That's fair. How much you proportion the blame to McNally is subjective though, Delia and Michael have been in football long enough to know the possible outcomes.
But pretty much every purchaser of football clubs knows Sweet FA about football, particularly English football, and has to hire people like McNally or Webber to handle all that stuff for them - Fernandes had all sorts of spivs after a slice of his fortune and it took him a few years to wise up to that. McNally was paid £1m a year basic to run this football club, lost the plot towards the end and that's why the accepted his resignation.
Dishing out a 3.5 year deal to Matt Jarvis because he got an England cap once, or spending £8m on Naismith because he's got a big name and played a bit for Everton is actually precisely the type of deal that Fernandes was getting bent over with for a couple of years when various agents and other vultures like Harry Redknapp wanted a piece. That was supposed to be the point in McNally, paying him money because he knew what he was doing.... took a gamble. Now if he'd used that £10.5m to steal a couple of the best young players from the Championship like he did when he pinched Snodgrass and Howson from Leeds.... we'd undoubtedly be in a much better place.
Seen somebody suggest that Moxey was a waste of space on purpose to get his pay off the other day, and wouldn't rule that out being about right to be honest. At least Webber seems to have a passion for the game. I'm 8/10 happy with Webber and Stone right now, 6/10 on Farke, and consider it pointless forming an opinion on the owners because changing owners seems like the biggest gamble you can take in football.
Every business has their price and if somebody really wanted this club enough we'd know about it because the prospective buyer would be leaking information and kicking up a fuss like that Cullum bloke. What have Ipswich really got out of Marcus Evans? He's subsidises them with a few million a year, but only because he made a pigs ear out of trying to buy promotion and he'd lose his asset if he didn't (servicing debt) and he's got his name / company name all over their shirt and ground, probably taking back about half of that money in sponsorship value for his ticket tout business.
I quite like the fact that Delia and Michael are ethical enough people to not stick 'Wonga' on our shirts, or indeed name the stadium after a company which operates sweatshops (Sports Direct?). Half of the wealthy people looking to buy into English football are probably only trying to clean their dodgy money or get it out of Kazahstan or whatever sh*thole their mineral operationsare situated in.
So my position really is that I hope over the next couple of years under Webber we can find enough gems and minimise the amount of deadwood we pick up with our much reduced budget to come out of a tough patch with a half decent squad, hopefully with a few our current U23 players proving good enough. Its all anybody can realistically hope for. There are going to be a few absolutely w*nk players come and go like there was in that post-Worthington period, but lets hope League 1 isn't our bottom this time.
I'll turn on Delia when it becomes apparent that she has rejected a seemingly decent offer by a seemingly credible businessman to buy the club and announces her Nephew Tom succession plan, but we'd know about it if there was serious interest.... can't remember a single time when somebody has bought a club and then said in an interview "we tried to buy Norwich", the city just isn't international enough. Perhaps if we had a major airport which did direct flights to Asia we'd be hot property.
Sorry huge ranty tangent aimed not at you, but all of the people who bleat on incessantly about change of ownership on other venues!
