facing bankruptcy even. I'm sure Moshiri wasn't setting out to ruin the club but lack of judgement on that scale is pretty hard to comprehend - it was pretty obvious from the start that they were a bunch of shysters. Was Usmanov putting pressure on him to sell to anyone who could put up the cash?

I don't think many will ever know for certain as the links aren't clear enough. Certainly the timing of the money tap being turned off coincided with the Ukraine invasion - then again we were starting to get into trouble with FFP at the same time. Who knows - all done with now anyway and we can finally start to look forward.