G’arn then, somebodies got to….In Praise of Dai Yoonge

[AthleticoSpizz]

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[Dirk Gently]

He's provided a perfect case study on how the current English football ownership and governance models are irretrievably broken.

And exposed the weakness of the EFL's governance abilities.

And provided the ammunition which will hasten the passing of the Football Governance Bill.

[AthleticoSpizz]

^ one more response than what I was expecting, but fair points.

[Brogue]

Funded the club for the last 8 years and paid for our training ground.

Subsidised the buses on match day

Subsidised tickets to Man U and coach travel to a few away games

I liked him.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Created more unity in the fanbase than I ever thought I would see.

[From Despair To Where?]

Had a Mogwai album named after him.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Always had the club's best interests at heart but was betrayed by his advisors and screwed by the EFL.

[Crusader Royal]

Did a good job on ticket prices.
Thought he could be successful by throwing money at things but threw too much at the wrong people and then didn’t deal with the fallout
Hasn’t left us saddled with huge debt, just an imbalance between income and expenditure.

[Royalwaster]

Could have made a real difference to the world if he'd not died so yoonge.

[blythspartan]

The buyback clause in the contract will mean Dai will one day lead us back to the Prem.

[Scutterbucketz]

Heck of a gambler!

Gonna miss the little bugger.

[Royal Ginger]

Decent runner for a man of his physique

[Jackson Corner]

We were the only club in the championship to do the twenty is plenty. At a time when Leeds were charging £39. And he did pay for coaches for some of the long away trips.

[Sutekh]

and



So live for today
Tomorrow never comes

Die young, die young

[Hound]

If he’d just sold the club quickly after we were relegated then I’d not have had too many hard feelings. Gambled and messed up badly but he did put in a ton of money and if he’d had someone with a clue advising on transfers it might have worked

Last two years have been a disgrace though

[Linden Jones' Tash]

Taking this at face value....

The kits were not from generic templates ( whether you liked them or not) the Macron partnership produced unique RFC kits

The ST pricing

The BlueCollar years

The Purple Turtle tie-ins.

The SCL partnership, a local company...

None of that takes away from the pain of the last 18 months & for £200M you'd expect a bit more....

[Hendo]

- State of the art training ground (has to be top of the list).
- Ticket prices
- Subsidised coach travel (at times)
- Ticket prices

But that all pails into insignificance after the last couple of years.

If he’d just sold the club quickly after we were relegated then I’d not have had too many hard feelings. Gambled and messed up badly but he did put in a ton of money and if he’d had someone with a clue advising on transfers it might have worked

Last two years have been a disgrace though

Basically this.

[Armadillo Roadkill]

It's been confimred he never took money out of the club, only ever put money in.

He funded a Cat 1 Academy, and paid for one of the best training complexes in the country.

He was let down by terrible advisors, and a change of mind by the Beijing regime.

Seems to have been too stubborn over the sale, but we'll never know the full story.

Don't suppose we'll ever hear what happens to him from now on in. Because he wasn't evil, I wish him well.

[Snowflake Royal]

Proved me right again and again.

[PieEater]

What happened to the alleged £200m he spent? That was listed as debt on one of his companies that owned the club before the sale, has it now been wiped?

Whose money was it as it seemed like he borrowed a lot of it from all sorts of people and secured it on our assets? Have the lenders taken a haircut?