You really do have to wonder where Ashley is going with all of this.
The club is For Sale so he does not want to invest large sums of money that he feels will be 'wasted' because he wants to sell ................. so he scrimps and saves every transfer window and throughout the year, barely doing enough to scrape survival in the EPL and he also spends virtually zero on the infrastructure, academy etc......................... but on the other hand he wants top dollar for the club and seems intent on sitting tight for his inflated valuation to be met. All the while his actions are actually eroding away at the value of the club and another relegation would prove catastrophic for his valuation.
I just cannot fathom what his thought process is .................. taking off my black and white blinkers for a moment............... his actions just seem to put his asset in perpetual jeopardy. I do genuinely wonder what his long term goal is. I know he likes a gamble, but his 'strategy' seems like utter madness to me.