Complete rubbish. Nobody did more questioning and investigation into Kassam (and everybody else who wanted to stick their finger in the pie)than the people who I presume you are attacking."neilw" wrote:It's ironic that those doing the most worrying and questioning, with regards to the current owners, are those who did this the least about the previous regime. It so makes me smile
The people who are asking questions now are the same people who were asking questions then. Whoever the owner is of your football club you have to hold them to account and make sure that they not only have the best interests of the club at heart but they are also capable of doing what needs to be done. This is exactly what FOUL did with Kassam and its only natural that ex FOUlers are doing the same with the new regime. By the way they also did it with the regime before Kassam and a number of wannabee/potential regimes that crawled out of the various pieces of woodwork in between.
Personally I believe that WPL (or the bit we can see) does have the best interests of the club at heart but where I have a big question is whether they have the means to ensure its success. Ownership of the stadium in the medium to long term is vital for the success of the club for all the reasons that boris and others have outlined and because of the uncertainty of future tenure and affordability.
I think (as I have always thought) that based on the balance sheet and P&L of the stad co Kassam will want somewhere in the region of £10 million for it. I am not sure (and have seen no evidence) that WPL have the ability to raise this money or have assets against which they can secure this amount of money (The stadium itself isn't enough).
Just to clear up one other point the club was debt free when WPL took over because the £2million went to clear Kassam's loans. In other words it was a £2million negative equity investment. Like buying a £200,000 house for £2.2million.