Were they spending £100m and we £50m I'd take your point. West Ham have spent £114m and we've spent... £4m, for a 'keeper. West Ham have sold one player for £1.7m, we've sold 2 first team squad players for £20m. I won't go into Net spend for fear of the fury that some will lurch into.
Which window were Newcastle one of the top spenders in all of Europe? Summer 15/16 was our biggest transfer expenditure recently and we weren't even in the top 5 of the Premier League.
Every fanbase will fight their own battles. We've all seen the shit Arsenal fans got for wanting shot of Wenger. There'll be fanbases who'd have swapped places with you under Short in a heartbeat, but you wanted him gone. There's fans of clubs who'd casually look at our situation and declare they'd love to be a Premier League club with a good manager and what not. Were they to look a little harder they'd see that Benitez will justifiably walk if he's not appropriately backed (as he was assured he would be), that the club is a relegation candidate already, that once Benitez goes it's likely Ashley will appoint a clown like Kinnear.
Would a Blackburn fan want to swap one shithead owner for another? Probably not.
Whose niggardly approach cost us our Premier League position in the first place? Even if you credit Ashley for loaning the club some money, he didn't fund the purchases of players, that came from player sales.
I know it's the done thing on here to paint Ashley as the victim, but you're the only fanbase that does it.