Where did you hear this? Was it from a message in a bottle?..

I'll get me coat..

"It feels much better than it ever did, much more sensitive." John Wayne Bobbit

If I had to bet, and it's purely speculative, I would reckon they under estimated (but were well aware of) the relegation stress.

A season hasn't passed where there wasn't a risk their £120m-a-year of revenue (with skinny profits at best) would morph into a much smaller business with much bigger losses. Where's the investment appeal?

Also, while they may have made a ring-fenced commitment to the stadium upgrade, they may also have seen (and not like the look of) what it's actually going to cost.

Lastly, these guys are simply macro. Where does sport sit in their portfolios, what view do they have on Brexit? How profitable are their other investments, especially sports ones?

Personally, I hope they stay but apply their talents and energies to figuring out how to make a small-to-medium PL club punch above its weight, like Watford, Burnley and a few others, and recognising that our moneyball-lite approach - which i think they led - was an incorrect one.

They are rich and smart. We could use that. But not as sleeping investors.

If you want to live in a world full of kindness, respect and love, try to show these qualities.

Dont disagree with most of this. I'd go a step further and suggest that Parish is too hands on and has made too many mistakes costing the club too much in the process. Maybe the Americans see this and are unhappy at their own lack of control in changing things they want to prevent.

fully agree and more to the point SP is now well above his level of competence!

I would say your view borders on pipe dreams than closer to reality though. Some facts:-

We are less appealing than most of the North London clubs (exceptions being the lowly ones like Leyton Orient / Barnet) as they all have a) better quality local areas than South London, b) better infrastructure (superior stadia), c) more loyal catchment areas (The reality is that most people in North London at least actually support Arsenal/Spurs whereas in South London we compete with all the other London clubs and the glory hunting faux Mancunians) and d) better pedigree (which gives them a wider pre-existing fanbase)

We are less appealing than clubs like Wolves (and even Championship clubs like Leeds, Villa etc). You may not like to hear this but billionaires will more likely rather buy somebody like that than CPFC

- It will be cheaper due to their Championship status
- Their infrastructure is vastly better than ours
- As is their catchment area and pedigree
- Even if their infrastructure is worse it is far easier to develop a brand spanking new stadium on the outskirts of a town in the West Midlands than it is to piss about with securing planning permission in South London

In total there are probably 20-30 clubs more appealing than ours and until those are already bought we're well down the list other than for billionaires who are already supporters or have an affiliation for the club.

Loving your positivity.