We’re talking about Dragan Solak, not the board. He owns the club.
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Solaks the chairman, and hes on the board. He's not a hands off owner, he's actively involved in decisions.
Okay, but whoever he appoints to run the club, it’s still his money, no one else’s. He’s put hundreds of millions into the club, should he just wave it all goodbye?
Please understand I am not defending the utter ****show Sport Republic have made since they took over. I am, however not convinced that Solak selling is necessarily the best thing.
Nah, I totally get your view. I just don't agree
At some point, you just have to cut your losses and move on. It's business, you win some and you lose some.
Easy to say but it’s a huge loss if he has to sell cheap. If I was him I would roll the dice with a different board first.Nah, I totally get your view. I just don't agree
At some point, you just have to cut your losses and move on. It's business, you win some and you lose some.
Whilst we want them gone, financially he's not going to sell a club in the Championship which will fetch a lot less than the premium he paid when we were in the prem. I think we are stuck with them until we return to the prem and God knows how long that will be
Exactly the point I was trying to make, but you made it better!
I say to over and over again. Owners you can't sack. They have to either sell or make us go into admin. As much as I think SR have ****ed up over the years, until they want to sell, we are stuck with them. You can't drive them out of the club with protests etc if they don't want to sell their business. They are not players or managers that we can sack or sell to another club. I keep saying this, but I really don't think people get it.
But you can though. How many fans of clubs over the years have protested against their ownership, and won?
Put enough pressure on them, and they'll fold.
Name one owner that has sold under fan pressure. Name one.
It's a bit like making your landlord sell the house to another landlord because they keep bodging the repairs
Mike Ashley is the obvious one.
Cellininio (?) at Leeds & Allam at Hull also springs to mind.
Newcastle and Leeds fans are different gravy to Saints fans. No chance our lot will mount a protest.
Can’t even come up with an original song.
To me it's a perfect demonstration of where we are as a fanbase that people are essentially saying "why complain, nothing will change". It's so defeatist that it fits this club perfectly!
Well, surely one leads to the other? Fan protests tell the owners they're not wanted, and so they formulate an exit plan to sell at a suitable value with enoufh pressure. Don't think any of us expect Solak to sell up for £1 tomorrow, but protests against the ownership will certainly help to drive these lot out the club.
Sadly, the days of us protesting (like the days of Lowe) won't happen again. I'd certainly join in if there was.
I think it is more likely that Solak will keep us and not spend as much in the hope that we can be sold for a profit down the line , rather than him thinking
"oh great, I bought the club for £350million, sunk in another probably £100m of extra money, but I'll sell now for a £300 million loss as the fans are saying horrible things about me"
"oh great, I bought the club for £350million, sunk in another probably £100m of extra money, but I'll sell now for a £300 million loss as the fans are saying horrible things about me"
Yeah, thats probably likely. But that doesn't mean we can't protest our annoyance and grievances at his inept ownership in the meantime, instead of just sitting back and thinking it could be worse.
His ownership is destroying our club.
Mike Ashley sold when PCP and the Saudis waved £300 million under his snout. He resisted all the fan pressure to sell until he found the right buyer.