My view is this.
Xia bought us at a very knockdown price. There's no secret in the fact that he was interested in other clubs until he found out that we were available. All of a sudden he's a fan with endless funds that's going to throw money at us until we became the biggest club in Europe if not the world.
If he had succeeded then his investment would have paid off handsomely and would have made him a genuine billionaire.
Now we all know that this was an impossible task especially the timescale he claimed to be able to achieve this.
Fast forward to now. We are still in the Championship, we will be weaker squad wise, we will have less money coming in. Even if he has money he can't put any more in due to FFP. The longer it takes to get out of this league the bigger the gap to the top Premier League teams gets.
If he is a billionaire he can simply keep it in his portfolio of companies, make it self sufficient with little input of his own money and leave it to his team of Wyness, Round and Bruce to keep it going and at least keep it's asset value at what it is on his books.
Now on the other foot, what if he is potless and needs cash. It appears the news on his other companies doesn't look to be good. They appear to be making sizable losses and hemorrhaging cash at an alarming rate.
In this case what would he do. Obviously if he needs cash then he has to sell something. For all we know he could have put all his companies including AVFC up for sale to see which he can sell the most quickly.
My view is that he has fallen on hard times and had gambled on his 3 year plan for us to work, which failed. I still believe that he would have sold us for a handsome profit should we have been promoted. Either way I don't thing he was here for the long term and the stories about us being on the market don't surprise me one bit.
Let's just hope he doesn't start to asset strip the club to get some cash rolling in.
