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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by blythspartan » 14 Mar 2024 17:46

We are totally oxf*rd.

The only smidgen of hope I can cling to is Ashley buys the stadium from Dai and also buys us for a £1.

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by Biscuit goalie » 14 Mar 2024 17:47

Royal_jimmy I actually wouldn't blame the players if they threw in the towel and performances drop off tbh. For them, why would any of them be motivated to give 100% with everything that's going on


I agree :cry:

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by WestYorksRoyal » 14 Mar 2024 17:47

6ft Kerplunk I would expect player's to still put in a big effort. They've got the rest of the season to try and get themselves a contract at a new club if the worst does happen to us.

I they keep using up with this shower of shit it shows buckets of character and resilience. Clubs would be queueing up for them. It should be their goal even if for selfish reasons.

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by Sutekh » 14 Mar 2024 18:14

Just think how absolutely boring it's going to be on here when there's nowt to discuss but the football.

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by Hound » 14 Mar 2024 18:17

Sutekh Just think how absolutely boring it's going to be on here when there's nowt to discuss but the football.


There won’t be any football to discuss which is the main problem here


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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by Greatwesternline » 14 Mar 2024 18:32

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Exactly funny how this has happened to swiftly but cant sell the club :roll:


It's sort of obvious though. A club comes with loads of outgoings, stadium rent, staff costs, players wages. A training ground facility doesnt come with those things. Much easier to sell because a lot less due diligence needed.


Crikey it takes 3 months to sell a house, how could this be done quickly

It takes three months to sell a house because you are dealing with cheap lawyers, and you can't afford to take any risks whatsoever, and you need a lot of documents from the council to satisfy your mortgage lender that the house is safe.

If you are a billionaire and you are buying a training ground in cash built less than 5 years ago you can buy something as quickly as it takes a contract to be written up.

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by royal67 » 14 Mar 2024 18:32

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Sutekh Just think how absolutely boring it's going to be on here when there's nowt to discuss but the football.


There won’t be any football to discuss which is the main problem here


This is the hideous reality of the situation......

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by Greatwesternline » 14 Mar 2024 18:33

6ft Kerplunk I would expect player's to still put in a big effort. They've got the rest of the season to try and get themselves a contract at a new club if the worst does happen to us.


They don't want to get injured tho. How many 50/50s are they going to commit to, how many times will they sprint back on 85 minutes to defend a break away.

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by WestYorksRoyal » 14 Mar 2024 18:35

Even if we survive, our prospects are bleak. Presumably today's news ends our academy, as where would we find a training ground big enough for them? We'll have no stadium, no training ground. Will it affect attendances? Probably. We'll struggle to recruit the best players. League 1 and League 2 is our level now unless we get another owner like SJM, and even then it will be a long road. And the outcome I described is probably best case scenario against a range of appalling outcomes.


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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by Mid Sussex Royal » 14 Mar 2024 18:40

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It's sort of obvious though. A club comes with loads of outgoings, stadium rent, staff costs, players wages. A training ground facility doesnt come with those things. Much easier to sell because a lot less due diligence needed.


Crikey it takes 3 months to sell a house, how could this be done quickly

It takes three months to sell a house because you are dealing with cheap lawyers, and you can't afford to take any risks whatsoever, and you need a lot of documents from the council to satisfy your mortgage lender that the house is safe.

If you are a billionaire and you are buying a training ground in cash built less than 5 years ago you can buy something as quickly as it takes a contract to be written up.


The training ground isn't sold though, its just an intention to buy with exclusivity granted to do diligence etc. Its little more than a Head of Terms agreement when selling a business.

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by Winston Biscuit » 14 Mar 2024 18:42

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Exactly funny how this has happened to swiftly but cant sell the club :roll:


It's sort of obvious though. A club comes with loads of outgoings, stadium rent, staff costs, players wages. A training ground facility doesnt come with those things. Much easier to sell because a lot less due diligence needed.


Crikey it takes 3 months to sell a house, how could this be done quickly


This could have been going on for weeks or months behind the scenes

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by Armadillo Roadkill » 14 Mar 2024 18:54

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It's sort of obvious though. A club comes with loads of outgoings, stadium rent, staff costs, players wages. A training ground facility doesnt come with those things. Much easier to sell because a lot less due diligence needed.


Crikey it takes 3 months to sell a house, how could this be done quickly


This could have been going on for weeks or months behind the scenes


It's either been going on for months (most likely) or it's genuinely new this week, and will go on for months.

But if it happens, he's now got a stadium to sell that isn't much use to anyone without a football club (good luck getting planning permission to knock it down for yet more rabbit-hutch flats sold to some petro state), and a football club with no assets.

The prîck's taking the club down with him.

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by SouthDownsRoyal » 14 Mar 2024 22:18

Ten Bobsworth I know nowt about Bearwood but Bolton got £2.2m for the fire sale of its 'state of the art' training facility in Chorley. Bearwood might be worth a bit more but I can't see why Wycombe would pay silly money?


Great


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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by blueroyals » 14 Mar 2024 22:29

For those saying protests don't work, I'm fairly certain if we got every game abandoned from now until the end of the season, bringing the entire competition into disrepute, things would start to move very quickly

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by Greatwesternline » 14 Mar 2024 22:29

One thing that is puzzling me is, whoever it is that is fronting up the money for this training ground purchase, why don't they want to buy RFC plus training ground instead?

Mention of some Georgian billionaire. Ok, if this person wants a training ground for £22m, why don't they want a training ground plus a club big enough to make use of it as well, for £35m.

If you have £20m for a few buildings and football pitches, you have the money for the other bits. What gives?

It is a lot more work and money to develop Wycombe into a club that needs a £20m academy, when you can pick up the ready meal variety in Reading instead.

The way it is going, you'll have a small club in a small town and small stadium and small fan base with a massive training facility, and down the road you'll have a big stadium big fan base but no club. It's a completely daft turn of events. And the money men would quickly work out that a big training ground makes a lot more sense to go with a big stadium and fan base.

If you want a big training ground, you would want the big fan base and stadium to go with it, not a pokey stadium with little chance to fill a bigger one.

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by Horsham Royal » 14 Mar 2024 22:39

Greatwesternline One thing that is puzzling me is, whoever it is that is fronting up the money for this training ground purchase, why don't they want to buy RFC plus training ground instead?

Mention of some Georgian billionaire. Ok, if this person wants a training ground for £22m, why don't they want a training ground plus a club big enough to make use of it as well, for £35m.

If you have £20m for a few buildings and football pitches, you have the money for the other bits. What gives?

It is a lot more work and money to develop Wycombe into a club that needs a £20m academy, when you can pick up the ready meal variety in Reading instead.

The way it is going, you'll have a small club in a small town and small stadium and small fan base with a massive training facility, and down the road you'll have a big stadium big fan base but no club. It's a completely daft turn of events. And the money men would quickly work out that a big training ground makes a lot more sense to go with a big stadium and fan base.

If you want a big training ground, you would want the big fan base and stadium to go with it, not a pokey stadium with little chance to fill a bigger one.

Doesn't want the football club's ongoing losses?

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by Royal Ginger » 14 Mar 2024 22:44

State of the art training ground for £20M. Or state of the art training ground and a meteorically crashing football team without a stadium for £40M.

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by From Despair To Where? » 14 Mar 2024 22:47

Training ground = potential earner if kept separate from the football clubs and rented out to tenants.


Training ground + Football club = guaranteed money pit.

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by 72 bus » 14 Mar 2024 22:47

blueroyals For those saying protests don't work, I'm fairly certain if we got every game abandoned from now until the end of the season, bringing the entire competition into disrepute, things would start to move very quickly


Yes, we would very quickly be ejected from the Football League.

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Re: TAKEOVER *NOT* CONFIMRED

by tmesis » 14 Mar 2024 22:55

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blueroyals For those saying protests don't work, I'm fairly certain if we got every game abandoned from now until the end of the season, bringing the entire competition into disrepute, things would start to move very quickly


Yes, we would very quickly be ejected from the Football League.

Sadly there are still plenty of fans who seem to think the football league can do something to force Dai to sell.

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