On the one hand, we wouldn't be in this financial mess right now, so welcoming his roubles back would be welcome in that regard.
However, the fact of the matter is that other than finally getting the stadium moving, Moshiri and Usmanov have demonstrated an almost comical lack of understanding about how to run a football club. They've been led by agents who wanted their slice of the pie and been blinded by who the biggest names were they could attract here.
Of far greater concern than not being skint currently is a well-run business and football club. Even though it's doing nothing for my stress levels, I actually think that the last couple of years and the current malaise are worth it just to get rid of Moshiri and the rotten lot and get back to running the business and the football side of it sensibly again. At the end of it, we'll have that new stadium we've known for decades that we've needed and the lunatics will no longer be running the asylum.
Whether 777 end up being any better is very much open for debate but, as investors, I do at least have confidence that they'll focus on running us well as a business and, given the guy in charge of the football side of what they do is the ex head of football operations with the City group, you'd assume that people with actual football expertise will be the ones making the football decisions.
In short, no, it's been painful but in the long run the political situation might end up working in our favour, as grim and horrifying as the events which have led to it have been.
