It's time for Dalman and Choo to go

[The Lone Gunman]

I think it's your brain that may be addled. Tan, his son, and a mate each agreeing to buy shares in a co-ordinated way to acquire the club means that they were acting as a consortium.

Oh yeah, that's exactly what you meant when you were talking about a consortium of Malaysian investors not spending money on a whim......

Incidentally, your 'consortium' didn't acquire the club. Tan merely acquired a 40% stake in it. His takeover came later.

No doubt some of his advisors did do a risk/benefit analysis. Seems they made a right balls-up of it too, as Vinnie's been pouring money down the drain ever since due the hopeless way in which the club has been run by him, his minions and his managers. He even managed to lose money while in the Premier League, which took some doing.

As for working to a 'plan', that 'plan' appears to have changed on numerous occasions during his tenure. Boom and bust. There never has been an overarching strategy of any kind. Anyone who genuinely believes there has been is an idiot.