Firoz Kassam has revealed that he is looking to bring in someone else to run Oxford United to help him out when he is abroad.

The U's chairman and owner spends much of the year in his home in Monaco or on business abroad, and that can lead to difficulties when on-the-spot decisions are needed at the club.

He revealed to the Oxford Mail: "I am looking to bring in someone else to run the club. It is something I have been thinking about for some time, and it may happen in the next few months."

Despite looking at possibly appointing a chief executive, Kassam has no intention of relinquishing his control of Oxford United, although he admits that his frustrations, and the abuse he gets from some fans, have led him to admit that Brian Talbot could well be his last managerial appointment.

The failure to get out of the Football League's bottom division, after sinking to it five years ago, have made him start to doubt himself.

But he says he is con- vinced that new boss Talbot, who has been handed a two-year contract, is the right man for the job.

Kassam said: "To be honest, if I can't get it right in the next two years that Brian is with me, I would have to seriously consider whether I'm the right person to take this club forward.

"But I don't want to walk away, I want to give it one last go.

"I still believe I should give it one last go and that's what I'm doing.

"I want promotion next season. Brian's two-year contract is to take us up into the Championship, with promotion one season after the other. I want to get us into the Championship, that's my ambition, and I will happily hand over then."

Kassam admits that, while the rest of his business empire has been a big success, Oxford United Football Club continues to give him sleepless nights.

"It's getting really frustrating and, to be honest, I don't need it (the aggravation). I am trying to do my best and I think the genuine fans can see that.

"Fans are getting frustrated and I understand that but it's not for lack of trying, and it would be a shame for me to walk away now.

"After a couple of years, if I haven't done it then, then I will have to seriously question myself.

There's only so much I can give. I don't need it for the money."

Jean Marc Goiran says he offered Kassam several different ways of getting out as chairman, to hand over the club to him.

But Kassam claimed to the Oxford Mail: "Jean Marc Goiran doesn't have two pennies to rub together. There's no way he could have taken this club over."

And on his dealings with the Argentinians, he insisted: "I had an agreement with Ramon until the end of the season. I promised them nothing, the other six. What Ramon had promised, or agreed with them was up to him."