He seems like a farly decent bloke, Mike Ashley, so I'll assume he's just been very badly advised by the people in day-to-day charge of the club. Or else he's a complete fool. Either way, he understands very little about what the fans actually want. Nobody seriously expected any £30 million superstar signings this summer, but nor did the thousands of people who paid £1,500 for three-year season tickets expect the club to go backwards so quickly. With the sale of Milner, the squad needed five more signings to do any better than last year (a replacement winger, creative midfielder, left-back, centre-half and a target man to cover for Viduka). At best we got one out of five - and lost a manager for pointing out the obvious. That would never have happened at Arsenal.
Financially, we're in a much stronger position than under the crippling mismanagement of Shepherd and Douglas Hall. On the pitch, we're no further forward at all.
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The £30mill superstar tag was made up by the media.
That said, a creative midfielder was always a must, along with a replacement left winger and a decent striker.
good call fella
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