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Re: Potential New Owners

by Brogue » 25 May 2023 12:49

So a question for the more fiscally minded people.

We are in debt about 100mill isn’t it ? But that money is owed to dai, yes?

If a prospective buyer were interested, they would have to buy that debt from dai, yes? Assuming that dai want his money back that is, I imagine he will. Obviously.

So it will be the debt + the value of the club what ever that may be.

What dangers could there be with this? Could the potential new owner structure the debt in a way that could be worse for the club.

How does all this work?

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Re: Potential New Owners

by One8Seven1* » 25 May 2023 12:53

I'm lost with where we are with the debt now, but someone recently suggested £200m.

Whatever the debt, they would then need to either lease or buy the Stadium and Training Ground back as well. That doesn't always work out well.

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Re: Potential New Owners

by YorkshireRoyal99 » 25 May 2023 14:01

Brogue So a question for the more fiscally minded people.

We are in debt about 100mill isn’t it ? But that money is owed to dai, yes?

If a prospective buyer were interested, they would have to buy that debt from dai, yes? Assuming that dai want his money back that is, I imagine he will. Obviously.

So it will be the debt + the value of the club what ever that may be.

What dangers could there be with this? Could the potential new owner structure the debt in a way that could be worse for the club.

How does all this work?


The debt owed to Dai won't effect the value of the club. If Dai thinks the club is worth £30m, for example, a new buyer could then buy the club for £30m, but they'd also be buying the debt as well. If someone wants to then wants to clear the debts owed to Dai, that would be a separate transaction.

Unless Dai made it a requirement to buy the club and clear the debt, which is very unlikely. But in that case we'd probably find no buyer. It would probably be a case where we'd look to pay off the debt owed to the club over a number of years, but we'd probably wrack up further debts doing this whilst we are where we are.

The danger is we could be worse off, but that's the same for any change of ownership. We could end up with state-owned funds like Newcastle and Man City (we likely won't) or we could end up like Wigan, or anything in between.

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Re: Potential New Owners

by andrew1957 » 25 May 2023 14:01

One8Seven1* I'm lost with where we are with the debt now, but someone recently suggested £200m.

Whatever the debt, they would then need to either lease or buy the Stadium and Training Ground back as well. That doesn't always work out well.


Assuming the debt against the football club is £200M and this does not include the ground or the Academy set up (which Dai owns) what is the actual value of the club - which basically just includes the naming rights and the players. I reckon without the infrastructure it is hard to see anyone paying more than say £50M. Even with the ground and Academy set up included, it is hard to see the whole lot is worth more than say £100M and that would be a stretch. So it seems to me that if Mr Dai wants to sell the lot he will most likely have to write off a good deal of debt to bring it down to a manageable level.

His best option financially would probably be to carry on funding the club and let Bowen et al get us back to the PL is say 5 years and then sell. But a/ is he still interested and b/ does he have enough money?

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Re: Potential New Owners

by Orion1871 » 25 May 2023 15:18

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Snowflake Royal Dai looking to sell up? :D

Potential buyers middle-eastern :x

Odds of a rich middle eastern buyer without links to corruption and human rights abuses? Slim.

Ffs.


Funded by dodgy earth destroying oil money hardly cheers me up either.


This is Reading were talking about. We'll manage to find an Arab without any oil.
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Re: Potential New Owners

by From Despair To Where? » 25 May 2023 15:52

Mazher Mahmood it is then.

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Re: Potential New Owners

by One8Seven1* » 25 May 2023 15:59

Del and Rodney Al Trotwani.

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Re: Potential New Owners

by Drew_3 » 25 May 2023 21:23

Uncle Ali-Bert too!

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Re: Potential New Owners

by Dirk Gently » 25 May 2023 23:25

The over-riding problem is that every dodgy owner, foreign or otherwise, damages any football club that little bit more when they have it - whether that's by adding on debt, stripping assets or whatever.

That means with each owner the club becomes less valuable and slightly less attractive to sensible buyers - with the end result that the next owner is likely to be slightly more dodgy than the last one since on-one with any sense will buy a club that damaged.

And so the cycle continues in a downward spiral to oblivion...


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Re: Potential New Owners

by elrey » 26 May 2023 04:55

Snowflake Royal Dai looking to sell up? :D

Potential buyers middle-eastern :x

Odds of a rich middle eastern buyer without links to corruption and human rights abuses? Slim.

Ffs.


36% of all crude oil came from OPEC countries in 2015, probably risen since then. Do people protest? Did people protest gas and oil from Russia before the Ukraine War? No.

People don't care as long as they're not told to care. If we get new owners who behead an innocent person a day just to take a bath, people will only care if it gets in the news and someone makes an issue of it.

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Re: Potential New Owners

by Stranded » 26 May 2023 07:15

elrey
Snowflake Royal Dai looking to sell up? :D

Potential buyers middle-eastern :x

Odds of a rich middle eastern buyer without links to corruption and human rights abuses? Slim.

Ffs.


36% of all crude oil came from OPEC countries in 2015, probably risen since then. Do people protest? Did people protest gas and oil from Russia before the Ukraine War? No.

People don't care as long as they're not told to care. If we get new owners who behead an innocent person a day just to take a bath, people will only care if it gets in the news and someone makes an issue of it.


No, most people would only care if the team is losing. Look at Newcastle at the mo, their fans are loving life and I doubt 99% care less where the money us coming from as they are winning games and have better players than ever before.

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Re: Potential New Owners

by Sutekh » 26 May 2023 08:33

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elrey
Snowflake Royal Dai looking to sell up? :D

Potential buyers middle-eastern :x

Odds of a rich middle eastern buyer without links to corruption and human rights abuses? Slim.

Ffs.


36% of all crude oil came from OPEC countries in 2015, probably risen since then. Do people protest? Did people protest gas and oil from Russia before the Ukraine War? No.

People don't care as long as they're not told to care. If we get new owners who behead an innocent person a day just to take a bath, people will only care if it gets in the news and someone makes an issue of it.


No, most people would only care if the team is losing. Look at Newcastle at the mo, their fans are loving life and I doubt 99% care less where the money us coming from as they are winning games and have better players than ever before.


Morals are largely absent from every single walk of life, you only have to look at most politicians of your country to see that let alone businesses and society in general. No one is going to give a shiny one so long as any prospective new owners pass the league's owners test. Sure you'll get one or two pointing so and so might have made money from iffy things in the past but, as stated above, like with Newcastle's owners, if the team was winning games people would still be going and everything would carry on as it is.

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Re: Potential New Owners

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Re: Potential New Owners

by elrey » 26 May 2023 13:22

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Snowflake Royal Dai looking to sell up? :D

Potential buyers middle-eastern :x

Odds of a rich middle eastern buyer without links to corruption and human rights abuses? Slim.

Ffs.


36% of all crude oil came from OPEC countries in 2015, probably risen since then. Do people protest? Did people protest gas and oil from Russia before the Ukraine War? No.

People don't care as long as they're not told to care. If we get new owners who behead an innocent person a day just to take a bath, people will only care if it gets in the news and someone makes an issue of it.


No, most people would only care if the team is losing. Look at Newcastle at the mo, their fans are loving life and I doubt 99% care less where the money us coming from as they are winning games and have better players than ever before.


And yet with Newcastle there was a lot stick from other people. They seemed to care about the dirty oil money, even though they probably drive a car using that very dirty oil.

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Re: Potential New Owners

by Snowflake Royal » 26 May 2023 14:46

Yeah driving a car is definitely an endorsement of the Saudi state. :lol:

I don't drive by the way.

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Re: Potential New Owners

by Royal_jimmy » 26 May 2023 16:18

Hound Not sure on this really. You’d hope Dai has learnt some lessons in his time. In terms of a new owner being an improvement - who knows.

Not jumping up for joy at the thought of an owner from the Middle East either - can’t see how it’d be significantly better than Dai

Would rather Dai hung about, kept funding the debts we have and left Bowen to get on with things


Also worry we'll end up doing a Wigan

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Re: Potential New Owners

by Royal_jimmy » 26 May 2023 16:19

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Snowflake Royal Dai looking to sell up? :D

Potential buyers middle-eastern :x

Odds of a rich middle eastern buyer without links to corruption and human rights abuses? Slim.

Ffs.


Funded by dodgy earth destroying oil money hardly cheers me up either.


Probably one of Kia's mates

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Re: Potential New Owners

by Hound » 26 May 2023 16:53

Royal_jimmy
Hound Not sure on this really. You’d hope Dai has learnt some lessons in his time. In terms of a new owner being an improvement - who knows.

Not jumping up for joy at the thought of an owner from the Middle East either - can’t see how it’d be significantly better than Dai

Would rather Dai hung about, kept funding the debts we have and left Bowen to get on with things


Also worry we'll end up doing a Wigan


Hmm don’t think so

Thing with us is we are still quite an attractive prospect due to the location, lack of local rivals and big catchment etc

Wigan on the other hand…

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Re: Potential New Owners

by Lower West » 26 May 2023 17:24

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Dai not desperate to sell but is willing to listen to proposals.



May be being forced to liquidate his investment. China Dili Group's shares remain suspended. Last update 3 weeks ago was that the results of a forensic investigation (by Grant Thornton) are still awaited. Whatever has occurred is serious and Dai is heavily involved. Being China, silence is often imposed on individuals.

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Re: Potential New Owners

by Pepe the Horseman » 26 May 2023 17:28

Had dinner with Jim Walton last night and he's keeping an eye on the situation.

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