Author Profile - Alex H ( 5 Posts )

Alex H thinks that as a club, Newcastle United are ‘paying interest’ on a loan to Mike Ashley that never goes down.

Would you rather have Shepherd or Ashley running Newcastle United, more to the point – what exactly is the potential for NUFC ‘doing a Leeds’?

So where do you stand on the Mike Ashley argument? Might be the right time to remind yourself of the words of the late, great, Sir Bobby Robson.

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.

The club is going one way, backwards and fast.