Don't want to take this off topic, but noted you have the stadium as fourth on the list (perhaps because it's a longer term task rather than order of importance).
I'd be interested if anyone woth more knowledge of this than me can articulate the business case for why a new stadium is so vital to our ability to compete. Match day revenue is going down as a proportion of overall revenue due to the tv deal and increasing commercial deals. I often hear 'yeah but the hospitality boxes' but how useful would they be if we don't have a successful side, will they really be a game changer for us?
One scenario is we spend a load of money on a new stadium and, similar to Arsenal we cut investment in the first team (not that there's been much owner capital anyway in that field) to finance that for a while. We could be looking at a decade of just fighting to stay in the league before the stadium would then start to kick out its extra revenue. How many years of that would you need until you break even?
The other approach could be to pour this effort and money into improving the quality of the first team, qualifying for champions league, improving the commercial deals. With the tv money increasing like it is (not that we should assume this will last forever) why is there such a focus on a new stadium as the only route to success?
The cynic may perhaps know the answer that a new stadium increases the asset value for any future sale and is maybe why owners like FSG were desperate to start work. I don't understand fans though holding out all hope on a new stadium as the only way forward. Ideal world is a owner with the capital and inclination to fund both, a new stadium and a competitive first team maximising all revenue streams. Organically we'd then end up with the stadium matched to the profile of the team. We could very easily though end up financing a stadium with debt, using profits and cutting player investment to service it, and when it's finished having a really poor side that can't attract the expanded capacity or the corporate circus that generates the revenue.