by Snowflake Royal »
15 Jan 2024 14:04
Linden Jones' Tash SCIAG morganb So, let's say that yesterday's protest has convinced Dai to sell, the next step is to find/convince someone to buy us.
Is there anything we fans can do to help find a buyer?
Google “billionaires”.
Go down the list, and get contact details for each one.
Call them up and ask them if they’d like to waste a load of money on a football club.
Statistically at some point one of them will say yes.
Maybe we can convince Elon Musk to rename us “XFC” and help get advertisers back on his website.
say this happens, isn't it just a sticking plaster and we'll end up in the same boat when they get bored and the fans get on their backs
English football is broken and until that is addressed, nothing will really change
But I understood the aim was to ditch the sugar daddy model and get an owner who will follow a 'sustainable' path for the club - whatever that means...
Not if they manage us in a vaguely competent and sustainable fashion.
We are where we are because Dai didn't.
Increase our wage bill from ~£25m to ~£44m in the Championship with no parachute payments
Refuse to sell Moore for ~£8m
Give Moore a ~£30k a week wage for 4/5 years.
Signing of Ejaria for ~£3m
Signing of Joao for ~£3m immediately after a soft transfer embargo ended
Signing of Puscas for ~£7m immediately after a soft transfer embargo ended, when we didn't need both
Signing of Aluko for ~£7m when we didn't need him
Refuse to sell Loader for ~£2m
Refuse to sell Swift for ~£5m
There's 10s of millions there that didn't need spending or could have been received to fund the club in a sustainable manner with decent affordable players.
But yes, football ownership is an absolute disgrace.
It's almost harder to run us this badly.