Whilst reading this thread, it got me thinking about Sisu's exit plan and what sort of return they are looking at when they finally head off to ruin someone else's life. Just say for saying sake, if they bought the Ricoh for £40m and with all the debt they have already and what they stand to lose from the Sixfields debacle, what do people think be a realistic figure they would want for a stadium and team united and how much longer we would have to put up with them and their hold over us until they got it, would they be prepared to take a hit on it just to go ? What sort of person would be interested after they bought it who wouldn't be interested already ? wonder if they would try and sell to PH4 considering his links to NFL and try have have a two sport stadium.
I guess it depends on your mindset as to whether you believe that the only end-game in SISU's mind is to recoup their losses and get out as soon as possible when they have achieved that (or got to the point where they have cut their losses as much as they can) by selling on the whole caboosh.
Or, there is another scenario that might be worth thinking about, however unpalatable some might think it to be, and that is if it all comes together as per SISU's master plan, and I don't presume that many people outside SISU actually
really know what that may be (although there is no shortage of wild guesswork and conspiracy theory with no real foundation in fact), SISU will look at how they have reduced the debt from huge to next to nothing in a relatively short period, and then will look at having got rid of the debt, working in profits in future years.
Don't forget that although our main concern is all about the football team (with the obvious exception of the Ricoh stadium devotees), that is almost certainly only a part of SISU's interest. They will almost certainly want to explore opportunities in developing other, non-football, income streams, but if they can pull it off and make our team competitive with the best at the same time, I say good luck to them.