londonowl

I've said it before but is dad is 90, he's got some serious wedge coming on the horizon which is why he is able to act like he does. If he was spaffing everything he had personally made and wasn't getting handed another lump in the future, he might actually be trying to recoup what he could.

I don't the forum referring to Thais, it's referring to Chansiris...which is why they say 'some notorious Thais'. Those that hope 'The Family' are going to step in because of shame and embarrassment should have a look at some of the TUF stuff.

For me, if you are coming with ambition and money then as far as a business plan is concerned, PL is a foregone conclusion....so you are just paying £50m over the odds. I think you summed up in your last sentence because frankly on a purely commercial basis, we are probably one of the least attractive propositions in the country. Aside from the obvious day to day stuff, we don't own our training ground, we have a millstone of a stadium that doesn't sit on a big enough plot of land for redevelopment. Of course this is not how football clubs are valued and there is brand value but we are not an enormous multi-national brand commanding respect all over the world so that has it's limitations.

The best thing to come out of all of this is that we know 2 things. 1. SWFC will survive, one day he will be gone. We will still be here. 2. He will eventually be back in Thailand with his tail between his legs with nothing but a £100m black hole to show for his attitude, ineptitude and disdain of fans. We know 100% for sure that he cannot afford this. Unfortunately it wont finish him because his dad is 90-odd and he will probably get another chunk to spaff somewhere.

Yeah, commercial lease so almost certainly 'full repairing' with SWFC paying all stadium costs.

Why would any buyer agree to this? If the club was on a sound footing and Premier League 'ready' then a seller could reasonably expect future reward for the building blocks they have put in place. Every single thing needs to be improved upon all of which has to be funded by the buyers. Once you've dropped £500 million to get there, why would you hand tens of millions over to previous owner. There may be a £5m promotion sweetener or something like that but nobody is putting £50+ million in the backend of a deal.

Because they are at a dead end. Chansiri not negotiating and gave no counter offer. They want to buy the club but door is closed, might as well try to exert some external pressure even if it's just a hail mary.

Thought he came across well. Pretty much called Chansiri a nutter in a polite way. 'A unique way of doing business to say the least' I think was the quote.

Maybe DC is front-loading as much as he can because he knows he's on the way out and hopes the new buyers won't notice that he's put the club on the hook for a few mill more. Wishful thinking but it's fair to say that he really is that stupid.

Yeah, I have no real knowledge of Symon or Adam Shaw but I think the way they have both conducted themselves seems like some kind of vanity project and opportunism. I'm not saying they don't want what's best for the club but think they might be blind to what is actually best for the club because of their own egos/desperation to be involved

Birmingham stadium development costing between £2 & £3 BILLION. He's been incredibly naive, stupid or disingenuous to claim you can only put £13m a season in so don't need to be rich.

Disrespectful to Bizzle. You can't lump him in with faux ITKers, wannabee owners and social media Johnny come lately's. The Bizzle has earned OT's respect.

Is this thread infinite...if we never get a denial, will we just keep going 50 pages a day until the internet is full?

17 years, 2 months & 15 days. Apparently I nicked someone else's username but not sure how that works.

Woods? Copse?