In my opinion, the Americans miscalculated two big things: stadium redevelopment & Brexit.

That aside, I suspect they feel a mid table finish is realistic without significant spend. They are risk takers & perhaps willing to take that risk.

A better question is why they aren't investing far more to know the market? We clearly aren't fabulous in that regard.

I seem to recall that nine years ago when the gang of four rescued the club that they said they were unwilling purchasers and were only doing it as a last resort and would be custodians until a willing purchaser could be found.

It seems to me that three of the original four have stuck by their original promise and have either vastly reduced their stakes or sold out completely with only Steve Parish now seemingly happy running the club and wanting to hang on to his stake

This post has been merged from a topic called 'Is the 30points a curse' by Midlands Eagle

I presume our lack of commitment in this window is the view that we are safe for another season.Would have been very interesting to have seen the scenario if we had 20 points and in danger of losing premiership status I'm sure parish would have dug deep then .very disappointing that we have little ambition than to be a mid to bottom outfit which I suppose was Roy's remit

See your back to your normal if and buts arguments that mean nothing Rudi.
Like Marco Silva is a great manager and didn't get Hull relegated really because all the games they lost under him they should have won. Then he went on to really shine at Watford and Everton, but I suppose all the games lost under him taking them on course for relegation were all down to bad luck.

Bad luck comes and goes, we have had a few VAR go against us as well this season and having a good goalkeeper in form is not against the rules.

Having a manager that gives the team a stable playing format to take advantage of the good form and any luck that comes our way is why we are where we are.

If Silva had proper defensive coaches he’d probably still be at Everton.

We’ve had more good fortune than bad on var. About time we had some luck our way, but it’s not a platform that the decision makers should take for granted as I’ll explain.

Of course a keeper is part of the 11 but when you’re among the lowest scorers, your keeper is player of the month almost every month and the richest club in the world is looking at him then it tells the story.

My point is that the financing and view of the US shareholders has us on a tightrope more than a criticism of Roy, who I think is mostly doing what he’s forced to in keeping a steady trickle of points coming in for a minimum return in his viewpoint. As many have said, a means to an end. My criticism is of the owners taking liberties with where we are currently and not what’s round the corner. Lack of backups has been an issue for years now and we’re (the US shareholders) lucky we’ve got to January without being in our usually precarious position when needing to spend more than we would’ve done in the first place in August, and possibly had more choice and less panic as well.