AlCapone 7,678 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 He could be wanting to help oust Ashley, due to his unfinished business over his finished business (JJB), after he told him that "There's a club in the north and you're not part of it, son!" and it backfired spectacularly.Jesus wept, do people actually think we are that important? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murtaugh 47 Posted January 17, 2015 Author Share Posted January 17, 2015 Can't say i've seen anything online, ask your mate where exactly it's being reported so we can all have a look. I'll find out, though Olegs been on the ball recently with all this stuff Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoorie 1,088 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Hearing that a few of the Sunday papers down in Wigan are saying he is ready to sell up and invest in us....Thoughts??? Always felt he had an eye for a manager bringing in the likes of Martinez to Wigan. Also openly talks to the press everyday, might be what we needHearing from where?I'm hearing .....................Post it, or it's bullshit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smile 26,600 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Fuck sake. What next? Vincent Tan wanting a piece too?He loves the Langers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEPPS BOY 73,797 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Is he a Rangers man? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalton 1,192 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Just want to put a stop on any wasted posts- dave whelan his club is wiganHe has only wigan at heart -Sarver has real intention and a sporting team in place & the dollarssadly for us the real fans have no say in him - we are at the mercy of ******** Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdylaniscrap 121 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Dave Whelan is an elderly gentleman who's main concern will be his next painful piss, the OP is at it .. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laudrup1984 25,100 Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Fuck sake. What next? Vincent Tan wanting a piece too?Romanov with Rix as head coach..........Meant to be a pretty terrible joke but really nothing surprises me anymore Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRITNEY IS NOT FEELING IT 8,293 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 to far m8He could get a plane ,it's only Cardiff ffs Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
harlands plater 16,958 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 He loves the Langers.Bernhardt? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkylineBlue 23,166 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 He fucking hates semantics.He doesn't hate semantics, for fuck sake. He loathes semantics. Get it right. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cumnockbear 2,446 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 What school did he go to ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie86 3 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Why would he sell up Wigan - who he's owned for years - just to get into the Ibrox circus?Don't think it'll happen. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
onefootwillie 1,518 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Won't happen but he is not a fan of Ashley. He just might want to piss him off Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BF2 winston 123 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Would he bring back the orange top that's the main issue that needs addressed for anyone investing. And would he sing up to his knees in big trophies? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bears r us 30,771 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 file under Pish. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Williamson. 82,006 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Racist anti semantic. Err naw. Sold jjb to AshleyI wouldn't say he's racist at all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlegKuznetsov 10,816 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 From 5 1/2 years ago... Tables turned as Mike Ashley bankrolls JJB chairmanRow between sportswear tycoons reveals dog-eat-dog nature of a lucrative sectorZoe Wood Wednesday 8 July 2009 01.57 BST"There is a club in the north, son, and you're not part of it," was the immortal line uttered by Dave Whelan, the JJB Sports founder, to Sports Direct's Mike Ashley, who at the time was the young pretender to the UK's sportswear crown.The club in question was a tight-knit group of Manchester businessmen who had dominated what was a thriving sector during the 1990s and early part of this century, as sportswear became big business thanks to its adoption by the masses as casualwear.By 2000, Ashley was the upstart southerner snapping at their heels. His revenge was to report their plan to fix the price of England and Manchester United shirts to the Office of Fair Trading, prompting an investigation that landed the protagonists with multimillion-pound fines.Mike AshleySport Direct's Mike Ashley. Photograph: Michael Mayhew/Sportsphoto/AllstarFast forward a decade, and Ashley is now the kingpin, calling shots that reverberate through the sector. This week it emerged that Ashley had bankrolled the JJB executive chairman, Sir David Jones, dishing out a £1.5m loan which the former Next supremo had used to finance Advanced Network Technologies (ANT), a private technology firm that his family controls.The controversial arrangement raises fresh questions about the incestuous relationships and old enmities that have made the sector as gripping as a local derby, amid claims Ashley is trying to embarrass the retail grandee after he decided to stock less of Ashley's brands.The "club in the north" referred to the so-called sportswear mafia that dominated the UK sportswear market. JJB was founded in Wigan, while David Makin and John Wardle founded JD Sports in Heywood, near Manchester. The now defunct Allsports was based in Stockport, while brands such as Umbro, Nike and Reebok also had bases there."These guys created a whole new type of fashion retailing," says one industry insider. "They used football terrace fashions, but also created new looks by mixing sports tops and jeans and creating demand for the latest trainers from Adidas and Nike. It was a real street culture thing."Minor player"Mike Ashley came from the south and didn't grow his business organically; he just bought out all the smaller independent chains and, at the time, Whelan regarded him as a minor player," he added.The geographical reach of the club also extended north of the border, to Sir Tom Hunter, who has used the £300m he made selling Sports Division to JJB in 1998 to embark on his philanthropic career. At Sports Division, Hunter gave the disgraced former JJB chief executive Chris Ronnie his big break, inviting him to join the board a year before the sale.Like characters in a novel by David Peace, author of The Damned Utd, the men behind Britain's biggest sportswear companies are hard-edged with rivalries and friendships that divide along team lines. Like a Boy's Own story, Whelan, Ashley, and Wardle and Makin have all used the fortunes made from selling replica football shirts to buy the real thing, investing in Wigan Athletic, Newcastle and Manchester City respectively.In 2007 eyebrows were raised when Ronnie – a former new business director for Ashley – emerged from the shadows with £190m to buy out Whelan's remaining shares in JJB. The deal, bankrolled by the Icelandic investors Exista, was seen as a fresh start for the chain, which had seen profits wiped out with England's Euro 2008 hopes.But there were suspicions that Ronnie, a failed professional squash player, was on a secret mission for his former paymaster. At the time of his appointment, Ronnie batted away analysts' concerns, saying: "Sportswear is a very friendly industry."But if Ronnie was on a mission at JJB, it was a kamikaze one. His 18-month tenure brought the business to near collapse and culminated in suspension at Jones' hands in January, after it emerged that Exista's shares had been seized by Kaupthing's administrators.There were more suggestions of foul play in March, when Ronnie popped up at a meeting between Ashley and Whelan, who by then was in the final stages of buying JJB's fitness chain. The sports tycoons met in Wrightington Hotel & Country Club in Wigan, where Whelan alleges Ashley encouraged him to let JJB go bust. "He said if I backed off from the deal, he'd guarantee I'd get the health clubs at half the price I'd agreed to pay," said Whelan.If JJB failed, not only would thousands of jobs go, but suppliers would face substantial losses.Top dog"In my view Whelan and Ashley are two peas in a pod," continues the insider. "They are both overbearing and bullying and used to being top dog. They also hold grudges for years."Jones was brought in as the man to clean up JJB and return it to financial health. But the revelations about his loan from Ashley have cast doubt on his integrity.In an attempt to draw a line under the loan scandal, JJB issued a statement yesterday stating that the board and its advisers had known about the loan for several months but had decided it was a "private" matter. It said the loan was made before Jones joined as a non-executive director in October 2007 and insisted it did not "give rise to any conflict of interest".Jones has now told the board he intends to repay the loan "as soon as possible". "The board considers the matter closed," the company added. But Jones's reputation as one of the UK's most respected corporate grandees has been dented.There is still a club in the north and Jones is definitely not in it.The rival and the loanJJB Sports chairman Sir David Jones yesterday vowed to pay back a controversial £1.5m business loan "as soon as possible". The money, borrowed from business rival Mike Ashley, was used to prop up software firm Advance Network Technologies (ANT), a company 70% owned by the Jones family, in which his son Stuart is also involved.The company, which offers services such as IT support, owed creditors about £4.4m at the end of 2007, according to Companies House.JJB said yesterday the loan was agreed prior to Jones joining its board in October 2007 and that executive directors were informed of its existence and terms, including the option of Ashley converting his loan into shares, earlier this year. The board maintains the transaction was a "private" matter and as a result it did not need to tell the stockmarket. "The board considers the matter closed," it said in a statement. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnysidparto10 37 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 No way!!! There are enough no mark Sharks around the club already. He'd probably dissolve the football team and start a rugby league franchise!!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Jela 20,360 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Nothing wrong with Dave Whelan, Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hilts 12,819 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 we seem to attract nutters Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
newbs 4 Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Racist anti semantic. Err naw. Sold jjb to AshleyRacist anti semantic. Err naw. Sold jjb to Ashley And a Pape into the bargain. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dietspam 733 Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Eye for a manager? Have you seen the shite he's brought in since Martinez? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Persson 547 Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Sectarianism here and Anti Semitism elsewhere......now let me think about that,for a nanosecond. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rfc#1. 1,877 Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 I smell shiteCheck the sole of yer shoe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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