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Not to go too serious, but again we have to thank Ellis Short for this. In wiping the debt, he made us a serious value proposition. To get a club of our standing, largely debt free, at League One prices made us very attractive - much more so than the Mags. The current owners have done very well to wait for the best bid, but it was inevitable there'd be interest. If we'd still had millions of pounds of debt, nobody would be touching us.

And why were we in millions of pounds of debt? He helped rectify the mistakes that were made. We should never have been in that mess in the first place and should still be in the PL now. If several years of shite results in us being taken over by people who know what they're doing and have an ambitious to make the club great, fantastic, it was worth it.
 
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when the fans actually sell out regualrly..even in the prem that didnt happen and the gates were falltterred by thousand os of freebies..

We’ve been down trodden for quite a while now, attendance at the first home game suggests that we are still clinging onto some hope of a bit success.

Best football we’ve played was the Reid years, I’m sure there were plenty sell outs then.

Bring some excitement and a bit of hope and the fans will return.

We’ve had that much negative shite associated with us that we have a load of supporters that have a glass half empty, can’t blame them really.
 
fat mike t hundreds of millions in though...we dont know if dell will..
True, but fat Mike’s money was mainly to sort out the debt left by previous owners. Wouldn’t object to seeing hundreds of millions being thrown around, but I’d be quite happy just to see us competing in the Premiership as a well ran, sustainable club.
 
Is he? These guys won't accept failure but also can afford it so less pressure. The darkest sky is before the dawn. I just looked at SSN and was buzzing, then I looked to the right and my spirits literally dropped as a picture of Steve Bruce and 'news conference' was there.....talk about depressing. "Well, wor can role wor sleeves up and beat Spurs, wuh not bothad aboot the rich mackems like'.
The only one out of the four that's not an actual billionaire is John Phelan (the one on the far left) however he runs MSD's investment vehicle and again is one of the top 200 art collectors in the world so that suggests he still has serious financial clout.
 
Turned this thread off last night at 11:30 at 60 pages.
Its now only 9 in the morn and its nearly at 100.
Seeing the sky ticker.
What have i missed ???
 
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We’ve been down trodden for quite a while now, attendance at the first home game suggests that we are still clinging onto some hope of a bit success.

Best football we’ve played was the Reid years, I’m sure there were plenty sell outs then.

Bring some excitement and a bit of hope and the fans will return.

We’ve had that much negative shite associated with us that we have a load of supporters that have a glass half empty, can’t blame them really.
so we had 10 years in he prem..mostly shit ones aye..and couldnt sell out regualrly?
 
Yeah I'm bitter & twisted Einstein - How I wish I was going to Rochdale on a Tuesday night to watch a bunch of clobbers & journeymen, none of whom I've ever heard of before.
And yet here you are on a Sunderland forum. Nearly as obsessed as those sillyfuckers up the road.
 
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