Fair point. Some fans seem to think that getting owners with PSG, Man City or Chelsea levels of wealth will mean eternal success, without consideration of long term sustainability, let alone morality.
My objection to him being involved in any club I supported wouldn't be about levels of investment, but more to do with worry about his intentions and his previous business practices...
Although there is a bit of truth about that with every big club, I don't think that's a fair representation of their disgruntlement in this case. Put yourself in their situation. If Mike Ashley was our chairman, Steve Bruce was our manager, and our transfer policy was generally to sign older...
Steve Bruce's problem at Newcastle is still Rafa Benitez. If you look at the list of the ten managers before those two:
Steve Mclaren, John Carver, Alan Pardew, Chris Hughton, Alan Shearer, Joe Kinnear, Kevin Keegan (pt2), Nigel Pearson, Sam Allardyce and Glenn Roeder;
it is the Champions...