To build a business and make money , you need to invest. We've all been moaning that Gao isn't doing this. As long as Our new owner halts our stagnation, I'm all for it.
Bold 1: A good point, and none of us know for sure. Was it a good way of getting money out of China? That soon changed if so. Whatever his initial reason was it seems he no longer gets anything out of it - hence his eagerness to sell. Bold 2: You'd think so. He has said he expects a lot of the growth to come from youth development and investing in academies. So don't expect huge transfers all a sudden. But yes, you are right to achieve anything like the city group, it would suggest he is willing to invest.
He’d also likely want to make a statement from the off, so we’d at least get someone that isn’t Tom Davies.
I know very little about the world of international finance, but if I’ve got it right, a hedge fund is a mechanism that exists for no other reason than to accumulate short term profit? Nothing wrong with that, it’s a free market, some might say, but hedge funds don’t exist to make anything except money. They don’t manufacture anything, they don’t create anything, they just gamble with the futures of other people’s enterprises. Liebherr made cranes and stuff. I actually see their name every day at work, on the pantograph mechanisms on top of trains. And I give a little sob of regret.
See also, asset stripping, cutting costs, streamlining, short term profiteering, selling within 3-5years. All very efficient ways of making rich people even richer. But would you want them owning your football club?. ....
And this is the make up of the group who are aiming to take us over: https://kapitalfootballgroup.com/#Team
Guessing those are their braintrust rather than shareholders? Who knows whether those advisors actually do anything or are just paid to add gravitas, but they aren't lacking in experienced sports execs there (even if they are lacking people who have run European football clubs).
Doesn’t fill me with confidence, no. Wasn’t it a hedge fund that was interested in us, before moving on to have the guts out of Coventry?