The people linked with Newcastle United are either perpetually stupid or completely inept.
Barry Moat has finally broken his silence regarding the Newcastle United takeover and his
failure to buy the club. In comments released yesterday Moat admitted that he too would consider
selling the naming rights for St.
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Barry Moat still thinks there's a chance of him buying Newcastle United in the future. Apparently,
whilst Moat has no immediate plans to launch another bid, he will continue to think about how he
might wrest the club for Ashley in the future. Speaking to Sky Sports News he said: "For one reason
or another it didn't come [.
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strong>Having so far failed in his efforts to raise the funds to tempt Mike Ashley into selling
Newcastle United to him, Barry Moat has now gone on record to suggest that the famous St James'
Park name wouldn't necessarily have been safe in his hands either. It appears he can see exactly
what Ashley is [.
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According to the Mirror, Newcastle United legend Alan Shearer is available to manage other clubs
with immediate effect. Shearer was of course pointedly ignored for the Toon job despite his 8-week
temporary appointment being called "the best decision I ever made" by Ashley. Even then though,
Shearer was still in with a chance as it was [.
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According to an article posted on The Telegraph's site late last night, Mike Ashley has turned down
Barry Moat's latest £80m bid for Newcastle United even though he'd previously said he'd accept the
bid on the terms specified. What the article says is that whilst Ashley had previously rejected
Moat's offer to take £40m down and [.
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Would-be Newcastle United owner Barry Moat tried to persuade Richard Harpin to invest in his bid to
buy the club. Richard Harpin is the head of HomeServe and has a personal fortune of more than
£200m, which places him as one of the top 5 richest North-Easterners according to the Sunday Times
Rich List.
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Alan Shearer says he would still love the Newcastle United manager's job but is also prepared to
consider managing other clubs. At the end of last season it seemed almost certain that Shearer
would be given the Toon job despite failing to keep us in the Premier League. Ashley had described
employing Shearer as 'the best [.
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Newcastle United manager-in-waiting Chris Hughton, heaped praise on the players after the 2-1 win
over Doncaster Rovers at the weekend. Rumours suggested that Hughton would be appointed as
permanent manager before the game but there's been no official confirmation of that, possibly
because Ashley is still considering Barry Moat's latest offer for the club.
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Apparently Barry Moat tabled an £80m bid for Newcastle United on Friday and Mike Ashley had to be
saved from angry fans by stewards during the away match to Scunny. Divven get too excited though -
it's News of the World time again. First, Barry Moat's bid. Sport of the World has apparently
'learned' that Barry Moat [.
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After a summer of discontent at Newcastle United, with the club having been up for sale since May,
we've failed to attract a single serious buyer. It seems Moat was all mouth and all the other
'bidders' were either publicity hunters, time-wasters or chancers who only expressed an interest in
the hope of purchasing way below [.
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Mike Ashley is now prepared to take £80m for Newcastle United but will there be any takers? Amidst
another petulant stab at the fans in yesterday's Times, Mike Ashley announced: "Barry Moat has been
driving me mad for two years. If he wants to buy the club, he's got a one-off opportunity to come
up with the [.
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Alan Shearer reveals that whilst he'd take the Newcastle United manager's job today if it was
offered, he's prepared to get on with life in the interim. With Barry Moat's bid - or indeed anyone
else's bid - looking less likely to succeed as time goes on, Shearer's chances of becoming
Newcastle manager this season are [.
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Nothing much new has happened at Newcastle United, although rumours about Barry Moat give me
something to write about. For various reasons I've spent the last 5 days largely out of touch with
any football news at all, neither having time to read a paper nor to browse the internet. Upon
checking the news this morning I [.
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The traditional Sunday trawl of the back pages has begun, except technically I've gone all modern
these days and access the back pages online (partly because I'm hungover and don't fancy the walk
to the paper shop). Anyway, so what do they have to say? Well first of all, an amusing story of
Freddie Sheperd and [.
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With the air thick with takeover talk, real or imaginary, now feels like a good time to throw in a
spanner, or two. It is widely acknowledged that, under impossible circumstances, Chris Hughton and
his staff have done an astounding job thus far managing Newcastle United. With a pre-season filled
with doom-laden mutterings of "Doing [.
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Some newspapers are reporting that a South African businessman is now interested in Newcastle
United. I rather suspect this could be a case of 'here we go again' as bids are rumoured and then
fall by the wayside but you never can tell with this sort of thing - very occasionally a rumour
turns out to [.
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The press are reporting that Barry Moat has made a 'substantial' offer for Newcastle United. If I
had a pound for every time I've quoted the press about someone being just about to take over
Newcastle United I'd probably be able to buy the club myself. And then there'd be changes I can
tell you. If [.
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Both the Daily Mirror and the Times are reporting that Barry Moat has launched a formal takeover
bid for Newcastle United. Moat is said to have significant financial muscle from American investors
and has received guarantees from Barclays that he will be given working capital to run the
club.
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Former Newcastle United owner Freddie Shepherd has been having his say on Keegangate, as is his
wont in such situations these days, and of course that called for a comparison with his time at
Newcastle and how things were so much better back then. Freddie said: "There are no winners [I say
no winners, you listening to [.
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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 has [.
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The man favoured by Keith Harris of Seymour Pierce to complete the takeover of Newcastle is said
to be within days of finalising a deal. George Culkin, one of the most well respected football
journalists, has reported that one of the potential obstacles to the takeover going through, the
club's ongoing saga with former boss Kevin Keegan, will no longer stand in the way of Newcastle's
future.
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The man favoured by Keith Harris of Seymour Pierce to complete the takeover of Newcastle is said
to be within days of finalising a deal. George Culkin, one of the most well respected football
journalists, has reported that one of the potential obstacles to the takeover going through, the
club's ongoing saga with former boss Kevin Keegan, will no longer stand in the way of Newcastle's
future.
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According to a statement the club made to The Journal, Ashley's £100m asking price has been met
and 'all parties are at the sale and purchase stage', which sounds a bit different to any parties
I've been to. The Journal then goes on to speculate that it could still be some time before the
takeover situation [.
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According to The Chronicle, they were contacted by one of their 'usually reliable sources' who said
that one interested group had reached written agreement about buying the club and 'other sources'
close to Sheard's American bidders said that the deal is close to crossing the finishing line. Both
Derek Llambias and Seymour Pierce deny these rumours [.
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The 40,000 crowds we've been getting at home games could help Barry Moat's attempts to take over
Newcastle United Football Club. According to a recent article in The Journal, Moat's original
business plan was based on the Toon attracting 25,000 for home games. I have no idea how The
Journal knows that but if we assume [.
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The Telegraph is claiming that talks between the club and Barry Moat are scheduled and that a deal
could be agreed imminently. The key word in that sentence is 'could' though, so let's wait and see
how it actually turns out. The Telegraph's claims do seem at odds with Keith Harris's last
statement on matters, which [.
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According to previous press reports, Newcastle United's £39m overdraft facility with Barclays Bank
ended on the 31st August and unless some other agreement was reached it was going to be renewed
with only a £10m limit, in line with Barclays' policy for Championship clubs. If reports that the
club owed £20m on that overdraft facility are [.
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According to The Mirror, Alan Shearer is the fairest of them all. Or at least that will be the case
if the Sheard-fronted American bid is successful. The Mirror claims the consortium is close to
signing a deal, although forgive me for not getting all excited but we've heard this sort of stuff
before and it has [.
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That's what The Daily Star claims anyway. Basically what they're saying is that Moat can't get the
money together to buy the club but Ashley plans to take the club off the market and appoint him as
chairman. Moat will then apparently appoint Shearer as manager and take charge of the day-to-day
running of the club [.
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In the absence of my esteemed 'news round-up' colleague, here's a briefing of some of today's
newsworthy pieces concerning our dearest club. And a low-key announcement that the ‘news
round-up' is no more (sorry MT). First and foremost, our old favourite the ‘sale saga' and as
documented by workyticket in amused fashion last night, we're [.
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Much speculation has ensued after yesterday's announcement that the club is giving Barry Moat more
time to negotiate an overdraft facility with Barclays Bank. Our favourite mackem Louise Taylor
demonstrates surprising knowledge of the club's confidential banking details, which form the crux
of her latest article in The Guardian.
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Well if Carlsberg did a line in anti-climax then today's official statement would be a great start.
A collective holding of breath over the weekend, enough to cause a Toon Army Tsunami on release,
had us all exhaling in disappointment at the progress report announcing that....well there is no
progress really, just another extension on [.
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It simply reads: NEWCASTLE United Football Club confirms that it has extended its deadline to Barry
Moat to table an offer for the Club. The extension has been granted in order to allow Barry Moat
and his advisors to conclude funding arrangements with Barclays, current bankers, for the
continuation of last season's £39m facility.
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Young or old, lad or lass, living just round the corner or at the other end of the world, if you're
a Newcastle fan then you're in all the way. Over-the-moon one minute and kicked in the teeth the
next, you learn to deal with adversity early on or you sink with the tide of [...]
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Yesterday's biggest news is of course our 2-0 win at Crystal Palace, which puts us in second place,
behind 'Boro on goal difference. Hughton, reflecting on the game, said: "It was very pleasing to
get the three points, and especially the clean sheet, away from home. "We said to the players
before the game that we expected a [.
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