So overnight we've gone from Bowyer's left, Taylor will hand in a transfer request and others won't be far behind him, let's burn our season tickets and riot in Belgium.............to Bowyer is back and we'll have 4-5 new signings by the end of the month.
So overnight we've gone from Bowyer's left, Taylor will hand in a transfer request and others won't be far behind him, let's burn our season tickets and riot in Belgium.............to Bowyer is back and we'll have 4-5 new signings by the end of the month.
What a club.
It does all feel a bit orchestrated doesn’t it...
Monday it just falls apart Tuesday/Wednesday broke my heart
My guess is that Bowyer was always going to sign a new deal , but quite rightly was trying to get the best deal possible for himself. Roland issued that ridiculous statement to force Bowyer''s hand & Bowyer blinked first
Realistically, you can't offer more than 1 year, if there will be a new owner within 12 months. Even if the new owner would like to keep LB at this stage, will he still want him next May, if we have been relegated ?
That bonkers statement went out yesterday at what, 4.30? It now emerges that everything was done and dusted last night.
So that means after weeks of negotiations that went nowhere, two parties (both clearly angered) in different locations negotiated, agreed a deal, had a contract wrote out, reviewed by advisors and penned, with supportive quoted PR fixed up as well. All in just a few hours??
That's good. But what do you base that optimism on, additional to the great news regarding Bowyer.
As I see it we will still be heading into the season with the lowest budget, a massive building job to do before the first game and a lunatic owner who despite what he says is showing little actual sign of leaving soon.
What am I missing that will take me over to the optimistic camp? Or is it faith that Bowyer will work another miracle?
A friend messaged me saying he was told the current takeover is off and RD needed to appease us and hold some value in the club by signing Bowyer up for a year....
Which takeover? RD appease us? Keep value in the club maybe.....
Aussie takeover isn’t off, as of 08:58 this morning.
It might not be off, but when will it ever be on ?
I have never, in all my 71 years, come across someone with the blindingly obvious propensity for shitting on ones own doorstep. It’s a truly remarkable accomplishment, yet we see it happen over and over again.....under any other circumstances you’d end up feeling sorry for him.
That bonkers statement went out yesterday at what, 4.30? It now emerges that everything was done and dusted last night.
So that means after weeks of negotiations that went nowhere, two parties (both clearly angered) in different locations negotiated, agreed a deal, had a contract wrote out, reviewed by advisors and penned, with supportive quoted PR fixed up as well. All in just a few hours??
Again, that in itself suggests to me that after the statement came out Bowyer basically just said “Sod it, I’ll sign the offer”
We all want to believe that RD capitulated and upped his offer, or that a new owner came in and had a word - but this wouldn’t have been turned around that quickly if the deal was any different from what was on the table.
It has been reliably reported Duchatelet doubled his offer!
If indeed that is the case then that is great news, and I stand corrected. Happy for our club, but more than anything happy for Lee Bowyer.
That bonkers statement went out yesterday at what, 4.30? It now emerges that everything was done and dusted last night.
So that means after weeks of negotiations that went nowhere, two parties (both clearly angered) in different locations negotiated, agreed a deal, had a contract wrote out, reviewed by advisors and penned, with supportive quoted PR fixed up as well. All in just a few hours??
I think Bowyer agreed the deal that he had previously rejected.
It has been reliably reported Roland doubled the offer. The change was the duration.
Is it possible that the media backlash that he got from the likes of Henry Winter and Jason Burt in the Telegraph let alone Simon Jordan, made his representative wake up and tell him not to be so stupid if he was going to sell the club. The crap piece on the web site yesterday really has back fired on him. The bidders for the club, if there really are some, would have been on the blower devaluing the asset they were looking to acquire etc.
He appears to have taken his foot out of his mouth (maybe leaving the duct tape behind, and found that protecting the asset in a sale is really important.
A friend messaged me saying he was told the current takeover is off and RD needed to appease us and hold some value in the club by signing Bowyer up for a year....
Which takeover? RD appease us? Keep value in the club maybe.....
Aussie takeover isn’t off, as of 08:58 this morning.
It might not be off, but when will it ever be on ?
You haven’t got a piece of string handy have you? I’m much more confident saying it isn’t off than saying it’s on.
A friend messaged me saying he was told the current takeover is off and RD needed to appease us and hold some value in the club by signing Bowyer up for a year....
Which takeover? RD appease us? Keep value in the club maybe.....
Aussie takeover isn’t off, as of 08:58 this morning.
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Luckily same seat that I had 4 seasons ago!
Monday it just falls apart
Tuesday/Wednesday broke my heart
Even if the new owner would like to keep LB at this stage, will he still want him next May, if we have been relegated ?
Feel optimistic already about 2019-2020
We can go into every game next season with a cup final underdog mentality.
With Bowyer in charge and JJ by his side....assuming we will at least have ourselves a big enough squad.
I think our work-rate maybe strong enough to help us survive the championship next season.
Away from home, we might really struggle.
At home....if we intimidate and suprise our opposition...then it could contribute towards us getting more points on the board.
That's good. But what do you base that optimism on, additional to the great news regarding Bowyer.
As I see it we will still be heading into the season with the lowest budget, a massive building job to do before the first game and a lunatic owner who despite what he says is showing little actual sign of leaving soon.
What am I missing that will take me over to the optimistic camp? Or is it faith that Bowyer will work another miracle?
What, London Buddhist Centre?
Did Buddha himself intervene?
He hasn't FFS. Bipolar is not like that!!!! Google it.
He appears to have taken his foot out of his mouth (maybe leaving the duct tape behind, and found that protecting the asset in a sale is really important.
I wonder if Bow wanted a couple of years with a fully paid up contract if new owners want to get rid of him (At the Duchatelet offered rate)