Mike Ashley, Newcastle United & The Future

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

Football Transfers, Premier League, Soccer,, Champions League, Sports

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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From Mike Ashley as the exciting young squash player, to the reviled businessman known for zero-hours contracts and controversy. What does Mike Ashley's potential departure mean for Newcastle United? What can we expect from the future? And how are supporters supposed to react to the new ownership? James Montague, Seb Stafford-Bloor and Alex Stewart join Joe Devine to discuss the above and more.

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0:29.6	Hello and welcome to the Tifo Football Podcast. I am Joe Devine and today I was joined by James Montague, Alex Stewart and Seb Stafford Bloor.
0:45.3	Now I spoke to James first, all about Mike Ashley, Mike Ashley's backstory, Mike Ashley now leaving Newcastle potentially if the Premier League okay this bid that's been made for the club by PIF, the Saudi Arabia Royal Fund, and some of the implications of that. I then spoke to Alex and Seb a little bit about moving forwards with Newcastle now. What's likely to happen over the next few months and years? Are we likely to
1:11.7	see the same sort of pattern that occurred with Manchester City and the Abu Dhabi royal family?
1:17.0	And if not, why not? And also from Alex specifically, if you were taking over Newcastle right now,
1:22.8	looking at the team, looking at the manager, what would you do, what would you change? Where are
1:26.2	the problems? Who can be kept? And who has to go? I would like to encourage everyone listening to go and get their
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