Who doesn't think Short is the problem?


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Totally different situation but, award yourself another smiley ...... you're hilarious.

What makes you think the people in the media saying they hear Short wants to sell are any more reliable than those who said Allardyce was pissed off with Short and felt let down by him?
 
The issue we have is that IF Short is looking to sell (which by all accounts he is), he's not going about it the right way at all.
First of all he is asking a ridiculous price for a club that is sitting bottom of the league and highly likely to be playing Championship football next season.
Secondly, he is not doing anything at all to try and get us out of the situation we are in.
Both of these make us a highly unattractive purchase for anyone seriously looking to invest in a football club.

Decent buyers want to invest in football clubs that have potential commercially and will build on that to develop them on the pitch. We have none of that as Short has taken us backwards over the last few years. Our commerciality is very poor, to the point that we don't exactly have sponsors queuing up to pump money into us.
Shorts running of the club has been disastrous (I don't care about how much money he has invested. It has not been done wisely and look at the current state of the finances). So much so that we are not a club that is an investable proposition .
 
The issue we have is that IF Short is looking to sell (which by all accounts he is), he's not going about it the right way at all.
First of all he is asking a ridiculous price for a club that is sitting bottom of the league and highly likely to be playing Championship football next season.
Secondly, he is not doing anything at all to try and get us out of the situation we are in.
Both of these make us a highly unattractive purchase for anyone seriously looking to invest in a football club.

Decent buyers want to invest in football clubs that have potential commercially and will build on that to develop them on the pitch. We have none of that as Short has taken us backwards over the last few years. Our commerciality is very poor, to the point that we don't exactly have sponsors queuing up to pump money into us.
Shorts running of the club has been disastrous (I don't care about how much money he has invested. It has not been done wisely and look at the current state of the finances). So much so that we are not a club that is an investable proposition .
If you don't know if he is looking to sell how do you know he is going about it in the wrong way?
How does our commercial income stack up against other clubs of similar standing?
 
I hope Short sells up for 2 reasons.

1. We get an owner to come in and rebuild the club from top to bottom. Similar to what happened at Southampton.

2. @haway will finally stop with starting a thread about Short everyday and bringing him up in every other thread!
 
So tell us. Do you think his current asking price of £180 mill is fair ?
Firstly I have no idea if that is the asking price. Secondly it would depend on the terms, if Ellis was prepared for example to write off the £60m or so the club owe him then it doesn't seem too far out. If not then yes it seems too high.
 
I hope Short sells up for 2 reasons.

1. We get an owner to come in and rebuild the club from top to bottom. Similar to what happened at Southampton.

2. @haway will finally stop with starting a thread about Short everyday and bringing him up in every other thread!
Nah cos once he leaves the truth about his reign will out and I will have to book a week's holiday and dedicate 12 hours a day trawling through previous SMB posts and tagging every single fucker who defended him and said I was chatting shite.

Is it? I thought we were pretty much in the middle of the table for commercial income.
Nope. Our commercial income is dire.
 
Firstly I have no idea if that is the asking price. Secondly it would depend on the terms, if Ellis was prepared for example to write off the £60m or so the club owe him then it doesn't seem too far out. If not then yes it seems too high.
Write off the £60 mill we owe him ? What about the £140 - £170 mill of debt he has lumbered us with. That along with the loan we are saddled with with interest of around 7.8%, secured against the Stadium ? He has fuckin crippled us man the asset stripping bastard
 
@sksk3021 I'm on my phone but google 'David Conn - the guardian - premier league finances' or something. Less commercial and retail than Burnley. Dire.
 
Write off the £60 mill we owe him ? What about the £140 - £170 mill of debt he has lumbered us with. That along with the loan we are saddled with with interest of around 7.8%, secured against the Stadium ? He has fuckin crippled us man the asset stripping bastard
That's what I meant by it depends on the terms of the deal.
I get the crippled us comment but not the asset stripping.
 
He's backed his managers to the point of almost bankrupting the club. His managerial choices have largely been sound. It's not his fault that Bruce, MON and now Moyes have turned to shit.

Other appointments don't look very clever mind, Di Fanti, Maggie Byrne as chair(wo)man and others.

He struck gold with Allardyce but the FA fucked that up which isn't his fault.

So all in all no I don't really blame Short. He could have gifted us cash to clear the debt or an interest free loan tho...
 
Right. He is OWNER. He lost the f***ing money. He hired shite. He had a shit transfer policy of 8 players for £10m.

He LOST the money. Yet it is 'owed' to him.

What other businesses do this?
 
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