Ashley calls the shots in transfer market.

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A lot of hope is being pinned on this summer, particularly when it comes to player recruitments.

We have a good scouting department at the moment that, whilst being in it’s relative infancy, has already brought several youngsters to the club and has brought about the signings of Cheik Tiote and Hatem Ben Arfa. Graham Carr is the man tasked with scoring the continent and scouting players of a similar ilk to those two, but with the hours he has put in I’d like to think he can come up with another couple of crackers in the summer.

However, despite all the leg work that is being put in to make sure we can find the best players for the least amount of money, it is ultimately the word of one man that any transfer hinges on – Mike Ashley. Of course this is no different to any other club in all honesty as ultimately it is the man at the top that calls the shots.

“Myself and Derek are under the guidance of Mike. He is the owner of the club and he says yes or no. We’d like to think we can bring a few very good players here,” Pardew told The Chronicle. “Derek Llambias and our scouting team are concentrating on bringing players in.”

As I said, it’s no different to any other club with the exception of Manchester United and perhaps Arsenal who have managers who have earned a little bit of authority in the board room. I guess we just have to hope that Mike Ashley is in the mood to back the man that he put in charge halfway through the season.

Signing a striker is going to be the priority over the summer. I actually don’t think our team is bad at all until you look towards the attack, which is why I’d like us to beef up our attacking options. I don’t expect wholesale changes, but I would certainly like to see better than what we have currently. Alan Pardew feels the same way judging by this:

“Our pool of strikers needs boosting – there is no doubt about that. That will be high on the agenda.”

“You go about it like you do any other time, there’s always a situation where a club needs a new striker. You just find the best possible striker for your football club and that’s what we’ll do.”

Fair enough. Speculation and all the boring and repetitive groans from the same people will no doubt continue, but I guess we can only evaluate the squad once everyone is signed up and the transfer window closes at the start of September. Hopefully Mike Ashley will give us more thumbs up than thumbs down this summer.

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157 thoughts on “Ashley calls the shots in transfer market.”

  1. hahaha 😆

    It will probably be the last one I go to with him for a long time.

    And hes not working for once so he wants to get to it. 😆

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  5. **** off both of you 😆

    not like anyone eles from Sheffield wants to go 😆

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  8. Spencer take no notice of them mate, it’s up to you if you want to go to the match with your Daddy mate… 😆

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  11. Spencer make sure you dont buy any food from inside the ground, prices are a disgrace.

    What stand you in by the way?

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  14. Gallowgat andrew mate.
    and ive made that mistake before haha 😆

    And you lot **** off 😆

    least i dont slurp my old ale.

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  15. No. But you do slurp your rola cola, even if Daddy tells you off for it.

    GET TO YOUR ROOM! 😈 😈 😈

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  16. If Ashley did sell up I’d much rather get some Chinese investors like those interested in buying liverpool before the Red Sox guy got them. I know its stupid to judge on one example, but the Venky’s people who own Blackburn are nuts, wanting champions league next year and wanting to bring in all manner of Brazillians or whatever. Links with China would be brilliant marketing as well what with the rising middle class there and interest in football, far greater than in India. Plus if you’ve got links with the Chinese government you know you won’t be going bust any time soon… 😀

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  17. Im already in my room, also thats not a punishment, my PC, decks, xbox and Tv are all in my room 😆

    and we can afford pepsi 😉 😆

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  22. Newkie if we got Indian owners one would hope it would be Anil Ambani, who would without doubt run the club far FAR better than Venkys run Blackburn. Would love Ambani as our owner but surely to all those who hope the club gets sold in the summer, what about the Carroll money? Do you expect MA to leave it in the coffers as a goodbye pressie?

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  23. Devon-True mate, its pretty hard to base it on Venkys…its just they’re so terrible, must be maddening for Blackburn fans. Not that I care, was gutted they won today, would give anything for them to get relegated, can’t stand the b@stards! And don’t get me wrong, whilst I wouldn’t describe myself as “pro ashley” I’ve often voiced the opinion about the “devil you know” and all that-I’d actually rather he stayed. If he did sell then theres no doubt he’d take the money with him as is his right, I was just speculating if he was planning on doing a runner anyway, which wouldn’t surprise me.

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  24. totally agree about the ‘devil you know’, I’m used to Ashley and I’m looking forward to our transfer market come summer. If someone tried to buy us next year I’d be interested if they seemed decent, but for now Ashley, Pardew and Carr et al will do me fine. If I could fire ONE person at the club it’d be the deplorable and impish Dekka, he literally boils my ****. Smarmiest most un-likable kunt ever

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  26. Dont think toonsy, my brothers getting abit mad, whilst im just enjoying a game on fifa 😉

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  27. I can play FIFA ye gonk. Just not online. I think some scally is emptying my credit card as we speak aswell 😆

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  28. Devon-agreed, although I think I’d fire Lambias as well, he’s an absolute joke of a chairman.

    -Toonsy, nope, still down 😥

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  29. ye, getting all the credit card details 😆
    But sy, i can smash some kunts online, you cant 😉

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  30. How embarrasing..blatently read that wrong, you already said Llambias, not sure what I read Dekka as >.<

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  31. Spence and Toonsy,

    Wish I had a playstation and not an xbox so I could show how MEN play FIFA and not just boys 😉

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  34. And, youve got no money left on your credit card to buy an xbox 😆

    its allright sy, If they do take all your money ill keep clicking the ads 😆

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  35. Spence – Like I said, if they can get money off that card they are more than just hackers 😆

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  37. haha, wulf seems clever when it comes to that stuff 😯

    Its stupid if people are able to get all that way to get credit card details, my dad always hated sony, and I can see why 😆

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  38. Spence-

    Lemme get my xbox live account set up, and we’ll have at it mate! I’ll go easy on ya and play with Bury 😉

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  39. spence your dad hated sony because there alway bringing new things out that he has too buy you 🙂

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  40. If you change your password to your PSN account and if it is the same for other things change them aswell. Thats all you need to do and shouldn’t have a problem.

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  41. Toonsy-

    Good luck with the playstation, mate! That’s a *****. Too bad you ain’t local. Good buddy of mine is an engineer and could fix it for ya for the price of a six pack of shitty domestic beer lol!

    Also, sent you a message on facebook.

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  46. I might be on tomorrow, depends how tomorrows game ggoes, we could get promoted 😛

    Not Nufc btw 😆

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  47. The biggest threat from it is phishing and identity theft, not acually direct fraud coz they didn’t actually get any card numbers.

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  48. DJG – Not according to the e mail I got from Sony:

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    Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer:

    We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have:

    1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services;

    2) Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and

    3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information.

    We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable.

    Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state/province, zip or postal code), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, to be on the safe side we are advising you that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may have been obtained.

    For your security, we encourage you to be especially aware of email, telephone, and postal mail scams that ask for personal or sensitive information. Sony will not contact you in any way, including by email, asking for your credit card number, social security, tax identification or similar number or other personally identifiable information. If you are asked for this information, you can be confident Sony is not the entity asking. When the PlayStation Network and Qriocity services are fully restored, we strongly recommend that you log on and change your password. Additionally, if you use your PlayStation Network or Qriocity user name or password for other unrelated services or accounts, we strongly recommend that you change them, as well.

    To protect against possible identity theft or other financial loss, we encourage you to remain vigilant to review your account statements and to monitor your credit or similar types of reports.

    We thank you for your patience as we complete our investigation of this incident, and we regret any inconvenience. Our teams are working around the clock on this, and services will be restored as soon as possible. Sony takes information protection very seriously and will continue to work to ensure that additional measures are taken to protect personally identifiable information. Providing quality and secure entertainment services to our customers is our utmost priority. Please contact us at http://www.eu.playstation.com/psnoutage should you have any additional questions.

    Sincerely,
    Sony Network Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment Teams

    Sony Network Entertainment Europe Limited (formerly known as PlayStation Network Europe Limited) is a subsidiary of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited the data controller for PlayStation Network/Qriocity personal data

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  53. Batty I think you need to give young Spencer a clip round the ear does he not realise who you are 😉
    OH hows tricks whats the craic

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  54. ‘to be on the safe side’

    It’s also basically telling you to be ‘red alert’ about checking your bank account, letters ect. Im with barclays and their pretty good security wise like, I think they reinburse you if anybody manages to steal anything.

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  58. DJG – Aye, basically they have got the long numbers but they haven’t got the security numbers so it’s useless unless they can crack it. It’s only three digits and a random number generator will soon crack that. It’s a dead card anyway so they won’t get owt from me 😆

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  61. It will probably be some geek who’s got it and then trying to sell like 1000 accounts to various criminals. He will have to spread the info somehow. Hope they catch the c###.

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  62. batty, divint be silly, when it comes to cloths, im a right design freak, Ralph laruent, Lyle and Scott ect ect 😎 😆

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  63. DJG I dont think its some geek I think it will be a well organised group of geeks 😀
    Batts im sure you could make an exception in Spencers case.
    I bet Ice will be well gone by now after all the moonwalking etc 😆

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  68. sy- all kids are wearing it now adays. same with barbour.

    Big dave-they cos a fortune but arent shyte 😆

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  74. @stu
    Don’t rock the boat. Surely a toon player can’t be asking to be in the top 4 or 5 ! Outrageous!
    The bloggers will be calling him deluded!
    Does Tiote not realise we can’t aim that high? It’s too ambitious. That would mean buying decent players and offering decent wages!
    The bloggers will be furious with this one! 😥

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  75. Bobby 😉
    Won’t be too difficult…just a monumental collapse for Liverpool and Spurs for the beginning of next season…..I think what Tiote is mainly aiming at is Europe, and providing we win a cup or top 4 teams do and we grab 7th then its all the same.

    Now, if we can just spend around 50million in the summer…. 😎

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