Well as a few may remember I've been more sympathetic towards Fawaz than most - I've recieved a fair bit of stick for expressing my opinion that he's incompetant rather than malicious, and perhaps rightly so because as it's turned out the result appears to be the same.
But now I am really worried as to how this will turn out. Unless Fawaz miraculously get his act together we're in an even worse position than the period before his arrival - once again it appears there is nobody to invest in the club, but the difference this time is that where the Doughty estate was keen to sell and acting professionaly, we can't rely on Fawaz to do so.
Assuming the deal with the Americans doesn't happen I can imagine this going one of two ways:
You never know, Fawaz might start putting money into the club again in an attempt to prove us all wrong. Up until a certain point he was throwing a lot of money at the club - my perception has been that since deciding to sell up he has decided not to invest any more, hence the selling of players to fund the club, and the cheap (as far as I can see, I'm not privy to how much they have cost - even the frees cost money of course), poor quality signings.
He's already demonstrated that he is incapable of running a football club - at best, if he gives it another go, we will potter along mid to lower table. We'd be stuck at best at this mediocre level until somebody comes along and persuades him to sell.
But I'm more worried about him totally throwing his dummy out of the pram. I can definetely see him refusing to invest even the funds required to run the club, and that will mean player sales merely to stay in the division, like Cotterill had to oversee.
I do worry though, that he isn't the most mature, dispassionate person. I've seen a lot of abuse directed towards him on Twitter tonight and even one death threat. The clubs balls are in one hand - he has a knife in the other.
I think we all need to count to ten and lay off the death threats, or the more extreme abuse that's best left reserved other kinds of people. I've come across a lot of evil people in my time through work - I think it's given me a different perspective on other people who are merely buffoons rather than those truly deserving of abuse.
My worry is if he thinks well if you're going to wish me dead then fook you I'm gonna try to get my money back. We could lose everything here. I think there's a real danger here of us descending to lower depths than Pompey for example, and I think the way football finances are it would be more difficult for us to recover.
One thing I hope though is that we can get through this as a fan base and not descend into abusing each other no matter what different opinions we all have. There's a lot of arguing on forums in general - which always strikes me as funny because I know that whatever whether you're a 'happy clapper' or are more critical, or whatever your opinion, if we knew each other in real life football would bring us together. We're all going through the same disappointments, we may as well help each other through it rather than making the journey even more uncomfortable.
That last paragraph is mostly what I wanted to say before I started waffling, as I've been reading on here and on Twitter people getting irate with each other. Not trying to be patronising by the way it just saddens me to see my fellow Forest fans so downcast.
The ball is in Fawaz's court. Worrying times, but don't be too distraught mate - whatever happens we will bounce back.
