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Significant investment by FPP has been made

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Guinness Guzzler said:
Of course it is. If we wanted a loan we'd have gone to a bank. If they wanted to operate as a bank they'd have set up FPP Bank Ltd and probably loaned to less risky customers than a slightly ailing third division football club. Sounds like they don't want the risk of being shareholders at this stage (if we don't do well the value drops). Instead they loan money so they can at least get 100% of it back if things go badly. If the money is well spent and we go up then they can convert it into shares and away we go, safe in the knowledge they've already invested in infrastructure to hopefully make succeeding and getting better returns in the future that bit easier. If they're concerned about risk it seems a sensible way of doing it
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How mate?
 
JVokes said:
Not bothered if he wants to make money from us but he was always going to be making money from us after using the clubs parachute money to basically buy us (pay the debt as Charlie says) Alot of people could of came in and cut costs tho you don’t have to really put any money in to cut costs. So will have to do alot more for the club in my eyes, alot of bad decisions in his 18 months the easy part was cutting costs. (Depends how much we still paying for catts etc then having to replace them with lesser players anyway)
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Not everyone. Why did Bain and Short not try to cut costs?

However he managed it, SD freed the club from a huge amount of toxic commitments. He's not here to bankroll us. I agree that SD has made some crap decisions on the footballing side of things like the academy and recruitment but credit where it's due.
 
If American investors are not taking shares for investment. Is this just a loan against stadium and academy as collateral ? Seems a bit murky
 
vinegar hill said:
So 3 billionaires have been impressed enough with our club to invest what is said to be an 8 figure sum, surely this can only be a positive happening?
Yet we have the negative brigade out in force rubbishing it.
What do they fuckin want.
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First of all have you seen the piece in the echo ?
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
Of course it is. If we wanted a loan we'd have gone to a bank. If they wanted to operate as a bank they'd have set up FPP Bank Ltd and probably loaned to less risky customers than a slightly ailing third division football club. Sounds like they don't want the risk of being shareholders at this stage (if we don't do well the value drops). Instead they loan money so they can at least get 100% of it back if things go badly. If the money is well spent and we go up then they can convert it into shares and away we go, safe in the knowledge they've already invested in infrastructure to hopefully make succeeding and getting better returns in the future that bit easier. If they're concerned about risk it seems a sensible way of doing it
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Exactly this.

There’s no way 3 or 4 American billionaires are going to loan £10m to make a few hundred grand interest when it’s paid back.

Investment initially leading to full takeover of all goes to plan. I have no faith in those still in charge, but with these new ‘investors’ hanging about they simply can’t afford to fuck it up.

It’s only a positive this investment, and hopefully the 1st step on a long way back
 
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Has anybody broken this down and looked into it yet? For somebody that is a long way from an expert on business investments this sounds scarily like they have loaned us some money secured against the stadium and academy ? Aka our estate has been sold off through the back door??
 
willisthm said:
Investment is focusing on developing the scouting network across Europe and UK. Sadly Coton is in charge of this.
Big chunk is going on the development of the academy and bringing in younger players.
The area us fans will notice is the swapping of the ticket office and the club shop and the building of a supporters bar on the east stand and a new fanzone.

Won’t be a great deal spent on players unfortunately.
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I was aware of the plans for the ticket office to accommodate the club shop but thought that the plan was for the shop to be then turned to some corporate hospitality area. I had not heard anything anout a supporters bar in the East Stand can you cast any further light on this?
 
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