Karma in motion, dear readers.
Sheer quality.It's similar to a loan shark who borrows money and lends it to you only to ask for more interest than you would have been paying if you went straight to the bank.
Sadly, I won't write them off yet. Because they didn't get in the C-League City may offer stupid money for Torres. I wouldn't be suprised to see them pay 100M for him.
The guts of which would have to go straight to the bank anyway, so they lose their best player and try and replace him with a 10 million version.
I wish it was that simple but pure evil won't be vanquished so easily. The player formerly known as Steven Gerrard might net another 15(Inter)-35M(City) as well. They could use 70-85M as a down payment on new financing and have around 30-50M on players. Throw in say Hodgson and that kind of money and they are competitive again.
On top of that they still have a whole country behind them. So unless someone associated with the club wipes their ass with a Norweigean flag they are still going to fill the stadium and sell lots of jerseys.