"Of course, it would be better if Newcastle were owned by a wealthy British businessman, who runs the club within the parameters of sensible financial controls. Except Newcastle is owned by a wealthy British businessman, who runs the club within the parameters of sensible financial controls, Mike Ashley, and everyone hates him. It had local owners before, too, but they did not want the club any more. And as Ashley has had it on the market for a decade without success until the Saudis arrived, we can safely presume no one in the area wants it now, either." Same as us then. Maybe it will improve when the fans group buts us. Apparently it is easy. You could buy major clubs for a few Euros from each fan according to an article, from €11 to €52. We are not as big as the smallest of those clubs but we only need to find £40 million. Should be easy, Just £148 from everybody on Hull, parents will have to pay more for their non earning kids of course.Then the slight matter of finding enough to run the club. We could then getting a billion into debt like fan owned Real and Barcelona and win some silverware. Raising the money might be difficult when fans won't pay £10 to watch a stream of our games and there were more Lincoln fans paying for their game at the KCOM than City ones.
If you read the history of the 50% +1 in Germany it is soon apparent why that is going to be extremely difficult, in fact nigh impossible to do it here.
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There was a big difference between German clubs when that was introduced and English clubs at the moment. Which made it easier to implement there than it would be here. In fact 8t would be almost impossible here.
Only because they are not in the top 4. sitting in 9th place is not good enough and they want a bigger better richer owner.
Never been a Leeds fan. Even though I have family from there have always detested them. When I worked in Leeds used to go to midweek games. Always stood with the away fans. Even Man .utd and Wednesday. The latter would amaze anyone who knows my thoughts on them. Being amongst Glasgow Rangers fans was something.i will never forget. Used to watch Birmingham City midweek when I worked there (never went to Villa for some reason). A pretty full St Andrews singing Keep Right On To The End Of The Road was stirring. I would have watched games wherever I was then. I loved football. Now, older and jaded, I no longer love football in general. Just City. Though I still go to the odd Brid Town game.