Confimred new owners of Raeding Footbal Club

[M Brook]

I still prefer to be owned by a Thai GILF than US venture capitalist asset strippers...

Shame we couldn't combine the two and be taken over by a consortium of Thai strippers.

[Pepe the Horseman]

This guys is also involved according to JF http://www.forbes.com/profile/robert-tan/

[Mr.Swainey]

I still maintain that all of these people are shafters, taking over from another bunch of shafters, and that the club is only heading one way.... downwards.

I'll be at Holloways Park if you need me.

[winchester_royal]

I still maintain that all of these people are shafters, taking over from another bunch of shafters, and that the club is only heading one way.... downwards.

I'll be at Holloways Park if you need me.

Good for you m8

[SPARTA]

I still maintain that all of these people are shafters, taking over from another bunch of shafters, and that the club is only heading one way.... downwards.

Yep. The chances of these lot being genuine is very slim indeed. Phoenix would be worse though as they were more interested in the land. Absolutely no excitement about any of this at all any more. Just expecting the worst. Football has gone to shit, and now we've joined the list of clubs exposed to these crooks.

[Schards#2]

I still maintain that all of these people are shafters, taking over from another bunch of shafters, and that the club is only heading one way.... downwards.

Yep. The chances of these lot being genuine is very slim indeed. Phoenix would be worse though as they were more interested in the land. Absolutely no excitement about any of this at all any more. Just expecting the worst. Football has gone to shit, and now we've joined the list of clubs exposed to these crooks.

That's a bit harsh.

I think they deserve the rights to be judged on their merits. In the meantime, they are at least (hopefully) rescuing us from limbo

[SPARTA]

I still maintain that all of these people are shafters, taking over from another bunch of shafters, and that the club is only heading one way.... downwards.

Yep. The chances of these lot being genuine is very slim indeed. Phoenix would be worse though as they were more interested in the land. Absolutely no excitement about any of this at all any more. Just expecting the worst. Football has gone to shit, and now we've joined the list of clubs exposed to these crooks.

That's a bit harsh.

I think they deserve the rights to be judged on their merits. In the meantime, they are at least (hopefully) rescuing us from limbo

Agreed. At the very least it's a temporary stay of execution, but it's not very often you see a new owner, or in this case a group, take over a club for the love of the game. It'll be interesting where we are on and off the field in 24 months. Hopefully they'll be good for the club.

[winchester_royal]

I still maintain that all of these people are shafters, taking over from another bunch of shafters, and that the club is only heading one way.... downwards.

Yep. The chances of these lot being genuine is very slim indeed. Phoenix would be worse though as they were more interested in the land. Absolutely no excitement about any of this at all any more. Just expecting the worst. Football has gone to shit, and now we've joined the list of clubs exposed to these crooks.

That's a bit harsh.

I think they deserve the rights to be judged on their merits. In the meantime, they are at least (hopefully) rescuing us from limbo

Exactly. Some ridiculous scaremongering going on, and the fact we've chosen this group to go with when there has been plenty of other interest is quite telling imo.

[The Prisoner]

I've been away. Have I missed confimration? Who have we signed?

New weekend girl in the Megastore.

Pics or GTFO.

Here she is with our new line in the Murgastore....lifesize cardboard cut outs of great mooks from RFC's history.

The new Royal Mook line costs £9.99 per figure & features the words to Chase the Sun by Planet Funk on the back.

Also available are Terry Bullivant, Emerse Fae, Simon Church, Carl Asaba & Royston Drenthe*

*requires 50% more space.

[ZacNaloen]

This club doesn't need super wealthy owners to turn us into a premier league force, it needs owners wealthier than sir John with sufficient liquidity who will put in the necessary funding for the club to continue to grow organically.

For me hopefully that's what these guys are.

In the short term that means new training ground and support the academy. The rest of the club can focus on the day to day aspect of buying and selling players with out going crazy and loading us up with unsupportable budgets.

[Nameless]

[quote="SPARTA]

Agreed. At the very least it's a temporary stay of execution, but it's not very often you see a new owner, or in this case a group, take over a club for the love of the game. It'll be interesting where we are on and off the field in 24 months. Hopefully they'll be good for the club.[/quote]

How many clubs are owned today by the same peope who owned them 20 years ago ? Not very many I suspect. On that basis every club is now being run for reasons other than the love of the game. Given that you pretty much can't make money from a football club that means there are a lot of scheisters, spivs and ne'erdowells running the game. But then we knew that....

[Ian Royal]

Yeah, everyone was waiting excitedly to hear Bundy couldn't afford us on his own and that SJM has opted to carve the club up between him, an old woman and two anonymous parties.

Hooray.

has clearly been a consortium from the very beginning.

That was my understanding too.

It's also what the article says. There's just been a slight change to who's in it. Possibly more people, possibly different people. The front man is still the same. The deal is still agreed.

[Ian Royal]

The important thing is not to get another owner like Anton who is too ambitious and pushes the club into places where it could not afford to be, hence leaving us with a financial shit storm when his money stopped coming in.

From what we've been told, this buyout will be clearing the club's debts...which is actually a massive deal, especially when you consider that we still have another 3 years of parachute payments to give us a decent financial advantage over most of the league.

It's a massive deal unless they leverage the payment to clear the debts back onto the club, meaning we still owe the money, just to them now. Although that's not exactly a terrible state of affairs.

[Ian Royal]

I still maintain that all of these people are shafters, taking over from another bunch of shafters, and that the club is only heading one way.... downwards.

Yep. The chances of these lot being genuine is very slim indeed. Phoenix would be worse though as they were more interested in the land. Absolutely no excitement about any of this at all any more. Just expecting the worst. Football has gone to shit, and now we've joined the list of clubs exposed to these crooks.

Just FYI. SJM didn't buy us for love of the game.

[SPARTA]

I still maintain that all of these people are shafters, taking over from another bunch of shafters, and that the club is only heading one way.... downwards.

Yep. The chances of these lot being genuine is very slim indeed. Phoenix would be worse though as they were more interested in the land. Absolutely no excitement about any of this at all any more. Just expecting the worst. Football has gone to shit, and now we've joined the list of clubs exposed to these crooks.

Just FYI. SJM didn't buy us for love of the game.

No, but he was a special case in that he loved this town and wanted to give something back; and he did.

[Mr.Swainey]

Supporting Reading has become very tedious nowadays. Going to the Madejski is a dull, warmless experience, watching 30 grand a week Pogrebynak miss from 5 yards out epitomises the great fall this club has taken - you didn't really care if Martin Butler or Carl Asaba missed a sitter or two, but we're actually paying our Russian striker a hefty wage to contribute relatively little. All of this for £25 quid a time, which goes towards paying for seemingly endless debts, does make you wonder whether the current incarnation of the club is worthwhile.

[Martin41]

Some people won't be happy unless we are owned by the richest man in the world!!! And even then they could still screw us over.

And even then would probably find something they don't like.
Jesus, these people have not been unveiled yet, and already some of you are convinced they are crooks, and it's all going to end in tears!!!
And remember sjm is not prepared to fund us anymore, so we need to have someone else.

I don't know any people on this forum, but I'm convinced lots and lots are clueless idiots.........I must be right as some of you have made assumptions of people you don't know.....that's how it works right?

Well I'm prepared to give them a chance, and let's see.......... You might be surprised!!!! Roll on the start of the season!!

[Martin41]

Supporting Reading has become very tedious nowadays. Going to the Madejski is a dull, warmless experience, watching 30 grand a week Pogrebynak miss from 5 yards out epitomises the great fall this club has taken - you didn't really care if Martin Butler or Carl Asaba missed a sitter or two, but we're actually paying our Russian striker a hefty wage to contribute relatively little. All of this for £25 quid a time, which goes towards paying for seemingly endless debts, does make you wonder whether the current incarnation of the club is worthwhile.

Don't go then....

[Ian Royal]

Some people won't be happy unless we are owned by the richest man in the world!!! And even then they could still screw us over.

And even then would probably find something they don't like.
Jesus, these people have not been unveiled yet, and already some of you are convinced they are crooks, and it's all going to end in tears!!!
And remember sjm is not prepared to fund us anymore, so we need to have someone else.

I don't know any people on this forum, but I'm convinced lots and lots are clueless idiots.........I must be right as some of you have made assumptions of people you don't know.....that's how it works right?

Well I'm prepared to give them a chance, and let's see.......... You might be surprised!!!! Roll on the start of the season!!

I like the cut of your jib.

[multisync1830]

She had the choice of some pretty rich people and she choose him