Posts tagged: Newcastle United
Saturday, 25 January 2020, 1:49 pm
Scribblers at the venerable Wall Street Journal just landed a corker of a scoop about Mike Ashley's football (soccer) club.
According to the excellent newspaper, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is backing another tilt at Newcastle United, the Premier League football club owned by the boss of Sports Direct...
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Tuesday, 23 April 2019, 6:47 pm
The collapse of Debenhams wasn't exactly Mike Ashley's finest hour.
The owner of Newcastle United Football Club lost £150 million on the 29.9pc equity stake he built over several years after being outmanouvered by the credit funds and the company ahead of a financial restructuring.
Now, though, it would appear Fosun - the Chinese conglomerate led by Guo Guangchang, dubbed China's Warren Buffett - is following a similar path to maverick Mike...
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Betaville IntelligenceMonday, 3 December 2018, 8:22 pm
Oh look - I see maverick Mike Ashley has just told Kingy over at Sky News that talks about a sale of Newcastle United are now "at a more progressed stage than they have ever been". Below is a link:
https://news.sky.com/story/mike-ashley-eyes-imminent-sale-of-newcastle-utd-11571007..
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Betaville IntelligenceTuesday, 13 November 2018, 9:26 pm
This is a story that's been going backwards and forwards for the last couple of years. And no, Betaville isn't referring to the dreaded Brexit. It's the potential sale of Newcastle United Football Club by its billionaire owner Mike Ashley...
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Tuesday, 17 October 2017, 11:42 pm
Hat tip to Russell Lynch. Betaville stumbled across the hack's cracking scoop in today's Evening Standard business section about a Turkish tycoon's £220 million potential bid for Newcastle United Football Club on the way to, ironically, a leaving party for a hackette that's about to join the great newspaper.
Here is a link to Lynch's piece in the Evening Standard:..
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