Given the cost of running a club of Reading's size in League 1 ( I reckon it will be around £10M net loss), I can't see how any new owner would not target promotion next season - anything else is just creating a bigger financial mess.
" and the question is what sort of investment achieves the goal of increasing our value for them to sell on"
Agree 100% with this - wait and see and hope it involves positives for the fans on and off the field - its all gonna cost and that has risks and rewards
Here's where I'm at. Football is broken - you have to pump in more money than you can make, unless you happen to be very lucky in the Premier league (over and over again) But, the experiment of the last few years means that a sugar daddy who owns the club as a hobby, throws money at it and gambles ...
Here's where I'm at. Football is broken - you have to pump in more money than you can make, unless you happen to be very lucky in the Premier league (over and over again) But, the experiment of the last few years means that a sugar daddy who owns the club as a hobby, throws money at it and gambles i...
If the new owners are the rumoured investment group, then their #1 priority will be to push for promotion out of this league - sustaining losses at this level will not be acceptable beyond a season or two if the strategy is to promote and flip the club. Whilst the wish list is commendable, I can't ...
If the new owners are the rumoured investment group, then their #1 priority will be to push for promotion out of this league - sustaining losses at this level will not be acceptable beyond a season or two if the strategy is to promote and flip the club. Whilst the wish list is commendable, I can't s...
Wholeheartedly agree with this Good points - but then it is impossible to vet potential owners - only hindsight tells us that signing this player or not selling that one at the height of their form or relying on a so-called "super agent" for recommendations or hiring the former CEO of a t...
I'll let someone involved in the campaign speak further but my view was that it was never about there being a benefactor model in football but ensuring there was governance around those to ensure we don't get into the same mess again. If the campaign was purely about having an owner than runs a clu...
I think as was said, the owners will be watched by the fans and hopefully the EFL. Just because they want to make money out of things doesn't mean they are going to wrecklessly through money at it. Sensible recruitment utilising the buy low, sell high rationale is a decent way to a) improve the clu...
So if the rumours are correct and the prospective new owners are buying us as an Arbitrage play - with funds from various exotic industries (crypto/longevity biotech) - the protests continue or they stop? Do we want sugar daddies who gamble on making money (for themselves) in the prem or not? I was ...
Expect the likes of Vickers, Abbey and Bindon and maybe one other off to Arsenal or other club for some pathetic amount of money and just maybe the arrival of a striker to replace Ballard. Would certainly explain the lack of playing time for Vickers... I'm fully expecting some kind of firesale to b...
Will Unwin @Will_Unwin Nelson Abbey is set to leave Reading to join Olympiakos, I am told 2:11 PM · Jan 19, 2024 · ^ guardian journo So as he's out of contract in the summer and Olympiakos is not an English team - what does this mean regarding any compensation? Nothing. If he goes now, it is a tran...
Suffragettes; the Easter Rising; the Revolutions of 1989; the poll tax riots to name a few. Not a fan of sarcasm I see? :lol: you had me as well tbh "What do we want?" "Someone to spaff tens of millions of pounds a year with no hope of any return" "When do we want it?"...