We as a club are on the brink IMHO we have an aging squad, an aged stadium and and a board who can't/won't invest in any department of the club and certainly the one's that are desperate for investment, under this board we have gone from being 20 million in debt to 49 and the club is currently running year to year at a loss and that obviously is no sustainable, when the board took over we owned our own training ground, now we rent one (which is of a better standard) but it is not ours, and the stadium is 10 years older.
We were one of 3 clubs who last year voted against FFP coming in along with Chelsea and City (obvious) because we thought it would put off potential investors when really it is because one of the rules of FFP is your wage to turnover ratio should be around 50 to 60% not sure exactly where as ours is at around 80% so if it is carried out to the letter of the law we would not be able to enter the CL anyway in the near future.
We are almost certain to not get the CL this year infact due to the Carling cup finalist not being in the league European places there is a good chance that we won't qualify for any form of European competition because after our next 2 league game (Norwich away and Reading home) we play the final 10 games where on average 1 every 2 games is against teams in the top 7 with all bar City being Away.
Then we have the Moyes contract situation hanging over the clubs head, that is something that could at anytime be sorted I understand but the longer it drags on the less likely it would seem that he will sign.
Then there is the worry of our top players leaving and for me only Felliani fits into that category at the moment so hopefully that can fund some sort of transfer business in the summer as we all know he will have to go before we spend a real penny this summer.
And for the rest of this league season we have 2 strikers who would consider themselves 1st teamers and they won't get 20 league goals between them in fact I doubt they will get 15.
Its ****ing miserable at the moment.
I don't know about everyone else but I have felt utterly deflated when I woke up on the 1st Feb and realised, with our best chance for years to get CL we did not improve the first team one bit, and I can't get over that feeling, so depressing.