The Owners

There is something massively unconvincing about the people investing in AFC Wimbledon 

killerandflash said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

The Red Robin said:

Sword65pf said:

I feel in time it will come out that the owners have bullshitted us a bit, if NJ sticks around and keeps us up, they are the luckiest fuckers to run a football club. They need to back him in jan, but that’s not going to be easy.

Nathan Jones isn’t blameless in recruitment all of a sudden just because he won a football match for the first time in twelve attempts. 

He’s not to blame that the players he wanted to bring in like Galbraith and Holsgrove didn’t materialise. That’s down to the owners not funding the window sufficiently. There have been questionable signings but I can’t help feeling that those players were brought in because that’s all we could afford. I’m not hopeful for January other than the hope we get lucky again with the loans we make. It saved us last season and I sadly suspect we’ll need to get lucky again

That's way too simplistic. Players have to want to come to you, and that's not just down to money, it's also down to the style of football you play. Galbraith had the option of an established Championship club, who play the sort of passing football he thrives in, and which we don't play. Holsgrove never showed any interest in us.

If I was a "classy, foot on the ball" midfielder, I'd want to join a passing team, not a direct one, even if they are successful.

Of course that’s true but there are / were other “classy” midfielders out there and we didn’t / couldn’t sign those either. I’ve no problem with Galbraith choosing Swansea over us or Holsgrove not fancying it but the fact remains we signed Chalobah in the vain hope we’d get games out of him. It’s a repeating pattern of us signing crocks with our fingers crossed. I won’t believe that’s a strategy. It’s something that’s forced onto us through lack of funds. I’m in the camp that firmly puts our playing deficiencies at the door of the ownership not Jones. Until that lack of funding and by definition ambition changes then Jones is screwed. He’s always firefighting. The Championship is unforgiving and so far I think Jones has worked miracles. 

SoundAsa£ said:

CafcSteve said:

Lots of people said on here that Jones stormed out of a meeting over budgets in The Summer.

Sounding like it could have been accurate.

If my memory serves me correctly, it was only one poster that suggested that, other posters then kind of took that as being gospel.
It has never been substantiated……..as far as I know.🤔

Since established it was Reams on the forum who’s name shall not be named.

I do find it confusing though how they were willing to lose 15M in L1 just to get us promoted and then sort of call it a day 2 years later. 

thenewbie said:

ShootersHillGuru said:

I think it’s fair to say our owners are on the way out and it’s only when not if. That said, all we can hope for is that they are not so keen to sell that they are prepared to deal with one of the numerous sharks that are out there circling to bleed a club dry. When we get a new buyer it needs to be someone that’s not a crook or chancer. 

The question for me is whether the entire consortium have collectively decided to pack it in or if one or two individually want out and are simply trying to sell a partial stake.

I have no idea either way but the potential outcomes and timelines look different in each case.

Its one of the reasons I think anyone wanting to buy us will have a very difficult job. Our ownership structure is so complicated and I’d guess unless all parts of the consortium agree to sell we’ll struggle to find a buyer. 

Birmingham City have announced that Tom Brady has left the club 

golfaddick said:

guinnessaddick said:

Birmingham City have announced that Tom Brady has left the club 

It couldn't be.. .could it ?

No