Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
You specialise in this sort of thing don’t you. A thread begins criticising the Tory party and you jump in saying, but what about Labour - a party that haven’t been in Government for thirteen years. Now people are rightly being critical of an owner who has turned us into a laughing stock and you’re saying what about Hammam - a man who has not had any real influence at the club for over sixteen years!

With all that is going wrong at City at the moment, to expect supporters to be turning their fire on Sam Hammam now is completely and utterly barmy. Go to page three of this thread and look at what Tuerto posted at ten past six yesterday evening. That’s why the club are being given such short shrift on this subject - what would you and the other blind faith merchants on here be saying in the identical circumstances if it was another club that had signed Emiliano Sala? You’d be slaughtering them.
As I posted [last weeks ?] this is a unique situation for a football club. Tan is a 'serious' businessman, and I doubt he would pursue a vexatious action without consulting lawyers. It's not a pleasant matter for anyone remotely involved but we're talking about something that was completely beyond the expectations of the club ,it's employees and dreadfully, the family of Sala. I don't begrudge the club pursuing the insurance angle now the legal ownership of the player in football terms has been finally exhausted through the courts. This has shrouded the club for 4 years now and I doubt Tan etc. have enjoyed the adverse publicity and inaccurate reporting [viz WOL] as much as it's infuriated and angered our supporters.