His lack of due diligence which ultimately will lead to us being stuck with him unless someone of Man City's owners type wealth comes in to save the day.
His lack of due dilligence was a godsend, hate to think where we'd have been without it. However bad he's been.
I agree with what you're saying, and I too acknowledge what Ashley did- and financially has done for us- but we can't keep saying this after every insult, lie, and catastrophic decision thrown our way. You would think that four years on he would have adapted and learnt from mistakes. But as we continuously see, he simply doesn't. Literally every season he has been here uproar (mid-season, too) has been caused by something rash, needless or completely illogical.
I'm very pleased to see where we are in the table and that what we have achieved so far is through prudent spending on players, but as .com have said....will whatever we receive- if we ever do find a sponsor- help us that much? I don't think so. Not one bit. Ashley should be working towards qualifying for Europe as that in itself would bring in good money.
He simply cannot keep going the way he is.
On the other hand, most of the decisions he has made were incredibly unpopular at the time but actually turned out to not harm us that much or even leave the club in better shape. Pretty much the only exception to this is the gamble on staying up in the relegation season, and even that worked out OK in the end.
I don't think the name change fits into this category, as I think some things are more important than finance, but I thought we had started to reassess some os Ashley's past decisions in a better light.
Selling Carroll and Nolan now look like good moves and replacing Hughton with Pardew was a great one, all things people were spitting their dummies out about at the time but realise now that it was good moves.
Hey disco dekka, selling the stadium name to his company for zero income (based on what he pays now) is stll and always will be a terrible idea. Even if selling the mentioned players turned otu right. This will not