Quote from: OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR on Today at 08:12:41
Stupid question time - Why exactly did Andrew Black buy the club in the first place? Don't get me wrong, I am truly, truly thankful he did, but what was ever in it for him? And what will he actually get out of it?
I'm sorry, but I can't quite grasp this.
I explained in an earlier post....men with money are like kids in a sweet shop at time.
Bit like buying those Haeibo,look nice and tasty but after a while they start to make you feel sick.
He probably realised that football wasn't quite as fun as he would have hoped.
If you go back to the dying embers of Diamond Mikes strangle hold on the Wills family, the consortium/investors call them what you like had a 3 year plan to get us up to the championship. Danny Wilson screwed up the season after Millwall, back to square one.
The season we got relegated should have been a promotion season, instead we have in effect been put back to a 5/6 year plan from the start if you like. Paolo has come in on a basis of another 3 year plan, hence 5-6 years however you look at it. The bottom line is this, had everything gone to plan we'd be in the championship but we're not.
Black has probably been honest in his reasons up to a point. The underlying fact is that he and the rest of them saw a money making opportunity with Wilson leading the charge, a quick return on investment and offski. Afterall these money men are exactly that money men, money makes money, simple as.
So Paolo has to start over again only the costings to their original business plan have been shredded by PDC and Big Phil. Remember Fitton would not or did not like or pay agents suddenly we have had to do a 180 here and it's costing us. As did not being on TV v Villa, going out of the QD Paint Trophy early and the FA Cup in the first round. Though as has come to light AB tried to sell the club in the summer so in the grand scheme those little financial set backs are more irritating.
If you thought the consortium/investors were here for the long run the you have been living in a false universe. Wise up folks, the next lot will not be any different.
As long as the club has sustainable finances and we go up the all should be rosy in the garden. It won't be i'll bet you it wob't be.
Earlier in the season I posted about ST costs next season and my worry about how we would finance ourselves playing amongst the big boys, you know what? Some of you laughed at me to the point of nearly taking the piss. AB has seen what I alluded to. Fair play to him and them for bailing us out and bank rolling the club so far. In short he can see what's coming over the horizon if he gives paolo enough to get us up and that my friends is a trip to the bank to far.