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Seems like Merry and Smith have taken over.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/o/oxford_utd/4832100.stm

linkage.

So flogged off the club he never wanted but which he had to buy to give him the excuse to build a stadium he charges the club (among others) through the nose for using. Or put another way, he's got rid of the FC that loses money, and kept the stadium that makes money. He must be laughing his tits off .... all the way to the bank.

Great Seinfeld moment when he talks about the phrase "laughing all the way to the bank" he was saying have you ever seen anyone do that or have you ever laughed all the way to the bank yourself?

I suppose you had to be there.  I miss Jerry Seinfeld....and George...and Kramer...!!

Will their three sided shit hole still be know as the Kassam?[It might say about it in the link i guess but i can't be arsed reading it :-))( ]Sorry Jan :)

Home he evicts them. That is all

Anyone have a heads-up on who will own the Stadium and facilities?

Bringing in the Bald Eagle though is a masterstroke, cracking manager and I can see him doing well if he's given a few quid to run with.

According to the statement on their OS, Kassam's keeping the stadium and facilities but he's given the new team an "option to buy" them which lasts for (I think) seven years. Which might be better phrased as an "option to sell" for him and in the meantime, he keeps coining it in from rental etc. And if they don't come up with the dosh in the timeframe, they could well find themselves with the stadium sold out from under them. Oh, and they still won't get any of the extra revenue from the facilities etc. Nice.

What a bunch of wankers, imagine having to pay rent on your home ground with no additional income, ha ha ha, errrm, hang on a minute... :|

i've not been so happy about OUFC for ages. this is fucking excellent news, maybe even good enough to start drinking. i've got san miguel and cider in the fridge......

ei ei ei o up the leagues jim smith's yellow army go!

made that one up myself

if you rented a pub for the night would you ask for the takings from the bar at the end? no.

now fuck off trying to make this sound bad, IT'S ALL GOOD!

he keeps all the facilities

a deal for the stadium will be done in the summer, at the mo they've just been pushing the deal for the club through.

what makes you think certain members of our boards intentions are any better than Kassams?

Well, they are never going to be able to own the stadium and associated facilities and rent it back to the club for a start.........

And they would have moved towns already to speed up the process

You stupid prick, if anything I was making a direct comparison from Oxford's new situation to ours you fucking scummer.  i.e.neither own ground, both rent, no other income streams.

The joke was on us you fucking knobjockey.

apologies janaage, i do tend to skim through your posts quite quickly so the odd misinterpretation does occur.

It's because his posts are written in a foreign language  :wink:

werent you planning on coming to support the reds oxford fan?

no

I am 100% sure you posted on here saying you have no interest in oxford anymore, and follow swindon as much?

I would go through posts but far to lazy

Oh OF I am so upset that you don't take an eternity to read my posts.  In my eyes you're a poor excuse of a football fan.  Someone who, for the last two years has spent so much time on a rivals site, someone who everytime they get pissed moans about how shit his side are and how he wished he supported their arch rivals, yes, I really am offended that my posts don't set your world alight.

Maybe i'm missing something here, but £2m seems a hell of alot. What exactly have they got for that? Obviously, full control over the playing/coaching staff.....but did they get the training facilities/anything else?

Will the new board continue to pay rent until the end of the season and then make a bid for the facilities/ground, or does the aforementioned £2m cover that?

 The buyers paid a pound for the scum.....and about 2 mill to Kasam for his loans etc.

 They haven't bought any real estate, which would cost a lot more and is presumably dependent on being able to build a casino or something.

 They have first option on buying the ground etc.

 You've got to say fair play to Kassam....took the scum  for mugs, trousered millions which could have gone to them...and still gets rent for the ground.

Cheers Reg

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who's going to be stronger favourites for promotion next season though, us or you?

You can be "stronger favourites" all you like, as long as we finish above you :wink:

Arent you favourites for the League Two Championship every year?.

They'll be favourites for the conference next season.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: the whole saga just makes me laugh!

the delerious laughter of crying?

no, the bookies put us highest when we finished outside the playoffs with atkins i think, they had us about 8th favourite.

gemmill and jay smith in today, have any of you lot seen smith play for southend?

We've played Sarfend 3 times in 2 seasons and I don't think he's even featured.

their fans are wondering why he left

we signed 5 today; gemmill (leicester), n'toya (chesterfield), guatelli (pompey), horsted (pompey), jay smith (southend)

can't understand why, he hasn't played in 2006 apparantly? gemmill could be a good signing i suppose, the others are pretty standard lower league fare. n'toya's goal celebrations are ace  8)

Let me tell you something young man ,there is nothing funny about SAGA ,they are a company dedicated to helping old people like Mexico Red and Adje enjoy a more fruitful holiday.

N'toya is quite good, i recall.

The big question is why go to Oxford?.  :mrgreen:

....because we're signing Sabin  :shock:

Huh?  :?