As I have said that I find it unlike Ashley to have any of the financial details released to the press at all. Normally managers come and go out of the blue and there's no warning.
To have reported, before anythign is signed, the compensation package details is simply astonishing when it comes to Ashley as I have never known anyone play their cards as close as he does. On the other hand; if he gets paid £2m to sack Pardew then he'll be too busy pissing himself laughing.
Oh, rumour control has Pulis on the horizon...