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[Nephy]

why every one is blamingash is beyond me

Because he lies, reneges on his promises, complains about being poor whilst dropping thousands on boozy nights out, and is a poor gambler when it comes to NUFC. He makes lofty promises when it suits him, then shrugs his shoulders when he fails to deliver. He has proven time and again that he will cut his own nose off to spite his face when he feels under fire.

Remember this? 'Judge me in the summer'?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...-spend-9758725

Well, it's time to judge.

In failing to do what's necessary to equip us with a squad capable of pushing for mid table safely, he has basically openly insulted Benitez, who will go - if not now, then soon. We will not be able to replace him with a manager of any pedigree, because everyone knows how Ashley treats his managers by now.

We have become a yo yo club under his tenure, and are likely to be heading down again this year with this paper thin squad - and we will struggle to come straight back up this time. Nobody can be blindly optimistic enough to think we will be doing anything other than scrapping against relegation with this squad.

The money in football is ridiculous, but the other teams at the bottom of the PL have been spending because they know the importance of staying in this league and it's a simple case of speculating to accumulate. If you spend £30m on a striker who fires in the goals that keep you up, they pay for themselves several times over. I'm not asking Ashley to bankrupt us or himself, but we massively reduced the wage bill and could easily support a couple of good new players on £100k a week.

[Zippity]

With Krul and Lazaar going that makes 16 players. Now, there are some big hitters there and some fringe players so I'm going to average out their weekly wage as 30 grand per week. 16 x 30 000 is 480 thousand. Multiply that by 4 and we'll be saving roughly £2 million per month on wages alone. So £24 million a year (even if the figures for wages is slightly lower than my average it'll still be about £20 mil).

Now, does that count as 'every penny the club earns'?

I think it does.