Comparative wealth of club owners, read and weep. https://miro.medium.com/max/2700/1*QyKMnpgb-D6iM6rMPpizGg.jpeg
I think every Newcastle fan would take League One and a decent takeover above the current mess we're in.
I'm still not concerned. If Michael Dell was actually involved he would have just bought the club himself, he buys none profiting small tech companies for billions regularly, if he genuinely felt there was a fortune in a football club he would just buy the thing. Instead we have three investors will a reported wealth about as great as Crystal Palace. You'll be a selling club, just like us, Palace, Southampton and the rest. In the modern game, if you don't have serious committed owners who can plunge in emergency money on a regular basis you are simply a mediocre bottom half side. No "investor" is walking around with hundreds of millions to spare in his pocket, it just isn't how the world works.
But didn’t you have billionair Don’t forget FFP. Even Citeh and Chelsea are getting into Botha now. Mackems should build slowly and concentrate on getting all those fans back and revenue streams up ASAP to stay within the rules. What the money will do for them is buy them time to rebuild on and off the field.
I've checked and you are definitely still in League 1. I've also checked and you've definitely had a billionaire owner before. I also checked and you definitely drew with Rotherham last night (an area most famous for steel, mining, and a child exploitation scandal). Forgive us if we find your threats of superiority somewhat hollow at this stage.
To be fair, at least they have hope. Threats of N.E. dominance are of course hollow, but if they levelled the idea of hope at us they'd win. Forget leagues, forget history, in terms of futures right now I'd be happier being a Sunderland fan than the Ashley-purgatory we're subjected to.
See this is the thing, you can bet your life that game 1 following the takeover their cesspit of a ground will be crammed to the rafters...that's how fickle us football fans are. Our ground would be too mind the day Ashley goes...it'll be like that scene out of the Wizard of Oz only we'll be dancing around singing Ding Dong the Fat ****'s gone! Oh and this as well.
You can have all the money in the world, but you'll have to spend all of it to convince decent players to go to sunderland.
Keane said he struggled to convince players from very small sides to move to the North East. Even players who would be making the step up from the championship was a struggle, as soon as an even similar offer was presented they sped down the motorway back South. So, for us lot up here it's hard to convince the players to come.
