davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Plate spinning here; ambitions realised with Roma would be my guess concerning their 'soccer portfolio' agenda.How? They could have bought four central defenders for the Branthwaite money...
Far easier for them to sell.
You're clutching at straws here. I'm not saying you will be wrong about these owners. I'm saying that you can't determine with any certainty how ambitious they will be just yet. In six weeks, we will have a much better idea. Personally, I think they need a big six weeks. I think they've done precisely what they had to do so far - retaining Branthwaite, excepted. That's a better outcome than we would have expected from asset flippers. But the next six weeks will give us a clear idea. Moyes spoke of "elite players". That may not be possible this summer, but significant strengthening is. Setting new standards is also possible - and necessary. That means no toleration of slow starts by Moyes. So, the next six weeks will say a lot about ambition. Then the next three months will show us what their standards are...
If they'd actually embraced this football club my suspicions might have been allayed. But they haven't.