If there was ever the case of doing the wrong thing at the wrong time this is it. Financial matters apart, I could see a case at the end of the season for one or all of Wyness, Round and Bruce going, as they share the responsibility for the transfers of January 2017 not doing the trick, and the extra load of transfers the following summer. But that rather assumed that the owner was in full control (financially as well as everything else) and wanted a new team at the helm. As I said, I could see a case for it, even though I thought it wrong.
However, when we have financial meltdown, when we have an additional crisis in pre-season being upon us and the club effectively paralyzed, when to have any hope of getting through this we need what expertise we do have within the club pulling things together, then sacking the lynch pin of the football side of the club is not only diabolic, it is utterly stupid.
The only thing which might, and I emphasis might, justify this is if a change of ownership is just about to happen, and the new owner already has a team set up waiting to slot in place (the one parallel I can think of is Doug sacking DoL before Lerner actually took over). Even then, an abrupt change of critical staff is not what we need; there were a lot of positives last season, and we don't want those thrown away.
I hope Bruce stays, as that means if they want to get rid of him they'll have to sack him, and I think that will hurt Xia financially more than the club.
I also hope Jack refuses to go if they try to sell him, as that will help scupper any sell-off of assets.
As for Round, there was talk of interest from Arsenal before Xmas so I think he'll do all right.
The Mirror repeats the old rumour about Xia being a front for other investors, who may be wanting to see a return on their investments. Don't think they'll see that, but it would mean that Xia is now looking totally at how much money he can salvage. Not good for the club. Worrying times. Adminstration might be a good thing.