Newcastle remind me so much of Richmond, a club that needs to be taken by the scruff of the neck and shown the way to success, only think is Richmond are 100 times closer than Newcastle. Listen it's hard to understand a Geordie, when I was there you know it's almost impossible not to support Newcastle hence why the walkouts are going to be hard. The football club is the lifeblood of Tyneside and most of the supporters are simply lower to middle class hard working people, they work in factories, grocery stores, labouring and trades, sometimes there only release is to have a pint and watch the lads kick around on a Saturday afternoon.
As it stands there is absolutely no end in sight, MA will not sell the club as commercially it is to valuable to him and he certainly won't change a business model that has turned him into one of the very richest people in the world, the guy is stead fastly strict in his approach to running a business.
Our only ray of hope is with the new TV rights MA actually invests in the club ON FIELD, his pockets are deep enough to fork out cash to challenge the top 6 EVERY SEASON and perhaps he will see the value in the club progressing to Europe although as most already know that vision will be saved for Rangers as it will cost next to nothing to put together a squad capable to reach Europe from the SPL.
This offseason will speak volumes of the long term plan MA has for the club, with the new TV rights implemented and the growth commercially the club has seen it's as good time as ever to see if he legitimately wants to progress us from top 10 to top 6 and Europe. As I said earlier in posts MA is hated today but he could, at the click of his fingers win every Geordie over by recruiting a top line manager ( Galtier, Garde) and investing in REAL talent for the squad. A little presser come the seasons end from Lee Charnley.... I meant Graham Carr, I'm getting my people wrong (who's a Geordie favourite) outlining our recruitment vision would be ideal, a little bit of good PR and some real investment in players and a charismatic manager and we are on track, otherwise it's trips to Bournemouth and Millwall on the horizon.