How do you work that one out Yorkie? The club might become slightly less attractive to would be investors, and Ashley could not ask as much for it as he would perhaps have liked, but surely its worth to SD would also suffer significantly, making it more likely that Ashley would be willing to do a deal if an investor presented itself?
Well, that is one argument in favour of your suggestion, but I also presented one in favour of the opposite and I don't think it is unreasonable that Ashley would value NUFC not at its intrinsic/market value, but at how valuable "it" is to SD/himself, so from that perspective it might just as well make him more likely to sell. The fact is there is no way of knowing really.