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Takeover News/Rumours - Part 42

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Guinness Guzzler said:
I'm fairly pleased that we finally seem to have some sort of a plan. The takeover/ investment thing has lost a bit of excitement as far as I'm concerned though. From talk of FPP with great plans etc we've now got the same people staying here and one person taking more shares. KLD is rich, but lots of clubs have rich owners and do nowt so I'll wait and see in terms of how ambitious we're going to be. It must be an improvement on what we've got like, but it obviously isn't the same as what we were all excited about last year
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I’m sure like me you and nearly all safc fans would prefer someone with a cunning feasible plan over mere money. If they’ve both however.....
 

mutley said:
It's not a takeover mate, a new investor is buying 40% of the shares, the other60% will still be in the hands of the people who are calling the shots now ;)
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If that was the case, it 100% wouldn’t take this time. Checking over 1 persons involvement and where their wealth is from/is it legal. Been about 6 weeks since the Guardian claimed EFL was next stage. 3 weeks this Sunday since RR said was now with EFL.
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
This. Donald, for all I don't trust much of what he says, does seem to be someone who wants to be liked. I think he genuinely enjoys the whole sitting with the crowd on a Saturday side of things. He must know now that he's never going to get that back. He might even have the self awareness to realise that he's failing and will continue to fail. As such, he might be happy to take a back seat but he won't want to lose money, hence wanting to keep some shares in case someone else can improve us. He'll sit in Oxford and hope we succeed so he can get paid and forget all about it.

Methven is a different beast. Firstly, I don't think he gives a fuck about being liked. Secondly, I certainly don't credit him with the self awareness to realise he's failed. Likely he'll either be arrogant/ self confident enough to think he's doing a great job, or he'll think anything that has gone wrong has been the fault of others. He probably thinks he can add value to his shares and thus will be pushing for as much influence as possible. I just hope that KLD (assuming he does come in) has the funds and ambition to try and get us back up the leagues quite swiftly and has no interest in listening to Methven.
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The only difference between the two is one doesn’t try to hide the fact he’s a complete twat.
 
Lord Potts said:
That's as may be but as reluctant as I am to say it I think that a lot of people who have the means to buy the Club probably wouldn't find Sunderland attractive enough to want to spend a lot of time in the City. Short didn't and I don't think that any of the DELL boys would have done. Does Mike Ashley spend a lot of time up in Newcastle running the club?

The days of a hands on local business man having the means to own a Club the size of SAFC is long gone. The last at SAFC who was able to do so was Bob Murray and even he recognised that given the money that it required it had become almost an impossibility. We have also been reminded of that by the buffoons who are currently in charge of the Club that its ownership is well out of the league of those with just a couple of million to spend.

In some ways we are probably better off now that the technology is here as it does enable people with big money to be involved in the running and ownership of the Club. I think that the huge and highly expensive boardroom table that Bob Murray proudly fitted in the SOL 20 years ago might just be a bit obsolete these days.
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So essentially the bones of your post are that football clubs live beyond their means, the day we get back to some semblance of *normality* will be better for all concerned, apart from the below average footballers we employ on extortionate wages.
 
G Force said:
Kikdare or “Paddymackem” as he pretended/lied to have been in a previous username won’t be back. Got rumbled and left. He’s probably back on here with a different username mind
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If he was someone high up connected to the club, what was the whole f***ing dyslexia nonsense about? Acting?
viccarlton said:
So essentially the bones of your post are that football clubs live beyond their means, the day we get back to some semblance of *normality* will be better for all concerned, apart from the below average footballers we employ on extortionate wages.
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We're not going back to normality in this respect. It's gone, world's changed.
 
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viccarlton said:
So essentially the bones of your post are that football clubs live beyond their means, the day we get back to some semblance of *normality* will be better for all concerned, apart from the below average footballers we employ on extortionate wages.
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No they are not. My post didn't touch on any of those points but I am impressed how you managed misunderstand it to such a degree that you deduced all of that from it.
 
mutley said:
It's not a takeover mate, a new investor is buying 40% of the shares, the other60% will still be in the hands of the people who are calling the shots now ;)
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But the clear upshot - clear because its already happened - is a fundamental change in the way the club is run, with a Sporting Director calling the shots. This does change everything.

Meanwhile, we have more means and access to money should we need it.

Who f***ing cares if Donald retains a stake to make some money? Not me, or at least not anywhere near as much as I care about the above.
 
Lord Potts said:
No they are not. My post didn't touch on any of those points but I am impressed how you managed misunderstand it to such a degree that you deduced all of that from it.
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The days of a hands on local business man having the means to own a Club the size of SAFC is long gone. The last at SAFC who was able to do so was Bob Murray and even he recognised that given the money that it required it had become almost an impossibility. We have also been reminded of that by the buffoons who are currently in charge of the Club that its ownership is well out of the league of those with just a couple of million to spend.
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I deduced what I did by your assertion on the ability of local businessmen etc. being unable to finance a club these days, thereby suggesting that they all live beyond the means of general income and moderate financial support.
Please forgive me for analysing it in this way, but there you go.
 
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