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It's exactly what I said and you decided to take in a different way. Status does not mean you are better or worse, it means you are in a category of user who people listen to. As p


Catch 22 here, but almost everything you've said here is factually incorrect.

But I really will stop, providing you don't respond to this or subtlely namecheck me while making up whatever you can to takeaway from your attempt to flip flop on this.

See you when you post about whatever happens with a big old 'see, I told you Donald would sell to anyone but FPP a few weeks ago, and I took abuse for posting but I'm a true martyr who would never abuse the people who question me or get people banned, or tell anyone to **** off and die'

All I want is for you to stop pretending to be ITK. Whoever is feeding you these lines is as accurate as Michael J Fox playing darts with a blindfold on.
AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh! f uck off man<ok>
 
AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh! f uck off man<ok>

Yet you let smug get away with a complete character assassination and expect no response? If you chat **** about someone, they are going to respond. Read what smug wrote about me and honestly say you'd take the high road. Like I said, catch 22.
 
Ha! I'm far from ITK. I like making a balanced judgement on evidence mate. I hope you don't mind me using you as an example of people getting excited about a post before.
I am too long in the tooth to get excited, I’m not sure that is the correct word. I’m hoping like hell that my son is not going to suffer as much as me, and I get to see us compete again. At the moment we are in danger of losing a generation of fans, especially if the bisto boys get taken over. I’m not geriatric just yet like.
 
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Yet you let smug get away with a complete character assassination and expect no response? If you chat **** about someone, they are going to respond. Read what smug wrote about me and honestly say you'd take the high road. Like I said, catch 22.
I don’t give a toss what you write and I don’t give a toss what bloody Smug writes just stop repeating the same **** e over and f ucking over man <ok>
 
A lot of people seem to want these Americans to buy our club. To start off with I did, but I'm now at the stage where I'm not sure.

These people are worth multi billions, and if the rumours on here are true, they won't buy the club due to it being too 'expensive'.

The reported valuation is around £40mill, and that is an absolute bargain considering you get the ground, the training facilities and a debt free club, you couldn't build those facilities for £400mill, never mind £40mill.

To put it into perspective, Ashley wants around £350mill for Newcastle, and they don't even own the ground.

It seems to me, FPP either don't want it that badly or the other alternative is they are dragging their heals over £5-10mill.

If either are the case, do we really want them here?.. Owning a football club isn't a business to expect an income from, and if £5mill is a big deal to them now, how will they go about signing players in this crazy market.

None of it makes sense.

I'd argue that previous owners not caring about a few million here and there is exactly why we find ourselves where we do.

Picking up assets for a price that is good value for money is just good business and I'd be happy to have some good businessmen looking after this club.
 
****s sake - everytime i come on here and see new posts in this thread - but then read it and think "not this **** again"

Talk about going round in circles
 
I'd argue that previous owners not caring about a few million here and there is exactly why we find ourselves where we do.

Picking up assets for a price that is good value for money is just good business and I'd be happy to have some good businessmen looking after this club.

I'm not talking about a few million here and there.

I'm talking about 5-10million short on a ridiculous low £40 million valuation on the club.

If they wanted it that badly, they would come up with a way of buying the club, without paying over their valuation. Clauses later on etc.

I want good business men here, but good business men that actually want to be here.

And if they wanted to be here, I think they would have owned the club by now.
 
I'm not talking about a few million here and there.

I'm talking about 5-10million short on a ridiculous low £40 million valuation on the club.

If they wanted it that badly, they would come up with a way of buying the club, without paying over their valuation. Clauses later on etc.

I want good business men here, but good business men that actually want to be here.

And if they wanted to be here, I think they would have owned the club by now.

The valuation being low is just your perception, not the opinion of others.

I just don't buy your argument. £10m short on a ridiculous valuation this time, becomes £5k short in wages on bringing that striker in we need next time or "just spend that extra couple of million instead of loaning players" etc.

You either have business principles or you don't. You can't deviate from the plan before you've even made the purchase or you'll never succeed.
 
The valuation being low is just your perception, not the opinion of others.

I just don't buy your argument. £10m short on a ridiculous valuation this time, becomes £5k short in wages on bringing that striker in we need next time or "just spend that extra couple of million instead of loaning players" etc.

You either have business principles or you don't. You can't deviate from the plan before you've even made the purchase or you'll never succeed.

But owning a football club isn't something to make money on.

Baring Liverpool, UTD and maybe arsenal? 3 global brands, who else in the English football league does make money?

It's great having business principles, but when it comes to owning a football club, it's something you do for enjoyment, if your looking to make money with it, your in the wrong game.

Let's face it, when the FPP rumours started, people weren't saying "I can't wait to see their business model, and how to save money".... People were excited because they thought FPP would spend money.

Yes I want a club that is run right and efficiently, but the fact is money will need to be spent, and a considerable amount, if this club is going to get to the top 10 in the premier league.
 
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But owning a football club isn't something to make money on.

Baring Liverpool, UTD and maybe arsenal? 3 global brands, who else in the English football league does make money?

It's great having business principles, but when it comes to owning a football club, it's something you do for enjoyment, if your looking to make money with it, your in the wrong game.

Let's face it, when the FPP rumours started, people weren't saying "I can't wait to see their business model, and how to save money".... People were excited because they thought FPP would spend money.

Yes I want a club that is run right and efficiently, but the fact is money will need to be spent, and a considerable amount, if this club is going to get to the top 10 in the premier league.

I think you've just summed up everything I despise about football fans in one post.

I'd wager that owners do it as a challenge rather than for enjoyment.

You're accepting the premise that the only way to ever be successful is to outspend everyone else.

We need to be smarter than others, not richer.
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I think you've just summed up everything I despise about football fans in one post.

I'd wager that owners do it as a challenge rather than for enjoyment.

You're accepting the premise that the only way to ever be successful is to outspend everyone else.

We need to be smarter than others, not richer.
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Burnley appear to have done it well so far. No exhorbitant spending just solid consolidation over the past few years.

So far this season they've got a net spend of 600k

https://www.transfermarkt.com/fc-burnley/transfers/verein/1132
 
I think you've just summed up everything I despise about football fans in one post.

I'd wager that owners do it as a challenge rather than for enjoyment.

You're accepting the premise that the only way to ever be successful is to outspend everyone else.

We need to be smarter than others, not richer.
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Precisely.
Brains more important than money.
 
Nobody has a scooby about what is going on and that is clear.
Information is being circulated with the best of intentions but again it is descending into point scoring shoite flinging competition.
Why cant people accept these threads for their intent instead of acting like 2 bob lawyers
 
Burnley appear to have done it well so far. No exhorbitant spending just solid consolidation over the past few years.

So far this season they've got a net spend of 600k

https://www.transfermarkt.com/fc-burnley/transfers/verein/1132
Good while it lasts but the wheels will come off, of that I'm certain.
There are a probable top 8 clubs. The rest are making up numbers and wont be surprised if they end up in relegation.
Sadly if nufc are taken over by the sordid arabians they will have the financial clout to be one of the elite.
In the past few years we have had clubs like stoke touted as being the way to go, or southhampton.
The wheels fell right off at stoke and soton have settled down but are far from.safe.
Bournemouth too look very very ordinary too.
Beware false prophets