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How would the fans feel


So we still owe Drumaville £25m do we???
No. That's what happened to the parachute. That £25m ended up with SBC, but had to go via Madrox and Drumaville to get there. Would have been far simpler to have left it in the club, but the overall impression I got was that the legals for the Madrox takeover were put together by Lionel Huttz.
 
Why does a club with a supposedly wealthy and fully invested owner need to take out a loan in the first place?


Of course, it's madness despite the learned posters saying that there could be reasons.

He does not want to invest another penny of his money. He wants to sell up asap and make a few quid.

Why on earth he is wasting his time with making a small profit when he is super rich?

Some on here would say yes he is rich and the rich still love to make a killing even if its small but come on.

Some would also say that it's a learning process for him as he moves along the food chain and looks to buy a huge Euro club.

That will not happen imo anyway.

Maybe he is just realising the stress of owning a big football club and just can't handle it!
 
“Sustainable” is convenient.

Their loan pretty much cancels out anything they’ve put in. Just SD and CM in fancier clothes.
I'm fairly certain they had previously committed to converting that internal debt into equity.

Always was.concerned about sartori's continued presence at the club and it appears dreyfus is not much different from any of that msdrox group.
 
aye but its been worse before so we should be grateful for what we have now.

Thing is had Donald not been a just second hand car dealer I think he would have been far more ambitious than KLD. Or put it another way if he had his money he would invest more of it. I honestly think he was more passionate as highlighted by the ridiculous Grigg decision.,
 
But if the loan was for £35 million which is rumoured elsewhere and considering the state of the SOL it would kind of make sense.

In essence wouldn't it be like the glaziers did in using club assets to loan the money to buy the club?

You never ever take loans out to pay for maintenance, it's the quickest step to going bust.

It's a death wish as you'll just be constantly loaning and loaning and loaning to do the basics until the tap dries out and you're screwed.

Any loan money must be spent on stuff to increase the value somehow, they deserve massive criticism if they don't and that's regardless to who.
 
Of course, it's madness despite the learned posters saying that there could be reasons.

He does not want to invest another penny of his money. He wants to sell up asap and make a few quid.

Why on earth he is wasting his time with making a small profit when he is super rich?

Some on here would say yes he is rich and the rich still love to make a killing even if its small but come on.

Some would also say that it's a learning process for him as he moves along the food chain and looks to buy a huge Euro club.

That will not happen imo anyway.

Maybe he is just realising the stress of owning a big football club and just can't handle it!
Also might be a daft question, but why only £10m?
 
Support the club themselves. We're not losing huge sums of money. They simply shouldn't have taken the club on if they can't. And whilst I suspect their wealth is nowhere near what people speculate they should have access to finds to plug the gap.

Taking on external debt costs the club money. And would highlight what absolute nonsense his claims about the club being sustainable are.
So in summary, you want him to fund the clubs losses out of his own pocket so you can have a better football team.

Got it.
Don't know. Put it up for sale. See who's interested. That's the usual way isn't it.
Try eBay
So we still owe Drumaville £25m do we???
No it was paid off, as per the plan all along. It was shorts way of getting the parachute money
Hopefully make him sell up
Do you think owners sell because people boo?
 
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So in summary, you want him to find the clubs losses out of his own pocket so you can have a better football team.

Got it.

If you purchase a business which you can't fund out of your own funds, then you should sell it ASAP.

Taking external debt to pay for the basics is unsustainable in every way possible, especially when it will never become profitable in this league, so it's just a downwards spiral.

This applies for any business not just football.

External debt for anything else but investment is a red flag as an understatement.
 
So in summary, you want him to fund the clubs losses out of his own pocket so you can have a better football team.

Got it.

Try eBay

No it was paid off, as per the plan all along. It was shorts way of getting the parachute money

Do you think owners sell because people boo?
Short didn't get the parachute money, that money went to pay-off the last of the debt to SBC like it was always meant to do
 
It’s been known for a while that our income doesn’t cover our regular outgoings.
As I understand it, most “investments” into a football club are done in the form of a loan.
yes but not loans by external people...loans from directors and owners..like abramavhich loaning money to chelsea.
 
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