But ... what is going to change? He has yet to appoint a manager but already he has cleared out top players that perhaps a new manager would want to keep.
The manager's job at Newcastle is not worth jack-shit!
The manager doesn't pick the players coming in ... nor the players going out.
And it won't change. No matter what Ashley says ... it WON'T CHANGE!
One player has fought on in the last two months when others could not give a toss ... Jonas Gutierrez ... but Ashley has squeezed him out.
John Carver was told to drop him, even though Jonas was voted Man Of The Match against Liverpool, just because he was about to activate a new contract due to the number of games he played.
And yesterday Jonas was told he was not wanted.
But Gutierrez fired a parting shot at Ashley after being released, claiming the club's owner disregarded him following his cancer diagnosis.
The 31-year-old started the season battling his way back from testicular cancer and ended it by inspiring the Magpies to a vital 2-0 win over West Ham.
Gutierrez provided one goal and scored the other in what has proved to be his last match for United, with the club announcing on Friday that he will leave when his contract expires on June 30.
That exit was widely expected and the Argentina international took to Twitter shortly afterwards to let his feelings known about his treatment during his battle with cancer.
Posting through his account, @elgalgojonas, Gutierrez said: "Two things I learn from my illness how you can support a player (newcastle fans) and how you leAve a player alone (newcastle owner)"
The popular midfielder's tweet follows comments made in March about the way Newcastle treated him.
"I returned mid-November and at the beginning to mid-December the manager said I should find myself another club, that it was best... er, I understand a lot of things about football that, well, that for the directors it is a business, no?" he told Canal+.
"It is clear that they look after the club's interests, but I think in a situation like that, you need to save (consider) other things, even more if you see I had been playing for five years before having this problem, I was always playing."
Gutierrez's anger with the club was as clear as his desire to thanks the supporters for their support in the seven seasons he spent on Tyneside.
"Thanks to all football fans and Newcastle fans for supporting me and trust in me," he posted on Facebook.
"This is a way to demonstrate I always hear you. You are very important to me, football wouldn't be the same without you. All my effort and affection is for you!"