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Lewberry Pie said:
He speaks as someone who has contacts with FPP rather than our current owners.
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100%. Works for the sun doesn't he? Considering Donald went through a spell of suing them (or at least considering legal action), I think it's highly unlikely that any of the current ownership would be particularly pally with them.

I really don't think the FPP loan will be an issue mind. The loan is to Madrox, not safc, so assuming the new people are buying into Madrox they either simply adjust the price they pay to account for the loan being in place, or they pay it off now. Its existence is well known so its hardly going to be some unforeseen stumbling block.

If they don't want to pay it off now then they'll need FPPs agreement, but there's no reason why they'd say no. If they wanted the club they'd likely have made a move already. If they don't want anything other than their loan paying back in time then they'd be better off with billionaires running the club who can definitely afford to pay it back, rather than risking the current lot messing it up. If Fuhrman is involved in the bid then again you wouldn't imagine FPP would be difficult.

I think it'll go through this time, Donald will be losing money, he can't be enjoying it any more and recent performances will hardly have him convinced that he can ride it out with promotion at the end of the season. He's running out of options, if this one involves a fair price and the bonus of keeping shares in a billionaire ran safc to cash in on later then he'd be daft to mess it up. The last accounts seemed okay as well , and there's no reason (aside from Covid which they'll all know about) why anything should have materially changed since then, so I don't KLD will find anything to concern him either.
 
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Zidane said:
I sometimes wonder if this is even the same takeover as it was way back in June/July.
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Indeed. Was the 'leak' regarding Mr. Marseilles just
As You Were said:
Lets just wait and see. Makes me laugh though, when Nixon has good news everyone says how reliable he is, when he has news that isn’t great for us everyone says he’s full of ****
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That’s true for most of the internet to be honest!
 
TonyG said:
The main talk over the road is Charlie Methven having a stronger voice at the moment. Even as far as demanding from potential new owners that he be dismissed. I’m not very fluent with shares and ownership but I don’t think you can sack a shareholder ??

My own opinion is this. Methven critically underestimated Sunderland fans. He burned bridges but there could be ways back even for a Tory :emoticon-0102-bigsm. I’d want to hear admittance that they did do things wrong and I’d want to hear why it would be any different this time.

I think the other approach would potentially knacker a takeover from this particular group.
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Why should they apologise? Donyou apologise and admit your mistakes always. These are businessmen, and moderately successful. As far as I can see they have streamlined costs and got investment just as they said they would do. The errors came when they sold any young prospect and decided to buy a striker everyone knew had gone off. If they had just stuck to business they have been a success. Remember, no Donald no dreyfus
 
Guinness Guzzler said:
100%. Works for the sun doesn't he? Considering Donald went through a spell of suing them (or at least considering legal action), I think it's highly unlikely that any of the current ownership would be particularly pally with them.

I really don't think the FPP loan will be an issue mind. The loan is to Madrox, not safc, so assuming the new people are buying into Madrox they either simply adjust the price they pay to account for the loan being in place, or they pay it off now. Its existence is well known so its hardly going to be some unforeseen stumbling block.

If they don't want to pay it off now then they'll need FPPs agreement, but there's no reason why they'd say no. If they wanted the club they'd likely have made a move already. If they don't want anything other than their loan paying back in time then they'd be better off with billionaires running the club who can definitely afford to pay it back, rather than risking the current lot messing it up. If Fuhrman is involved in the bid then again you wouldn't imagine FPP would be difficult.

I think it'll go through this time, Donald will be losing money, he can't be enjoying it any more and recent performances will hardly have him convinced that he can ride it out with promotion at the end of the season. He's running out of options, if this one involves a fair price and the bonus of keeping shares in a billionaire ran safc to cash in on later then he'd be daft to mess it up. The last accounts seemed okay as well , and there's no reason (aside from Covid which they'll all know about) why anything should have materially changed since then, so I don't KLD will find anything to concern him either.
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But it is Donald after all he thought Parkinson was a good appointment.
 
Disco down under said:
Can't believe Poyet is getting a mention to take the helm post takeover.

I was at the Villa game at home when we were getting tanked by an awful team before half time. Think it might have been 0-3 before the break. It was the worst football i have ever seen. Utterly devoid of ambition. Just passing the ball around at the back, losing it, panicking, conceding. Rinse and repeat.

He was a dreadful manager for us.

And if he can't get premier league players playing tika taka masala football... what hope does he have with league one journeymen.

Mortifying.

I'd sooner have Steve "1 in goal, 10 in defence at lower league Brighton" Bruce back.
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A terrible manager for us? Got us to a cup final and escaped relegation finishing decently?
 
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Bazza2310 said:
His choices though? I believe weren't his first choice or second choice signings? He even said that when he was on goals on Sunday ages ago.
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I was under the impression Bridcutt was. Thought he was signed to replace Cattermole who was going to Stoke, but then that didn't happen. I'd have Poyet back ina heartbeat though. I think at this level he'd be able to go through the squad and youths and get 11 players in the right spots for his system out pass this division.
 
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