Swimming against the tide a bit, and believe me I don’t like my club being owned by a bunch of foreign chancers in an investment fund, but we could have a lot worse. They are not bankrupting us like so many others of their ilk do, they gave us cheap season tickets and that would have really hurt if we had turned up yesterday. They have ‘invested’ in players like Hourihane (not their fault he was atrocious, and Brewster, Gallagher etc before him). It takes a while to build a moneyball operation and that’s what Scott is here for. As an investment fund no way will they Chuck good money after bad, and we wouldn’t want them to unless it was in a sustainable long term way. They will sell anything of value though (remember Dan James to Leeds). That is their compulsion. The goal is presumably to sell a debt free club to the next charlatan/s that can be conned into buying it, or to make the PL with the moneyball model like Brentford and then flip it. With a half decent manager, they might have made it yesterday.
My biggest worry is still that insane move to buy the ground. I think that is what eventually might take us down a bad road. We’ll never get the deal we had again there.
Of course they only turn up in the good times, and of course they don’t care about us as a football club. Neither does Tan with the Jerks. They are not fans. They are cold eyed businessmen of the red in tooth and claw kind. Anyone that has had experience of, say GE Capital, will know what I mean. I would think the last thing they really want is to own a non PL football club. It will be ‘interesting’ to see their next move, but to rail against them ‘splashing their cash’ any more than they have...well, may as well howl at the moon.
But don’t think there aren’t a lot worse waiting for us if they decide to cut their losses after parachutes now. That is the true legacy of Jenkins and his gang of c***s. We are perennially ‘in play’ and in danger of being attacked by the next shark. Just another football club divorced from its community by greed. Reputation trashed for money. Do they care? No.
:mrgreen: 
