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News, Views and Comment On Newcastle United Football Club By Ed Harrison, A Proud Geordie And Lifelong Fan

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Will Shepherd Sell His Shares?

May 23rd, 2007 · 7 Comments

The Newcastle Board of Directors issued a statement this afternoon - which indicated (not very surprisingly) they will be considering the takeover offer from Mike Ashley shortly.  In these situations the Board has to be fairly prompt in either accepting the offer - of rejecting the offer - so we would expect an answer fairly [...]

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Give Sibierski a Two Year Deal

May 23rd, 2007 · 16 Comments

Newcastle utility player Antoine Sibierski has admitted he is disappointed at the prospect of leaving the club.
Antoine has rejected the offer of a one-year contract at St James’ Park - as he wanted a two-year deal.
Sibierski did a very good job for us last year when he was called upon - and he [...]

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Short Business CV on Billionaire Mike Ashley

May 23rd, 2007 · 6 Comments

Here is some information on Mike Ashley - courtesy of Wikipedia.
A couple of things to mentions are that there are no recent photographs of Mike - the last are apparently from the 1970’s which we find rather strange.
The second item of interest is that he is associated with Umbro - and that may mean Newcastle [...]

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Who Is Billionaire Mike Ashley?

May 23rd, 2007 · 11 Comments

Mike Ashley is a billionaire businessman behind the Sports World and Lillywhites retail stores. He was born in Buckinghamshire in 1964 so is a young 42.
As we reported earlier in the day Mike has bought Sir John Hall’s holding of 41.6% of the company for 100p per share.
As we also stated earlier Stock [...]

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Billionaire Mike Ashley In For Newcastle

May 23rd, 2007 · 21 Comments

The breaking news is that a billionaire has bought the shares of Sir John Hall - a 41.6% holding in Newcastle to launch a takeover bid.
Billionaire businessman Mike Ashley has bought into Newcastle United via St James’ Holdings Limited, a company set up to buy shares in the club.
The company has acquired 55,342,223 shares at [...]

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