What the fu#ks going on....

[pauld]

Lets keep calm, people. This is how I see it:

1) club will probably only confirm the deal officially once the FL has approved the takeover

2) perspective owners want a debt free club

3) AB et all prepared to take a £10mil hit

4) as debt is some £13mil, there's a shortfall...made up by quick player sales


Short term pain for long term gain.

So in your scenario, we've been "bought" by a bunch of chancers with no money of their own to invest who intend to wipe down the remaining £3m after Black wrote off £10m via quick player sales. As they've raised £400k from selling Ritchie, we could expect maybe another £400k for Wes, say £200k for Ferry, that still leaves another £2m to find at fire-sale prices.

Sorry, but I'm not seeing a whole lot in that to make me terribly optimistic.

[pauld]

But for £500,000?  IBournemouth have wanted him for ages and didn't we turn down a higher bid from them previously?

You might need to sit down. BBC reporting £400k not even £500k.

[jonah]

@wes_foderingham: Everyone is on the sofa for the day tomorrow . Expecting something big from city! #DeadlineDay

They all got the day off to, what does that mean?

Is Wes expecting an offer from......... Bristol City?
They'll probably offer us £50,000 and we'll bite their arm off!

[DiV]

But for £500,000?  IBournemouth have wanted him for ages and didn't we turn down a higher bid from them previously?

Yes, take out Portsmouths cut and then what we actually paid for him and we've made nothing on him.

[ghanimah]

Quite so. And in the short term, it's a terrible start to a new reign. Mr McCrory had better be quite some talker, and he'd better have some serious backers.

Sorry but right now this whole deal fucking stinks, just does not add up. Reminds me of Jim Little and BEST. I'm desperate to be wrong about that

I agree it's not promising, but then we have another day to go yet for transfers and also for the dust to settle. I would say comparing the new owners with previous potential money laundering is a tad harsh...

[caveej]

It's like the banking system. no one gives a fuck. we are doomed

[lambourn red]

400k being reported by bbd

[pauld]

I agree it's not promising, but then we have another day to go yet for transfers and also for the dust to settle. I would say comparing the new owners with previous potential money laundering is a tad harsh...

I didn't mean that. I was more thinking of the scenario where BEST were announced as the new owners, Jim Little was paraded on the pitch before the Yeovil game in front of SKY as the new chairman, he held meetings with fans' groups, the council etc as the representative of the new owners, they even started redecorating, then it turned out a deal hadn't been done, the money wasn't there and it had all gone to shit.

[Chubbs]

Why do Swindon always sell for peanuts, it happened with Cox, Austin, Jukebox and now Ritchie all gone for a hell of a lot less than they should have

[Batch]

I was calm earlier, but the more I think about Pumbaa's words of why has the official line of communication been cut the more Paul's  BEST scenario repeat worries me.

Fucking football.

[skin_im_buzzer]

Is Wes expecting an offer from......... Bristol City?
They'll probably offer us £50,000 and we'll bite their arm off!

He's talking about Man City, having sold super Mario! So they'll be looking to buy a striker tomorrow.

[Bumpkin]

Bertie Black had been looking to get out since before the end of last season.

He was sick of signing cheques for 1 millions year to keep it going

Bertie had little or no interest after falling out with Fitton.

Wray became intoxicated on the success of last season.

Bertie was getting annoyed with PDC's spending and the role of Spencer.

Bertie issued the hurry up to the possible new owners a couple of weeks ago.

[ghanimah]

I didn't mean that. I was more thinking of the scenario where BEST were announced as the new owners, Jim Little was paraded on the pitch before the Yeovil game in front of SKY as the new chairman, he held meetings with fans' groups, the council etc as the representative of the new owners, they even started redecorating, then it turned out a deal hadn't been done, the money wasn't there and it had all gone to shit.

I see your point, but BEST were dealing with another bunch of unscrupulous shysters in the form of 'unofficial directors'...in this case however I'm not (yet) convinced that the professionalism shown thus far from the current board would allow themselves to be duped in the manner of BEST...

[Barry Scott]

Bertie Black had been looking to get out since before the end of last season.

He was sick of signing cheques for 1 millions year to keep it going

Bertie had little or no interest after falling out with Fitton.

Wray became intoxicated on the success of last season.

Bertie was getting annoyed with PDC's spending and the role of Spencer.

Bertie issued the hurry up to the possible new owners a couple of weeks ago.

Fucking hell that's speculation of the average thisis member.

[skin_im_buzzer]

So in your scenario, we've been "bought" by a bunch of chancers with no money of their own to invest who intend to wipe down the remaining £3m after Black wrote off £10m via quick player sales. As they've raised £400k from selling Ritchie, we could expect maybe another £400k for Wes, say £200k for Ferry, that still leaves another £2m to find at fire-sale prices.

Sorry, but I'm not seeing a whole lot in that to make me terribly optimistic.

No, I'm saying that new investors want to start as debt free. Black and co are taking a £10m hit. So Black has a bit of a shortfall...so getting in a quick sale (£400k) will slightly help.