Quote Originally Posted by animallittle3 View Post
I agree entirely that you do indeed have to be careful what you wish for .

You only have to look at the current state of Arsenal since Wenger was hounded out by the fans for proof of that .

However I think it's fair to say the consortium are looking to leave because I've never known ESR not be right when he's revealed things on the forum .

What's more they haven't been hounded out they are selling the club and that's their decision alone .

The ownership of the stadium and surrounding land appears to be the catalyst for this decision and clearly that was central to their plans .

It looks like they've accepted the fact they won't ever own the job lot 100% .

I do also believe leaving the European Union is a factor because it's now more difficult to do business in the EU and is a key market for them here with player recruitment .

They can trade to their hearts content with the other clubs they own within the EU and there's some kind of strategy that links this multi club philosophy that possibly doesn't quite fit here post brexit .

I take the point Pass made about ourselves sitting one league away from the richest on the planet and a key to increasing the clubs value for the consortium .

I don't personally believe myself that is the reason they bought the club although I wouldn't think they'd turn their noses up either , if it happened fine if it doesn't then so what .

There was something I heard but I can't for the life remember where I heard it but I know it was Dane Murphy who said it , may have been a podcast I heard .

He said that the consortium believe the tv deals will increase massively in the years to come which will make all their clubs especially ours more valuable so just as long as they are run under a self sufficiency system they consortium could be looking at profits of several millions of pounds without doing anything financially themselves .

Whether that happens is debatable of course .
I don't believe in journalists that can't copy and paste SB :-)

Very good examples are Arsenal and Leicester Animal. The best examples of how and how not to do it.

I don't know why PMG bought Barnsley FC. It has something to do with a plan within European football but the nature of the plan still isn't clear to me. I'm not sure that Brexit makes a difference to that plan Yes it's more difficult to bring EU footballers into the club but not impossible. If they do want to make money, then a team in the EFL/Premier league is the way to do it; not in some less well known European league (and yes I know that they made some cash on the French club that they sold but there aren't that many Ineos Jim's about).

I have no reason to doubt what ESR says either because I've noticed over time he is a very reliable source of information.

I hear what people say about the owners buying Barnsley/Oakwell because of the land (and yes SB I know they are reported not to have bought either yet). However, I don't see PMG buying Barnsley FC purely because of the land around Oakwell. They're a sports group not developers. Sport is their business. Before they bought Barnsley, I believe that they were considering buying other clubs including Middlesbrough. I'm not aware, in Middlesbrough's case, whether they have land available for development; I suspect they haven't because the Riverside is a relatively new stadium. I'm sure the reason that they didn't buy Middlesbrough had nothing to do with the lack of availability of land for development.

If they go, they go having moved us forward from where we were when they bought us. I'm not really sure who would want to buy us though because in the current financial climate, any would be investors, probably have the chance to buy a number of other clubs at bargain prices. Is a new owner going to be better? It's down to pot luck in my view and as you say, there's no way the fans can influence that.

Understanding why they bought Barnsley FC is the key to understanding what may happen next. Unfortunately, I've not seen or heard or understood why they did buy Barnsley and we're almost 4 years? into the tenure.