I didnt realise we had paid this much for him. It seems an incredible amount for someone who in truth would have to fight for a place in a Championship team - and we sold Glenn Murray for £4.3?

And to make matters worse we bought him from a club that had only recently bought him themselves for about four pence ha'penny

It is no fantasy, that Parish has overseen the most successful period in the clubs history. You may not like it, but that is the reality.
The money for going up is the same for all clubs at any given period, so don't try and say the previous owner was disadvantaged, as the parachute payments were in place when we last went down.
You rant on about SP, but you need to get your facts straight.

I'm with painter in supporting Parish despite his flaws and mistakes. He has overseen our longest period in the PL, purchased multi-million pound international players, secured Zaha long-term, brought in billionaire investors, begun renovating the ground and all this without risking the long-term financial future of the club and isn't Mike Ashley. Hopefully with AWB coming through and possibly the likes of Kirby to follow, we might also begin to see the fruits of more behind the scene work.

He has purchased those players because of the mass amount of funds from tv money nothing to do with his own pocket.

Those billionaires you speak of was brought in to invest in the likes of stadium only it was a poor move even SP few times has said he would of done it different (whats the point having billionaires if they wont give you any money to spend on players they could give the club a big loan like other clubs have done)

The Zaha one can be debated as well word is United get 50% of future transfer fee that is awful business.

A lot of the work done on the ground had to be be done to meet regulations so it's not a case of the owners wanting to glam it up (the big stadium project has still not even been signed off yet so it may not even happen so you think of all the money wasted word was they had spent on that)

As another poster pointed out Mike Ashley has done a lot for Newcastle putting in mass amounts of money he has put in way more then are current owners.

pull your head out of SP *** go and look at the books which shows this and SP even stated himself the club was losing a lot of money.

the former chairman failed because of the collapse of ondigital deal so clubs got no money they was promised so he had to resort to silly methods to get some and as i said before there was no fancy big pay outs you can claim the relative stuff all you want that is false look at the claimed big clubs it happened to now days because of the wealth shared even when dropping you have big chance of retaining lots of talent pushing to come back up back then you didn't

you really are in a bubble you dont have a clue thats it need to find ignore button for you

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Everyone is entitled to their opinion - painter, yours is just as valid, however, i disagree - reason why, i'll try and keep it simple - we have had the most successful spell in the prem, but only on paper - it's through luck, changing things mid season, panic and short term buys and 3 teams being worse than us.
We got to the FA cup final, but that could have happened to any club - it's an anomaly.
Every year has been a struggle - so whilst on paper it looks rosy, the reality isn't. It's been a gamble.
Parish isn't prepared to break the bank on one occassion to stabilise the long term future, citing FFP, hiding behind it almost.
It's 'almost' as if Parish wants the club relegated, an excuse to sell off all the assets, start fresh and still get the millions of pounds from parachute payments.
And for those asking who should we have run us - i believe someone that uses their head, over their heart (or at least making it look that way) for when making big choices.