West Ham and Everton will have issue in spending that money, look at the £400m already spent by Everton and the previously tight-fisted Dildo twins have for some reason unshackled the purse strings.
Winstanley's chartered LearJet has just landed at Newcastle, to tie up the deal.
The Albion's special fax machine at Lancing HQ is primed and ready for sending details to the FA at 20 seconds past 11pm.
In Ashley's financial shoes, do you:
a) Sell a striker, rated by an opposing relegation club, to them, which might enhance their chances of staying up and necessarily reduce Newcastle's chances = £100m drop income if they drop? or
b) Take a few £m right now by selling to that relegation rival...
Pip Brighton to the Championship. Newcastle/Rafa made several enemies for life in Sussex out of that.
Some intense derbies over the next few years between clubs 300 miles apart. (But only in Albion heads).
But NOT to a fellow relegation candidate.
Newcastle have made that abundantly clear, but it doesn’t sink in.
Winstanley and the team will working on their other targets. It’s only the desparados of nsc, as we have so little other info, who continue to obsess about Mitrovic.
Albion fans obsessing with Ashley and Rafa, again!
Does their (huge) fan base ever think about little old Brighton?
Perhaps NUFC lifting the Championship pot, has led to the frequent NSC interest.
Torres insisted on moving to Chelsea. No one could stop it. Players hold ALL the aces in modern football.
The same with VVD, Sanchez, Countinho, Neymar, Bale, Ronaldo leaving ManU, etc etc. The best clubs can hope for is a delay of 1 or 2 windows, but sometimes clubs end up with a disruptive...
Inter Milan ditching Coutinho for £8.5m was another.
With Chelsea, their old transfer committee headed by Emanalo and the chief exec handled all player dealings. Passing head coaches had far less say, following the euro model.