What would you do if you owned United?

[Highbury_Blade]

Say you had Abramovich/Zuckerberg levels of cash/assets. What would you do to the Blades if McCabe sold United to you?

 

[thevoot]

Say you had Abramovich/Zuckerberg levels of cash/assets. What would you do to the Blades if McCabe sold United to you?

Give the freehold to BB

 

[sheafviewblade]

Sell it, would you really wan't the grief lol

 

[Sheff de party]

i'd sign a big name manager that was a great player but had little success, buy 3 foreign football clubs and try n get United to enter the hotel/property market, whilst signing lots of players on massive salaries and several on loan.

oh wait...






(purely tongue in cheek, i dont have a problem with McCabe's motives)

 

[Geordie Blade]

I'd invest the cash into cloning research and create nine Brian Deanes (circa 1990), one Tony Agana and one Bob Booker. And probably a Peter Duffield, in case we got a penalty.

 

[raul]

He would have to give me the club or put it in admin. I could not give any of my money no matter how much I had so he could walk away rewarded for such massive failure. Then Id Hand pick a board comprising several people off here so that I could be sure no one had any agendas other than the betterment of SUFC . Season Tickets would be agressively pushed to any and all on the database at £200 for the Kop and £250 elsewhere with the provsisor we shift 20000 of them to ensure our players get the boost of playing to a full stadium. The catering would be taken in house and the board members would be visible and available to fans at all points of the ground on matchday and sharing in their experiences.

 

[JohnDenver]

Say you had Abramovich/Zuckerberg levels of cash/assets. What would you do to the Blades if McCabe sold United to you?

Rebuild the Kop and sign Maria Sharapova.

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Rebuild the Kop and sign Maria Sharapova.

Why? Is she deaf?

 

[Highbury_Blade]

He would have to give me the club or put it in admin. I could not give any of my money no matter how much I had so he could walk away rewarded for such massive failure. Then Id Hand pick a board comprising several people off here so that I could be sure no one had any agendas other than the betterment of SUFC . Season Tickets would be agressively pushed to any and all on the database at £200 for the Kop and £250 elsewhere with the provsisor we shift 20000 of them to ensure our players get the boost of playing to a full stadium. The catering would be taken in house and the board members would be visible and available to fans at all points of the ground on matchday and sharing in their experiences.

I'd definitely make it so that at least 25% of the club was supporter owned, and i'd fix it so that it would be extremely difficult for any future chairmen to renege on that.

How about linking season ticket referrals? Ie: you refer a friend and every year that they renew, you get 50 quid of the season ticket.

 

[bladesfan]

Cry, wrong investment cash gone.

 

[Deleted member 875]

He would have to give me the club or put it in admin. I could not give any of my money no matter how much I had so he could walk away rewarded for such massive failure. Then Id Hand pick a board comprising several people off here so that I could be sure no one had any agendas other than the betterment of SUFC . Season Tickets would be agressively pushed to any and all on the database at £200 for the Kop and £250 elsewhere with the provsisor we shift 20000 of them to ensure our players get the boost of playing to a full stadium. The catering would be taken in house and the board members would be visible and available to fans at all points of the ground on matchday and sharing in their experiences.

Would hand crafted cakes from Enchanted Designer Cakes be sold at the catering outlets?

http://www.enchantedcakes.co.uk/

 

[shorehamview]

If I'd got a bottomless pit of money we'd be in Europe within four years. With McCabe's plan the only way we will be in Europe is if we invade. And I'd get those stupid sponsors' names off the stands. Valad Stand? Fuck off. Then I'd sack that stupid fucking parrot that makes the odd appearance. The two year plan would be promotion, then promotion to the Premier League, pasting Wednesday home and away as we go.

Or I'd not bother, and buy my own country. Somewhere sunny. Bermuda will do.

 

[metalblade]

I'd pay someone to put 10 tom Hark CD's in a blender and force feed them to slaphead Sinclair, then laugh next day when he shits the pieces out before employing a new DJ/ announcer who isn't stuck in a time capsule.

 

[Princess Annes Dog]

If I had masses of money and bought the club the one thing I'd always do is be honest!!! I wouldn't hide things from the supporters, I wouldn't shy away from telling then if we were in the shit. Too much carrot dangling from McCabe, not my kind of bloke at all and while we're at it, I wouldn't have so many other activities going that the club came near the bottom of my list of interests.

I'd ask for a live interview on the radio and my first question would be "Well Seth, you're a right fat bastard aren't you, fancy having it face to face or are you just a big man on the radio? Oh and by the way, shove your radio station up your arse. Thank-you".

There's more but I'm getting tired so maybe when I win the lottery later you'll get to know sooner rather than later what I'd do and if not? Well there's always next week. COME ON LOTTERY, WE CAN DO IT!

 

[LA Blade]

This is a great thing I dream about if I ever won the Lotto here. I would buy the club outright and then give (said manager) 30M to get us back up t'hu PL. I would redevelop the Kop and South stand into 2 level structures with private boxes in the mid levels. Eventually, I would switch out all seats to luxury ones with at least 9" knee space along with optional heat in the posh ones. Then I would build a parking structure in the corner behind the Kop and SS for about 50% of the capacity. Finally, I would get sponsorship from a company – just imagine Beautiful Downtown Budweiser Lane

 

[Rodley]

Get the Academy up to the top EPPP level. Open a swathe of safe terracing on the Kop and price it cheap for young 'uns/folk with a budget.

Sign young quality players and build a dynasty!!!

 

[judge]

I'd just give it the current owner in exchange for a couple exec boxs for friends and family and the top floor of the hotel ,oh and James beatties parking space

 

[judge]

I'd pay someone to put 10 tom Hark CD's in a blender and force feed them to slaphead Sinclair, then laugh next day when he shits the pieces out before employing a new DJ/ announcer who isn't stuck in a time capsule.

If your heart is pure and you wish hard enough then dreams can come true

 

[SwissBlade]

This is obviously a very different question to 'would you invest in United' - clearly the answer to that is 'no'... But then unless you're mandaric, you don't make money from buying and selling football clubs...

So with deep pockets I'd buy united, it'd be a long term plan for success.

The fans - this season has been good for bringing some fans back following last season. But more needs to be done. So massive discounts on season tickets would be in order. All areas of the ground would be the same price - £250 max price and a Sliding scale of reductions. 15k sold - £250. 20k - £200. 25k and above £150. Refunds given as each target is hit.

The ground - I wouldn't upgrade capacity until we'd had at least 3 seasons with attendances above 28,000. However, I'd upgrade the facilities. Kop would have a new roof and kiosks, beer and pie stalls. Southstand/ kop corner would get extended concourses with tvs and proper beer.

The club would attempt to purchase 51% stake in all the pubs around the ground ensuring proper beer, facilities and food prematch, but the main aim being to keep the pubs open and reasonably priced. All would be child friendly.

Website, Blades player and radio Sheffield - they'd both be gone unless they offer fans something worthwhile. Affordable, quality informative. I'd replace with our own brand.

On the pitch - everyone has individual opinions on managers and players, but i would invest heavily in the academy to get the best we could.

Other than that, I'd make sure the manager could compete in the division were in without doing a man city. If we succeed it's because we progress steadily not because we did a man city, Chelsea or a Blackburn. Home grown players would be rewarded well, big name and big time players coming to take my money would not be welcome.

Managers would get the time to do the job, not get sacked at the first run of defeats.

It's a start, but the club would see the money not just the players bank accounts

 

[metalblade]

Sounds good Swissblade, I'd also recruit a proper board of directors with no one allowed a 51% stake in the club so any decisions are made in a democratic way in the best interests of SUFC not the major shareholder.

 

[beightonblade]

flatten the ground and build sum houses......... spout sum bollox abart europe in 5 years and smile a lot !

 

[DP8789]

If i had that level of cash and owned united i would...

Tickets - Get the ground full, i never understand the sense in making games 25quid and have 15,000 empty seats. Make it cheap and fill the ground.

Manager - Keep Wilson, why rock the boat?

Team - Recruit young british players at first and then span it out into europe and s.america as we progress. The young British players go for more unrealistic cash than foreigners (Henderson, Carroll, Naughton and Walker)

Kit/Shop - Look to get Umbro - love their retro vibe - get a local sponsor at first and maybe not even have one the year we get to the prem.

Wages - have a club level salary cap - no more than 40k a week (rising dependant upon income/success)

Ground - new kop, have ground re-designed to look like Bayern Munich 'esque' bowl. red and white lights, lots of glass. Buy up as much of the surrounding area and improve/develop it. - Create some form of a 'fanzone' - large area with local produce (food and beer) on sale with large screens for pre and post game viewing. (Create a permanent tribute for speedo - small but personal)

 

[Selly]

I'm disgusted that given the previso of unlimited funds, not a single one of you has, in conjuction with the changes at BDTBL suggested, even thought about buying our erstwhile neighbours and running them down...

 

[super_pig]

me.. i'd buy the pigs..
and shut them down.. just for spite

 

[Bladesway]

OK taking out the lunacy of me having bottomless pits of cash and not wanting to end up dead in a ditch. I would certainly invest in SUFC for the good of its long suffering fans.

I would NOT just splash cash Cityesque, and would start by making the club debt free and ensuring a line of succession in trust even if I were to walk/drop dead because I had eaten/drunk/shagged/drugged myself to death. Lets face it with that level of cash you would at least want to try. Long term future of the club assured I would then ensure that the board were majority held Sheffield United fans. Be it via forum members or other means.

I would drip feed cash into squad rebuilding and restructuring. It would be there for the next 20 years +. I wouldn't want a Blackburn situation developing in the future. The club would have to generate a percentage of its wage structure/transfer pot so the lower the division the lower the cap/transfer kitty would be. The money would be there to secure the clubs future not to spend into oblivion like some.

The board would have a say on money spent but would not ever make decisions over the manager on players brought to the club.

There would be no nursery c lubs, no chinese adventures, no property ventures and the money would be to solely invest in Sheffield United football club, the players and the ground/infrastructure of the club.

There would also be salary caps in place. This would be division dependent. The big bucks would come if we got into the Premiership because thats what you need, but it would be a case of turning the tap on slowly as the club progressed.

My Managers would be on 12 month rolling contracts rather than long 3-4 year agreements. This prevents a Robson/Blackwell situation but the manager would be well paid enough to know that they were secure. I would not change managers through a season but wait until the end of the season for review.

In short, if I were loaded to the hilt the money would be there to secure SUFC not make them the next big thing. You do that you lose the soul of the club. It wouldn't be to make us another Man United, it would be to make sure the fans had a club for the long term future that could compete and get into the Premiership rather than just slash money up the wall to get us there.