How is it stagnant when you had just come of the back of a few good seasons in mid 2000's so therefore had a good commercial presence so could command higher deals and obviously sold more clobber? NUFC finished 13th in last season before Ashley then 12th and then got relegated, finished 5th in 1 season and did nowt the rest of the time.I don't know why you're posting waffle about Google search histories either.
The gist of your argument relies on the big 6 being unreachable, when at the time the big 6 weren't even a thing, it was the big 4. As agreed Newcastle were above Spurs at the time, City pushing their nose into things was inevitable due to the takeover (same with Chelsea before them). That's the landscape. It wasn't the big 6 unreachable at the top and the rest left in their wake at that time, that's very much the point.
Ashley came in without doing due diligence, didn't understand a lot of standard operating practices of football clubs like player amortization etc and tried to run it like it was a Sports Direct outlet. Madcap decisions like appointing Dennis Wise to have the final say on transfers after watching a few YouTube clips, bringing in Joe Kinnear after Keegan was forced out (won a constructive dismissal case against Ashley), signing players as a favour to agents (Gonzalez or Xisco I can't remember now but you can look it up) etc contributed massively to the downturn in on the field results, which in turn had an effect on commercial revenue. Not to mention capers like renaming the stadium and plastering signage all over the place and paying sweet fuck all for the privilege.
So yeah, it's pretty safe to say that Ashley directly had a pretty negative impact on our commercial revenue situation. After seeing ours remain stagnant while others have grown massively, there's really no other way to see it is there?
Of course there wasn't a big 6 but Man City started spending big and grew in time with their investment and won things and became a global giant. Spurs started churning out top positions even pushing Chelsea for the title in 2016/17 as shown below. You'd expect Spurs to increase their commercial revenue massively on the back of years of being in the limelight, assisted by the global growth of the PL at the same time.
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How can it be such a negative when in 2018 NUFC were still within a few million of West Ham & Everton and still ahead of Leicester even after they'd won the league and had a season the Champions League? What amount were you expecting it to be given the previous seasons performances and placings?
Exactly how many people do you think outside of Newcastle over that decade would have taken an interest in the PL and started to follow NUFC instead of Spurs or possibly other teams up challenging for Europe? NUFC have reverted back to type after all the big spending caught up with them and it cost them as a global brand. That's why I hoyed the Google and other crap up to show NUFC as a global presence aren't as big as some mags may think. It's not in any way an exact indicator but gives an idea. Though to be fair, they were still up there financially in relation to other clubs who've been in the limelight a little more up to 2018.
That's it from me as I know that comparing NUFC to Spurs is like comparing apples to oranges, enjoy your weekend