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I'm not asking for Ashley to bankroll the club in an effort to get into the top 6 by throwing hundreds of millions at the problem. I'm honestly not. I just want him to stop making the same mistakes, or at least find a good DoF and let them run the football side of things instead of using a jumped up teaboy who's idea of a good manager is pulling from a list of football's has-beens and never-wases.
His way of running a club has cost him more money than the common sense approach, a common sense approach taken by several non-elite clubs up and down the league.
There's no reason why we can't be financially sound and have ambitions beyond simply surviving.
Has it cost him money? He paid c135m and has had many years of naming rights worth around 2m a year plus touchline advertising. I also imagine it has been very helpful in his tax efficiency, especially when losses were made. If you stay up he will sell for c350m. Had he of given Rafa free reign on signings it could also have gone terribly wrong (he signed some awful players at Liverpool)P and he might be doing an Ellis Short and walking away with nothing or you could be awaiting the CL quarter final draw. Bar Utd, City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal and Everton, Newcastle must have the most seasons in the top flight since 2007? True, he has trusted managers on the Manager merry-go-round but other clubs have tried being more exotic (Watford, Swansea off the top of my head) and look where they are now. Due to the brief flirtation with success in the late 90's and the many European mini-breaks you all enjoyed it was a thankless task buying Newcastle as any owner was on a hiding to nothing. Relegation and a dose of reality will realign fans expectations as it has with ourselves.