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Sale is close - Barnsey

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The best outcome for Donald will be we start the season well, the pressure is off him a bit.

We get promoted and we are a more attractive proposition for buyers, especially if it coincides with fans being able to return with 100% capacity.

He just needs a boost from his mates to nail promotion this season.
 

Red and white TID said:
Who Marwood the massive Safc friend of ES who sold us Rodwell 🙄
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Someone with football knowledge, but you knew that :lol: Roll those eyes somewhere else

This board is becoming f***ing shite these days mind... an echo chamber of social media. Wums, argumentative arses and everything being either shite or amazing. Every thread descends into absolute shite. Shame as years ago this place was great. Never been the same since the SMB/PF split. Humour & decent debate long long
 
G Force said:
Someone with football knowledge, but you knew that :lol: Roll those eyes somewhere else

This board is becoming f***ing shite these days mind... an echo chamber of social media. Wums, argumentative arses and everything being either shite or amazing. Every thread descends into absolute shite. Shame as years ago this place was great. Never been the same since the SMB/PF split. Humour & decent debate long long
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I ok babez?
 
OzzyMac said:
Other than employing the wrong people i'm struggling to think what Ellis Short did wrong. Please enlighten me why he'd be almost as bad as SD.
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Ellis created the problem by allowing the club to fester and rot.
The ground work of where we are at now was by Ellis, ignoring his investment and allowing the debt to grow, was his and his alone responsibility.

His employees he knew would be able to walk away or be sacked at a moment's notice.
It was unbelievable he didn't think to have a business plan to resolve a financial time bomb.

Employing the wrong people, created wrong decisions that went unchecked, a business disaster by what we were told was a successful businessman.

The reason that SD is here was due to Ellis failing at Sunderland.
 
G Force said:
Someone with football knowledge, but you knew that :lol: Roll those eyes somewhere else

This board is becoming f***ing shite these days mind... an echo chamber of social media. Wums, argumentative arses and everything being either shite or amazing. Every thread descends into absolute shite. Shame as years ago this place was great. Never been the same since the SMB/PF split. Humour & decent debate long long
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Oi my tv thread the best on here thank you arguably the most friendly thread on here
 
G Force said:
Someone with football knowledge, but you knew that :lol: Roll those eyes somewhere else

This board is becoming f***ing shite these days mind... an echo chamber of social media. Wums, argumentative arses and everything being either shite or amazing. Every thread descends into absolute shite. Shame as years ago this place was great. Never been the same since the SMB/PF split. Humour & decent debate long long
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Someone shit in your knicker draw?
 
KittenMittens said:
Well selling the club is going to be very very difficult. He knows that the most likely outcome of the summer is that he remains the owner and has to try and get through the next season.

Financially, it benefits him if we think there'll be a new owner soon and more people buy season cards, buy shirts etc. If he can get through the summer and winter windows, he'll have bought himself a whole season to try and figure out a sale or have another crack at getting us up.
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Seasons cards are unlikely to be on sale before Xmas at a best guess and I cannot get my head around the fact that people won't buy themselves a shirt for themselves or kids based upon whether the club is up for sale or not. Donald has a depreciating asset with a projected income stream plunging. It'll be difficult to sell but perhaps easier to get investment where the risks are shared. I cannot get my head around the proposition that he would pretend the Club is up for sale as some sort of Svengali conspiracy to make him money. I think it will be difficult in the current climate to sell but I'm more likely to believe that rumours swirling around have some basis of truth, particularly around Micky Gray given his current silence. In any event a sale at the end of the month would enable Donald to mitigate losses though regrettably have little impact upon the playing side as we''l be off and running in the league and waiting for te 2021 transfer window opening before the new owners could have much impact.
 
Not sure any takeover now will change much for the coming season. So much uncertainty now about covid, crowds coming back, wage caps etc, so I doubt any new owners would be splashing out soon. I'll be quite happy to let PP sort out his squad, add what he can and get us ready. In a way, the experience of the last 2 seasons should mean that, as a club, we know what's required to get out of this shit league. Even SD has a huge incentive to get us over the line this time. Time now to just get our heads down and get it done.
 
G Force said:
Someone with football knowledge, but you knew that :lol: Roll those eyes somewhere else

This board is becoming f***ing shite these days mind... an echo chamber of social media. Wums, argumentative arses and everything being either shite or amazing. Every thread descends into absolute shite. Shame as years ago this place was great. Never been the same since the SMB/PF split. Humour & decent debate long long
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Blame me, mate, for one. I lobbied Roger to split it so I could find the football threads... that may have been a mistake ☹

(Oh - and I also asked Cowie to hire McMenemy. 😧 Hanging is too good for me 😢)
 
G Force said:
Someone with football knowledge, but you knew that :lol: Roll those eyes somewhere else

This board is becoming f***ing shite these days mind... an echo chamber of social media. Wums, argumentative arses and everything being either shite or amazing. Every thread descends into absolute shite. Shame as years ago this place was great. Never been the same since the SMB/PF split. Humour & decent debate long long
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Times change mate and members come and go.
At least the place still thrives when a lot of forums folded after the shìte that is Facebook killed em ;)
 
PS said:
Blame me, mate, for one. I lobbied Roger to split it so I could find the football threads... that may have been a mistake ☹

(Oh - and I also asked Cowie to hire McMenemy. 😧 Hanging is too good for me 😢)
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So “you’re” to blame for all of this. And to think I once bought you a pint too:cry:
 
KittenMittens said:
I reckon we're being had completely here. Said it from the start, but all this smacks of Donald trying to buy himself some time/goodwill when he has none and the entire narrative is against him.

The idea that the takeover may be Sartori is a classic example. It could never be disproved, but equally, how underwhelming would it be if the ultimate outcome was that Sartori owned us from far afield, while Donald's gang of lackeys continued to run us day to day?

I don't think anyone is coming in to buy us as it stands - and I think they'd frankly be utterly insane to do it if there's even a 10% chance of wage limitations in the next 1-2 years. Such a massive risk.
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Buy time for what kitten? And not proceeding with another "sale" will just generate negative goodwill. I think honestly it's completely counter intuitive that he's generated a fake story, I'm not saying this will progress, and I'll blame him for literally everything bad in the world ATM, but I don't think this story is anything to do with him lying.

Oh and I trust prehab he knows stuff
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
My gut feeling? I think he's talking to someone or a group of someones, and a lot of disinformation is coming from all directions to make sure those someones aren't identified.
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There’s also no real need for him to rush. He’s ruined his investment so now he can wait for the best offer.

If the team were in a relegation battle or something he might be more inclined to sell immediately. As is, in the 3rd level at the start of a new season, he’s got time.
 
jtp0000 said:
There’s also no real need for him to rush. He’s ruined his investment so now he can wait for the best offer.

If the team were in a relegation battle or something he might be more inclined to sell immediately. As is, in the 3rd level at the start of a new season, he’s got time.
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With no revenue the presure will mount I believe Prehab its on going and he will sell
 
roppa said:
Buy time for what kitten? And not proceeding with another "sale" will just generate negative goodwill. I think honestly it's completely counter intuitive that he's generated a fake story, I'm not saying this will progress, and I'll blame him for literally everything bad in the world ATM, but I don't think this story is anything to do with him lying.

Oh and I trust prehab he knows stuff
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I've replied to this already, but I think he's setting up for next season and trying to get through until the start of the season/end of transfer window when the pressure tends to reduce.

With no takeover chat, we as fans would be in a different mindset, the pressure and narrative would be different for him and with such a thin skin, he'd be answering very different questions about our finances.

Like I said, it could be legit, but I feel like there are a lot of good reasons for someone to wait before buying us in L1. Something seems weird about how quick it went from nobody to exclusivity...
 
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