clearly the board is totally inept. They have no plan just wait and hope, after the sacking of DM there must have been a plan for succession. This cannot have been promote the youth coach. In most companies this would not have been tolerated, our chairman must have just thrown the towel in.
This is where I have issue with those that still support JP, he took the maximum amount of money and left us with a clueless idiot. He gave all that BS about being in the best interest of the club.
The only thing this lot can do is appoint someone before Saturday, not holding my breath.
Not sure about that.
If Lai offered massively more than anyone else then it’s really not easy to blame Peace for taking it. If Lai’s offer was in the same ballpark as another offer then I think Peace could be held to account for taking the highest offer rather than the one most likely to benefit the club. We don’t really know the answer to that.
However, whilst we know that Lai clearly said that he would not be investing new money and that the club would continue to be run from what it generates, we also know that since he bought, it has become virtually impossible to get funds remitted from China. So he couldn’t have invested new funds even if he’d wanted to. Fosun are in the same boat now, although they had more money outside of China to start with.
I can accept all of that, but there is one thing that I cannot accept, which is the key decisions made by Lai re personnel, regardless of whether or not he could invest new money. Not sacking Pulis sooner, appointing Pardew, not sacking Pardew sooner, sacking Moore without a replacement, appointing Terrano, appointing an invisible chairman, being totally invisible himself as owner. He’s shown no interest in the club and has made bad appointment after bad appointment. None of those decisions were monetary ones (at least not materially so). That’s what’s unforgivable.
Lai fully deserves to lose half of his investment, and more. I really do blame him. I find it very hard to justifiably blame Peace for the decision that he took at that time.