How is buying the top harming the club? The deal won't be getting changed any time soon and there's 6 years notice left on the deal. Buying the top won't take money away from the club, it receives next to fuck all from the deal anyway. Buying the top sees the club get something, surely something is better than nothing?
If anyone thinks Ashley will pay one bit of notice to how many tops are, or aren't, sold then they are deluded. It's gone way past that stage for him, this is personal now