.AArmstrong_says: How 'Mystic Mike' Ashley tried to get control of Debenhams on the cheap... and failed spectacularly
Mike Ashley can’t be surprised by the fall of Debenhams. After all, he foresaw the beleaguered retailer’s fate as long as five months ago. In December he declared that the department store chain had “zero chance of survival” and blasted the board for failing to realise that “time was not on their side”.
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