Trawl back through Lambert's last few interviews and you'll find he's been using the "it will all become clear in a few weeks" line for a while now. Not sure what will become clear, but he's certainly known about it for longer than mentioning it yesterday. I think it will be easier for Evans to sell the club as a league one club with potential than as a stagnant championship team. He won't recoup everything he's put in but it's a chance to get a loss making business off his books.
There is certainly an element of offsetting losses which makes the risk to reward ratio very attractive - but the risk has not paid off. I think he genuinely thought it would be inevitable to be promoted and is coming to the realisation now that he’s miles away from the Premier League financial rewards and no longer wants to throw good money after bad.
The temptation for a clean break from both Evans and Lambert this summer is appealing. Look at Sunderland - saddled with a uninterested, distant owner and a succession of poor managers, as well as wider similarities to our current predicament. One summer later - the owner sold up, wiped the debts, and an engaging fresh face in the dug out and the board room brought back enthusiasm and the feeling of a fresh, new era. They’re now in the hunt for instant promotion and went to Wembley for a cup final. My thoughts on Evans have been pretty consistent and largely disparaging for several years now. I’ve not changed my mind on that front. I honestly feel that while there are undoubtedly worse potential owners out there, we shouldn’t be scared to settle for a man who demonstrably invests little in the club (over recent years) and has allowed the club to stagnate and decline on his watch. My thoughts on Lambert are that despite some encouraging recent performances in draws and an almost unrivalled ability for producing good PR, he makes frequent selection and tactical mistakes, as well as his inability to win games. Say what you want about the state of the squad, and it’s evidently one of the worst Ipswich sides ever put together, two wins out of 25 among this ordinary set of Championship clubs is terrible form. Some supporters strongly believe Lambert is a transformational manager who we’d collapse without. But I’d argue that coming off the false dawn of the “new era” under Hurst and by virtue of not being Mick McCarthy, Lambert knew that if he said the right words and made an effort to get this side playing attractive football (tactically misguided, initially), some long suffering Town fans would cling to him like a limpet. So yes, the temptation for a clean break is an appealing one.