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Smug in Boots said:
This has been a nightmare mate, I've been given very little info at all, no more than a dozen messages.

Even then most of what I've been told is totally confidential.

The stuff about Donald was confidential, when I was told, but it's about to come out so I'm doing no harm. He's had one chance to sell the club/make his money and he's made the absolute most of it.

If it's all passed and announced one of my first pints will be for lads who've kept me going on the pms when I was starting to doubt it all.

Sick of it all now and just want to stop jumping when my phone pings.
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If it all goes through ok one of the most satisfying parts of it will be the vindication for you and a few others on this thread. The abuse that has been thrown about going as far back as last year is a complete joke. I’ll never understand why if people don’t believe something that cant just ignore it and move on they have have a little dig. If it does happen there are a few I’d like to see hold their hands up and admit they were wrong just as they would expect others to do if it doesn’t happen. Hopefully on to better things for all of us
 
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Prehab26 said:
Not really.

Initially it was always a full blown buy out. Every share. That's what we all wanted due to the sheer incompetence of current lot.

Unfortunately, didn't materialise.

Then share realignment, it's still that but it's swayed heavily into what I call 'favourable'


So it's loads better. I think people will be surprised to be honest. Just need it done. Been a long road.

Even tonight. Whilst there are positives , unfortunately there are again other issues, I knew Dean Matthews rather well, an amazing photographer and a family man. Took some great images of our city and he lost his life to covid.

Just shows that while some argue the toss on here, there is ALWAYS more important things to worry about. Something for some to thing about.

KTF
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Cheers for the info @Prehab26 Does this look like being completed before the new year? Would go great to go into the transfer window with a bit of ambition
 
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As You Were said:
I’ve always thought it doesn’t really matter what style of football you play if you win but this season I feel different. People moaned when big sam came but i had no problems with his football- enjoyed it in fact! The side we have at the minute though with no wingers, no creative midfielders (hope embleton gets more of a chance) no pace and crap strikers is awful to watch. So boring. Haven’t enjoyed one game this season.
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I was surprised in the end at what Allardyce turned us into. Solid, organised, direct, pace in the right places etc.
What we are being served up now is awful. On a par with Moyes and some of the later stuff under O'Neil for me even though we've been picking up points.
Poyet is the only manager in recent years who has had us playing out from the back with a style. You could see his impact after a couple of games in what he was attempting.
Bang on about Embleton, he looks the part in my opinion.
 
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Makemstine Roger said:
not a full blown buy out more a shares divvy up Don holding 10% and wanting loads for the last 10, new majority shareholder known but not released yet

oh and Parky expected out for Jan
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Cheers, so this new person or persons buying in but because Don still having 10% to sit in the background it's not a takeover? Probably sell his 10% in the future for a profit. Any word on the when for the announcement or not that close.
 
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Don’t think fans will be as gullible as they were when Donald came in and he was all talk with his podcasts etc. I hope they are rich but more importantly I just hope they have the ambition and more importantly the know how and contacts to get us out of this league and back to the premier league. Getting out of this league shouldn’t and wouldn’t be difficult if we had the right owners and manager. Getting back to the premier league won’t be easy and will require decent investment but it’s amazing what a good manager can do.
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I renewed my season card, under Short heading into leauge one as did many others. Once they took over I can honestly say I kept them at arms length. The two relegations battered me and we and took it out of us. They came in, talked the talk and were too quick imo to just say yes to everything asked, no matter what it was on the podcasts. Like a "yeah, why not".So I sat back and waited to be impressed. Poor transfer window and I was told very early on that by someone that would know about the situation with the youth players going to be leaving, few weeks later it started happening. All the stuff slagging the fans off etc was the final straw for me. They'll go down in History as the owners that overseen the worsed time in the clubs history.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
This has been a nightmare mate, I've been given very little info at all, no more than a dozen messages.

Even then most of what I've been told is totally confidential.

The stuff about Donald was confidential, when I was told, but it's about to come out so I'm doing no harm. He's had one chance to sell the club/make his money and he's made the absolute most of it.

If it's all passed and announced one of my first pints will be for lads who've kept me going on the pms when I was starting to doubt it all.

Sick of it all now and just want to stop jumping when my phone pings.
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Will you continue to post on here once this is all over?
 
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John Wick said:
Cheers, so this new person or persons buying in but because Don still having 10% to sit in the background it's not a takeover? Probably sell his 10% in the future for a profit. Any word on the when for the announcement or not that close.
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from what i read Prehab and smugs new news flash it could be imminent as early as days aways, but the bad news was they wanted it to be a total take over but Donald wanted to retain 10% for a high fee to sell, but if he doesnt match what the new guys put in it could be bad for him, dont know whats happening with the ffp loan wasnt mentioned where i read
 
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Bank of England 2 said:
Anyone who twats Keiron Dyer is alright in my book <laugh>
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I heard a story recently on Talksport that some bloke was in a gym telling someone that he needed to raise 25k or something to take his bairn to America for an operation or something, Dyer overheard, asked the crack then wrote him a cheque for the amount. Told the bloke the only condition for the money was not to go public with it at the time. Clearly liked coming across as a prick.
 
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Makemstine Roger said:
from what i read Prehab and smugs new news flash it could be imminent as early as days aways, but the bad news was they wanted it to be a total take over but Donald wanted to retain 10% for a high fee to sell, but if he doesnt match what the new guys put in it could be bad for him, dont know whats happening with the ffp loan wasnt mentioned where i read
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Nice one mate. Well, these people clearly see the value of the club and see 10% as a small price to pay for an eventual buy out. I'll say again what I said last night, if these are people with money, footballing knowledge and vision, go and try and sell that vision to Eddie Howe.
 
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John Wick said:
I understand, however, unfortunately this past 18 months he has been defined as the go to bloke for takeover information. I just hope he isn't blown out by it all. I said the other night he seems an interesting gentleman.
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he stated earlier that he can't wait for it to be over and get back to supporting the lads with a new manager and owner
 
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