Which in some ways makes it fake, but only in Ashley's rhetoric that he wants to sell. He puts silly demand after silly demand in rather than just reject an offer so he can always say potential buyers walked away from the negotiating table.
Then you can have idiots like Richard Keys saying one of the wealthiest people in the world just had to "put their money where their mouth is" or some ****e.
This narrative that Ashley is to blame when various, often potless, chancers, often with form, attempt to buy the club, really does not stand up to investigation. Manchester United was effectually brought with it's own money!
Loathe him or despise him, Ashley doesn't do instalments. There is no reason why he would change that.
Keys is correct, if these people (or the Russian group, or the American group etc), actually have the money and want the club, I believe they will get it. We're told this is pocket money for the Saudi guy.
Just as the Sun pretend journalists came up with the Benitez back to Newcastle story for a laugh, the media is responsible for all sorts of bollocks to sell papers (Longstaff to Manchester etc.). When not much is happening, they recycle stuff they've used before.
Story breaks in an American newspaper, suddenly other papers are claiming they have known about it but not published (yeah right!), suddenly up pops 2 other consortiums and you guys claim it's all Ashley.
Apart from hanging on until we win the cup this year, why would he not want to sell? He ain't making any real money out of it and the way he is treated is hardly good for his actual money making empire reputation.
if you like, this is like the Captain's scattering approach to facts. 95% of the time, it's all bollocks, sometimes, there is an element of truth, once every blue moon, he comes up with a gem.
Alternatively, if an infinite number of monkeys sat at typewriters, at least one of them would reproduce a work of Shakespeare.
