Smaller clubs are actually easier to manage then big clubs which is why the likes of Abu Dhabi and Saudi bought small clubs in the first place. One can buy a small club with a good fan base and great facilities (almost as good if not better to ours). On top of that the expectations are low, fans are ready to wait and a couple of good signings can be enough to paper the cracks and make the fan base happy. If they mess things up at the level of Nice and Lausanne then how on earth can they awake a sleeping giant whose got huge infrastructure and football issues and is competing in one of the toughest and most competitive leagues in football history?
The issue with Lausanne and Nice wasn't just in terms of investment (which was too low to meet the silly ambitions laid by SJR). The biggest issue was down to management. Take Lausanne as example. INEOS went there, they placed Bob Ratcliffe whose only football experience he had was coming from the same ball sack SJR came from and he messed it big time. What did SJR do? He moved him to Nice. Guess what happened next? He messed there as well. But that's not all. SJR ordered an audit. Guess who did the audit? You would presume that it came from an experienced football person right? Nope. The audit was made by bicycle man Brailsford whom in turn asked another genius Iain Moody as an advisor. While SJR was promising fans that they would be competing with PSG, the two idiots were busy buying every washed up player from the EPL. As if the likes of Ramsay, Pepe, Barkley and Schmeichel could go toe to toe with Messi, Neymar, Donnarumma and Mbappe. Do you think that Jimmy learnt from his mistakes? Of course not. Bobby Ratcliffe is head of football while cyclist man was part of SJR's inner core who visited Manchester United.
There's no doubt that as a business man SJR knows his stuff. However in football he's an absolute mess. Guess what? I support a football club not a petrochemical business.