Anyone else read the actual Athletic article? It's even more damning. Great stuff from Adam Crafton, Oliver Kay, Matt Slater, Laurie Whitwell, Phil Hay, George Caulkin and Daniel Taylor.
'he would have bought the club with nothing left for running it or investment' - maybe, but I suspect the club would be better off now (in every sense) if Grieve had bought us.
No - I actually feared that it may well happen many years ago. I still fear it will happen but I just hope I am wrong. Then again perhaps its a price worth paying.
So surely you simply sell for a correspondingly lower figure. Unless of course the owner doesn't really want to sell at all.
Based on what precisely ? If he was so keen to get involved in English football what others clubs did he attempt to or actually buy with his substantial wealth ?
Yeah, The Athletic is a site you have to sign up to (though it is probably the best site in terms of sports journalism). I'd love to, but I don't think it would be right to just copy and paste the article on here, to be honest. Hence the point of it being paywalled becomes pointless. Despite that, all of the points in that mess of a pdf that Ehab put out this morning are in it; the difference is that it is written in a bit more detail than that list, and a few other names are mentioned that don't appear in the pdf, such as Nick Thompson (remember him?).
Paywall sites often have software to prevent you from copying things from them, otherwise people wouldn’t pay for them.
Some interesting points in the article. The biggest for me is how close we were to being sold to that American guy. He's at Wembley with the Allams, two fees are agreed, 1 for if we lose and remain a championship club, the other fee is for if we win promotion, which we did. It seemed all done and dusted, but no.. Ehab called on several occasions to increase the asking price. For some bizarre reason the American guy agreed.. And on the day they were due to sign the papers at a hotel in London, Ehab didn't turn up. Apparently he heard he could get more money elsewhere. What's funny is once the Allams realised they couldn't, they crawled back to the American guy saying sorry, our heads were turned by other people!! Even stranger than before the US guy still agreed to meet up to get a deal done... Only this time the Allams wanted more money, X amount as agreed previously, plus another few million for the SMC... The mind ****ing boggles. Messing up a fantastic deal not once, but twice! Morons... How anyone can side with them or even sit on the fence after reading all that's happened these last 24 hours is beyond me.
I really hope this is the beginning of the end for them. I just wish there was more we could do collectively to get rid!
There's no one in the stadium for the rest of the season but some clubs are finding it possible to win games.
It sounds like he had been watching to much Deal or No Deal at the time ! Always try for that little bit more then It's gone.
Write hundreds of pleading letters to the Middle East, China and America and air drop them via a crop duster in the vain hope they land in the lap of a prospective buyer. Knowing our luck, we'd get a call from David Spade.
Just finished reading it. Wow. That combined with the unredacted document which fills in the blanks paints a very bleak picture.
You know what’s a real shame? The BBC, Guardian, Daily Mail etc pay their journalists a fortune and none of them can be bothered to put any effort in to a proper piece of investigative journalism like this. All we get from them is more of the same circus bullshit with the odd half decent but never as thorough David Conn article once every blue moon.
