I’m no fan of Ashley but he has invested enough to keep them in and around the premier league....I’d take that to be honest, I think that to make money out of a football club you need to start at a lower league club and make them successful then sell on, i see no issue with this plan, we all want success what Evans wanted was to find success with next to no investment in the club that will very very rarely work IMO, he is better of cutting his losses before the negativity affect his brand and other areas where he possibly has more idea.
Ashley has not invested in Newcastle, he’s been creaming all the Premier League money for years and years and had loads of high profile advertising for Sports Direct into the bargain.
Well they have stayed in around the prem thus enabling him to cream off the top, M.Evans has tried to take the cream before milking the cow.
Evans bought a few cows in 2010 and milked them for every last drop, he’s been bottling his own sour cream for the last five years to sell to these Americans.
I know we don’t own the ground but could the long term lease be sold back to the council to fund a new stadium¿
To me this feels very much like getting rid of Mick McCarthy I really wanted him to leave because watching Ipswich truly took all the joy out of football and was like death by 1000 cuts but it was a risk and that risk failed. I really want Marcus Evans gone but this one feels like proper selling our soul for the exact same reasons as Evans invested in the first place but is it worth the risk...without knowing the finer details, yes I believe it is because the club is stagnating.
The risk of getting rid of Mick McCarthy didn’t fail. He had already decimated the squad. He would have stayed on if we weren’t so terrible when he left. Evans made a total mess of sacking Hurst at a crucial time in the fixtures, which was the risk that failed.
The football was so much better than it has been under Lambert. We started terribly but had improved a lot. Maybe if we had stuck with McCarthy we would have been treading water in the Championship, but that would be worse than going backward to go forward.
All of this tells me why the 1st team have suddenly looked more spritely. They plumping up their collective feathers for new ownership and day job worth doing.