Bitter battle for the Blades - Daily Mail Article

[Sothall_Blade]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...oardroom-dispute-threatens-derail-season.html

Sheffield United boardroom dispute threatens to derail season as co-owners enter legal proceedings with one another

• After Chris Wilder signed a new deal, all seemed well at Sheffield United
• But behind the scenes, a feud between co-owners is paralysing further progress
• Kevin McCabe and his family, and Prince Abdullah Bin Mosaad Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud own 50 per cent each of Sheffield United after a deal between them in 2013
• Offers and counters have led to legal proceedings between Prince and McCabe
• It may now be a testing season for Wilder due to the power struggle at the club

Etc

 

[Cerberus Blade]

It’s not derailed the recruitment so far - in fact it seems to have improved it!

 

[Jonboy60]

3 good signings, and 1 loan. Held off bids from Brighton for Joc so far. Maybe more to come.
I hope there’s boardroom dispute, leading up to the January transfer window.

 

[Bartleby]

from a bit of digging I think the reporter, Matt Barlow, is a pig.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Makes you wonder whether this funding is 50/50 or whether one party is inspired to prove they are backing the club over the other in order to make a statement?

 

[TheGoatPenguin]

Think the biggest story here is Brooks' new hair do.

 

[Tom Bott]

On Wednesday night they struck a deal with Manchester City to sign 21-year-old Kean Bryan, a highly rated central defender, and are determined to resist offers for centre half Jack O’Connell, who has been subject to two bids from Brighton.

Breaking news ?

 

[Fraggle Blade]

Says we've agreed the deal to sign the Man City player this evening!

 

[Tom Bott]

Be a scoop for the Spar on Friday.

 

[Tom Bott]

Think the biggest story here is Brooks' new hair do.

He can afford a hair cut now.

 

[More Bladier than thou]

Please refrain from clicking the link. That piece of shit paper is possibly Wendy in disguise.

 

[bromtom]

He can afford a hair cut now.

Pretty much the same hairdo but he's dyed it blonde and he looks like he should be in a mid 90s German electronica band.

It's put 5 years on him.

 

[NotFallowfieldBlade]

I mean as much as anyone can say weve spent money were still what +8 million after brooks so the board have made a profit and that’s without the original transfer budged .

Still think we’re in an awful position just been Helped by the brooks sale in terms of budget and boardroom level

 

[Topplayersleave]

I mean as much as anyone can say weve spent money were still what +8 million after brooks so the board have made a profit and that’s without the original transfer budged .

Still think we’re in an awful position just been Helped by the brooks sale in terms of budget and boardroom level

We'd have probably signed a couple of new players to the value of 3 or 4 million anyway even if there'd been no interest in Brooks, so we haven't actually touched any of the Brooks money
The Brooks money is going to be used to make up the shortfall as and when it comes in.

 

[Tom Bott]

were still what +8 million after brooks so the board have made a profit

Though someone has to pay the electric bill, the business rates, the groundsmen's wages etc. etc. so the word 'profit' could be mute.

 

[Topplayersleave]

Though someone has to pay the electric bill, the business rates, the groundsmen's wages etc. etc. so the word 'profit' could be mute.

TV deal, sponsorship, new merchandise, the offloading of at least ten players and most importantly TICKET SALES whether season tickets or paying for individual games
YES, the fans make a very large contribution to the running of this club contrary to the belief of some who believe that nothing else exists apart from the boardrooms contributions

 

[bromtom]

I mean as much as anyone can say weve spent money were still what +8 million after brooks so the board have made a profit and that’s without the original transfer budged .

Still think we’re in an awful position just been Helped by the brooks sale in terms of budget and boardroom level

Assuming we get similar levels of performance from everyone then we're stronger on the pitch so far this window and that's what matters, not how much you spent doing it.

The board are fighting but not in a way that necessarily has to disrupt the football. If it were one wanting to fuck off but the other not being able to afford his shares or something that would be worse. As it is, it seems like they both want us to progress and their issues are with each other.

I'd rather have a board fighting about who loves us more than a board that's fucked us for the next 2 years with FFP or a board that's just skint full stop.

As long as we have a go between like Bettis and Wilder is happy with his budget, then there's no reason we can't still move forward.

 

[Tom Bott]

TV deal, sponsorship, new merchandise, the offloading of at least ten players and most importantly TICKET SALES whether season tickets or paying for individual games
YES, the fans make a very large contribution to the running of this club contrary to the belief of some who believe that nothing else exists apart from the boardrooms contributions

If the club is so profitable where is the queue of wealthy people wishing to buy us.

 

[Topplayersleave]

If the club is so profitable where is the queue of wealthy people wishing to buy us.

The club isn't profitable, but the fans contribution, TV deal, Sponsorship deals, etc etc is a sizeable contribution to the running of the club.

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

Though someone has to pay the electric bill, the business rates, the groundsmen's wages etc. etc. so the word 'profit' could be mute.

The word is 'moot', not 'mute'. In any case, those costs you mentioned are there whether Brooks had been sold or not.

 

[Razor1967]

The club isn't profitable, but the fans contribution, TV deal, Sponsorship deals, etc etc is a sizeable contribution to the running of the club.

Of course it is and that’s the same at every club outside the Premier League.....what’s your point??

 

[sheffielder]

Makes you wonder whether this funding is 50/50 or whether one party is inspired to prove they are backing the club over the other in order to make a statement?

I would imagine as per the court notes both have to agree to what they spend. Instead of it being one guy being the good guy, I see it as neither of them wanting to look a ****

 

[derfblade.3]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...oardroom-dispute-threatens-derail-season.html

Sheffield United boardroom dispute threatens to derail season as co-owners enter legal proceedings with one another

• After Chris Wilder signed a new deal, all seemed well at Sheffield United
• But behind the scenes, a feud between co-owners is paralysing further progress
• Kevin McCabe and his family, and Prince Abdullah Bin Mosaad Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud own 50 per cent each of Sheffield United after a deal between them in 2013
• Offers and counters have led to legal proceedings between Prince and McCabe
• It may now be a testing season for Wilder due to the power struggle at the club

Etc

A pig hurting inside already and we aint kicked off yet!

 

[cjx blade]

3 good signings, and 1 loan. Held off bids from Brighton for Joc so far. Maybe more to come.
I hope there’s boardroom dispute, leading up to the January transfer window.

Thought it was 1 signing and 2 loans or have I missed something?

 

[Sothall_Blade]

from a bit of digging I think the reporter, Matt Barlow, is a pig.

Please refrain from clicking the link. That piece of shit paper is possibly Wendy in disguise.

A pig hurting inside already and we aint kicked off yet!

To be honest, I can’t see anything in that article that is either inaccurate or particularly Anti-United.

The same things have been said a million times on here by Blades fans.

Would a Pig Fan describe United as “one of English football’s most famous clubs”?

 

[8lade]

I cocncur it states the position nicely, is a decent article and there's nothing in it that should upset any Blades.

 

[stringer]

To be honest, I can’t see anything in that article that is either inaccurate or particularly Anti-United.

The same things have been said a million times on here by Blades fans.

Would a Pig Fan describe United as “one of English football’s most famous clubs”?

The idea that a professional writer would write anti-SUFC things in a national newspaper, simply because he supported Wednesday, is fanciful. The other way round, if United are ‘one of English football’s most famous clubs’ then so are Wednesday.

 

[I should coco]

The idea that a professional writer would write anti-SUFC things in a national newspaper, simply because he supported Wednesday, is fanciful.

Yes and no.

On the face of it, of course I agree with you, but I seem to remember Martin Samuel trying to equate our loaning out of players, with the CheatinAmmers blatant cheating re Tvez and Mascerano.

Who would have thought a highly paud 'professional' reporter would do such a thing?

There are long standing reasons why journalists are equated with estate agents and politicians in the trust stakes.

Basically, they all tell lies.....

 

[stringer]

Yes and no.

On the face of it, of course I agree with you, but I seem to remember Martin Samuel trying to equate our loaning out of players, with the CheatinAmmers blatant cheating re Tvez and Mascerano.

Who would have thought a highly paud 'professional' reporter would do such a thing?

There are long standing reasons why journalists are equated with estate agents and politicians in the trust stakes.

Basically, they all tell lies.....

Yes, Samuel was the exception in my head too. To be fair it wasn’t the same level of Tevez but I could see where he was coming from at the time re: third party ownership and its many forms. Just becomes tiresome when every slightly negative (or not even negative as this thread shows) thing that’s written automatically ‘must have been written by a pig’

 

[Sean Thornton]

Though someone has to pay the electric bill, the business rates, the groundsmen's wages etc. etc. so the word 'profit' could be mute.

Not at BL. It's all free.