Manchester City and Newcastle United were taken over within 12 months of each other. Two very different outcomes. Within four years of taking control of Manchester City, Sheikh Mansour delivered…
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.
Deloitte Report 2006/07; “Newcastle have featured in all eleven Money Leagues, and the club is once again in the list despite not benefiting from UEFA Champions League football, a tribute to the strength of the club’s brand and its loyal following.”
Of course, Mike Ashley took the extraordinary step of now not even pretending he has anybody running the club on his behalf. When Ashley gave Kinnear the job and Llambias resigned on the back of that, the Newcastle owner bizarrely didn’t appoint another Chief Executive or Managing Director