Mike’ Ashley’s multi-million pound offer was ‘a joke’

  An alleged deal made by billionaire Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley to pay a banker £15 million was just a boozy joke, a colleague claimed today. The 52-year-old billionaire is being sued by an investment banker over a promise he is said to have made to pay him £15m. Jeffrey Blue claims Ashley regularly presided over drink fuelled meetings and encouraged the laddish environment to get his managers to express themselves freely. Mr Blue helped float Sports Direct on…