When Barry Moat's Newcastle United takeover bid failed, a lot of supporters feared that without money to invest in players, we'd struggle to add to our already depleted squad. The current Newcastle squad is probably just good enough to get out of the Championship, but without further investment, it's looking bleak for our future Premier League survival.

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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 [. Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

The very last thing we want to hear from Barry Moat is that he didn't have enough time to buy Newcastle. Barry Moat - just didn't have the money! The reason he wasn't successful in buying Newcastle was because he didn't have enough money time had nothing to do with it. But we hear today that [.. Click to continue reading...

There comes a point at which inept management crosses an invisible rubicon and passes into something even more depressing and worrying. There can be little arguing with the case for the prosecution. Ashley's time in charge of the club has been an unmitigated disaster. He oversaw relegation from the Premier League when the club had the fifth highest wage budget, has managed to almost the entire support of the club and managed to fail to sell the club when it had a buyer which seemed keen to tie up a deal to secure the purchase of it from him.

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Mr Ashley manages to make two decisions in one morning and still finds time to consume as much lard as possible.

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Chris Hughton has been named as the permanent manager of Newcastle, while the Magpies have also been taken off the market.

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Just when we thought things couldn't get any worse, news tonight emanating from St. James Park is that Mike Ashley has removed Newcastle United from the market and the club is no longer for sale.

Here is the press release in full from the club's official website:

NEWCASTLE United are delighted to announce that Chris Hughton has been named the permanent manager of the Club, his contract will run until the end of the 2010/11 season.

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As we reported yesterday Barry Moat has offered the Mike Ashley £60M up-front and guarantees the balance of £20M would be paid next season. Ashley and Moat - Moat's bid slowly gets better However, the deal Ashley has wanted is the full £80M up front and it seems that Ashley has rejected the offer. Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

We still haven't heard if the new offer from Barry Moat has been accepted by Newcastle owner Mike Ashley. Mike Ashley his expression says it all We certainly hope it will be, if only to get rid of the owner who has decimated the Newcastle club in his tenure over the last 28 months. History will show [. Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

Chris Hughton is certain he will be appointed permanent manager at Newcastle in the next day or two, even though negotiations are said to be continuing with Barry Moat to buy the club. Chris Hughton Newcastle manager soon These slow moving negotiations with Moat seem to have been going on for years that's what it [. Click to continue reading...

Still no announcement that Chris Hughton has been given the permanent manager job. Mike Ashley second thoughts? And with the Barry Moat offer still up in the air, we'll have to wait a day or two to see what goes on. Maybe the altercation Ashley had with the fans on Tuesday night after the Scunthorpe defeat, [. Click to continue reading...

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. Click to continue reading...

Newcastle have broken off talks with an American-based consortium the Star Group, fronted by Lancashire businessman Geoff Sheard. Mike Ashley - will stay on Tyneside oh no! That news is being reported today by the local Sunday Sun, and that leaves just Barry Moat and another American group, as the remaining parties still wanting to [. Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

The Newcastle club is still up for sale and Barry Moat may still be able to get the money together to buy the club outright from the hapless Mike Ashley, although we doubt it. Clueless Mike Ashley - when will he go? But Chris Hughton is only too willing to take the manager job at Newcastle even [. Click to continue reading...

he long-running saga of Newcastle United's prospective takeover could be determined on Saturday with Mike Ashley, the club's owner, due to The Times is reporting that Mike Ashley will meet with Moat today at the game, but the discussions are not expected to last very long. Ashley and Moat all over for Barry? Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

You see that great big ditch down there? The one big enough to swallow St. James's Park? That's how far my heart sank when I heard the news that Chris Hughton was offered the manager's job on a permanent basis.

Firstly, this is a huge backwards step and reeks of the lack of ambition wafting out from the Gallowgate.

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Mike Ashley, yesterday, looking as Obese and Odious as ever.

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Newcastle owner Mike Ashley is understood to have reduced his asking price for the club by a further £20million to £80million.

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Mike Ashley has confirmed he will give Barry Moat just one week to come up with the £80M up front, if he is to buy the Newcastle club. Ashley and Moat - give me £80M up front And Mike has also said he will appoint Chris Hughton as Newcastle United's permanent manager if Barry Moat doesn't [...] Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

Mike Ashley, Newcastle United's much maligned owner has dropped the price of the club to £80 million. Ashley has given Barry Moat one more week to come up with the funds to buy the club (even though a few weeks ago we were told he had made a formal offer and that money was in the bank).

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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 [. Click to continue reading...

We were told that Barry Moat put in an official bid for Newcastle a week last Monday and he was waiting for a response from Mike Ashley. Ashley and Moat - Barry just doesn't have the money And earlier in the week we were told that Geoff Sheard, who is said to be fronting a bid from [...] Click to continue reading...

If Ashley does not get a £100M offer for the club, then he has very right to keep the club, but we would have hoped that somebody somewhere could get the £100M together, to take the club off Mike's hands. Mike Ashley probably will keep the club Barry Moat seems to have been trying to buy [...] Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...

The News Of The World is reporting today that Barry Moat is on the brink of buying the Newcastle club. Barry Moat buying Newcastle> we have no idea But don't forget we said there would be some new news on the sale today, because this is Sunday. How true this all is we have our [...] Click to continue reading...

US Soccer faces off against Honduras on Saturday to take a berth in the 2010 World Cup. The US squad only needs one more win and they're in and from the looks of it this won't be the easiest match they've ever played.

The constant threat of political unrest in Honduras has put a big green cloud over this match in a place where the Hondurans haven't lost during this qualifying tournament.

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Well, would you believe it, news today that five different consortia are competing to buy the Newcastle United Football Club. We know Barry Moat is one of the interested parties, and the preferred bidder of investment bankers Seymour Pierce. But news today that as many as four other groups, all understood to be based overseas, are in [. Click to continue reading...

Chris Hughton had one of those days at the office on Saturday, when nothing seemed do go right. Chris Hughton bad day at the office With new news of a potential takeover of Newcastle by Barry Moat this morning, Chris has his feet still firmly on the ground, and is concentrating, as always, on the job [. Click to continue reading...

With the news that Barry Moat has finally made his official bid for the Newcastle club, what will that mean if he is successful? Alan Shearer - does his appointment mean Hughton gets sacked? We are hearing that Alan Shearer will be appointed manager if Barry Moat is successful with his bid, and we are now being [. Click to continue reading...

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 [. Click to continue reading...