Clack wrote:
Ok, Duxbury was running the club for Straumur - we all know that, and that is what I meant when I said Straumur.

It was reported everywhere that G & S paid £50 million for their 50% - it's complete nonsense to suggest Duxbury was trying to sell the whole club for £20 million (even Fernandes himself said on in the Talksport interview he'd offered £90 million).

It's not a FACT that Duxbury screwed up by appointing Zola, who was way out of his depth in this league - it's an opinion. (You could argue that Zola did a good job by keeping a team that was having all it's best players sold in the Prem league).

WHU wasn't making a profit because of the massive wage bill and the enourmous transfer fees that had previously been spent on players, but Straumur/ Duxbury believed that if they could stop all that, and stay in the Prem league under the ideas of the new 'Project' then their asset would increase in value in the long-run - and it would have if we'd stayed in Prem and got the debt down.

(but the problem was a 'Project' that involves building a team of young acadmey players mixed with cheap foreign bargains found by a Director of Football is just pie in the sky in the realities of the Premier League)

But Straumur still have 33% and if all goes well for them, ie. WHU get back in the Prem and G & S continue to reduce the debt (and not to mention if the O/S turns out to be a success) then there asset will be aworth a lot more in a few years time.
No one ever lied in a radio interview?  Or was it £90m, paid over 10 years, with all debts attached to the club cancelled as part of the deal? 

It's a fact that Zola has hardly had a great managerial career since he left us.  And it pretty much fact that he's barely even been linked with other jobs, let alone got one.

Straumer's asset (their share) won't rise under any circumstance so long as G and S have an option to buy it at a fixed price (and I find it hard to believe that they have a variable option meaning that as they spend money on the club the amount they would have to pay for the rest goes up).

But apart from that I beleive you.