Roy Of The Roasters

How dare they be so disrespectful. Don't they know he's a Prem-yer League Manager?

One thing I should have added to my earlier post is that whatever his personal motives, Milan left the club in a far better state than he found it. Something that will never, ever be said of our current owner.

This. Given his controversial reputation, my relief that he rescued us from extinction was tempered with extreme apprehension as to his intentions and methods. I needn't have worried. OK, he didn't exactly splash the cash while he was the owner, but what he did spend was spent sensibly. Bills, wages and HMRC obligations were paid on time. He turned us round, and while we may not have been pulling up any trees in the league, we were more than competitive. The club was professionally run, and while it was never going to be a rich mans hobby he was always open and honest about it being an investment. What we wouldn't give for that sort of stability right now. If he was still around I'd have him back in a heartbeat. RIP Milan Mandaric.

They can't help the situation they've been placed in.

Yeah, can't really get too wound up about it anymore.

We're going to be even more used to it by the end of the season.

At the end of the day, whatever their current difficulties, the Blunts owners are paying the wages and have sanctioned tens of millions of pounds of transfer fees. You suspect that their problems are short term and fixable. Our owner has failed to pay wages on time for something like 4 out of the last 5 months, and it's probably a question of when rather than if it happens again. We barely have enough senior players to field a matchday team. We're under an embargo and the EFL don't even trust him to cover the cost of loan players. He p*ssed off our highly rated young manager so badly that he felt he had no option but to leave, despite the huge affection and regard in which our fans held him. Our ground is crumbling, and given that our owner sold it and we don't own it anymore it's no longer certain if we have a secure home at Hillsborough. So I really can't see how things can be any worse under a new owner.

F**k you Chansiri. If you'd paid the bills we'd be streets ahead of the Blunts this season.

Well, they could make Chancer Deputy PM and then demand his resignation 10 minutes later on the grounds of 43 breaches of the Ministerial Code. And then sit and scratch their heads and wonder how to get rid of him when he refuses to go.

As you say....... ...pretty much nails it. And none of those things are going to happen any time soon.

Always had the gut feeling that Danny Röhl had his sights set on the Bundesliga. He never moved his family to Sheffield, did he?

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Well, putting aside the miracle of Hillsborough.... Newcastle in the FA cup a few years ago I would say trumped Leeds. We were League 1, they were upper end Premier League competing for European football and with some serious talent in the team. And we actually did the job in normal time.

And that worries me. I'd like to see an owner who comes in with a clear philosophy and plan, and who then puts in good people both on and off the field and leaves them to get on with the job. I know we need Chansiri gone, but I don't want to see one clueless control freak replaced by another. As for Pederson, it's early days but he's doing OK considering the circumstances. More importantly he wants to be here, he seems to be a thoroughly good bloke, and he's up for the challenge. Right now those qualities are worth their weight in gold. But if we do get a new owner I really hope they give him a chance to show what he's capable of in better circumstances.

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Ashley's SOP is generally to pick up distressed assets at a bargain price. Even if he is interested, and I don't recall him ever saying he was, he won't be opening his wallet until Chancer is forced to accept a knock down price.

For anyone who is interested, the BBC has secured rights to live Bundesliga football on Friday nights, August / September fixtures as follows: Bayern Munich v RB Leipzig - 22 August Hamburg v St Pauli - 29 August Bayer Leverkusen v Eintracht Frankfurt - 12 September Stuttgart v St Pauli - 19 September Bayern Munich v Werder Bremen - 26 September

I think we need to move beyond 'not good enough' or 'we need better'. Right now, anyone who can stay fit and put in a shift is an important player.

Morecambe appoint first Sikh boss at professional club Now please don't get me wrong...... I'm delighted that a Sikh has been given the reins at a professional football club. I hope that Ashvir Singh Johal is a big success and that Morecambe do well under his management. Given the nature of the new ownership, though, I have to question whether he was given the job because he was the best qualified candidate or because of his ethnicity? Particularly given that Derek Adams, who had stuck by the club during their troubles, was immediately dismissed once the takeover was completed. I hope it works out for the club.

I do wonder how they felt seeing Sunderland thump West Ham on their return to the Premier League.

If you're doing it as a way of circumventing FFP rules, then plenty.

Does DC actually own the stadium? Or did he just sell it to a 3rd party? Only I'm not sure he had the cash to buy it from the club.

In an ideal world, I agree. But if the price of getting new ownership that can actually fund us and take us forward is to have him as a minority shareholder with no executive power then I would hold my nose and live with it......

And the absolute worst thing for a proud and prickly person is to lose face in public. The thing is, I'm not sure he'll actually end up poor, not in the way you or I would understand it. I don't know how much of the accumulated operating losses have been lumped onto the club itself rather than being met by him personally, but if he walked away from SWFC without recovering a penny he would still have his trust fund and family wealth to fall back on. He'll be able to pick himself up, dust himself off, and carry on being a rich kid, albeit with one less toy to play with. If he were smart and could think long term, one face saving route might be for him to sell a majority stake and cede control while remaining a minority shareholder. If he sold the club to someone who actually could run it competently then the value of his stake would increase and he could maybe recoup some of his losses in 5-10 years time. Maybe sooner if we got back into the top flight.

I hope you're right. I really do. But it would rely on Chumpsiri to be rational as you or I would understand the word. And I'm just not sure he is.