she owes the Reubens. Ashley reckons she owes him another £4.5 for legal costs as well.

They are also spreading the transfer fees out in instalments in a way Ashley never did- kicking the can down the road Freddy Shepherd style.

I suppose when you pour money down the drain signing up 30 year old journeymen like Burn and Wood on 2.5 year deals, then finances will end up being a bit tight pretty quickly.

Of course, a few hundred million from the Public Investment Fund would sort all that out, but nearly a year after the takeover and there doesn’t seem to be any sign of that.

Staveley could easily put mag minds at rest in that regard by picking up the phone to Caulkin, as she did so frequently after the takeover, but she seems to have completely disappeared for some reason.

In any case, if you’re not ready to pay the big wages for higher quality players then you’ll not get far for very long, and the mags haven’t shown the slightest indication that they are ready to give a player of Maddison’s quality the sort of contract he’d be looking for at this stage in his career. Not a chance he ends up there imo.

They’ll need to sign someone though. The only attacking players they’ve purchased in 2 years are Wood and Willock. Lower mid table sides can easily end up in relegation trouble when they allow stagnation like that.
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couldn’t have put it better myself
 
MagAmongtheCats said:
But you don't see the irony, the most popular thread on here is about NUFC. Obviously look up what irony means first.
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I am not obsessed about NUFC but simply feel it my duty to correct mis-information, idiocy, myopia and hypocrisy and if it makes some of you check yourselves then job done. I suspect many of us are not travelling as much and often in zoom calls I can be on this site or other football sites when I am passive in meetings. It is not due to some new found obsession with NUFC it is just a side effect of the new world. The recent takeover has just exacerbated the "noise" you all make which has led to this thread being bigger than ever.

NUFC are not some European heavyweight they are one city club in an area where alcohol and football go hand in hand and there is little competition from other sports. They are not the only club to like a number 9, they didn't invent flag waving, they didn't invent photo's on the pitch, they weren't in the Champions League every season in the 1990's and 2000's, the aren't bigger than (<insert club who player prefers to go to>) the list goes on. The huge obsession from likely a small section on Adam Johnson baffles me when considered against Osmond, Cisse and the racist allegations against Beardsley. Ditto the shit seating (that didn't happen) in comparison to someone driving 20 miles to pee on a statue of a former Newcastle player. The hypocrisy of United with Pride wearing NUFC shirts when they would not be welcome in the majority owners country baffles me. The blurring of history such as booing Robson for finishing 5th and then building a statue and repeatedly using this "you will do for me" shows no self awareness. History also blurred regarding Ashley when under his stewardship you got to Europa 1/4 final's. But yet it was 14 years of pain. I am not alone on this site in being able to rattle off example after example of mis-information, idiocy, myopia and hypocrisy.

We know who we are and don't pretend otherwise. The fact we were the "Bank of England" club 00+ years ago is meaningless and likewise the fact that you "almost" won the league a 1/4 of a century ago is also meaningless.
 
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