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goatboy
Grenville Morris
Company owned by an individual called Victor Chandler, who's a bit of a Forest fan, iirc. Might not be. Dunno.
He'd allegedly be able to treat two at a time....
High Five!!
Bloke form Dublin
Banned
But Doughty said no one was interested in buying a toxic football club in these financially troubled times, was he lying again ?
You could ask him?
weasel
Grenville Morris
Yeh, all seems to have gone swimmingly at Liverpool, Aston Villa and United. I'm deeply concerned.
thehockleyhustler
Stuart Pearce
Hoping they are in advanced talks with potential new owners if they are releasing such statements
Bloke form Dublin
Banned
If they aren't we're f**ked.
Ravi
Upper Decker
Unless we're not. In which case we won't be.
Super-Garth
Viv Anderson
I wouldn't be so sure. Who'd have thought a club that said that Whittingham and Pratley wanted to come would have been in advanced talks with both clubs and players.
Glen's Biggest Fan
Viv Anderson
I heard there's this business called Munto Finance looking to buy the club with some ex international manager to be Chief Ex :dunno:
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
Take out the "expecting" and substitute "hoping like fcuk, or we're finished..." and you are there on the money
T
TheDude
Guest
Can't wait for Cotts's response. It'll be something like him looking forward to working for the new owners and them being able to buy him a couple of players.
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
Right, let's de-constuct the statement:
1 The family meet the financial commitments until the start of next season:
This translates as "there are 5 months to sort out the future or there is no future;
2 In talks with several interested parties...
This means there is not a serious contender to buy the club, but we are phoning everyone we can think of and begging them to make an offer
3 Investment bank Seymour Pierce retained...
ND put them on a no sale no fee basis so they are going to work their balls off becuase if they don't find a buyer within 5 months they get sod all compensation for their efforts.
Believe me, if there is no one in the wings wanting to buy Glasgow Rangers with their history and heritage, there sure as hell is no-one rushing to buy a down at heel provincial club about to drop into the third tier and requiring lots of instant cash with little hope of any payback.
Never has the old joke been more true:
Question: " how do you make a small fortune out of a football club...
All together now with the age old answer.......
1 The family meet the financial commitments until the start of next season:
This translates as "there are 5 months to sort out the future or there is no future;
2 In talks with several interested parties...
This means there is not a serious contender to buy the club, but we are phoning everyone we can think of and begging them to make an offer
3 Investment bank Seymour Pierce retained...
ND put them on a no sale no fee basis so they are going to work their balls off becuase if they don't find a buyer within 5 months they get sod all compensation for their efforts.
Believe me, if there is no one in the wings wanting to buy Glasgow Rangers with their history and heritage, there sure as hell is no-one rushing to buy a down at heel provincial club about to drop into the third tier and requiring lots of instant cash with little hope of any payback.
Never has the old joke been more true:
Question: " how do you make a small fortune out of a football club...
All together now with the age old answer.......
It's Baggio
John Robertson
Well Rangers seem to have attracted a bit of interest. Their Administrator said they'd had talks with prospective buyers.
Clifford
Viv Anderson
Rangers can't get into the premiership. The richest league in the world. The situation there involves the hmrc missing money, years of mortgaged revenue, court cases etc. We are a more attractive buy by far.
This is a very good point.
It would be folly to buy Rangers an expect to make money (you won't) and the Scottish League isn't big enough to attract the kind of players who will bring success in Europe (which of course is the only way Scottish teams will make serious money).
Whereas - feasibly - a potential buyer of Forest could, with a bit of investment, get the club to the Premier League (look at QPR) and that's where real money can be made.
That's a rosy-tinted view but it does show that buying a Championship level club is a more attractive proposition than Rangers.
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