Jake Humphrey: I don't think you have too much sympathy with Newcastle fans and actually what a lot of them tell me is that you have an opinion of the club because you sell a lot of your merchandise through Mike Ashley's stores. Let's just clear that up for a start.
Rio Ferdinand: I don't even know him really well. I will get to know him. My issue is – it's got nothing to do with my business dealings that I have with his company – I just think when they went down, he spent fifty-odd million pounds to get them back up.
JH: Yep.
RF: With his own money.
JH: Yep.
RF: Thank you, that should be.
JH: Wasn't it Newcastle's money? They generated it.
RF: He's the owner. Also -
JH: That's the club's money!
RF: You look down the road, last season or whatever, Sunderland spent £1.2million to get in the Championship.
