Fishdo wrote:Picking up on the purchase by redbull....
I think Sully tact was to emphasise how much he loves this club by saying “look how much I could have sold it for..but I didn’t because I love this club and only want what’s best for it..”
When you consider what the owners think the club is worth and that Sully wants a couple of family seats on the board for his sons then I doubt any competent person would be interested in taking it over....
I think any investor would see it more beneficial to let these owners dig themselves into a hole they can’t get out of and then step in.... like most here any potential investors can see that these owners cannot sustain there current plan and this club has further down to go before it’s worth coming in with a rescue plan.... make no doubt any purchase from these owners will be nothing more than a rescue plan..!!
I make you right. I think they have not wanted to sell the club short term till the negative conditions in doing so are all but gone but I think it is pretty much nailed on that they expected the move, shiny new stadium low rent, high profile would have them queuing up to buy a bit of us in one way of another begging to give them money.
What they failed to understand is that what with the 'high profile' becoming nothing but negative since, their own insistence on retaining full power for some years, the impossibility to work cooperately with them, their duplicity on any agreement, the cheap rent hiding the inability to earn additional income including sponsorship at the OS (as if any investor wouldn't notice those limitations) and no doubt their making any investor pay rent for their seats in the Directors Box, no one either came in or will come in now as things stand to hide our skint state. The lack of stadium sponsors in particular, (let alone any prospective offer on that front that would have paid us a penny so far), is the biggest barrier even if the owners were not such pariahs. So without new investors bringing in the cash they planned for (be it plan A,B or C) to allow for a new transfer kitty to replace the one they had based on fools gold i.e. loans written off against future earnings, I guess this inability to spend will remain. They clearly over played their hand as usual.
I still think, at least hope, that eventually a buyer will have the vision that can make us a worthwhile investment but they will certainly want to do so when the present owners are desperate to do a deal rather than deluded about its overblown value, so knowing the depth of that delusion, it could be some time coming yet and a long way back no doubt if/when it does. New buyers also will not want any remaining influence from the present lot and any presence at all to be as invisible as that of Brown these days (that won't be easy to negotiate). I suspect that if they have any sense they will have a gagging order on this lot and the sons too. Only then perhaps just maybe some optimism may return. But that may depend on who the new owners would be. You could see the logic for Red Bull because it could be part of a bigger picture but for those just interested in the potential of a football club and 'iconic' stadium the limitations are sadly now obvious.
