Potential new owners

[SwalePie]

But Ajax cleaned up her reputation.

It was a Herculean task, I understand.

[downunderpie]

Gordian Notts..

[sidders]

Yes once it gets to 100%

Once? Once? Fricking once?
Are you English?

[CheltenhamPie]

Do I sense hysteria creeping in on this thread?

[ForeignLegion]

Once? Once? Fricking once?
Are you English?

Should it be "wonce" ?

[jackal2]

It would be nice to have an owner who keeps his distance. Rarely does it go well, in the modern era, when they try to be "one of us". You end up with the shop shouters in Newcastle, for example.

I agree.

There's a fundamental contradiction in the modern football business where fans want a private owner to come in and spend lots of cash, but then the fans still regard the club as "their club" and feel they have a right to dictate policy.

The reality is that if someone like Alan Hardy buys the club lock, stock and barrel, then only his word truly counts on how the business is run, be that well or badly. That's not actually unreasonable. I think if most of us invested our money into owning a business outright and someone else was trying to tell us how we should run it, we'd tell them to get stuffed.

Football is a strange business and the blurred lines between actual and spiritual ownership of clubs creates tensions, especially if form of the pitch is poor. For that reason, owners might be well advised to stay out of the limelight and the firing line rather than making themselves vulnerable.

[navypie]

Once? Once? Fricking once?
Are you English?

Infuriating innit sid?

Would love for mark45 to say no, he isn't English.

[60YearsAPie]

Once? Once? Fricking once?
Are you English?

Once a pedant, always a pedant.

[McCullochisGod]

Once a pedant, always a pedant.

If you can smell bull ****e it won't be coming from the cattle market.

[irishpete]

Charlie Slater saying the rumour is that it's the South Aficans thats doing the due dillegence