Plenty of Newcastle United fans are all in agreement over Mike Ashley after former Manchester United player turned pundit Gary Neville called for the Tyneside club to be banned from signing players in next summer’s transfer window.
According to Sky Sports, Neville told The Football Show that the Premier League should place a transfer embargo on all clubs that have furloughed staff or placed cuts on player’s wages, and indeed the Magpies were the first team in the top flight to have done the former, as per The Guardian.
ChronicleLive understands that Ashley and NUFC have no intention of reversing their decision as of yet, after Tottenham Hotspur, Norwich City and Liverpool did the same before the Reds made a U-turn after receiving fierce criticism.
These members of the Toon faithful believe that a potential transfer ban would only affect Ashley in a positive way, and voiced their opinions on Twitter, with one supporter even claiming that their owner ‘would be over the moon’:
Mike Ashley would class that as a reward. #NUFC
— Adam Beecroft (@ads586) April 13, 2020
Was gonna say, how is this a punishment for Ashley? He doesn't want to spend money. ha
— Carmichael (@googlplex69) April 13, 2020
That’s incredibly naive from @GNev2 Mike Ashley will benefit out of a transfer ban he would happily not spend a penny and the #nufc fans would be the ones that suffer again.
— Sean Casey (@caseysean51) April 13, 2020
Ashley would consider that a reward
— ⚫️⚪️MilburnRaised⚫️⚪️ (@MilburnRaised) April 13, 2020
Does @GNev2 not realise this would suit the greedy disgrace of an owner we have down to the ground?
— Hebburn scotty (@hebburnscotty) April 13, 2020
Ashley would be owa the moon
— Robert Waddell (@Robbiewad79) April 13, 2020
Just what MA would want. Another excuse to not spend any money that has already been taken from fans (not me as I’m not a ST holder) but know others who have been affected
— Kane Robinson (@kaneorobinson) April 13, 2020
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