My favourite moment in Ashley’s era would be the day we survived relegation on the last day of the season, when Jonas Gutierrez, who had earlier that season recovered from cancer, “the man who knows the true meaning of the word ‘survival’” scored the goal that kept us up. When Alan Pardew represents your glory days, you know something has gone very wrong. But even before that, ever since Pardew left, Newcastle have been going nowhere slowly.
Because of the various ethical issues with this takeover - which were more about television piracy than murder, because capitalism - this affair has dragged on for 18 months, with the club effectively on pause for all that time. We play pedestrian football and prior to yesterday, no one would have given us a hope of even contesting a trophy for the next decade. We haven’t won a game all season, and we’ve mostly played teams at the bottom. Since Ashley arrived, our ambition, talent, and identity has been lost. Bezos is rich, sure, but his employees are peeing in water bottles and collapsing from exhaustion to make minimum wage. Real money is soaked in the blood and the sweat of workers. The financial takeover in FIFA just adds a couple of zeroes to your bank account and usually gives you a higher target in Europe. Related: eFootball Is A Reminder Of Why FIFA Deserves Our RespectOf course, what FIFA does away with is the ethical concerns. Newcastle aren’t just rich Newcastle are Jeff Bezos and everyone else is your dad’s boss who drives a nice Lexus.
Times Manchester City’s wealth by ten and they would still be behind us. Richer than the ten richest clubs in the world combined. Newcastle UTD are now richer than the rest of the Premier League combined. That doesn’t quite put Newcastle in perspective, though. In FIFA Career Mode, there’s an option called ‘Financial Takeover’ where the club can be sold to some rich bloke who gives you enough money to go and buy Erling Haaland.
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