This is exactly what we don’t want at Newcastle - we need stability and sense, rather than yet another tabloid circus story. The new owners seem rational and sensible, and I like the way they’re managing the club so far - reducing the debt, spending a bit on players, getting the money we deserve for the players we sell, and just being careful and sensible rather than trying to make ridiculous headlines all the time, or splashing out big money on average players (a la West Ham). In short, the team of Allardyce and Mort seems to be working - we’ve got a few good signings in (and there may be one or two more to come), now we need time for them to settle without ridiculous amounts of pressure and uncertainty.

A lot of posters seem to think it’s all about the money they spend on players - this is just rubbish. In the Shepherd era we spent a lot of money on players, and look where it got us. It’s not about Hollywood signings and staggering wads of cash, it’s about building slowly and carefully and sensibly, with a long-term plan in mind, rather than constant short-term changes of faces that get us nowhere. Stick with what we’ve got, in short, and stop getting so impatient that you’d welcome some more strangers through the door just because they’d be willing to spend money on players (which is an unknown regardless - no one knows how much they’d be willing to part with).

To Pete, he (Jón Ásgeir) was found not guilty of these corruption charges.

I’m not sure if it really makes all that much difference if the board changes but it would be if wholesale changes were made to the team management. Now that we’ve got probably the best English manager going who is building up his technical support staff and systems I’d be incredibly worried if he went because of a boardroom coup. So my take - not too bothered just so long as Sam and his team are retained. If the Icelanders are fans of the Toon then that’s an advantage. I wouldn’t class Mort or Ashley in that category - possibly a good business team but not fans. If the Icelanders fall into both categories then I’d be happy with that.

Buy and then sell it again? These rumours are disgusting. After the Chinese consortium now Ice Man, what is next….Fantastic Four?

I would be disturbed if we lost Chris Mort.

No they don´t make it into the 500 list as far as I know. The only Icelanders making it into that list are the guy who owns West Ham and his son.
But Jon Asgeir is bloody rich still and pretty powerful in British retail.
He owns Hamleys, Karen Millen, Goldsmiths, Mosiac fashion, House of Frasier, Julian Graves, Iceland, Woodward, Booker, MK one, Jane Norman, All Saints etc and that is only in retail in UK alone. Than he owns huge properties in Scandinavia and UK, flagship of Denmarks retail Magasin du Nord and ILLUM. He owns the second biggest newspaper in Denmark and owns endless properties and retail stores in Iceland.
Pálmi Haraldsson is pretty rich also.

the are in the top 500 richest in the world and the newest spin on this in the icelandic media is that Alan Shearer is in on this

first iv heard of this but unless the icland guy is going to spend billions then i would prefer mort / ashley to stay

How rich are these blokes then?