When you're 13th in the table, and wishing you could spend £500m to overhaul the mighty Palace, Brentford, Fulham and Bournemouth.
When you're £1B in debt, with interest payments alone of £30M a year - and that's to be rescheduled in 18 months and ain't going any lower.
When you've a stadium full of vermin - not to mention the rodent infestation - and leaks to contend with over the coming years, if you don't get...
Your pipedream; a new stadium, estimated at £2B cost now, and more likely £3-4B in a minimum of 5 years before it's built.
You have to realise where they're most likely to be, as they make their pipedream move; top of the league? Still 13th? Championship?
More likely, fast asleep and dreaming - and then they wake up....Scruffy's still there with his begging bowl every time he deigns to come over from his tax haven home in Monaco; United are still shit and Premier League dreams are far, far away; and there's still that terrible smell at the swamp that is Old Trafford.
Scum.