Newcastle owner Mike Ashley has dismissed speculation he is ready to sell the club.
Ashley, however, confirmed he is seeking investors amid reports that a series of potential purchasers, including a company owned by relatives of Osama bin Laden, have been sounded out.
Asked about any plans to sell the club, the billionaire told the Evening Standard: "That is not true.
"I would say that I am keen to have partners in Newcastle. That's a very expensive seat I sit in."
Questioned further about the link with the bin Laden family, Ashley replied: "I think I'll start with people from Newcastle, not in some cave in Afghanistan."
The Saudi Binladin Group is run by Osama bin Laden's half-brother Bakr bin Laden, although the family distanced themselves from the Al-Qaeda founder some years ago.
Ashley's comments came as his Sports Direct empire reported that profits for the year to April had halved after a drop in sales attributed in part to poor weather last summer and England's failure to qualify for the finals of Euro 2008.
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to that chelsea bummer,get back to the kebab shops on the kings road or go and fly a helicopter like matthew harding did..and as for them headhunters they got done by the cleadon casuals
Ha NUFC, the laughingstock of the UK, seriously what a pathetic team, just wait till Chelsea plays them next year I smell a drubbing
charles you are spot on.when did you ever see a female on the old leazes end..unless it was wor lass caroline and she was'nt really a women.but now you get these horrors like brenda mcdermott and mrs stevens and they moan and moan..GET BACK TO THE KITCHEN AND MAKE DOUGIE AND FREDDIE A CUP OF TEA before they draw up their plan to deliver the final solution on dennis wise..and as for kevin miles if i ever see you walking down regent street "you will regret who you do meet"
How about "Dougie Hall and Freddie Shepherd" Ashley?
Before you PC lot start to scream this and that via "New Danger" these two Geordie icons placed millions at the club the last time that they were in, and never took the aclaim that they so rightly desevered, all they got was abuse from women with chips on their shoulders about a few drunken comments that they may have made somewhere on Mars,besides if you ladies had bothered with yourselves and looked like "Temptresses" they would have had no call for that "Over blowen epoch", come on lads, lets get down to "dialogue" with "Fat Mike and Bin Laden" we all have skeletons in our cupboards!!
Charles.
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