bromtom
Well-Known Member/ Former F1 Driver Jos Verstappen
Leeds are a bigger club than us, much bigger. In my lifetime they won the league more than once and played in the Champions League, got to the final of the European Cup. I hate having to write this but it’s true.
Wolves were chosen following in depth research and the fact they had made a profit in the previous season (good for subsequent investment without breaching FFP) and probably other factors I’m unaware of made them an attractive investment. By proper businessmen who actually know what they’re doing.
Villa - see Leeds.
Bournemouth- got lucky. Maxim Demin moved to Sandbanks, got Eddie Mitchell, the owner of Bournemouth and local builder/developer to build his house. Mitchell got him interested in Bournemouth.
Boro, Derby, Bristol, Brighton - local people made good. Like KM but much richer. More luck than anything else.
Forest - won leagues and European Cups. In my lifetime. Still getting publicity because of Clough.
Fulham - London. Same as QPR but Khan knows what he’s doing.
Huddersfield - not sure tbh.
Wednesday- Mandy did it for profit, I don’t think he threw money at them, just sorted out the clusterfuck and sold them on to bloke with money but no football knowledge. See QPR.
Then there’s the stuff we don’t know such as how does our sponsorship income compare with other clubs, our income from corporate packages? Our STs are cheap as chips and have to be because otherwise our supporters couldn’t afford them. Sheffield is low income. That’s the bottom line. No competent businessman would look at either Sheffield club and think ‘this is a good investment’ unless they’re buying it out of admin. That’s why the pigs got Chancer and we got Poundland; because only a fucking idiot would think it’s a good investment. We don’t need ‘investors’ we need a benefactor. A very rich one.
It's going to have to be McCabe but richer, actually McCabe is loaded (a few years back he sold some of his business for £850 million) but frugal, so McCabe but with looser purse strings.
The trick is getting to the Prem. Man City's season tickets start at £300 ish, but they can afford that because of the TV money even before the ridiculously wealthy owners.
The ideal scenario would be McCabe (and The Prince) get us up, sells us to a rich fan (who's not stupid) who doesn't mind losing money for a few years, who then invests in the squad.
Not going to happen though. Maybe if I win the Euromillions and then put it all on a 200/1 bet and win.