I'm in a privileged situation where I do know our owners plans because I have someone very close to me who has been involved in meetings this summer at the club. Plans have been drawn to extend to 72k in 10 years, 60k in five years and 42k next summer, as soon as planning permission is granted.
They've had a taste of CL and want it regularly and the aim next season is to qualify for Europe. That's not an outside ambition, it's their ambition and they're recruiting accordingly.
They want to emulate City and Chelsea's success and they look at them and think "we have the money and the ambition so why not us?" and the reality is nothing is stopping them because all you need is money and ambition along with the correct ingredients at a club and we have that in abundance. So their five year plan is to cement ourselves as a regular CL team and then the following five is serious annual title contenders.
Our owners wealth has risen from £1.2bn to £3.7bn and only the Sheikh and Roman have more money and that's not including our anonymous Chinese investor who is worth considerably more than Vichai by all accounts and he owns 22%. We're also now above Everton in the rich list which just shows how much money we do have now and how big we are globally. Fact is we're well known around the world now and with all due respect Southampton nor Everton are and that's the reality of 2017.
Our owners have just bought themselves a Leicester City jumbo jet to go along with the Belgian second tier club they've just bought. On top
of that when the stadium is extended they're also building a complex with restaurants and a hotel which they'll franchise out and an indoor arena with an ice rink and to house concerts. This is so the football club make money everyday not just matchday. Our owners aren't going anywhere, this is part of their business empire now and they're only getting bigger.
