Barnsley multi million Chinese takeover

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Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill

That’s very true. There may be developments of the ground, budget and squad, but ticket prices would go up and the whole shooting match would be passed over to the “prawn sandwich” set. The traditional Rotherham would die.

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You really think that's going to wash with us Grist ?

There isn't enough money around the tarn to support £45 match tickets or £1500 season tickets .

From what we gather most of the investment will be in to the academy , there won't be any £20m strikers arriving from Benfica .

The academy will be upgraded to the highest level and we will grow from there , Hecky may have a bob or two in January to try and keep us up but that's all .

If we can sustain championship football and start to keep our better players then that will do for me .

We've had to attract new owners , we didn't have a choice sadly , this isn't the club selling out as we see at other clubs , there wasn't a choice to be made and this deal is possibly the best one we could have attracted .

Genuinely hope it works for Barnsley

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Originally Posted by animallittle3

From what we gather most of the investment will be in to the academy , there won't be any £20m strikers arriving from Benfica .

The academy will be upgraded to the highest level and we will grow from there , Hecky may have a bob or two in January to try and keep us up but that's all .

If we can sustain championship football and start to keep our better players then that will do for me

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....... and that is what should be done at our place

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Originally Posted by Yak

Genuinely hope it works for Barnsley

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Yes so do I but if I was a Barnsley fan I would be thinking "why us" ?

That sort money would be enough to buy most if not all of the clubs outside of the premiership, even some within the premiership.

What's the attraction?

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Originally Posted by Grist_To_The_Mill

Yes so do I but if I was a Barnsley fan I would be thinking "why us" ?

That sort money would be enough to buy most if not all of the clubs outside of the premiership, even some within the premiership.

What's the attraction?

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Not sure Grist to be honest at this stage , bought us for £20m which is nothing these days and one level below the PL , we have a good model of finding talent , perhaps they believe they can have us challenging the top end of the championship if we can keep our talent at the club .

Other than that I couldn't really say .

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Originally Posted by Yak

Genuinely hope it works for Barnsley

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Thanks mate , much appreciated .

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Originally Posted by Timbertop

Confirmed today. To progress we need something similar to happen with Rotherham United. But would Tony want to sell despite having seemingly abandoned any further ambition or investment ?

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The closet we will ever get to a china man investing in our club is if the take away in parkgate sponsors a player

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Originally Posted by Timbertop

Grist/Great fire. I share your sentiments but in the finance driven current world of football it's the "traditional" clubs with no solid investment that are being left behind to stagnate in the lower divisions. Just wish TS would take on extra financial help(Ron Hull ?) to allow us at least to be competitive.

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That would be the perfect mix,bringing the Hull family on board but unless TS went 50/50 on it, why should any one want to put money into a club, where they had no say in the running at all.Come on TS,it's pretty obvious cash input is necessary at this club and a proper structure.

Only at Barnsley Football Club could you have new owners with a combined wealth of around £8bn and want to concentrate on the youth system .......:-) :-) :-) :-)

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Originally Posted by animallittle3

From what we gather most of the investment will be in to the academy , there won't be any £20m strikers arriving from Benfica .

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So that's it, they've seen Stones and Holgate and think they can make a few bob selling players.