FPP to take full control

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Confucius said:
In typical Sunderland fashion, he stumbled across that winning tactic when we had SD against the ropes. It has now bought him some time and even had that deluded twat thinking he was wanted again
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Season 2 of STID was the same. Every time he thinks fans might’ve forgiven him he’s at the door with a bunch of petrol station daffs begging for another chance.
 
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sad-eyed prophet said:
I said I was known for them.......not for getting them right!! :emoticon-0102-bigsm
But...here goes....!
FPP know the potential of owning our club,on the pitch and off, if it is run by excellent management,which is their stock in trade.
They will wait,if necessary ready to pay SD a reduced price to reflect a third division club,and put their own people in to get promotion asap. I would doubt they would want SD to stay on.Tufty as DoF?
SD will be unable to find a buyer, and will look to sell to FPP, at an adjusted price,once the virus effect is quantified.He will have to take a much smaller profit on the deal than he had imagined,but will rather have something than nothing,given that his gamble has just not paid off......not all of it his fault.
He'll learn from it,move on and take this experience somewhere else.
How's that?
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i like it.
 
John 11:35 said:
Season 2 of STID was the same. Every time he thinks fans might’ve forgiven him he’s at the door with a bunch of petrol station daffs begging for another chance.
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Good analogy. I really don't want to see another transfer window with Donald in charge.
 
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Kittenmittons said:
Why would it be stupid?


They came to look at the clubs books, they wanted to do something. At that stage he would have been hoping it was a takeover, or something that led to them taking a majority stake. I don't think it's that stupid to describe it in those terms to people who dont know anything about the details, or to get it wrong.


And how were the goalposts moved? If they were, the most logical outcome is FPP walking away. Just because a bunch of people gravitate towards the most palatable solution (ie: blaming Donald) doesnt make it true, sadly. I think FPP took a look at the books and made an offer they were comfortable with. I doubt from what they have now and what Donald said quite candidly about it in January, that there was much scope for price negotiation or deal structure.


And again, they have a price, right now, that they think is fair. It's on the table and probably somewhere around the bare minimum Donald wants. Why aren't they majority owners? Why would Donald lie about their intentions after only 5-6 weeks if his ultimate aim is to get them to be majority owners and eventually buy him out?


None of it makes sense to me, but maybe I'm wrong. It just looks like they liked the idea of us from the outside (again, I suspect CM oversold it to them), but once they did their DD it just wasn't quite the easy win they were hoping for, and the offer reflected that. No real fault of Donald imo, his price doesn't look that unreasonable.
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It was definitely proposed as a takeover initially. Hell, Stewart Donald's own words were that they agreed a price! Why would you agree a price for a takeover if you always just wanted to offer this loan and never had any intention of taking over?

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Donald speaks in half truths at the best of times. As a guess the price might not have altered, £40m at the start and £40m at the end, but if in the meantime they realised there was a £20m hole (as suggested in the papers) then that could easily make them walk away even though, technically, the asking price is the same, it just isn't coming with £20m quid still to be paid back
 
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Guinness Guzzler said:
It was definitely proposed as a takeover initially. Hell, Stewart Donald's own words were that they agreed a price! Why would you agree a price for a takeover if you always just wanted to offer this loan and never had any intention of taking over?

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Donald speaks in half truths at the best of times. As a guess the price might not have altered, £40m at the start and £40m at the end, but if in the meantime they realised there was a £20m hole (as suggested in the papers) then that could easily make them walk away even though, technically, the asking price is the same, it just isn't coming with £20m quid still to be paid back
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So there you go, as plain as can be ....

... Donald agreed a price and a deal for FPP to takeover.

Why would FPP get to that point if they had no intentions.

It's like agreeing a price and a deal on a car you've no intention of buying, just to fill your time in.
 
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Guinness Guzzler said:
It was definitely proposed as a takeover initially. Hell, Stewart Donald's own words were that they agreed a price! Why would you agree a price for a takeover if you always just wanted to offer this loan and never had any intention of taking over?

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Donald speaks in half truths at the best of times. As a guess the price might not have altered, £40m at the start and £40m at the end, but if in the meantime they realised there was a £20m hole (as suggested in the papers) then that could easily make them walk away even though, technically, the asking price is the same, it just isn't coming with £20m quid still to be paid back
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"The price never altered other than if you like the market rates"
What the hell does that mean it's just random words

My reading of that statement is that the price did change
 
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wearside wanderer II said:
Im not sure if you are just on a wind up or what.
Goalspost: Donald and DJ told all and sundry it was a takeover, the new ‘owners’ were introduced to Jack Ross.
Something then happened for them not to takeover.
For Donald say they didn’t make an offer is covering his backside after all the bluff he spouted, they may not have offered it all but he shot his load owa early so had to backtrack and that was his way of doing so
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Pardon my ignorance, but who is DJ ?
 
Brainman said:
How long does it take to prepare the fixtures for next season?
It seems to be at least a month after the season before they're issued usually.
It's a complicated business.
So if the season doesn't end until August you're talking about next season being delayed a couple of months beyond its usual start date.
It's a huge shame for Liverpool, Leeds and many others, but people are dying and in danger and the only sensible solution is to void the season.
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Agree with your sentiments. Peoples health comes first, but I'd rather they restarted this season when it was safe to do so, then either bin next season altogether, or have a scenario, where teams only played each other once next season, so you would play 12 at home and 11 away or vice versa. That way the clubs would be rightly rewarded for their endeavours this season.
 
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