So who’s it going to be ?

[kettering_baggie]

It’s down to the Chinese owner(s), though, if they are intending to take as much cash out of the club as possible, then any manager is going to be on a loser. I hope that I am wrong but I fear that we have some depressing times ahead.

[WBA123]

It’s down to the Chinese owner(s), though, if they are intending to take as much cash out of the club as possible, then any manager is going to be on a loser. I hope that I am wrong but I fear that we have some depressing times ahead.

Of course we are at his mercy, but it wouldn't make any financial sense for him to asset strip us.

There's really only Periera and Johnstone who we could make any decent money on anyway this summer. Which is what £30m? £40m at most. Plus parachute payments.

We are an asset to him, which has value. If we got promoted back to the Prem and stayed there, his asset will be worth far more than if he was to take cash out of the club now. Its probably the main reason why he hasn't done that yet.

Its not impossible he asset strips us, but the wise financial plan would be for us to stay self sufficient and try to make it back to the Premier League. Its what I imagine he will do too.

[kettering_baggie]

Of course we are at his mercy, but it wouldn't make any financial sense for him to asset strip us.

There's really only Periera and Johnstone who we could make any decent money on anyway this summer. Which is what £30m? £40m at most. Plus parachute payments.

We are an asset to him, which has value. If we got promoted back to the Prem and stayed there, his asset will be worth far more than if he was to take cash out of the club now. Its probably the main reason why he hasn't done that yet.

Its not impossible he asset strips us, but the wise financial plan would be for us to stay self sufficient and try to make it back to the Premier League. Its what I imagine he will do too.

It didn’t make financial sense for him to pay the amount that he did for the club in the first place! There is also a question mark over who the owner actually is, there’s a good chance that it isn’t Lai, in which case there is no knowing what plans are afoot. Your comments, 123, are very reasonable but we don’t know if the same ‘reasonable’ applies in China.