Mark Ogren....

[GUNBOAT]

No, begging is a slight exaggeration. Don't take talk like that so literally. The fact he came in & announced he was expecting to make profit (unlikely), then a year down the line is asking for funds from, as GB says, ordinary fans, some of whom will be living on minimum wage, doesn't sit right with me. Of course we'll do it. We'll do it now, next year and forever more and he probably knows we'll do it, but for me this is the difference between having a Yank with no ties to the club whatsoever and say, having a lifelong fan who has the club at heart. I don't recall Eddie asking the fans to chip in to save the club. Again, we'll do it and always will as we love the club, but the man needs to open his eyes a bit. He's invested in our club and should realised how big a deal this is. You can't go and buy success then plead poverty when things don't work out. He's just emptied the coffers at DUSF when he probably has 100 times that amount sitting in a bank account somewhere.

Agree with the above and the last sentence is true but FN embarrassing to say the least,not only has he emptied out the DUSF its 40K short at this time to even give him the whole 100K,why is this i hear you ask?.
Its simple to explain they have already given him the rest of the money to put towards the future development of Gussie.What the owner and i can only assume his Sporting Director failed to understand is how this would be perceived by those in the media and rival fans who would love to see our club collapse.
In my honest opinion the money Ogren asked for is a drop in the ocean to the club but our reputation has been damaged by him even asking for it.The impression many will have drawn is that we were on the point of collapse whereas i think it was more a case of the owner throwing his toys oot the pram saying,"This is not fair why are we even playing football?,and why do i keep having to write check's?."

[AraBrian]

Agree with the above and the last sentence is true but FN embarrassing to say the least,not only has he emptied out the DUSF its 40K short at this time to even give him the whole 100K,why is this i hear you ask?.
Its simple to explain they have already given him the rest of the money to put towards the future development of Gussie.What the owner and i can only assume his Sporting Director failed to understand is how this would be perceived by those in the media and rival fans who would love to see our club collapse.
In my honest opinion the money Ogren asked for is a drop in the ocean to the club but our reputation has been damaged by him even asking for it.The impression many will have drawn is that we were on the point of collapse whereas i think it was more a case of the owner throwing his toys oot the pram saying,"This is not fair why are we even playing football?,and why do i keep having to write check's?."

He won't keep just writting checks no one will what will happen if he says fu.. it and stops writting checks like marr did or the Aberdeen fella across the road.The hearts foundation has given hearts millions and not a bad bit of press they are great supporters.Utd foundation give utd a bit of money the diddlies and huns etc jump on it and utd are taking all there starving fans money and are bast...s.Then even utd fans join in.

[GUNBOAT]

He won't keep just writting checks no one will what will happen if he says fu.. it and stops writting checks like marr did or the Aberdeen fella across the road.The hearts foundation has given hearts millions and not a bad bit of press they are great supporters.Utd foundation give utd a bit of money the diddlies and huns etc jump on it and utd are taking all there starving fans money and are bast...s.Then even utd fans join in.

The difference is the FOH was not asked for money to bail them out of a pandemic crisis,they have signed 12 players since Neilson came in including a good few in January.
Our Foundation is being perceived by the media as saving the club from oblivion not improving it.

[TerryTheTerror]

Our Foundation is being perceived by the media as saving the club from oblivion not improving it.

Excuse my French but fk the media, they've had a hard on for beating us at every opportunity for a few years now.

[AraBrian]

The difference is the FOH was not asked for money to bail them out of a pandemic crisis,they have signed 12 players since Neilson came in including a good few in January.
Our Foundation is being perceived by the media as saving the club from oblivion not improving it.

The FOH don't seem to be needed to be asked to bail the club out in pandemic they donate millions to the club.Hearts also have a lot of rich benifactors pumping millions into them and were given 5x the 100,000 from the scottish goverment so really don't think there owner has to worry to much about money.The scottish media are slagging utd for there fans helping them out in a pandemic whats new scottish media or a large part of it have hated utd since rancid decided it was utd's fault they died so will always have a go at utd rancid fans and diddlies will always lap it up along with some of our own .