Given that DPP wouldn’t share his straw, what makes you think Ashley is selling? We’ve had lots of groups checking our books for months and months if you believe the Ashley PR but all the groups seem to do is kick tyres and then resurface every Spring/Summer to do it all over again.
I believe Ashley is genuinely buying another player but what makes him think he knows how to build a team better tha a manager of the calibre of Benitez? Joey, who I hope is/will be a good player for us, is just another Perez, Thauvin etc type namely a young player to keep a short while and then hopefully sell for profit. He’s not being bought with building a team to challenge for honours in mind, simply future profit.
My worry is that Bruce will simply toe the line and be another Pardew. I hope he proves me wrong but I’m not holding my breath. I worry that he will simply go along with Ashley’s methods meaning we will never build a team to challenge just one where players will be used to make profit for Ashley. The fact he was umpteenth choice doesn’t augur well that he will hold footballing virtues above doing whatever is necessary to keep his dream job.
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