Who are the eight most stupid people on Earth?
by Aaron Stollar
The Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley is in talks with eight potential buyers for the northeast club, according to interim manager Joe Kinnear.
“I know he is in talks with at least eight consortiums because he has told me that himself,” said Kinnear. “Who they are, what they are, when it will happen; there is no timescale on it.”
Prospectuses of sale, detailing the club’s financial position, are believed to have been sent out to seven interested parties, with groups from Nigeria and South Africa the most prominent.
So they’re buying a team laden with debt, insane fan expectations, an aging and fairly useless group of players, and an interim coach whose appointment has been universally described as a joke.
Sounds like a perfectly good investment, doesn’t it?
