Just agreed to sign Atsu from Chelsea. Which means their strikers are; Atsu Gayle Mitrovic Perez Murphy Goufran Rivière Armstrong That is absolutely bonkers. Bulk of them will be sitting on atleast £40k/week. So about £16m a year on wages for their forwards. And imagine some will be on plenty more. Tell me again what parachute payments are for? Hope they go bust. On a seperate note we should be looking at getting Armstrong in. Different to what we've got. Young, talented, bags of potential. And he isn't foreign so imagine Newcastle don't want him.
He treats his workers as near on slaves, he's a pretty dreadful person, he's refused to invest in proper players, he fills Newcastle's team with useless French Players and abandons young english players and I think they just don't like him. Infact alot of people don't like him
Put the porno down and keep up... https://www.theguardian.com/busines...unning-sports-direct-like-victorian-workhouse
Seriously? Perhaps if you had been on the Commons Select Commitee looking into working practices at Sports Direct Warehouse in Derbyshire you may feel differently. Not much different from Philip Green IMHO.
They're trying to offload Rivière & Gouffran permanently as well as getting Armstrong out on loan. Atsu's a winger & Perez doesn't play as an out & out striker, more a no. 10 or out wide. So really it's Gayle, Mitrovic & Murphy, but it's definitely a lot of money & more than we could ever imagine spending. To be fair they've cut costs. Collocini, Janmaat, Wijnaldium & Taylor gone. There must be about £250k a week gone on them 4 as well as over £30m in transfer fees, Krul's gone to Ajax on loan for the season & Sissoko's also likely to leave so they've definitely spent a lot less than they've recouped this window.
All this plus he is toss at running a club. He has had premier league riches, a one city club with a massive fanatical following and they are nothing but a struggling premier league club / yo-yo club at best. They should be challenging for top honours not infecting the Championship. If they had a half decent owner who ran them well they'd be a force to be reckoned with. Imagine PC having the same resources at his disposal.
Far from me to be a fan of Mike Ashley he tries to run Newcastle in a proper manner ie not running up mountains of debt chasing the dream and buying relatively unknown players (in England) and selling them on for a profit. Cab aye, wine add long being two. As for his business model for staffing... It's the same used at a number of 'logistic centres' in the uk. Just his at shirebrook is the most infamous.
