Who by and on what evidence? I hear this trotted out from time from time but with little evidence to the contrary - people have short memories - we were in deep **** and anyone that says anything else is deluded. Do you think if we had been taken over at the last minute by the local candlestickmaker we would be in the Premier League? No, and people would be moaning about that. Football these days is a business and rightly or wrongly Cortese has made a business decision - only time will tell if it was correct.