Watch: TalkSPORT's Simon Jordan roasts Sir Jim Ratcliffe after latest Newcastle comments

Manchester United part-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe recently aimed another dig at Newcastle United calling them 'difficult' and 'awkward' for having the audacity to hold out for the compensation to which they are fully entitled for sporting director Dan Ashworth.

Dan Ashworth was just 18 months into his contract at Newcastle before he decided to jump ship and go work for his buddy at Manchester United. However, Newcastle weren't about to let him simply walk into a new role and placed the sporting director on gardening leave for the duration of his contract, which expires in 2026, or until Manchester United pay up the compensation that Newcastle have requested.

It's fairly standard practice in football and indeed all other business at the top level, yet Jim Ratcliffe is going on like it's an alien concept.

Speaking on TalkSPORT today, Simon Jordan is having none of it and thoroughly put the INEOS chief in his place.

It seems Simon Jordan is starting to get as fed up of Jim Ratcliffe as we are

Simon Jordan has often been the subject of a lot of ire from Newcastle fans, but at the end of the day, the man simply says what he thinks and he doesn't care who he rubs up the wrong way. Lately, Jordan has leapt to the defence of Newcastle on several occasions and has done so here once again telling Jim Ratcliffe to shut up and pay up.

"His point is steeped in the frustration that Man United can't do precisely what they want to do when they want to do at the pace that they determine. If Dan Ashworth didn't want to sign a contract that had a particular restriction upon his ability to move to a direct competitor in a direct space, then he shouldn't sign one with a big notice period. All that Newcastle are doing is enforcing the obligation that the employee has to them in the same way the employee has to them."

Simon Jordan's co-host Jim White poses the obvious question - why doesn't he just pay? And Jordan's answer is simply brilliant.

"Because he probably thinks that he doesn't have to. He probably thinks lure and the lustre and the power and the influece and the stature of manc united should mean that Newcastle should be quaking in their boots and deliver Dan AShworth lickety-split without any complicatoins and they don't want to. And fair play to them.

"If Man United want to come along as Jack Dash telling everyone what they're going to do then they should pay for it. They are quite happy to pay £80million for that bloody buffoon up front they've got, Anthony, pay £20million for the person who will change the direction of travel instantaneously or over two seasons, three summer windows as Jim has alluded to, get on with it."

Sir Jim Ratcliffe - is there anybody more insufferable in football right now?

Whatever you think of Simon Jordan, you must admit that that response was a work of art.

The sense of entitlement that Ratcliffe has demonstrated already since taking over the footballing matters at Man United is unbelievable. Suggesting that the taxpayer should pay for a new stadium for them is the biggest shocker of them all, coming from a man who has funnelled all of his wealth into offshore accounts so he doesn't have to pay tax himself. Get in the sea, mate, but before you do, get that chequebook out and write Newcastle the cheque they're entitled to and shut thy lips.

There are a lot of despicable characters in the Premier League and our 80% owners certainly aren't immune to that criticism, but Sir Jim is climbing that ladder rapidly. At least our lot do all of their stuff in their own country away from football and don't come on TV crying about how everything is so unfair. I mean, okay, comparing apples and oranges here, sure, but give me sportswashing over that insufferable git any day.

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P.S. We very much stand by out belief that Sir Jim Ratcliffe is as annoying as a set of soggy bagpipes in a doctor's waiting room.