Its clear from all the cutbacks that we're not in the strongest financial position at the moment, and its also safe to say that most of the older hands on the board are probably reaching the end of what they want to chuck into the business. Certainly on more than one occassion senior board people have said if there is anyone out there looking to invest.....
Alan Sugar has just sold Amstrad to Sky, netting £35m for himself. This on top of the £25m he netted for selling his Spurs shares last month, so his coffers have been boosted by £60m in the past 4 weeks.
Him and Richard Murray's businesses have been in similar technology areas in the past, i wonder if there is much of a relationship between the two, and i wonder what others reckon he could if he was approached to become a board member. I think he would have a fair bit to offer.
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How about Bernie Ecclestone apparantly went to the Woolwich Poly school according to me ma. Lived in Bexleyheath.
Maybe Sir Alan can say the immortal lines to MynameisMarcus...
YOU'RE A LIGHTWEIGHT, YOU'RE FIRED!
Had his first motorbike shop in Welling.
Portsmouth have gone throught two rich benefactors in recent years, Man City have someone who is a crook and had be removed from office by the army and is wanted in his country on fraud charges, while Aston Villa have the type of sugar daddy who most likely had to be told that Aston Villa played in Birmingham.
Saying that if we do get promoted again we'll find around half the Premiership teams owned by people for whom money is no object and that puts us at a disadvantage, I just don't want us to become a corporate football club with mercanaries masquerading as a team.
Interesting thoughts. The way football is splitting now, you're either going to have to jump on the yacht, or stay happy in your trawler on the proviso that you're never likely to sail in bigger waters.
I'm at the stage were i'm genuinely happy plodding along in our trawler, occassionaly cutting up a yacht. No guarantee i might feel very different in 2 or 3 years time though when we are continuing to get splashed though....
Sums my view up perfectly
The club is pretty much free of debt and the ground is ours.
If Abramovitch was to get bored of Chelsea they would fall to pieces more spectacularly than Leeds United.
I believe he supports the gooners.
There is no answer to that : - )
You been playing with your toys in the bath again?
To my mind, whether Sugar gets back into football depends on how deep football is in his blood and i'd question that.
Any involement in our board would have to be instigated by Richard Murray, It's possible Murray may have more than passing relationship with him. Given Sugar's increasing involvement in the media maybe another particular Director/fan might be a useful tool, but can't see him being interested in anything less than a Premiership club.
Interesting!!
i'm totally guessing here but aren't they all trying to cash in on some of the ridiculous money being put into football by tv companies .
I'm happy with us as we are, I don't want us to become a Sugar daddies plaything and certainately not one of the Alan variety, who for the record is a dyed in the wool spud who I doubt has any interest at all in us or indeed getting back involved in football.
spot on dood, absolutly spot on
Spurs fans expected him to buy them the title, just a bit of small mindedness.
He hasn't made the amount of money he has without being a good businessman, and glory boy instant success hungry fans don't want that. They want big money spent now, now, NOW!!
Nug is of the same mind-set of me, the so called new money clubs are spending money that is simply not theirs and what have they bought?? Not one of the signings would particularly excite me if I were a fan of Villa, West Ham, Man City or Portsmouth. With the exception of perhaps David Nugent and for £7million that is a big perhaps.
I of course reserve the right to change my mind in the future. I just wanna see how many of these new investors are in it for the 'Long Haul' & who is gonna run at the first sign of the football bubble bursting.
As far as Charlton are concerned - at the moment, it's not broken, so don't fix it. (And be careful what you wish for...)
Leeds being a prime example.
Fans screamed for big money to be spent, so Risdale got the money and did what the fans demanded. Spent big in pursuit of success, he was a fan after all, and when it all went tits up the fans blamed him. And still are. Yet when things were looking good he was a hero. Hmm.....
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And as an afetrword, well said inspector.