Well I may be wrong but it looks like it is too late for any new owners to come in and take over from this awful Duchatelet/Meire regime.
I am reading rumours about Konsa and Holmes going, and there are likely to be others like Tex/Chicksen/Rudd, so I predict that next season we will have a team something like:
Phillips or a new keeper.
Solly/Barnes Pearce/Bauer/Thomas/Lennon(two from four) Page/Loanee
JFC, Crofts (captain), Aribo, two loanees or untried youngsters
Magennis
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Unless RD gets an offer allowing him to recoup his 'investment' I can't see him going yet. If we are around the playoffs by January, he may well stay all season. If not, that may be when he goes.
Not sure you can read anything into JJ being appointed - would mean the club don't have to go through a recruitments process and potentially pay compensation for someone... would be a lot cheaper too!
Stands being closed again doesn't sound too detrimental - all it'll Be is a mesh sheeting over said seats!
Training ground developments have been pushing dirt arrpund
Fact is I have no idea, but I see no obvious signs they are going ...doesn't mean they are not.
Katrien is going to carry on regardless of what uncle Roly is doing (whether he's even told her or not!), not only because it's her job but also because she's desperate to have a name for herself etc!
If I am wrong and they are off sooner, I'll be the first to celebrate I can assure you
Fact is, whatever happens, I believe he will be gone, as will the SMT, by the end of next season. A pain it's another year, but in the scheme of things, not too terrible a wait.
as the present regime normally do.
*Nb - I'm not saying it's true that he was there today (He more likely weren't), and I also am not saying it would be a good thing if he was (It more than likely won't be) and I also don't know if this has been posted on an other thread on this forum (It more likely has been). I'm just posting what I read earlier.*
So it would be down to the manager and the scouting team to see what players they have on their radar and are ready to move on. And it feels like Robinson has been trying to rebuild the scouting approach and that he apparently had two targets in the stands today, but I cannot imagine the footballing things is as well run as it should be, and it will really be tested in a takeover.
That said, I think losing Holmes and Konsa in particular, possibly Magennis and Aribo as well, is far more of a risk of Roland sells. If he does, I fully expect him to try to sell off as many assets as he can as he goes out the door.
At our core though, I think we have a framework for a very good League One side, but it is only the framework:
...............Phillips
.......Solly Bauer Pearce Page
...................Crofts
Holmes....Konsa.....JFC.....Aribo
.........Magennis
That's a first 11 that should be in the top two or three in the league. Of course the problem is we have no depth, but it's definitely something to start working with.
We may lose Aribo and Konsa (the latter of which would really upset me) but I'm pretty confident we'll get new owners in return.
They can do a lot more damage in one season. Where will it all end?
We could see relegation to division four then they sell up, and still the apologists would back up the Belgians!
However, if a deal is close you'd expect them to have spoken to the potential new manager, him to have spoken to potential staff, to have made a list of players wanted etc so they can hit the ground running. All of which will be made easier if that man is SCP.