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"Swindon deputy chairman Mark Devlin has revealed that the club has recently been in talks with potential new investors.

He said: "There is nothing concrete at the moment but we certainly hope to get them on board sooner rather than later."

SOURCE: WDP

To all those that doubted my exclusive on the Alan Ball consortium, here you go.

Once AGAIN, you heard it here first. Alan Ball and another ex england international will invest in Swindon in the near future.

I await your 'bollocks' and other similar comments.  8)

As long as Iffy stayes at the helm, then great.

im sure he would, although when new guys come in there always keen to have their own manager in charge, lets hope iffy stays hes definately earnt his keep

I do NOT want sqeaky bollocks in charge of first team affairs :evil:

how about sqeaky bollocks plus a £1m transfer kitty?!

I see another Barry Fry coming.

'tis still bollocks in my mind....

Agreed

Can't wait if it's true, will send a message to Willie Carson that we want Investors who are interested in the sport.

 :fu: Carson

i'll believe it when it happens  :D

Great stuff.  

Bit odd although if you go back to MD's comments regarding the Stadium proposals he implied (although not directly) that an investment of 25 million had been lined up to fund half of the 50 required for the stadium costs.

It will be interesting to see how things take shape and how any investor takes their place at the board’s dinner table.  After all at present we have a board that’s largely been connected to SSW’s advisor rather than coming in off their own backs.

An Alan Ball headed consortium still sounds very odd.  I’d have thought it more likely to be property developers.

heard a strong rumor today regarding ian holloway...i personally think it is total bollocks but im bored so i thought i would share it....anyway anyone got a link to this story

http://www.westpress.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=145809&command=displayContent&sourceNode=145792&contentPK=14000899&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch

Right at the end it says what has already been posted.

Why would they want to invest in us? :shrug:

This immediately leads me to assume that something can happen on the ground front, otherwise why would they plough any money in at all? So, very good news in that respect.

it wont happen  :-))(

brady could be back?... after all that money went in to pompey  :?

I hope that cunt never comes anywhere near Swindon again.

I'd do his daughter still though.

Getting a bit porky nowadays though.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/derby/content/images/2004/11/05/karen_brady_body_200x260.jpg

You can give me a Brady over a Diamandis any day of the week.  Different class.

I'm not sure I like the sound of all this.....I've suspected for a while with the failure of the CG redevelopment....that Newbury will look to cut their loses and run....can't really see why any reputable operator would want to take us on unless they are a fan....as there can't be any profit in the venture.....ergo they'll have to be cowboys.

 Karen looks too much like her father to make her bonkable.

I see disaster on the horizon.

I mean, come on, this is STFC  :evil:

.co.uk?

That's the appeal.   :roll:

Surely to early for a runner and what losses has Newbury personally got to cut?

Not much has he?

I'd wager it's the development company that was mentioned ages ago after St Modwen pulled out.  Somone had to build those houses.   8)

He wasn't that bad.  Blatchley and Donegan were the fuck wits involved.  Karen's been in hospital lately so I doubt he has mcuh to do with it, unless she isn't right in the head.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Believe people, the American cavalry will be here soon to take us to places we haven't been to for years.

The internet footwear multi millionaire will be our saviour!!!  

Believe....

Id love a big investor!

Is that an expression of enthusiasm or a direct offer of one-on-one fatbury action for anyone with the cash to put up? Can't see it being too compelling an offer, myself, but then these millionaires do have odd tastes.

I still can't see why anybody would put money into STFC other than a true love of the club....and of it does happen I will do nothing but worry about what will happen if/when they pull their money out.

We could be ruined

I agree .  You have to hope this supposed investor is a fan of some sort.  Too many clubs have been shafted by outside 'investors' in the recent past.

We had our own close escape with Brady, but just look a few miles up the road to see what is now happening at Oxford.  Kassam arrived with to a great fanfare, and 4 or 5 (?) years later he is trying to leave, with the club near the foot of the basement division and having extracted a reported £15m personal profit from the various property deals.

I'm not even going to explore the Franchise FC debacle.

Reading, on the other hand, have a Chairman/investor who truly cares about the club.  We should be very careful who we welcome in.  I'd sooner struggle on as we are (despite the warnings of meltdown) than invite in a crook.

 I'm not sure Madejski cares about the club as such...rather he cares about the whole place and understands the importance of football in that equation.....so apparently he's invested in lots of other facets of Reading life

True, I think Madjeski loves "Reading" as a whole.  He has indeed put a lot of money into the Town, not just the football club.

Madjeski's not the only one, I love reading too, I'm currently enjoying "The Donkeys" by Allan Clarke.  About the imcompetance of the British generals during WW1.  Great stuff.

 Isn't The Donkeys by Allan Clarke, about cumbersome centre halves in late 60's early 70's English football?

'fraid not Reg, just a 300 pager about our tommy's being slaughtered by the hun (German's not Rangers supporters).

Just read the adver and Devlin doesnt say that at all....

Lloyd George was guilty as well though, surely.  Didn't Kitchener go down in a sub?

 What Barry Kitchener?  I'd whisper that very quietly down Cold Blow Lane.

 If Sniffer had it  in his book must be true though.

thats because the source isnt the adver, if thats what you mean.

So Devlin tells the WDP that 'he has recently had discussions with a potential new investor'

But Devlin tells the Adver 'I havent had any contract with potential new investors, but we are always on the look out'

Not direct quotes but you get the point

Swindon are in talks with an investor who does not live in Britain, but he is English.
The money he has would make Madjeski's millions look like small change. The man is a Swindon fan.
He has been to three Swindon games this season.
These are facts...not fiction

Where's he been for the last 10 years? Could have used his help before now if he's got that much cash.

yeah right its all bollocks  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Bollocks is what people say when they are clueless of whats going on and can't think of anything constructive.
I would not make a statement without some truth behind it, my previous post was 100% truth and correct.

Would be nice but I approach these things with extreme caution, especially as I don't know you or how trust worthy you are.

What's your source?

His arsehole

''His Arsehole!!!'' excellent reply, now go and tidy your room.
Tails: Without giving his name and my name, all I can say is watch this space, it will happen before the end of the season.
Talks are taking place, that is a fact.

I think you can understand why people are being cynical about it.

Basically if you can't quote any source, how are we supposed to believe this rumour as fact? At the moment it is just a rumour and a lot of people are very cynical about rumours as Tails said, because 99% of the time they are untrue.

Especially with a guy who's just joined the site.

Yes, we've heard it all before and the comments from supporters to my statement on this forum are understandable.
Hes not just going to write a cheque just like that and there is hard work going on at the club to bring his investment to STFC.
The big thing though, he is passionate Swindon Town Football Club fan and for that reason I feel it will happen.

Even if it is true, what are his intentions? New stadium? Just putting loads of money in for no return?

Even if this so called passionate Town fan does pump the money in, what if all goes wrong and we end up completely in the shitter?

I don't know if anyone could work with our board/council anyway......

I'll believe it when I see it.

Remember the 1%

Well 1% hardly fills everyone with hope does it  :-))(

What can I say, if the comments/statements I have made are a pack of lies, what was my point.
I am not in the habit of talking bollocks or through my arse.
It will not happen tomorrow or next week, but it will happen.

...in a few hundred years?

Before the end of the season .......

I completely believe you CB, you seem like a trustworthy kinda guy I have full faith that you are telling the truth, and by the end of the season, we'll have a multi-millionaire in charge of the club, leading us on a glorious march back to the Premiership, after back-to-back promotions. Champions league winners in 5 years. You heard it here first

 :mrgreen:

i sat there for a second and thought about us in that position.
how fucking ace would it be.

but then i came back down with a mighty bump

I believe cb to. Infact I'm gonna have a few beers to celebrate!

Now you're talking rubbish!, it'll take us at least 6 years to win the CL.

Hmmm, we get one of these posts every few months

'new investors, cant say who or how I know BUT IT WILL HAPPEN'

None of them ever happen though

I have 'invested' a sum of around £5,000 in STFC over the last 13 years. In return I have been privalidged with watching sub-stand mediocre football for most of them! Bring it on!

The investor is me. I'm pre-empting gettng round to buying a euro-millions lottery ticket one day and winnning. The club were more than happy to chat to me about a possible investment.

Champions League, my arse. Intertoto or death - that should be our rallying cry!  :D

Trying to think logical about this, how much would a person have to 'invest' into STFC to make us finanicial stable. From what I have been led to believe:

1/ £5 Million to pay back Wills Family
2/ £450,000 to pay back Willie Carson
3/ £900,000 CVA payment outstanding.
4/ £100,000 Inland Revenue outstanding.
5/ Club still running at a loss.

Anyone else heard otherwise?

1/ £5 Million to pay back Wills Family
2/ £450,000 to pay back Willie Carson

Do we need to pay them back :? ?

Pay back Carson, would you?
Every club runs at a loss in the books!!!

The monies that the Wills' have invested down the years are in the form of shares and loans, and underwritings probably to the tune of 9 mill.

  Think back to the Brady situation....he took a small shareholding from SSW, wuth the promise of buying out the rest if things panned out successfully.....in other words if there was money to be made out of STFC then SSW was rightly entitled to be compensated in full.

 That largely remains the case.

 Nevertheless....it now seems that even the most optimistic entrepreneur must realise that the dead hand of SBC, will mean STFC will never generate any profit.

  Because of this it may be that any mythical individual with a few mill to waste, could persuade SSW....to sell for a nominal say 2-3 mill.

We really can't go down this season if we do we'll lose alot of money. It's a must that we survive.

Au Contraire, many clubs make a financial profit. I think people get too hung up on profits, it's cash flow that really matters.

Apart from your Man U's and Liverpools of this world, the only clubs that run at a profit for example Man City is because they sell their assets (Shaun Wright Phillips). In the Championship Reading are running at a profit, but not many others. How many sides in Division One are running at a profit? Swansea maybe, Huddersfield possibly, can't think of another.

   

 Sorry not true....Reading despite having all the infrastructure in place lose 2 mill a season.....Mr Mad is prepared to underwrite this to get in the Prem, but has said he is ready to sell the club at this point...

OK Reg, so thats another club not making a profit, and they are a very successful side. My point being not many clubs do make a profit on paper, its not just Swindon town who are in the RED, a lot of sides are in worst financial shape than Swindon, especially at the level of the game Swindon find themselves.
Investment in a side like Swindon, with hopefully a new stadium, be it in Swindon or 15/20 miles away could be financially sound.

There are a few in league one including Southend and Blackpool. I wasn't disputing that a lot of clubs do make a loss but to say every single one is just plain daft. I know that it was probably an exaggeration but you clearly need to some more research into the matter before you make statements as a matter of fact i.e. Reading

Ok I will drop the matter, the figures I saw said Reading made a profit ... but other interpretations might say Reading made a loss.
I paid only a third of the amount of tax I should have paid last year and the year before and the year before and the year before, it is all down to how you produce your accounts, and getting the best accountant to produce the figures to the tax man if you make a loss. Anyone who runs their company or is self employed knows that.
Never said all sides made a loss, never stated it as a fact ...

Not true, when we go down

Our wage budget will be smaller, the players can get us relegated then ask for a pay rise when renewing contracts

Most player will leave and be replaced by the kids

IF we do well and are near the top we will get better crowds, plus ticket prices wont be dropped

When we go down, if we have a good next season we'll make more money than we did this season.

Reading made a £5m loss in their last accounts. Whilst I know there is room for creative accounting that's still fairly hard to interpret as a profit.

I seem to remember saying that when we went down from division one  :?

Its true though, being at the top of the 4th division would be more profitable than being bottom of the 3rd division....not going to happen though

Yeah it is true. I think if we go down we won't do very well though. It's my turn to be pessimistic  :soapy tit wank:

Look at Torquay.... :D

It depends, we have a few players on two years who cant fuck off (Peacock, Cureton, Brown, Gurney) if we go all the rest will fuck off because they think they are too good.....depends what we replace them with (our youth team I expect)

I said I would finish but last comment, are you talking about last years accounts?
For 2006 they average 24,000 at every game, with 17,000  of them season ticket holders, only spent about 1.5 million on players, the town is buzzing with nearly every young person wearing a Reading shirt.
If they have lost £5million this season there is no hope for anyone.

Last years accounts yes. Maybe they have huge amounts of player amortisation, but they have more operating expenses than turnover. That said, it has obviously been run in such a way to get them to the premiership.

 The loss though should really only be seen as the investment that John Madejski is prepared to make to get Prem football.....in realistic terms, its not big money in relation to that pumped in by others around that top 7 or 8 in the CCC.

 Nevertheless its money that can't be generated from other sources, despite all the infrastructure.

 The scum generated a small profit  last season, Kassam being a model chairman in making sure the club doesn't run into debt...

But to be honest there is a good argument that financially we are better off in this league. I mean we were losing £2-3 million in the league above and in this league it's less. Definitely if we have a season like 2003/2004, we would make more money than one like 1998/1999.

Tails,
I see you have changed or your pre and post quotes with IT WILL NOT HAPPEN TODAY, OR NEXT WEEK, BUT IT WILL HAPPEN.
Well my old son, I have £1,000,000 to put into Swindon Town on my own to reduce prices of entry for the rest of the season, but wankers like you make me think why should I bother.
No further info or hope will be given on this website.
Just wait and see what happens then put your hands in the air and say 'I was the disbelieving tosser who wanted to take the piss'.
You arsehole.

we'll see then shall we?

 :beers:

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: Centre Back has spat their dummy  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Fact of the matter is simple. We have heard it all before yet to date nothing has happened in real terms except for the Donagan fiasco that got us further into debt.

Bob Holt is presumably still trying to shake his stick at his investors, but he is  losing the battle because there are too many of them.

Anyone who had £1m to put into STFC would use it to secure the club as an ongoing concern (pay CVA for e.g.) , not wasting it on reducing ticket prices.

The offer is on the table, do you enjoy the prices you pay.
Or do you prefer to live in your little take the piss world.
Are you really Swindon supporters???
Make your minds up, the offer will not be their for ever.

Why would one fans pessimistic views change your reasons for putting money into the club?

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: We're not really in a position to accept! Unless you're handing out cash on the turnstiles

simple he hasnt got the money  :D

No shit!

Next post by centre back: "If that's your attitude I'm taking my money elsewhere"

I reckon CB is a Brighton fan

if you're serious you cant expect fans on a website forum to belive you just because you made a few posts with some claims mate. i dont think there would be a town fan in the world complaining if you decided you wanted to put a million into the town, but actions speak louder than words. put the cash in and then come back on here and tell us all what tossers we were for not believing you. please prove us wrong, were begging you!

If he had read previous posts then perhaps he would understand that speculation is rife especially on interent forums.  Why is he assuming that people will believe him moreso than anyone else?

The fact of the matter is that without a source or solid facts that we can relate to its hard to accept there may really be a financial light at the end of the tunnel.

If I had a significant figure to put into this club I certainly would not mention it until its a done deal and officially announced.

and even then i wouldn't tell anyone it was me.

maybe Devlin could say if this is guy is for real or not????

He isn't a swindon fan.

Bump...So then Mr Centre Parks where is the big investor ?

he got put off by a bunch of people on a forum, at least thats what i heard...  :-))(

centre back =  :wanker:

Perhaps centre back = Mr Power?

Says earlier in the thread that the investor is a passionate STFC fan that he knows. Apart from that....possibly

well he did say he would put in £1m and reduce ticket prices.

so far thats 2 out of 2.

:oops:  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:

Sorry Mr Centre Back Power Sir. Please forgive our missguided cynasism Sir.


:oops:  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:

p.s. tails is still a twat  :wink:

Hmm

if (centre-back=power)
{
   Rich=banned for next season;
}

 :D

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

bloody hell ,have i missed something!?

it would appear you have...

give me the jist of it!

http://www.thetownend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11364

~Then look back at centre-backs posts in this thread. Coincidence or in the know/the main man ...You decide.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/4949968.stm

I love this guy!!  When's he coming back on here to lay the smackdown on the doubters asses!!  Fair play to you CB!!

Would you like to revise that opinion Rich?????? 8)

right so are we saying centre back is our very own mr power? :?

Could be.

No, didn't he say he knew someone first, and also said they were a Swindon fan?  if so, it could be coincidence, or maybe there are more!!

god i hope its more, how mental would that be! How the hell did i miss this thread!
To be honest i cant see why an intelligent business man would come on here and discuss these matters. I know i would'nt!

"Swindon deputy chairman Mark Devlin has revealed that the club has recently been in talks with potential new investors.

He said: "There is nothing concrete at the moment but we certainly hope to get them on board sooner rather than later."

SOURCE: WDP


THe original quote in this thread refers to "Investors"....plural. Does that mean there are others in addition to Mr Power waiting in the wings????????

He also said the new investor didn't live in England which I think Mr Power does.

In all seriousness, I'd be astonished if centre-back was Bill Power, partly because the references to being a Swindon fan etc don't gel, but also because from what I can gather from his behaviour at QPR, he'd be unlikely to use language like:


C'mon, this was just a wind-up merchant: if no-one came in, we'd all have forgotten about it; if someone did, he could start everyone wondering well like this really.

I don't think CB is Mr Power, but I certainly think he had a very good idea of what was going on. OK, he reckoned the investor was a Swindon fan which was not right but there are too many other things for it to be a coincidence.

I think it is fair to say that Centre Back knows what he is on about.

At the same time, I don't think he should be too harsh on people for being sceptical.  I mean, this is STFC!!!!

He sounds a top bloke to me!

I'd like to buy Mr Bill 'Austin' Powers a drink  :D