Gonna rake in about £65m in player sales apparently - for a selection of relegated underachievers and lazy ****s. their club's barely worth that now in it's entirety.
It depends who they sell and to which clubs. They're taking probably £80m down with them, they probably don't have to sell any of their players, those who go will want to go so you wouldn't wanna keep them but I'd doubt Mike Ashley will all of a sudden just start flogging players like cheap Lonsdale's at one of his shops. The owner just needs to decide how much risk he wants to take.
Jack the Rat, left us with a bitter taste, and its nice to see him suffer, but to be fair he was never a fans favourite, however well he played, and he gave some oustanding displays, the game against Spurs at White Hot Lane when he and JoS played blinders is just one that springs to mind, but was he ever "one of our own" sadly not.
Hard to tell how Mike will play this one. I genuinely think he'll try to hold on to Rafa and gamble on getting straight back up as the amount of money we lose on not being in the Premiership after a year or two dwarfs the amount of money he'd be gambling. One season isn't an unmanageable hit but if by January we're flailing then we'd start clearing the decks wholesale style. I can't see Sissoko, Wijnaldum, Townsend, Janmaat, Tiote, Thauvin, Cabella or Cisse taking the step down and amongst them there are a couple of good players who just I can see clubs taking a punt on. Figures? Who knows. If we keep hold of some of Mbemba, Perez, Mitrovic, Dummett, Anita, Shelvey, Lascelles, Krul/Elliot, Colback, etc then we could have a young team to try and improve (big bloody ask). The shame is I actually think Mitrovic and Perez could really work up front and a season where they perhaps get more opportunities could be just what they need but chances are against us having either of them. I wouldn't be surprised whatever happens next. Logic doesn't seem to figure highly on our radar.
Logic and football have never run together. In the olden days before committed season ticket holders a badly performing team would lose support, get relegated, but once they started winning in a lower league and looked good for promotion would get the support back. Having to provide a winning team to survive nowadays is not necessary as the finances now are so structured that no-one but the supporter who commits himself wholeheartedly is the only loser. The burden of debt carried by today's clubs just does not make sense, but owners now have the Leeds model to refer to and structure the finances to avoid falling into that trap. All NUFC have lost is the big payout, but they will still have a huge parachute payment to soften the blow. Their problem could well be finding a manager, but if the remuneration is big enough!!!!!!!!!
