When is it that clubs with debt 3 maybe 4 times as much as us are having no trouble finding a buyer yet after spending 7 years in the prem and with the possible millions on offer if we go back up (and with our squad compared to many others the odds must be in our favour) we can't.You came out with the re-financing/selling statement in August and nothing has happened,well sod due-diligence with Reidy's sale imminent I want some answers please.Coz I'm as big a fan as you just not as wealthy.
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What the hell are you on about? We're fifth in the table, have a great squad, and every chance of returning to the Premiership. Would you like me to find out the number of the Samaritans, before you drag the rest of us down with your self-serving misery?
Precisely so why when the board said they were lookin for a buyer,are we havin so much trouble when qpr,coventry who are in a far worse state can?We should be a huge attraction given our current position.
i haven't got the ability to see the future but we rarely give away bargains and have had top dollar for Bent, Parker and Mills and the expected price on other players.
Yes lets get a buyer who may well not give a monkeysFart and aftertwo years sell the training ground and move us toEbbsfleet or someother ShitPit.
Spot on
Is this PMT or the menopause?
We are not havin so much trouble. Get a tablet and calm down.
S.
Hope you feel better in the morning.
People go on and on and on about how lucky we were to have Curbs,but without Allwen and then Murray ,Curbs would have been f**k all and we as a club might not exist.
It was made pretty clear in the summer and at the start of this season that Murray would certainly be interested in moving aside if a white knight come along, someone / consortium that would have the backing to move things forward, but also have the soul of the club at heart. That clearly hasn't happened for one reason or another, so we do what we can to get through.
In the grand scheme of things, we are a small club no longer sitting at the top table. We get get low income from matchday revenue due to cheap tickets, we have poor merchandising sales compared to other clubs, and most importantly of all, we are missing out on the massive TV money.
We have always been a selling club, and unless we broke into the Top 4, we will always be a selling a club. There is no getting away from that fact.
Keeping a player who wants to go will have a negative effect on the rest of the squad, and the boards job in that instance is to raise the maximum value they can for that asset. They did with parker, and they did with Bent. If they have got £4m for Reid whilst injured, then i think they have done it again.
I'd rather he not go personally, but I am struggling in my mind to fit him in the team right now, I have harboured doubts on here before that he will be unable to reach the necessary fitness levels to crack it in the prem, and from what has been heard, he wants the move and the big jump up in salary.
Its not ideal, but sadly a no brainer for me.
People like Richard Murray and Martin Simons do go to fan events, keep your eyes peeled as they are good fun and can give fans a better idea as to whats happening at the Club.
I think the answer may well lie in the phrase "qpr, coventry who are in a far worse state". It you are going to spend your money somewhere, much better to do it where the price is low. Write off the debit and get the shares for nix. Our club has a considerable market value.
i agree the board have been fantastic and would not criticise otherwise my beef is the date and timing y does it always have to be the last day every time. Parker would have had a negative effect because of the money he could have earnt and it was Chelsea, Murphey if i am honest and dont tell any of the feckers over here had the cahnce to go to a big club and Spurs are big great ground noisy fans loads of cash fact. But sunderland for fecks sake it aint even a nice place, there is feck all there
We saw it with Parker & we saw it with Murphy.
And other clubs bigger than ours, will tell you the same story.
Perhaps the point you don't understand is that clubs with debt have to sell.
The review was perhaps to ensure that Murray and co not only sell to the highest bidder but get good value. It's all very well selling out to the first decent buyer that comes along but do we want characters like Hick and Gillett buying Charlton? Or dodgy Formula One team owners who fancy adding a football club to their portfolio? Even Man U fans aren't happy with the Glazer take over. Also Chelsea fans that I know are still in two minds about the Abramovich takeover.
Murray and co are not just hard headed businessmen but also fans, they know they don't have to take the first offer that comes along if it means sacrifycing the club to get there. My guess is that they've already had informal offers and chats but are sorting those with a genuine desire to push the club forward and complete the job they started, with those who'll borrow millions, mortgage the club heavily and then asset strip the place when the football boom dies on its feet.
Sunderland? Reid will see there a number of his Ireland team mates, run by a legend that he respects & with the focus to be a huge figure in the game going places. He'll also see a 45,000 seater stadium filled with some of the most passionate fans in the country.
Then they'll give him a fat signing on fee, double his wages and offer him a Premiership stage to perform on.
Put yourself in the player's boots. If you had that chance, would you turn it down?
dig is just at northerners and yes it is full when they are winning but on MOTD it has not looked that full.
Keano marked for bigger and better jobs than Sunderland so the chances of him working for him for long are thin unlike reidy