We’ve had no money available


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Typical Donald, says one thing does another. He hasn’t got any money. See Charlie boy gone quiet too. Waste of space the pair of them.
We’ve never had any they’ve seen to that!
 
No fucker wants to come here.
Look at the fuckers we attracted when we had to Hoy money at them.
We will have a decent season as we are better than most other teams.
They went to other teams, it’s a shite excuse in league one we are a massive pull, that excuse might wash in the premier league and maybe in the championship but in league one there’s no chance of that being the case unless it’s a situation like the kid who chose charlton ahead of us for family reasons. It’s purely down to recruitment just not being good enough. How many centre backs have we signed in the space of 14 months or so man, that’s down to bad recruitment something we seem to struggle at year in year out.
 
They went to other teams, it’s a shite excuse in league one we are a massive pull, that excuse might wash in the premier league and maybe in the championship but in league one there’s no chance of that being the case unless it’s a situation like the kid who chose charlton ahead of us for family reasons. It’s purely down to recruitment just not being good enough. How many centre backs have we signed in the space of 14 months or so man, that’s down to bad recruitment something we seem to struggle at year in year out.
I'm sure the wages we offer now are piss poor.
Moving to the north east is not attractive whether we like it or not 🤮
 

I think west Winger posted this a while back, Charlie boy posting on the Oxford forum just before the takeover here.

Same as for DE: invest money to take the club to the Championship and then sell out to a bigger player for a profit. Fairly simple. Buy it for £4 million, invest say £12 million in costs and infrastructure, get up to the Championship, stabilise in the Championship and then sell for £25 million , making £9 million if all goes well. Of course, things do not always go well, and you run the risk of spending more money on getting there, or maybe spending money and NOT getting there. That is the nature of investment - it's never a guaranteed one way street.

We are highly unlikely to attract an entirely non "financial" investor (I can only think of one proper OUFC fans who is really rich enough to do it as a passion project). Lenagan (a Liverpool fan) was sold the tale of the Championship by Merry; Eales (a Brum City fan) by Ashton. It's all the same thing. The arbitrage between what the club is worth in the bottom two leagues and the Championship is substantial enough to warrant taking the risk. We are fortunate that the metrics of modern football make League 1 clubs reasonably attractive. Get things right, and you can make a few bob, as DE has just done without even completing the task.

With the exception of Tiger's partners at Reading, most of these "financial investors" are also passionate about football. They have other things they can make money out of more easily. But they are fascinated and attracted by football and the challenge of getting it right. But the smart ones are increasingly wary of the total expenditure required. If the end game is selling for £25 million then you do not want to get yourself in the hole for £20 million with no guarantees. So the amount that you pay for the League 1 club is important because that is cash that is then not in the pot to get the whole project right. Buy for £7 million and invest £12 million and your ultimate risk/reward ration is starting to look pretty tight.

If Tiger does indeed have big bucks to spend on sorting us out, though - and doesn't care about a few million here or there - then clearly it is no concern of ours what he paid on the way in...

Obviously Charlie is talking about potential investors in Oxford there, but the plan seems pretty similar here. The problem is we didn't get promoted and clearly at the moment they don't want to invest more as incurring debt leaves the club less healthy or their profit at the end tighter, hence the urgency to flip the club despite what they initially talked about in terms of seeing it out until they couldn't finance it higher.
 
Can you not just give it a rest man ??

Every thread you post on you turn into a dig at Ross.

Think a dig needs to go at the owners mroe than the manager in this instance. Telling us bids are in for players. And ending up with one LB on loan?! If those bids failed, so what, keep trying.. Try elsewhere. They are fuckin cons man.. Talk shite and nowt else. There were players available, but the effort is there to see, next to none of it.

They wanted a quick buck, hoping for promotion first season. It's massively backfired. And if this takeover doesn't go through we are destined for league one for a while with these clowns in charge.
 
Typical rubbish. I’m not even sure this yank stuff will happen. This transfer window has been a joke. We should have spent 3-5 mill to blast us way out of this shithole. Instead we’ll still be in this league next season.
You wailing blurt
 
It's a question the chairman needs to answer marra. Has the impending sale meant our business has been restricted? Or has our over excitable owner said more than he should, again?

Good points, but hear is what i can see with the team.

Pace apart from Marc McNulty , where is it
Physical ability apart from Dobson ?,
Creativty apart from Maquire and McGeady /? not forward movement
 
I know he denied it but it certainly looks like all the investment talk has really stalled our transfer window, slow to get out of the blocks and hardly anything late on.
As others have said it’s a bit daft to talk about spending fairly big money and end up with nothing.
I like SD and really enjoy the podcasts but it has to be said that the amount of things that haven’t happened, mistruths, exaggerations etc are starting to mount up a bit.
 
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