If the owners have plans to jump ship if we go down would they really throw another £30m at the club 4 months before it, in all probability, it is relegated? As things stand, we need to trust they are in it for the long run and are being honest when they say they have a long-term vision that includes a new multi-purpose stadium in West London. So far, Tony Fernandes and the clubs other owners have been fantastic and backed the manager all the way without sticking their noses in to team selection. Unfortunately they made a mistake with Hughes but as I've said before he seemed the perfect choice at the time given what he did for Blackburn and Fulham (respectable league positions and European football). I'm sure most other clubs in the league, Newcastle and Man Utd included would swap at the drop of the hat. Our owners are not risking the club by using its money or borrowing against it, they are using their own and the CLUB has ZERO debt!!!
As for Fair Play, it is 100% unfair for smaller clubs. Is it fair that QPR have to compete in the same fair play league as Man Utd with a 76k seater stadium?? All these new rules will do is keep the big clubs at the top and ruin smaller ones. For example, we could never afford players like Samba and Remy as our 18k seater stadium could nit fund them and in turn we will never make into Europe to start earning more money to expand it.
It is totally ridiculous what UEFA are doing and the only way for small clubs to compete is to have wealthy backers willing to give them a jump start. Fingers crossed that is what is going on with us, if not and they pull out in the next couple of years, we'll just be back where we were 4 years ago!!!