I'll ask the question again, for the benefit of the hard-of-thinking: Does TB properly finance the footballing side of things by paying market rates or does he hand over the reins to someone who will? Either way, promotion to the Premier League gravy train is the only way he's ever going to get...
While we're being seriously trounced in the table and knock-on financial implications by the likes of Bournemouth and even f*cking BRENTFORD then there are serious lessons to be learned by the Albion board. The board need to either follow those clubs business models or something similar or...
Until he either realises that he has to properly finance the footballing side of things by paying market rates or he hands over the reins to someone who will. As things currently stand and look like remaining for the foreseeable, the story of the Albion's recent years will record that Dick...
Maybe in other areas of his business life. But there something seriously flawed with his Albion business plan when he initially more or less filled the stadium with STH eating pies and drinking pints like they'd been starved for a month and the club still makes a stonking great loss. How's that...
Quite.
Hopefully TB now realises that its not as simple as 'build it and they will come'. They might also drift away, especially if they're taken for granted as happy-clappy fanzone muppets :wave:
I'm pretty sure the bit about TB flying back to Oz just before xmas and then having to fly almost straight back again is fairly easily verifiable. Much of the rest can be deduced from TB's travel schedule.
Come back and start this thread again when the hotel is up and running. Until then the suspicion will remain that real estate is the club's core business, with the footballing side of things an afterthought.