" and the question is what sort of investment achieves the goal of increasing our value for them to sell on"

Agree 100% with this - wait and see and hope it involves positives for the fans on and off the field - its all gonna cost and that has risks and rewards

Here's where I'm at. Football is broken - you have to pump in more money than you can make, unless you happen to be very lucky in the Premier league (over and over again) But, the experiment of the last few years means that a sugar daddy who owns the club as a hobby, throws money at it and gambles ...

Here's where I'm at. Football is broken - you have to pump in more money than you can make, unless you happen to be very lucky in the Premier league (over and over again) But, the experiment of the last few years means that a sugar daddy who owns the club as a hobby, throws money at it and gambles i...

If the new owners are the rumoured investment group, then their #1 priority will be to push for promotion out of this league - sustaining losses at this level will not be acceptable beyond a season or two if the strategy is to promote and flip the club. Whilst the wish list is commendable, I can't ...

If the new owners are the rumoured investment group, then their #1 priority will be to push for promotion out of this league - sustaining losses at this level will not be acceptable beyond a season or two if the strategy is to promote and flip the club. Whilst the wish list is commendable, I can't s...

Wholeheartedly agree with this Good points - but then it is impossible to vet potential owners - only hindsight tells us that signing this player or not selling that one at the height of their form or relying on a so-called "super agent" for recommendations or hiring the former CEO of a t...

I'll let someone involved in the campaign speak further but my view was that it was never about there being a benefactor model in football but ensuring there was governance around those to ensure we don't get into the same mess again. If the campaign was purely about having an owner than runs a clu...

I think as was said, the owners will be watched by the fans and hopefully the EFL. Just because they want to make money out of things doesn't mean they are going to wrecklessly through money at it. Sensible recruitment utilising the buy low, sell high rationale is a decent way to a) improve the clu...

So if the rumours are correct and the prospective new owners are buying us as an Arbitrage play - with funds from various exotic industries (crypto/longevity biotech) - the protests continue or they stop? Do we want sugar daddies who gamble on making money (for themselves) in the prem or not? I was ...

in this 'sustainable' model, what level of annual losses in L1 are we expecting a prospective new owner to carry?

It's not a new phenomenon - remember Shaun Allaway?...

Promising youth keeper who was taken by Leeds United back in the day...

Ivory Coast into the AFON semi finals under the leadership of Emerse Fae.

Once a Royal Always a Royal.

Expect the likes of Vickers, Abbey and Bindon and maybe one other off to Arsenal or other club for some pathetic amount of money and just maybe the arrival of a striker to replace Ballard. Would certainly explain the lack of playing time for Vickers... I'm fully expecting some kind of firesale to b...

Will Unwin @Will_Unwin Nelson Abbey is set to leave Reading to join Olympiakos, I am told 2:11 PM · Jan 19, 2024 · ^ guardian journo So as he's out of contract in the summer and Olympiakos is not an English team - what does this mean regarding any compensation? Nothing. If he goes now, it is a tran...

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Nelson Abbey is set to leave Reading to join Olympiakos, I am told
2:11 PM · Jan 19, 2024
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^ guardian journo

So as he's out of contract in the summer and Olympiakos is not an English team - what does this mean regarding any compensation?

Suffragettes; the Easter Rising; the Revolutions of 1989; the poll tax riots to name a few. Not a fan of sarcasm I see? :lol: you had me as well tbh "What do we want?" "Someone to spaff tens of millions of pounds a year with no hope of any return" "When do we want it?"...

say this happens, isn't it just a sticking plaster and we'll end up in the same boat when they get bored and the fans get on their backs English football is broken and until that is addressed, nothing will really change But I understood the aim was to ditch the sugar daddy model and get an owner wh...

So, let's say that yesterday's protest has convinced Dai to sell, the next step is to find/convince someone to buy us. Is there anything we fans can do to help find a buyer? Google “billionaires”. Go down the list, and get contact details for each one. Call them up and ask them if they’d like to wa...

Expect the likes of Vickers, Abbey and Bindon and maybe one other off to Arsenal or other club for some pathetic amount of money and just maybe the arrival of a striker to replace Ballard. Would certainly explain the lack of playing time for Vickers... I'm fully expecting some kind of firesale to b...

Thought the game was fairly entertaining. Exeter had some good ideas and played quite well first half but they made so many unforced errors it was unreal. One of those days when you really feel the difference in quality to the champ Thought their left hand side - Jules (goal aside) and the number 5...