To jack it all in....or not

[toptoon]

Two, opposing and well argued points of view.
Even having suffered the Ashley years, this takeover has left me even more disappointed with the situation the club finds itself in.
We now know that the PL is 100% a money making business and that sporting integrity is dead in this league. How can anyone support (even one of the chosen few big 6) in a set up like that? Football is all about hope and we now know that there is none for NUFC in the PL.
This league is fixed and teams like NUFC are there to make up the numbers and keep the money making machine running for those who own the clubs in charge. For me, any win for us from now will be hollow and we remain a sleeping giant until this corrupt structure in the ‘top’ league is broken.

[stillscalpels]

Two, opposing and well argued points of view.
Even having suffered the Ashley years, this takeover has left me even more disappointed with the situation the club finds itself in.
We now know that the PL is 100% a money making business and that sporting integrity is dead in this league. How can anyone support (even one of the chosen few big 6) in a set up like that? Football is all about hope and we now know that there is none for NUFC in the PL.
This league is fixed and teams like NUFC are there to make up the numbers and keep the money making machine running for those who own the clubs in charge. For me, any win for us from now will be hollow and we remain a sleeping giant until this corrupt structure in the ‘top’ league is broken.

The 'top' teams i.e. those who are bankrolled by billionaires would love a closed shop so they and they alone can have their pick of the top players while ensuring that those owned by lesser mortals are hamstrung as to spending power.

In fairness Ashley did save you from a bad situation under Dirty Doug and Filthy Fred but he should have gone some years ago and he might (?) have been remembered, if not fondly, then grudgingly as someone who did a job when needed. Sadly, Ashley has no morals and he's been content to watch 50-52K fans fill the stadium and pay out their hard earned cash knowing he didn't need to get into Europe cos you'd turn up anyway and he wouldn't have to shell out serious money on the very top players and their salaries.

Now the boat appears to have sailed due to the PL and no doubt the pressure put on them by the self styled 'elite' clubs. Ashley's ****ting himself since he needs money to bolster his flagging SD and to try and grab some of Debenhams stores... no doubt to fill with the type of ****e he's flogging in House of Fraser. If the Saudi deal falls through then you'll struggle to get someone who can afford to A) buy the club and finance it to attract the players you need to move into the top 6. By any standards you'd need to be a billionaire to bankroll a PL these days.

I can only guess how you all must feel after hopes were so high and so positive and hope that it does get resurrected, although it doesn't look good right now.