Re: HKSE Complaint – Part 2
That plan can remain in place, by it's very nature it should be something which doesn't have someone holding onto purse-strings and eager for a return on their investment, but rather a genuine fan or groups of fans who are willing to get control of the club with a direction laid out which is understood.
As I wrote on a different thread, this model is not going to see us challenging for the Championship play-offs any time soon. If that is what fans are eager for then there is more chance of it happening through something clicking somewhere with money from China and the team doing better on the pitch. Money has come in from our current owners, it has just been spent in ways which haven't been very effective.
Anyone thinking that the current owners can disappear and we will get any more money from anyone else is going to be disappointed.
In fact what is more likely is that the club could be picked up by someone else trying to ride this 'sleeping giant' with a quick burst of investment and gamble of whatever family silver we have left.
Along with Sheffield Wednesday we have been offered around East Asia by agents for years, both before and after Carson Yeung.
The debt which will be immediately called in if we are no longer linked with BSH will put the club into liquidation for sure. Who is in charge after that is the most important part; believe it or not there are worse people that the status quo.
I can think there might be a bunch of people who love the club and would like to provide funding to make it self-sustaining, beneficial for the Birmingham area, and a model of how a club could be run if they knew that there wouldn't be an immediate demand for promotion.
I think we would find that a large part of the fan-base are not happy to drop to League 2, and that anyone trying to do something positive would quickly get split into different factions and end up pulling in opposite directions.