PSG owners looking to buy Championship club

[Flatulent_Bob]

Thats true, but if it was going to be any of those clubs mentioned, the obvious one to me would be Villa rather than Forest but they would have to get the debt sorted, and thats not exactly chump change.

And if they’re doing that, they may as well buy Newcastle.

 

[Aston max]

TBC and I will get pelters for it our noisy neighbors are a bigger club than weeds
Leeds live off the glory of the revie years

 

[Houston_Blade]

I wouldn’t want Qatari money near my club. They are lunatics.

 

[BettingBlade]

TBC and I will get pelters for it our noisy neighbors are a bigger club than weeds
Leeds live off the glory of the revie years

Not that Leeds came close to a European final in the early 2000’s or owt either.

 

[Fanny magnet]

TBC and I will get pelters for it our noisy neighbors are a bigger club than weeds
Leeds live off the glory of the revie years

Ha ha ha nice one centurion

 

[Broomhall Blade]

Whereas the pigs live off the glory of winning the league cup thirty years ago.

Two years after Leeds won the league.

Have a word with yourself.

Don't forget their European campaign when they beat the might of Luxembourg Spora Luxembourg in the first round, but then ended in the 2nd round with defeat against European Giants Kaiserslautern.

 

[Aston max]

Ha ha ha nice one centurion

Bored at work and feeling mischievous

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

Anyone who wouldn’t want us to be took over by the same people at PSG Want to give there head a wobble

 

[Houston_Blade]

Anyone who wouldn’t want us to be took over by the same people at PSG Want to give there head a wobble

My head needs a wobble then, it would be the end of the football club as we know it and I wouldn’t want a club in name only replacing what we have now. Qataris and their way of doing business is not something I want anywhere near the Blades.

Wilder would be out and replaced with a foreign ‘head coach’ and ‘director of football’ even if we were promoted. We’d have a load of mercenaries on the playing staff.

Medicals for new players would be carried out in Qatar (the medical facility they use is 2km from my house).

The chairman would be a lunatic. Given that we wouldn’t be able to compete in European competitions under the owner the assumption is that the plan is to get promoted and then sell to some other nutcase.

We’d be rich though, until we got relegated and then we’d be jettisoned and left up shit creek.

No thanks.

 

[BushBlade]

My head needs a wobble then, it would be the end of the football club as we know it and I wouldn’t want a club in name only replacing what we have now. Qataris and their way of doing business is not something I want anywhere near the Blades.

Wilder would be out and replaced with a foreign ‘head coach’ and ‘director of football’ even if we were promoted. We’d have a load of mercenaries on the playing staff.

Medicals for new players would be carried out in Qatar (the medical facility they use is 2km from my house).

The chairman would be a lunatic. Given that we wouldn’t be able to compete in European competitions under the owner the assumption is that the plan is to get promoted and then sell to some other nutcase.

We’d be rich though, until we got relegated and then we’d be jettisoned and left up shit creek.

No thanks.

My personal experiences lead me to believe you’re probably right.

 

[blade too long]

Qatar will have some spare football stands after the world cup , They are all removeable for reconstruction elsewhere,
Might go to the world cup and browse whats available for our new kop

https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/‘vagina-stadium’-taking-shape-2022-world-cup-qatar-1219784
no fannying about

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

My head needs a wobble then, it would be the end of the football club as we know it and I wouldn’t want a club in name only replacing what we have now. Qataris and their way of doing business is not something I want anywhere near the Blades.

Wilder would be out and replaced with a foreign ‘head coach’ and ‘director of football’ even if we were promoted. We’d have a load of mercenaries on the playing staff.

Medicals for new players would be carried out in Qatar (the medical facility they use is 2km from my house).

The chairman would be a lunatic. Given that we wouldn’t be able to compete in European competitions under the owner the assumption is that the plan is to get promoted and then sell to some other nutcase.

We’d be rich though, until we got relegated and then we’d be jettisoned and left up shit creek.

No thanks.

Yeah alright then it’s worked well for Leicester wolves man city etc

Hahah why would wilder instantly be sacked

Please explain why we’d be a club in name only

Yeah qataris aren’t too great but guess who’s worse saudis don’t see many people complaining about the prince too much


So you’d rather us stay mid-table in the championship than possibly become a regular ambitious prem team

 

[Houston_Blade]

Yeah alright then it’s worked well for Leicester wolves man city etc

Hahah why would wilder instantly be sacked

Please explain why we’d be a club in name only

Yeah qataris aren’t too great but guess who’s worse saudis don’t see many people complaining about the prince too much


So you’d rather us stay mid-table in the championship than possibly become a regular ambitious prem team

No, we’re at the top end of the championship with a chance of the PL and still retain our identity.

I don’t like the prince and yes Saudis are like Qataris.

We will never be a Man City.

I honestly do not want a megalomaniac rich owner and if you think that having one guarantees us being a top PL team you obviously haven’t been paying attention to the multitudes of teams that aren’t Man City, Wolves and Leicester. There is a good example in our own City and other examples in Derby and Nottingham.

Wilder wouldn’t be sacked immediately, but he’s not the high profile foreign name that would be required so within a season he’d be moved on or go himself.

The club in name only would refer to the idea that identity would be removed and we’d replace the home grown and committed squad we have with a set of mercenaries. One of the unique things about us is that we are owned and managed by a Blade, I like this as quaint as it may seem.

 

[Houston_Blade]

Qatar will have some spare football stands after the world cup , They are all removeable for reconstruction elsewhere,
Might go to the world cup and browse whats available for our new kop

https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/‘vagina-stadium’-taking-shape-2022-world-cup-qatar-1219784
no fannying about

The most interesting stadium they are building here will be made from shipping containers and will be demounted after the competition completely. It’s a shame they didn’t do more of these as they won’t need any of them come 2023.

My mate is the head turf specialist on most of the stadia and says that the design and turf is the best money can buy, he just doesn’t see the point as for the time they need it he reckons they could pay 50% of what they are paying. His team broke the record for laying a pitch the other week, below is the inside of the vagina stadium that he sent me.

 

[TJ blade]

No, we’re at the top end of the championship with a chance of the PL and still retain our identity.

I don’t like the prince and yes Saudis are like Qataris.

We will never be a Man City.

I honestly do not want a megalomaniac rich owner and if you think that having one guarantees us being a top PL team you obviously haven’t been paying attention to the multitudes of teams that aren’t Man City, Wolves and Leicester. There is a good example in our own City and other examples in Derby and Nottingham.

Wilder wouldn’t be sacked immediately, but he’s not the high profile foreign name that would be required so within a season he’d be moved on or go himself.

The club in name only would refer to the idea that identity would be removed and we’d replace the home grown and committed squad we have with a set of mercenaries. One of the unique things about us is that we are owned and managed by a Blade, I like this as quaint as it may seem.

. Like it or not we have to move forward, if your so called Blade ( McCabe ) still owns the club eventually the fantastic manager we have will go because the owner cannot match his ambitions, McCabe's a very rich business man but a pauper at being a football chairman. We need investment or a very rich owner to move up a few gears.

 

[Sean Thornton]

"So called blade"

 

[FallowfieldBlade]

No, we’re at the top end of the championship with a chance of the PL and still retain our identity.

I don’t like the prince and yes Saudis are like Qataris.

We will never be a Man City.

I honestly do not want a megalomaniac rich owner and if you think that having one guarantees us being a top PL team you obviously haven’t been paying attention to the multitudes of teams that aren’t Man City, Wolves and Leicester. There is a good example in our own City and other examples in Derby and Nottingham.

Wilder wouldn’t be sacked immediately, but he’s not the high profile foreign name that would be required so within a season he’d be moved on or go himself.

The club in name only would refer to the idea that identity would be removed and we’d replace the home grown and committed squad we have with a set of mercenaries. One of the unique things about us is that we are owned and managed by a Blade, I like this as quaint as it may seem.

There is not one owner in English football who is not a megalomaniac

 

[Glasto]

TBC and I will get pelters for it our noisy neighbors are a bigger club than weeds
Leeds live off the glory of the revie years[/QUOTE

Whilst you’re definitely on a wind up, & I appreciate Sheffield is a 2 club city but that’s the point you are 2 separate clubs & Leeds is 1. Leeds’ turnover for the 17/18 season was 41 million that’s the biggest in championship minus the teams receiving parachute payments. Now that’s pretty decent for a team that has languished out of the top division for 15 years.

 

[Glasto]

This tweet shows the income of teams after deducting parachute payments Leeds made 13 million more than villa

 

[Isar]

Do the PSG owners know that tuna man has a sleeping giant for sale? Rumbelows Cup winners 1991.

 

[bertieblade]

This tweet shows the income of teams after deducting parachute payments Leeds made 13 million more than villa

I can only assume that those figures include income from transfers as I cannot see Bristol city having a higher income than us?

 

[grafikhaus]

They won't have the brains or foresight to look any further than London.
QPR, Brentford or Fulham would be my guess

Some of the richest clubs in the Championship - Villa, Leeds, Derby and recently Wolves and Leicester etc. are nowhere near London. QPR and Fulham already have mega-rich owners who wouldn't sell on the cheap. Plus, London clubs don't have a huge catchment area compared to a lot of clubs in the provinces. There's no way that QPR, Brentford or Fulham will become 'big' anytime in the future - there's too many competing clubs and attractions in That London.

No, we’re at the top end of the championship with a chance of the PL and still retain our identity.

I don’t like the prince and yes Saudis are like Qataris.

We will never be a Man City.

I honestly do not want a megalomaniac rich owner and if you think that having one guarantees us being a top PL team you obviously haven’t been paying attention to the multitudes of teams that aren’t Man City, Wolves and Leicester. There is a good example in our own City and other examples in Derby and Nottingham.

Wilder wouldn’t be sacked immediately, but he’s not the high profile foreign name that would be required so within a season he’d be moved on or go himself.

The club in name only would refer to the idea that identity would be removed and we’d replace the home grown and committed squad we have with a set of mercenaries. One of the unique things about us is that we are owned and managed by a Blade, I like this as quaint as it may seem.

Not quaint, a well-put argument. But 'we’d replace the home grown and committed squad we have with a set of mercenaries' is the reality if we got in the PL. And yes, there are a lot of foreign owners out there who are plainly just in it for the money/self-aggrandisement. But there are some who haven't matched up to the fans' ludicrous expectations and are therefore vilified. Look at Allam at Hull and Vincent Tan at Cardiff. Both clubs were out on a limb geographically, playing in broken-down stadia and going nowhere fast - living on past 'glories' which never actually matched reality - like most clubs. But Hull and Cardiff are certainly better for their 'foreign investment'.
Apart from Man. Utd., Liverpool and maybe Spurs, no team will become another Man. City. I doubt if it's possible to become a 'top PL team' (and Leicester will be seen as a 'blip') as the truly big clubs have too much of a head start but it's about managing expectations. Maybe Derby, Forest Wednesday and - possibly - the Blades have come as far as they can and are in their rightful place in the natural order? It's like a pissing competition where tribal loyalties blind a lot of fans while the rest of the game moves on.

. Like it or not we have to move forward, if your so called Blade ( McCabe ) still owns the club eventually the fantastic manager we have will go because the owner cannot match his ambitions, McCabe's a very rich business man but a pauper at being a football chairman. We need investment or a very rich owner to move up a few gears.

Agree. Foreign owners or not, if we fail to go up this season, we might well be witnessing #PeakBlade. We've defied all odds for two seasons, but there's no guarantee this would be replicated in a third season at this level. Mr. McCabe has done wonders for United, is very rich but is not at the races in terms of the kind of wealth needed for a major step-up for our club.

I'd say United are a seriously-attractive proposition for putative new owners - city centre location, a tidy-if-limited stadium, sound finances and without being in the shadow of any truly big clubs who've had generations to garner new supporters. We certainly tick as many boxes as Wolves did when Fosun took over.

 

[Houston_Blade]

. Like it or not we have to move forward, if your so called Blade ( McCabe ) still owns the club eventually the fantastic manager we have will go because the owner cannot match his ambitions, McCabe's a very rich business man but a pauper at being a football chairman. We need investment or a very rich owner to move up a few gears.

I’d rather not move forward if it means getting a crackpot owner.

 

[bertieblade]

I cannot see anyone with brains wanting to buy a football club. It is to be viewed in very much the same way as an expensive handbag:——— look at me, look at me.
It is a rich mans play thing and generally attracts rich egotists.
Subsequently in the main we have a potential owner who has no brains and wants to stay in the public eye.

Could possibly be the reason why very few owners have a sustainable business plan and the bulk look for short term gain over long term sustainment.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Depends what the ambition is. To be challenging for a European place, that would make Fulham and QPR unlikely. Of the rest, Villa ticks that box better than the rest.

If it's a pitch for world domination, can only be Rusty Rovers.

 

[BritishSteel]

I cannot see anyone with brains wanting to buy a football club. It is to be viewed in very much the same way as an expensive handbag:——— look at me, look at me.
It is a rich mans play thing and generally attracts rich egotists.
Subsequently in the main we have a potential owner who has no brains and wants to stay in the public eye.

Could possibly be the reason why very few owners have a sustainable business plan and the bulk look for short term gain over long term sustainment.

You should have a read of the Football Leaks stuff online and both books by Rafael Buschmann and Michael Wulzinger.

Lot of money involved at the top end of the football pyramid. The people involved at that level are far from stupid but they are mostly corrupt.

It seems that foreign owners see football as a really good way of avoiding tax in their own countries and also for laundering money.

 

[shorehamview]

The club in name only would refer to the idea that identity would be removed and we’d replace the home grown and committed squad we have with a set of mercenaries. One of the unique things about us is that we are owned and managed by a Blade, I like this as quaint as it may seem.

Professional footballers are all mercenaries. We’d just have a higher paid bunch than we do now.

 

[Bill puntin]

. Like it or not we have to move forward, if your so called Blade ( McCabe ) still owns the club eventually the fantastic manager we have will go because the owner cannot match his ambitions, McCabe's a very rich business man but a pauper at being a football chairman. We need investment or a very rich owner to move up a few gears.

You say "so called blade" . If you've ever spoken to him you'd KNOW he was a blade.

 

[raul]

"So called blade"

One hour and 20 mins Scott, what were you doing ??

 

[grafikhaus]

I’d rather not move forward if it means getting a crackpot owner.

But that's like saying 'I'm not going to move house - ever - in case I get nutjob neighbours, plans for a gyppo camp out the back and a twat next door who plays loud music all night.'

Who knew when CW blew into town the profound effect he'd have? Now we need to go to the next stage - serious investment.

It seems that foreign owners see football as a really good way of avoiding tax in their own countries and also for laundering money.

Who brought Chasiri into this?