I think this is the post @ISOE II is referring to #13217 https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/sale-is-close-barnsey.1524486/page-661#post-32210749
I think there's a few things to consider here: 1) his missus wanted him out even when things were going, comparatively, well. He'll be under a lot of pressure at home now you'd imagine 2) how does he make money from this point? If he doesn't take what's on offer now he'll need to hope he can suddenly get us promoted, and hope there's a buyer, and hope the losses sustained this season don't cancel out any extra he could get next season, that's a lot of hoping and if it goes wrong he's ****ed 3) I know we all say he's ****, but linked to 2 above, Donald trusted Coton and, seemingly, him leaving was a surprise, that's a trusted person gone on the recruitment side just when he needs to get it right 4) I know for a near fact that Donald saw Covid as an opportunity, he thought our finances were in decent order (they appear to be) and thought other clubs would be desperate to cut costs, meaning we could get decent players cheap. I don't think the latter part of that has really happened. Clubs will be struggling but by and large they aren't shedding players. Plus our finances took a massive hit when they ****ed up the season card renewal thing, and then there's the wage cap issue which has clouded things even more. All the above makes me think even he might be prepared to cut his losses now and walk off into the sunset. This is Donald, so you never quite know, but this could be his one chance to get out relatively unscathed and, if selling to the right people, even with reputation slightly enhanced. Tin hat on but I wouldn't even be against him keeping a small shareholding if it meant he was out of the decision making process and good people were in charge. That could be a way of giving him the sniff of a bit of profit down the line. But hopefully he'll just accept he's done here and get out completely. Staying makes no sense unless the offer is really derisory
The other issue is that the fans, Covid dependent, will go back if there is hope. As it stands with him in charge, he stands to lose a lot of income on match days. People are sick of him.
We’re definitely far from being out of the water on that one. I wouldn’t want to take my dad to the game or see him for two weeks after.
Not articulated the best as I'd had a few #cans by then .. "I said in March that it'll become a simple curves diagram. One curve is how much he is losing while owning a club with no income , month on month is more loss. Those losses have to be correlated to how long you can refuse a £25m (and potentially reducing) offer vs £37m asking price. Eventually the monthly losses quickly catch up the 12m offer difference when match income is at least £0.5m a game. Clearly at some point you need to get out quickly knowing the sale process will take X home games of pure loss and the £37m is just not happening. It doesn't need any pressure from the fans anymore. Losing at least a million a month will very much ensure this sale happens pretty soon. SD will want shot before season starts."
We've signed a defender from a PL club. I think it's a loan but he won't give me the details until tomorrow.
No idea if he's signing or not but the defender released by Everton who was rumoured to be at the Hilton is Morgan Feeney. He's a centre back.
