"Where do we go from here?"

In what was probably the worst season for Newcastle fans in near memory, the fans are still enduring a big hangover from relegation with their club being put up for sale. Surely they must be asking "Where do we go from here now?"

No doubt that Newcastle has lost abit of its attractiveness after being relegated to the Coca Cola Division for 2009/2010, now it is being marketed as an entity for sale. Whats going to happen to Newcastle? Are they going to be the next Leeds United who has been mismananged, resulting in the sad demise of a club which used to fight for Champions League honors.

In times of uncertainty, the fan and owner that is Mike Ashley always decides that he has enough and is ready to sell the club. This is not his first try at making a quick exit from a presumably sinking ship. One has to question his timing again. While I think he has proved himself to be an ineffectual owner, this man has pretty much lost all respect at a club whose fans are proud believers in their team. With the relegation of Newcastle, I expected some fight in the man who claims to be a fan of Newcastle United. I expected the owner to show some grit and put his money where he says his loyalty lies, get his team some new players, put in place a new gaffer like Alan Shearer who breathes life into the team and assist the club in their bid to get back into the Premiership. At the end of the day, I guess he is still a man persuaded by investment gains and losses rather than club loyalty.

Not that it is a bad thing. Newcastle actually is better off without Mike Ashley. I hope for the sake of all Newcastle fans, that the club gets an owner who truly believes in the team like they do, who will own the club not based on investment purposes but shares the ambition of the Geordie faithful, who is a firm believer in making this club great again. A new owner, a new start, a new era for the Newcastle fans who so deserve it.