Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
Yeah, it's a fair enough summary but it misses out the bit about the board not changing direction once it realised the plan was heading for the buffers. And it fails to analyse the train of events that led to them exiting with hundreds of millions of pounds in their pockets at a time when, everyone seems to agree, more cash was needed to compensate for developments in football. What's happened over the last decade is this board has put themselves first, second and third. You just look at what's happened both on and off the pitch and it's self evident. If we don't excoriate them for being totally self centred pricks who are 100% greedy when even 90% greedy would have done us all a favour, then we must say they are the most fortunate beneficiaries of coincidence the world has ever seen.
Hundreds of millions of pounds by selling shares, i don't have a problem with that because Kronke who's bought most has not converted his investment into liability for the club. I know Mancs who claim they would have our board over ours. The change in direction as i have mentioned towards the end is something I'am concerned with. I can think of two approaches
1. Get more money in read Usmanov types as supported by Dien or as AST has been wanting by way of equity etc
2. Pro-activley identifying commercial opportunities.

The first approach is definitely not what the board is going to take, while Dein might feel that being a consensus builder could moderate the effect of sugar daddy this could completely go out of control. The second is what we are after. Recruiting Ivan and the commercial officer etc are part of that. Unfortunately there are no intermediate targets which would tell us if we are making progress. Its wait and watch. So far some minor sponsorship deals, Asian tour and interpreting a waiting list of 40,000 as demand supply imbalance are their contribution. The first two are small gains out of nothing and the other very effective at antagonizing fans