Takeover

[animallittle3]

And the God like status regarding Bobby Hassell is becoming cringeworthy too , how has he dropped so lucky down here , disliked by all when he first joined , then turned into an hero ( fair enough ) looked after given a yrs contract but never played , testimonial , went to play in India ? And drops on his feet back here , nice work Bobby lad , what is his role exactly

I don't know what his role is other than glancing his eye towards Hecky's job possibly .

If the take over happens he won't get a sniff because things are set to change .

Look I get this sentimental self sufficiency sticking two fingers up to the big clubs and holding our own but we all know deep down it's unsustainable as a model .

To keep us in this league and our natural home we need bucks and I'm fecked off with this losing our top players because keeping this club on a self sufficiency model is killing us where it counts the most , on the field .

If we want to remain a championship club or at least have a realistic shot at it then we have to accept that big bucks chinks are the only show in town to make it happen .

Stay as we are and fall into the league one club mantra or give ourselves an opportunity to remain at this level and have a go further up perhaps .

This is modern day football at championship level , local well meaning businessmen aren't anywhere near financially capable of delivering the product we historically enjoy .

At least someone wants to buy us and give us a shot at it , I'm personally amazed there's anybody at all .

You spend what you need to spend and the chinks cover the shortfall , forget self sufficiency at this level it's unrealistic even if the moral compass is correct .

Feckin hell lets compete guys , fecked off with struggling our ass off .

[Jules88]

Everyone harps on about the last 18 months being best ever. However, the last six of that have been particularly crap. Cast your minds back to first six months of the 10/11 season and a young Hammill tearing at defenders backed up by Jason Shackell and Mcevelly in defence with a budding Butterfield. What happened next? Then 11/12 Butterfield, Vaz Te, Drinkwater, Davies and the team broken up after a total demolition of Leeds on New Years Eve. Then onto last season. That doesn't need any reprise. The problems remain the same and they start higher up than Heckingbottom. Where this differs though is the 2010/11 team was built by Robins the 2011/12 was built by Hill. The 2016/17 team was built by Lee Johnson and Danny Wilson. The 2017/18 team was built by Paul Heckingbottom. No one else has had Championship money to spend on consecutative seasons which is more than the previous incumbents can boast. (Hill being an exception as he had to work under ffp two years early walking a tightrope with two broken legs). Even though his personality alone made me glad to see Mr Cryne present him his p45.

We cant be taken over quick enough.

Time youstopped thinking negative thoughts about BFC and got your little swimmers lined up for the attack on the PRIZE.... all that W@nking and the disappointment will have weakened them...

[EastStandRed]

And the God like status regarding Bobby Hassell is becoming cringeworthy too , how has he dropped so lucky down here , disliked by all when he first joined , then turned into an hero ( fair enough ) looked after given a yrs contract but never played , testimonial , went to play in India ? And drops on his feet back here , nice work Bobby lad , what is his role exactly

Academy Manager

[EastStandRed]

At least someone wants to buy us and give us a shot at it , I'm personally amazed there's anybody at all .

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The only reason they'd be interested in buying Barnsley FC is because of the 'plan' put in place which everyone keeps slagging off.

The plan of buying young hungry players with a potential sell on fee has won us a cup and got us promotion back to the Championship

More importantly for would be investors it's generated millions of pounds , enough to make us one of the only clubs in the league debt free and even have funds in the bank . If we were where we are now but with an ageing squad and still owing £10m plus in loans etc they wouldn't have come near us .

The fact that we're running in profit and in the Championship with a decent size untapped fan base makes us quite attractive to buyers now. Non of this would have happened without the plan and cashing in on our players .

We've had a poorish start but are not in the bottom 3 and propping up the table so it's not as much doom and gloom as some make it .

All hail the Plan because without it we'd be drifting into the abyss

[GUNTERYY36]

There's going to be some red faces when this proposed takeover is seen to be no more than a hoax.

[animallittle3]

The only reason they'd be interested in buying Barnsley FC is because of the 'plan' put in place which everyone keeps slagging off.

The plan of buying young hungry players with a potential sell on fee has won us a cup and got us promotion back to the Championship

More importantly for would be investors it's generated millions of pounds , enough to make us one of the only clubs in the league debt free and even have funds in the bank . If we were where we are now but with an ageing squad and still owing £10m plus in loans etc they wouldn't have come near us .

The fact that we're running in profit and in the Championship with a decent size untapped fan base makes us quite attractive to buyers now. Non of this would have happened without the plan and cashing in on our players .

We've had a poorish start but are not in the bottom 3 and propping up the table so it's not as much doom and gloom as some make it .

All hail the Plan because without it we'd be drifting into the abyss

Alternatively given we were under no pressure to sell in January ( club statement ) we could have kept our players , added some strength to the squad and beat Huddersfield in the play off final .

I take it you'd agree that the club would have gained even more value and attracted investors as a PL club , debt free with a relatively untapped fan base .

All speculative of course but no more speculative than the plan the club operates today .

[animallittle3]

There's going to be some red faces when this proposed takeover is seen to be no more than a hoax.

Ant n Dec disguised as chinese businessmen pyssing themselves as Baz runs around Oakwell showing them round thinking he's in for a nice pension .

Ha ha , luv it :-) :-) :-)

[GUNTERYY36]

Ant n Dec disguised as chinese businessmen pyssing themselves as Baz runs around Oakwell showing them round thinking he's in for a nice pension .

Ha ha , luv it :-) :-) :-)

Ant and Dec disguised as Chinese businessman...Saturday night takeover? I'm sure they could, they already masquerade as comedians.

[EastStandRed]

Alternatively given we were under no pressure to sell in January ( club statement ) we could have kept our players , added some strength to the squad and beat Huddersfield in the play off final .

I take it you'd agree that the club would have gained even more value and attracted investors as a PL club , debt free with a relatively untapped fan base .

All speculative of course but no more speculative than the plan the club operates today .

I'd have kept Hourihane yes. But sold the other 2

[EastStandRed]

There's going to be some red faces when this proposed takeover is seen to be no more than a hoax.

Could be a ploy to make another club start talking to them again .... like Hull !