Takeover Rumours

[Billy Whitehurts]

How much did QPR, Wolves, Villa, Fulham, Poocastle spend?

Would Man City be the dominant force that they are without their owners?

You’ve kind of proved my point there. Thanks. QPR and Fulham particularly.
Chucking money at it mindlessly doesn’t guarantee anything.
Spending wisely and building something on sound foundations does.
Leicester, Southampton, Burnley, Bournemouth. Perhaps these are better examples to consider???

 

[RichD]

I miss the Ceefax days. There was an appealing simplicity to it all.

Anyone else remember the epic Teletext headline “Sunderland sign Barnes”? You had to select the page to find out that it was Peter, not John......

Aye, I can also remember when you had to ring a phone number to get the latest news anarl, happy days

 

[ighty seven]

No one from the SMB knows what's happening do they? Let's be honest

if they don’t am going to look very, very silly at work when it all unravels.. av had me hair cut like Ronaldo and everything.

 

[Botchie]

No one from the SMB knows what's happening do they? Let's be honest

There's a couple of ITK posts on this thread that I know of. As for what others have posted I can only take their word.

 

[EchoMan]

Are we git rich as owt yit or what?

Latest news: Everyone I've been talking to, or receiving messages from, have gone silent as from last night ... not so much as a snippette.

I'm taking this to mean that there's a period of intensity started and something will come out quickly.

Please bear in mind everything except the first sentence is speculation.

If there was a problem I reckon I'd have heard so I'm just as confident as I've always been

i can confirm that I’ve heard nothing either. So it must be happening.

 

[cmmackem]

You’ve kind of proved my point there. Thanks. QPR and Fulham particularly.
Chucking money at it mindlessly doesn’t guarantee anything.
Spending wisely and building something on sound foundations does.
Leicester, Southampton, Burnley, Bournemouth. Perhaps these are better examples to consider???

Forgot about LC. Didnt they spend relatively large amounts?

 

[Roker Scoreboard]

There's a couple of ITK posts on this thread that I know of. As for what others have posted I can only take their word.

Just for the ITKs.... if they are posting on here and the source then reads it, they'll surely not be happy that a confidence has been breached.

 

[mackembulldog]

Jesus!! Must be about 70 new pages.. not sure whether this will end up Gerld or Parsnip... reading through I keep thinking Im getting a mix of about 30 different merged threads.

 

[DJ Doubt]

You’ve kind of proved my point there. Thanks. QPR and Fulham particularly.
Chucking money at it mindlessly doesn’t guarantee anything.
Spending wisely and building something on sound foundations does.
Leicester, Southampton, Burnley, Bournemouth. Perhaps these are better examples to consider???

Another good, recent example of how being rich can be dancing with the devil...

Man U signing Sanchez. At the time, City were also chasing. It made sense to break the bank to bring him in.

Fast forward 18months, he was on such a high wage that is sabotaged their own transfer activities. Apparently all of the players they spoke to all cited Sanchez's wage as the benchmark. "If he's earning that much and not playing, I should be paid £xxxxxxxx a week". Dybala tried to have their pants down.

One of the worst transfers in history and most fans were happy with it initially.

 

[molthemackem]

At the minute the club is operating below the bare minimum on every level. The first thing for me that needs doing with any investment is bringing in the staff to do the job. Scouts to cleaners. Employing the right people will have a knock on effect across the board.

been saying that for over four years mate...competent people from the bottom up..Scouting is a massive priority, the corporate also. The top level admin and PR staff, not people who are around although they may be capable will not be top of the tree, needed for when promotion to the championship is gained and high profile people from the manager, company solicitor to the company secretary who are capable and can manage at the highest level for when the situation arrives, top class footballing staff.

 

[DufraisFTM]

Anyone who doesn't think we are a big club are deranged tbh.
Big club in low league.
Just like man city were when they were here.
And just like City, mega rich owners have sat up and took notice.

Haway @Reiver man, get back in tha boardroom or the bogs an dee a bit more cleaning,
See if yer can pick up a few more snippets

To be honest mate it’s an argument that can go on forever and has no definitive answer. We’re bigger than most but not as big as others is the way I like to look at it. With regards to this takeover, though, I stand by what I say; it isn’t going to be the big national news people think it is.

P. S A helicopter has just flown north over Sunderland.

 

[mackembulldog]

Just for the ITKs.... if they are posting on here and the source then reads it, they'll surely not be happy that a confidence has been breached.

Probably find that its what has been deemed 'shareable' with a wider audience... probably know a lot more than what is posted publicly on here.

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

Just for the ITKs.... if they are posting on here and the source then reads it, they'll surely not be happy that a confidence has been breached.

That's why any information that might be posted is very far from everything known, or has irrelevant detail, erm, tweaked.

 

[Deleted member 43563]

Aye just pick a couple of random posts off a couple of random pages should tell you all you need to know how bad it is...

I agree with Wednesday but won't be jumping in front of any trains if it isn't...

Trains will be happy

OK. .....this thread doing me nut in.

You must be a bit of an auld git then. Were you one of the Sunderland Arabs in the 80s/90s? The time when awaydays were mint.

Sure am. Though in truth I used to dress up a lot in flaired suits with national health gegs now and then.....just to look odd one out among them.

Those were the days.....late 80s as well if cast me mind back.

 

[Nig]

Aye, I can also remember when you had to ring a phone number to get the latest news anarl, happy days

Living 180 miles away i used to pay a yearly subscription to get the Sunderland echo posted

 

[Roker Scoreboard]

That's why any information that might be posted is very far from everything known, or has irrelevant detail, erm, tweaked.

So could also be way off the mark?

 

[TW2_Mackem]

I really do hope we get a clear idea of what the new owners plans are when the takeover is confirmed. I assume they can’t go too overboard saying we will be the next City but it would be bloody brilliant if they did!

 

[Reiver]

I appreciate the updates but i just cant understand how you say its done yet, ‘if there was a problem i reckon i would have heard’, How can there be if it is done as you say?

Sorry mate, I'm referring more about the announcement than anything else.

As I've maintained from the very beginning there's no going back on the takeover.

'Staffing issues' was the last real thing I was told, then it's gone quiet.

 

[mackembulldog]

To be honest mate it’s an argument that can go on forever and has no definitive answer. We’re bigger than most but not as big as others is the way I like to look at it. With regards to this takeover, though, I stand by what I say; it isn’t going to be the big national news people think it is.

P. S A helicopter has just flown north over Sunderland.

did it look like this?

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[Sleepy]

Let's be honest here, it's obviously not a "done deal" yet. Not if the lawyers etc are still haggling.
Mind, I'm an eternal optimist when it comes to on the pitch, and a pessimist to off the field stuff.

Are they?