We don't want someone with drug connections, a history of unpaid bills and very questionable business arrangements with subsidiaries running our club.
Hard as it may be to believe, there are worse owners than Moshiri. He's incompetent, but at least he backed his incompetence with his own money for a good long while. What fans here want is what fans at any club want: owners who understand that they will come out ahead in this environment if they invest in a well-run club.
Admittedly, there aren't enough of those to go around in world football, or in most sports. Petrodollars are flowing into football because oil-producing countries understand they need to diversify. That's driving up prices overall, which is great for existing owners like the Glazers and Kroenke, but not so good for prospective owners. Current spending regulations also mean that a club like West Ham with revenue, little in the way of debt and a sweetheart lease is a lot more attractive for the sort of owner that's a good 'un than we are.
So we're dealing with lizards. A serious prospective owner would wait for a club with more short-run potential to become available, and the sort of investor coalitions that used to buy entire clubs now buy minority stakes in clubs like the RS instead. The short version is that we had our chance, mismanaged it and are now paying the price.
