Many people say Ashley was suckered in by Shepherd and Hall but maybe he was the wise one and saw the TV money would solve the losses NUFC were making. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure if Shepherd had remained at Newcastle that extra money would have probably been wasted but it would have at least been an opportunity to turn things around.
As JFK said, we can’t compete with the big teams when the likes of Spurs commercial turnover is £53m compared to our £13.8m…..the problem is in 2006/07 we were higher.