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Management Relegation

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Do you think we'll stay up?

  • Yes

    Votes: 184 40.1%
  • No

    Votes: 275 59.9%

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Would anyone be willing to take on the risk, though? It’s one thing to take a cool 600m off the asking price. Another for someone to bite.

We go down and there is going to be a mass exodus of players, sponsorships, staff, you name it.

It would be a massive gamble to spend that kind of money on a club that is going to be actively shedding hundreds of millions. If we do not yo-yo straight up, that new owner would be absolutely drowning in it.

Maybe we could merge with Wrexham .

ENIC could get the contract for the charter buses to North Wales .

Win-win-win .
 
Thinking about the summer. We'd likely expect 8+ players to be gone if we're down. I'm not confident at all the club will be able to manage it, especially in a World Cup summer. 8+ out, 8+ in. They won't be able to do it. Will likely be a load of loans.
 
No one is going to spend that sort of money and not try to make it competitive. That's a non-factor. You grow the club's valuation by being successful. You're not going to spend £3-4bn on something and just stagnate the valuation of the club.
Most likely new owners will do just like what Chelsea's are doing, and engineer a team finely honed to try and finish 4th, while maximising sell on value and enjoying stadium revenue (Exactly what ENIC wanted but have failed).

FFP will also limit any splurge like with Newcastle.

I still want ENIC out of course.
 
Most likely new owners will do just like what Chelsea's are doing, and engineer a team finely honed to try and finish 4th, while maximising sell on value and enjoying stadium revenue (Exactly what ENIC wanted but have failed).

FFP will also limit any splurge like with Newcastle.

Our revenue is a lot naturally higher than Newcastle so we have more flexibility than them on FFP
 
well i hope the new owners actually want to compete and win shit which is the whole point. there's easier ways to get rich than running a big football club. we need owners who want the challenge of getting us back to the top 4. all the money will follow the success not the other way around
We’ll sell to a petro-state backed consortium I should imagine.

I was dead against it previously on an ethics basis, but I’d welcome it now with open arms.

Hopefully relegation (or near to it if by some miracle we escape) will make ENIC twitchy and want to sell up and any purchaser sees it as an opportunity and pays over the odds with the view to bouncing us straight back up.

We can but hope!
 
We’ll sell to a petro-state backed consortium I should imagine.

I was dead against it previously on an ethics basis, but I’d welcome it now with open arms.

Hopefully relegation (or near to it if by some miracle we escape) will make ENIC twitchy and want to sell up and any purchaser sees it as an opportunity and pays over the odds with the view to bouncing us straight back up.

We can but hope!

Knowing us it’ll be Iranian -based .
 
Thinking about the summer. We'd likely expect 8+ players to be gone if we're down. I'm not confident at all the club will be able to manage it, especially in a World Cup summer. 8+ out, 8+ in. They won't be able to do it. Will likely be a load of loans.
Lots of promising players returning from loan which may reduce the number we need to bring in.

We'll no doubt need to lower our valuations to shift some bodies off the books though.
 
They turned down offers in the £3-3.5bn ball park last summer. Dreaming of you think they're going to sell up this year when the asset will be at an all-time low (modern stadium era). They could balance losses this year on player sales, spend a fraction of that and have a squad too good for the championship, and be back in the league the next year. If we're down there for several years, sure, but not this season.
I'll caveat that with, if they get an offer at a similar cake from last year, because the owner sees it at as opportunity to get value and back themselves to go straight up, maybe. But highly unlikely.
i'm no expert on the championship but it seems like the shit we do horribly in the prem will count even more down there, namely scouting, recruitment and tactics. i think we have a better chance of staying up now than bouncing back up after selling off our best players. it seems like we'll have to reinvent and spend to get back up and i have no faith in this crew to do that.
 
i'm no expert on the championship but it seems like the shit we do horribly in the prem will count even more down there, namely scouting, recruitment and tactics. i think we have a better chance of staying up now than bouncing back up after selling off our best players. it seems like we'll have to reinvent and spend to get back up and i have no faith in this crew to do that.
Infant imagine us going down and there not being a massive house clearing upstairs. It'll be a while new team. We'll also be able to attract talent that the rest of the championship won't be able to attract. But it's a hard slot, and I don't fancy much of these fuck wads we have now digging in for a 46 game season.
 
tell that to the lewis kids! i think they won't have the stomach to roll the dice on a reinvestment and rebuild if they can get a couple billion now
The Lewis kids didn't buy it though. They were tasked with growing/sustaining revenue until a big offer comes in. They have absolutely no ambition to see this team actually be competitive.

If a third party comes to buy it though, they'll want their investment to grow. And the best way to grow financially, is sporting success, and to do that, money, and lots of it, has to be spent. Many of these big investment groups see PL clubs as hugely undervalued, which is why they're clambering to get them.
 
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