Snake 0 Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 We go down, lose the sky money, gain the parachute cash, ship out all of the big earners, bring in low wage players, still average 40000+, get promoted leaving the club in a far better state for a sale Financially viable or not? Is this now Ashley's 'plan'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sima 0 Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 (edited) No. There is no silver lining to us being relegated. At all. Edited March 28, 2009 by Sima Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake 0 Posted March 28, 2009 Author Share Posted March 28, 2009 No. There is no silver lining to us being relegated. At all. I'm not talking about a silver lining. I'm asking because I reckon Ashley just wants as much of his money back as possible and was wondering if the above was plausible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papa Lazaru 0 Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 In an ideal world if we were relegated, we'd ship out the big earners and hangers on we don't want, use the freed up money on some sensible buys and combined with the young players storm straight back up having watched a very enjoyable season of actually winning games! Sadly what will happen is we'll lose most of the good players we have and not be able to get rid of the crap players we want to shift because they're on big wages, we'll have a substandard management team from top to bottom and most of the young players probably won't be quite ready yet to be all chucked in at once. And every single team and player in that division will be fired up at the chance to have a crack at us be it playing at St. James or in front of sell out crowds at their own ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snakehips 0 Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 The obvious flaw in all this is who the manager is. If we continue with Joe 'all heart' Kinnear, we are fucked. Fucked, upward, downward, sideyways and Royally. Whichever way you look at it, we're fucked if Kinnear remains in charge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 6068 Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Sunderland did this and ended up with a team of Liam Lawrences and Dean Whiteheads. Any money you save is only spent a year later to try and keep the team up when they get promoted again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 3992 Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 Sunderland did this and ended up with a team of Liam Lawrences and Dean Whiteheads. Any money you save is only spent a year later to try and keep the team up when they get promoted again Read a comment on the SMB the other day that 6 of the team that played at Man City played in the 15 point season - sums it up perfectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 We go down, lose the sky money, gain the parachute cash, ship out all of the big earners, bring in low wage players, still average 40000+, and stagnate as Championship also rans for the next 15 years. Financially viable or not? Is this now Ashley's 'plan'? FYP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 The new commercial bloke at the toon doesnt think it would be a major problem either: Newcastle will still have a huge fan base and the black and white will still be very much a strong brand that people recognise, but maybe the types of brands we target will change. If you do remove the Premier League, then the global appeal we have is reduced, so maybe we bring the focus back to national brands and national, rather than global partnerships. Its something I think I argued / questioned early on in the season, lose the Premiership and we'll still get 35k going to games, merchandising locally anyway would not be massively affected as at the end of the day Geordies still buy toon tops etc. Get rid of your players that earn anything much and replace them with has-beens and young crap and you've saved millions a year. All it takes is a good push for the play offs and people will get the feelgood factor back, more in the gates, more tat sold and we're on the move again. All hes gotta do is make sure we lose the playoff final and repeat the same the year after. Chances are though that we get rid of the players replace with crap and drop further down the table, the brand dies a death outside of Walker, Wallsend and Byker and 20k if we're lucky turn up. NExt thing you know were in the shit again. Go down and he does the same again, cut the cloth to match. A few years time and its local derbies with Newcastle Blue Star, Bedlington Terriors and Blyth (if we're lucky) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted March 28, 2009 Share Posted March 28, 2009 We go down, lose the sky money, gain the parachute cash, ship out all of the big earners, bring in low wage players, still average 40000+, get promoted leaving the club in a far better state for a sale Financially viable or not? Is this now Ashley's 'plan'? No. And Ashley has no plan apart from the football club owner equivalent of his favourite bet on a roulette number idiocy - we're owned by a market stall trader that got very, very lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shear class! 0 Posted March 29, 2009 Share Posted March 29, 2009 We go down, lose the sky money, gain the parachute cash, ship out all of the big earners, bring in low wage players, still average 40000+, get promoted leaving the club in a far better state for a sale Financially viable or not? Is this now Ashley's 'plan'? No. And Ashley has no plan apart from the football club owner equivalent of his favourite bet on a roulette number idiocy - we're owned by a market stall trader that got very, very lucky. 100% agree a very lucky stall trader! ( who knows fuck all about football ) I mean the poor cunt supports Spurs FFS "Sorry Danny B " and thinks that JFK is our saviour! Tottally clueless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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