He’s been saying for the last few weeks he’s been talking with Lee Charnley.
Guessing that’s to do with the football side of things, Ashley is about his contract and finalising it all.
Charnley is merely a buffer between actually sitting in front of Ashley with his spy Barnes keeping an eye on things. He might as well be asking the water cooler for a decisions. Ashley calls the shots on everything. Everything. Until you have a audience with him you don’t know the truth and that’s only just starting. All this talk up until this point of positivity is just Charnley nodding and saying mike wants to keep you with no substance to back it up.