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So TB announces "I simply will not allow another relegation struggle, not on my watch." He could say it, and mean it. He could say it and not mean it. And the relegation struggle will come, or won't come. It could come independently of whatever the chairman says, or does. A lot of...

Let's assume arguendo someone asks, and TB says 'Yes'. What happens next?

It's ironic, isn't it? A bunch of Tories insisting someone else spend his money without stint or limit, for their gratification. "Run the government like a business" becomes "Run your business like the government" in a hurry... The solution -- I joke about it often enough to make Icy Gull...

A quick trot through these pages reveal the answer to be, "Yes. Although that may not be enough."

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Proverbs 15:17 People will miss Bloom when he's gone.

The punters here don't care. They'll take as owner(s) anyone who can deliver the Promised land -- IOW 11th to 16th in the EPL, for a couple-three seasons. The new money could know as much football as Carly Ray Jepsen and her cat, and it wouldn't matter.

Why middle eastern? What's wrong with a Russian oligarch? Or a dodgy Thai frozen-food magnate-cum-politician? Or an American sports-management consortium? There's lots of money out there that doesn't bear close examination. It doesn't have to just be oil. That limits your options.

"Turning a quick profit?" Turning any kind of profit on a football club requires selling it, and selling it to a greater fool. Which assumes there's always a greater fool. Because you certainly don't turn any kind of profit from the revenue stream it generates. How many of the 92 run in the...