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The Takeover Thread - Duchatelet Finally Sells (Jan 2020)

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  • Pedro45 said:
    Okay Mr Owner, so you've failed at selling the club. Not a biggie - you've tasted failure before. However, out of the jaws of defeat comes the opportunity for a victory even you can't possibly have seen coming. You could literally double your money by letting the Manager know today that you will back him to the tune of £50 million in January to get the club promoted, and to build a squad with a chance of staying in the Prem.

    This is a once-off opportunity that I'm sure someone with your Trump-like wisdom will seize. 

    Or, you could simply take that £50 million and divide it up between your 50 biggest critics on here and we'll stop saying nasty things about you.

    The choice is yours.
    No - he won't and we won't...why? Well, we'd be royally pissed off with him as usual if he spent £50m as we'd get a 10-12 points fine from the EFL for busting FFP!  Let's keep it real folks, even if he did fancy his chances he can only splash £10-£12m otherwise he's cutting his own throat again!
    With Gallen and Bowyer £10 OR £12 million would probably be enough. 
    They are magicians. 

    Dont think it even needs that sort of money. Realistically we probably only need another 2 or 3 players. Another striker - either Toney or someone to replace Leko & cover for Cullen if he goes back to W Ham & cover at left back. 

    £6-8m tops. Gallen is a superhero & knows where the talent is.

    Trouble is you spend £6-8m on a couple of decent players, you have to pay them well.  Then Taylor wants the same or more; other players want more; clubs loaning you players want a fee.  Suddenly your £6-8m is £15m and you turnover is only £13m a year and you are back to losing money hand over fist.  Championship footy is broken. Badly.
    Let's not get onto the money league.
  • Okay Mr Owner, so you've failed at selling the club. Not a biggie - you've tasted failure before. However, out of the jaws of defeat comes the opportunity for a victory even you can't possibly have seen coming. You could literally double your money by letting the Manager know today that you will back him to the tune of £50 million in January to get the club promoted, and to build a squad with a chance of staying in the Prem.

    This is a once-off opportunity that I'm sure someone with your Trump-like wisdom will seize. 

    Or, you could simply take that £50 million and divide it up between your 50 biggest critics on here and we'll stop saying nasty things about you.

    The choice is yours.
    However bad Roland has been, I don't think gambling 50m in that way would make everything right for the club itself in the long run. Look at the ruins that are Bolton, Bury et al.

    You might think the mega rich like Abramovich are happy to spunk their money away, but I bet very few of them actually lose their own cash in the long run. 

    If Roland did want to earn a bit of kudos from the fans (which he probably doesn't, based on his record so far) then he'd easily get it by just giving Bowyer a few quid to bring in a few extra faces in January and sort out long term contracts for those already at the club who are showing great commitment at the moment. 

  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    Exactly, I think it’s unreasonable to ask for 10mil+ but after what Bowyer has done for him it’s criminal rude he won’t even chuck him a bit. 
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    Exactly, I think it’s unreasonable to ask for 10mil+ but after what Bowyer has done for him it’s criminal rude he won’t even chuck him a bit. 
    Like a decent contract to start with
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    JamesSeed said:
    Aussie (+ US backing) attempt to buy the club is over.

    Can't say which source supplied the info, but apparently RD was impossible to deal with, and they've had enough.
    Is it known by anyone whether:

    - an actual deal was put to Roland in recent months which he has rejected?

    - what the high level details of that deal were?
    After 2022 pages I thought youd have realised by now that nobody knows anything about any deals.

    I've long given up now. 
  • Valley27000
    Valley27000 Posts: 3,417
    Investors at the valley tomorrow?.Rumour on Facebook.
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    Investors at the valley tomorrow?.Rumour on Facebook.
    This is the teaser after the credits at the end of the film. 
  • Investors at the valley tomorrow?.Rumour on Facebook.
    Credible account?
  • Can we afford all these handouts of scarfs, are they coming out of the players budgets? 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,352
    Can we afford all these handouts of scarfs, are they coming out of the players budgets? 
    Tactical mastermind Rolando Clusterfuck has cunningly added a 45% GTAT (Gullable Twat Added Tax) to the sale of all scarves purchased by potential suitors...
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Look out for these two


  • Can we afford all these handouts of scarfs, are they coming out of the players budgets? 
    The millionaire Lyle Taylor will buy them.
    Guilt will out.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,419
    Investors at the valley tomorrow?.Rumour on Facebook.
    Credible account?


    That rumour was started on the dark side. 😉
  • Crusty54
    Crusty54 Posts: 3,232
    The Sky feature was a pretty good sales commercial.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    Boomerangs at the ready.
  • Valley27000
    Valley27000 Posts: 3,417
    Boomerangs at the ready.

  • Boomerangs at the ready.
    Good thinking Airman.
    We can use them to protest at every game without having to climb down pitchside to retrieve them. ;)
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,960
    edited November 2019
    Boomerangs at the ready.
    To quote Charlie Drake, my boomerang wont come back. (Blimey you got to be very old to have heard that classic ‘50s song.) Thought Mr seed said they had now departed, never to return,
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    Crusty54 said:
    The Sky feature was a pretty good sales commercial.
    For the club or for Bowyer?
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Tie my kangaroo down day?
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  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    Crusty54 said:
    The Sky feature was a pretty good sales commercial.
    What sky feature @Crusty54 what have I missed/
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Crusty54 said:
    The Sky feature was a pretty good sales commercial.
    What sky feature @Crusty54 what have I missed/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2jyDVLVcGo
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    Thanks @Cafc43v3r
  • Valley27000
    Valley27000 Posts: 3,417
    Any one see a Aussie?.
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,820
    YesValley27000 said:
    Any one see a Aussie?


    Yes. Andrew Muir in west lower. Near halfway line four rows from the front.
  • Valley27000
    Valley27000 Posts: 3,417
    Pedro45 said:
    YesValley27000 said:
    Any one see a Aussie?


    Yes. Andrew Muir in west lower. Near halfway line four rows from the front.
    I don't believe it.
  • Pedro45 said:
    YesValley27000 said:
    Any one see a Aussie?


    Yes. Andrew Muir in west lower. Near halfway line four rows from the front.
    I don't believe it.
    Victor Meldrew is buying us?
    stands to reason
  • Pedro45 said:
    YesValley27000 said:
    Any one see a Aussie?


    Yes. Andrew Muir in west lower. Near halfway line four rows from the front.
    You can't be serious, we were told by a super ITK never talks rubbish poster that they'd pulled out....
  • Pedro45 said:
    YesValley27000 said:
    Any one see a Aussie?


    Yes. Andrew Muir in west lower. Near halfway line four rows from the front.
    You can't be serious, we were told by a super ITK never talks rubbish poster that they'd pulled out....
    John McInroe is taking us over?
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