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Correct, he's clueless given some of the comments below he made.
Mike Ashley is an absolute disgrace
Mike Ashley knows the score by now and knew it before the deferred Newcastle arbitration. He is hiding behind the pretence of a takeover.www.themag.co.uk
Clueless Morons
"The main focus for me though was explaining why life under Mike Ashley is so sadly infuriating when most of the country simply think that we are in our natural place. Pundits, conditioning, the lowering of expectations and inclusiveness of the ‘big six’, is my view."
They are in their natural place if you look at history as they weren't a consistently top half team at all for decades before they spent big. Nearly doing a Leeds if not for Ashley coming in and covering debt.
Why are Arsenal in the big league when they finished eighth, because they get 60,000? No, Leicester City may not get those crowds but West Ham United do, also, they both finished above Arsenal and Spurs as well. The self-proclaimed big six are just that but the Premier League support them all.
Since 2004/05, 4 of the big 6 have finished in the top 4 places with only 1 team Leicester breaking into the top 4 once when they won it. Until recently, the big 6 finished top 6 for a few seasons in a row at least 9 points ahead of 7th. West Ham got top 6 last season (well 6th) along with Leicester for the 2nd season in 5th. This is also down to Arsenal failings but Arsenal may well bounce back in time as they have very recent and long history of doing well. Whereas the Mags have done nowt much for over half a century.
So on to my latest Mike Ashley criticisms. If ever there was a time to step up to the mark as owner, it is now. Someone wants to remind Ashley that money invested needn’t just come from the money generated by the club, you can spend your own! Either way, Mike Ashley should be pumping money into his investment, not just to compete but to flourish and develop (there goes another flying pig). Instead he hides behind a failed takeover when he should be safeguarding his asset. He gambles as usual.
So he wants Ashley to spend 10's of millions on players (and wages) to possibly finish a few places higher than the 13th from last season and 12th the season before. It's something like £4 million per place prize money so even getting 7th would be about £20 million more. That would barely buy a decent player if you factor in the millions in wages over the contract length also (£100K a week for a decent player over 3 seasons is over £15 million)
The big money spends and wages are long gone for the Mags unless an owner wants to risk investing big money but possibly get little in return if they fail. I bet some of the Mags think the Saudis will pump huge money into them risking success but the clue is in the name PIF (Public Investment Fund). So that means they'll want to turn a profit in the hope pushing the Mags up to the level of Leicester/West Ham but won't spend willy nilly like clubs in the 90's. This may well increase the value of the Mags to £500+ but I can't see the Saudis taking them any higher as they won't spend £100's of million so they'll probably flip them for a profit.
The risk being the even harder task of getting top 6 these days due to the many years of big money shared between the big 6 and the millions of global TV fans they have now. Only once in over 15 seasons has a team broken into the big money of Champions League. Even getting into Europa League won't mean £10's millions in revenue unless you get anywhere near the later rounds.
In the 90's/early 2000's when football wasn't as huge a global money monster worth multi billions as it is now, clubs had big money they'd never had before so would spend big chasing the top. Blackburn did it and won, Leeds did it and went boom financially and the Mags did it and didn't win owt and nearly went boom financially. Do some of them really think they can do what they did in the 90's again?
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It’s so true like