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lozza said:
Without going into detail i'm guessing whoever this group your talking about has sufficient funds then?
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Doubt they have enough to fund a promotion push in the championship in a couple of seasons time , that should be the prerequisite for new owner Imo.
 

sad-eyed prophet said:
I agree anyone buying the club needs to have significant funds to make a difference...otherwise what's the point. I disagree that staying with Short will do anything other than demoralise the club further. Going into the third division will require a bit more than Gooch,Honeyman and Maja to succeed and to say there's no excuse for failure in that division under our current financial mess is tempting fate. All Short has agreed to do is to meet the shortfall of running costs over income,there's no suggestion he's going to spend any of the savings we might make from getting rid of our dross players on anything other than paying off debt.
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Of course we'll need more than just those young lads, but with no one spending money and us having a good wage budget for the league as well as being the biggest club down there there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to complement those lads with some decent (for that level), battle hardened, physical players who will let us compete. I don't really believe in tempting fate, to be honest I don't think the lack of funds was much of an excuse for failing this season, if we'd got a couple of signings better (found a vaguely competent keeper, maybe managed to get McBurnie instead of Fletcher) and had we been organised at the back, we'd have stayed up comfortably. I don't think it's being arrogant to suggest that what we've got and what we can bring in should be enough to be confident of avoiding a third relegation, I'm not suggesting we'll walk the league or anything. Short or not the target has to be promotion though
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
Of course we'll need more than just those young lads, but with no one spending money and us having a good wage budget for the league as well as being the biggest club down there there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to complement those lads with some decent (for that level), battle hardened, physical players who will let us compete. I don't really believe in tempting fate, to be honest I don't think the lack of funds was much of an excuse for failing this season, if we'd got a couple of signings better (found a vaguely competent keeper, maybe managed to get McBurnie instead of Fletcher) and had we been organised at the back, we'd have stayed up comfortably. I don't think it's being arrogant to suggest that what we've got and what we can bring in should be enough to be confident of avoiding a third relegation, I'm not suggesting we'll walk the league or anything. Short or not the target has to be promotion though
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I hear what you say. I'm worried that in the event of no sale,any cost savings we're able to make by getting rid of expensive players will be kept by Short to reduce the shortfall/debt rather than to reinvest. That could leave us in a position where he won't even sanction modest salary player acquisition....and we're then forced into fielding a side full of inexperience,which would likely struggle.
 
Any buyer with a grain of business sense would wait until August next year when the situation re SBC is resolved. While a sale now would be nice, I'd have to have doubts about the acumen of a group that actually did it.
 
sad-eyed prophet said:
I hear what you say. I'm worried that in the event of no sale,any cost savings we're able to make by getting rid of expensive players will be kept by Short to reduce the shortfall/debt rather than to reinvest. That could leave us in a position where he won't even sanction modest salary player acquisition....and we're then forced into fielding a side full of inexperience,which would likely struggle.
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This is my view aswell. Sell who he can and then make do with what we have left
 
There's no doubt if he stays in charge, we're in serious trouble. I agree that any funds coming in are going to pay the costs around the club rather than invest in new players.

The longer he pushes back the 'full overhaul', the further we will fall in the intervening period, and the more out of whack the eventual spend will seem in comparison with other teams wherever we end up.

I haven't heard anything new, which is not unexpected really as I don't think it's going to get over the line this week.
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
Any buyer with a grain of business sense would wait until August next year when the situation re SBC is resolved. While a sale now would be nice, I'd have to have doubts about the acumen of a group that actually did it.
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We can't wait that long Grumpy. We need a deal now and SBC are going to have to be on board with it. Anything else merely has us falling deeper into the pit.
 
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