Don't know about anyone else but I get the sense it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better. Judging by the silence I'd guess people are trying to unpick and fathom out just how deep the shit is that we're in before they let on, I'd rather have all the bad news at once rather than be drip fed it.
I'm going the other way to be honest, In my opinion there have been 2 stories, 1 is the tax bill and the other is FFP. The latter is something we knew was a problem (if we didn't go up) months ago so the only 'new' information in the last month was HMRC. Now that's clearly not a good situation to be in but it's been resolved and the underlying problem will be resolved if/when we fix the FFP issue. The way we have to do that is to sell some players and start using our youth team more effectively, something I thought we should've started doing 2 1/2 years ago when relegation was a certainty so i'm struggling to be all that upset by the prospect.If things come out that add to the problems then obviously my position will change but I just can't get myself all that worked up about the whole thing right now. I guess that's why I don't really get what people want from a statement, what exactly can be said that will help anyone right now?
Quote from: paul_e on June 18, 2018, 10:37:56 AMI'm going the other way to be honest, In my opinion there have been 2 stories, 1 is the tax bill and the other is FFP. The latter is something we knew was a problem (if we didn't go up) months ago so the only 'new' information in the last month was HMRC. Now that's clearly not a good situation to be in but it's been resolved and the underlying problem will be resolved if/when we fix the FFP issue. The way we have to do that is to sell some players and start using our youth team more effectively, something I thought we should've started doing 2 1/2 years ago when relegation was a certainty so i'm struggling to be all that upset by the prospect.If things come out that add to the problems then obviously my position will change but I just can't get myself all that worked up about the whole thing right now. I guess that's why I don't really get what people want from a statement, what exactly can be said that will help anyone right now?The suspicion is that the cash flow issue is ongoing and the settlement with HMRC was s first installment only.There is presumably a need for cash each month, so for it all to be sorted Xia must have found a way of borrowing against assets, finding extra investment or moving funds from China. Are any of these likely?
Would you lend him money with his track record?