i made a comment on this a month or so ago, saying its the expected turn of events. All to give false hope, minimum spends in January and to ease the fans hatred.

Anyhoo, realistically any investor/buyer would have to view Newcastle as a long term investment before seeing a
significant return.
The ground needs an overdue lick of paint etc, the training ground is well below expected standards, the youth setup is utter bollox, we have only produced Dummet, Shola, Carroll and Saylor in my lifetime.

The first team needs a massive influx of quality just to be an established top 10 side. Even with investment, the clubs around us are investing too. A long term plan with an innitial cash injection and future transfer windows being used to add 1 or 2 quality signings each timebefore we can compete for anything realisticly.

IF fatty sold the club for 300m, with a further 200m on players and more on the upgrades, a new owner would need to shell out between 500-600m to get us ready. How long would it take for the club to recoup that in profits?

Investors are called investors because they invest to turn a profit not just to throw money into a bottomless pit, regardless if its the Rockerfella and Morgan Stanley groups.

I do believe that Ashley wants out, but is too arrogant to drop his demands, he needs to be seen as the winner in whatever deal he does, if he sells for less than has been quoted, he will look like the loser and he wont do that.

This Peter Kenyon thing will fizzle out in a month or so. Gone are the days of football loving chairmen who want to be entertained. Freddy and Sir John were the last of that generation