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Surely most buyers would know that our income streams are about to return to relative normality. At the moment supporters are fairly enthused. 18k season tickets is easily achievable and average gates in the region of 25k. In champ with Rooney both sponsorship and tv revenues will be healthy. Corporate revenues on the high side compared to most. We should be an attractive purchase and in many ways to bid at the level needed to clear the minimum debt to exit admin cleanly. It is not such a big stretch to say we could be only a few years away from the prem. look at Luton ffs. 

Surely most buyers would know that our income streams are about to return to relative normality. At the moment supporters are fairly enthused. 18k season tickets is easily achievable and average gates in the region of 25k. In champ with Rooney both sponsorship and tv revenues will be healthy. Corporate revenues on the high side compared to most. We should be an attractive purchase and in many ways to bid at the level needed to clear the minimum debt to exit admin cleanly. It is not such a big stretch to say we could be only a few years away from the prem. look at Luton ffs. 

Nobody on here would be able to confidently predict what the outcome of private negotiations will be.
What I would say is, I can’t believe that any of the interested bidders would seriously be looking to take over with a -15 point deduction next season.
My own personal situation aside, I just find it bizarre when there is no compulsory purchase of the club why they wouldn’t prefer to satisfy the minimum requirement of the creditors and look to purchase the stadium further down the line if they don’t have the funds to complete both purchases now.
Which would also raise concerns that if they cannot find that money now, what will the future look like in terms of investment to rebuild and move forward.
So with that I’m happy that talks with the Binnies have ended.
My guess and it is a complete guess, Mike Ashley is the front runner however he’s trying to get Quantuma and Mel Morris to take less money, reducing the full purchase price. Ashley would want the stadium to plaster Sport Direct branding all over it, Lee Charnley has probably been round with a tape measure already.
To be honest, at this point I’m just interested in what is happening on the pitch, fears of liquidation have gone now the Steve Gibson shaped obstacle has been removed and having just turned away the Binnies which would have been better than nothing, I will sleep better…..whilst aware that there is still the potential for all this to go pear shaped. 
It’s been a rough few months and just want to enjoy some football now.

I bet Gibson is laughing his socks off !!
His delaying tactics working much better than he ever expected. Without the spurious claim this would
have been settled by now and for a higher bid.

Points deduction? For using dirty money for 19 years?
 
Of course not..."that would only hurt the fans"
 
Expect the highest of double standards over the next few weeks.

"its a sin" best thing on TV in last year or so.

Not sure if this a WUM but I look at it like this....regardless of his managerial knowledge and decisions what Rooney has done is give stability to a very unstable situation and that is a fact not an opinion.
Imagine what a mess it might've become without Rooney being here because I can only imagine that the youngsters that we've had to rely on heavily this season have gone that extra yard and wanted to impress Rooney because he is Wayne Rooney
yes i think he's made errors he's learning on the job but at least football wise he's given stability and continuity and kept repeating that all he can do is influence what happens on the pitch and the training ground and I for one think he's done very well.
I think we could have been down by now without his leadership and also a big mention to Rosenior and all of the coaching team 
I actually think had Rooney made the club even more unstable by walking away we would have struggled to get anyone decent in to run it under our present circumstances and would've meant more of our youngsters possibly wanting out ......WR deserves a proper crack at it here when/if we get back to a normal situation but regardless of this I will never forget what he has done for us in extremely difficult circumstances whether we miraculously stay up or not

Brilliant, I think there is also an account of this game in the Nick Hornby book, "fever pitch" which is even better.

Careful now. I haven't got blind faith in Q. I do think though they are doing a lot of a better job than many on here think they are.
The challenges for them are significant. Significant with a capital F. 
Yes, they could improve their communication to fans a little, but probably only by not keep giving updates that lead fans to think substantial progress is imminent. They should be more careful with their phraseology, but whatever they say is never going to be enough for a febrile audience.
I had some dealings with Administrators and Receivers in my professional past, and would suggest that in this particular situation their priority in terms of ultimately keeping people happy is in the following order:
1) Their Professional Body (and PI Insurer)
2) Creditors
3) Bidders
4) DCFC Owner
5) DCFC Employees
6) EFL
7) Fans
The trickyness of this administration is 7). It is unusual for them to have such partisan oversight. Yes they might deal with unions, but this is a great step up from keeping them happy.  The bottom line is they cannot say anything that a) breaks confidentiality, or b) affects values, until such time as they have someone who has contractually agreed to proceed on exclusivity terms (with a wedge of money downpaid hopefully). Even then they will be tightlipped until the completion monies have been banked, allowing distribution. Loose tongues lose money, and leave Q open to great risks of being sued by anyone from 2) to 4) if they do not follow due process to the letter.
Difficult gig this one. Be interesting to see if they want to give it another go when the next Championship club goes bump.

The only thing they could do as a knee jerk reaction is liquidate...... doesn't help anyone.
Why does everyone think they are dragging their feet, the club is in a mess, the EFL have done little to nothing to help and arguably have actively hindered them with their stance on Boro.
They have a legal obligation to do the best they can for creditors,  just because it is causing us stress and the EFL to go spouting unhelpful statements doesn't make a blind bit of difference to the overall outcome. 

Gets my back up when the usual suspects fans are straight onto that twitter 'news' saying that 'They(we)' we are obviously up to no good and need punishing (again) somehow. Do they actually have the faintest idea what Administration is ? A company has come in and taken over the temporary running of club and there is not a thing we can do about it. As fans, players and coaching team we all want this resolved as soon as is humanly possible because we're utterly sick of the delay, uncertainty and general helplessness. However the club is being run by a 3rd party with the sole interests of the entity that appointed them, that's how it works.
These morons can't seem to separate an irrational and fanatical hatred of DCFC with something completely out of our power. WR and the boys turn up and do what they can on the pitch and us fans support them as best we can, that's it.. end of story. All the finances, admin and PR of the club are the sole responsibility of the Administrators. We don't in effect have a club at the moment we have someone else in charge who doesn't care about football or fans or frankly any of this, they just want the best settlement for who they represent. That isn't necessarily a criticism, just the reality of our desperate situation.
These ill-informed fans of other clubs just need to realise that there isn't some secret Satan-worshipping DCFC 'elites' laughing and cackling in a boardroom in PP, there are just some administrators... and they'd sell the turf from under the players boots if they thought it would squeeze a bit more cash out for their client. Nothing, absolutely noting that is happening is DCFCs 'fault' because there is no DCFC as such and won't be until such time as someone actually buys us and takes over running of it. Until then this is 100% the Administrators show.

Huge thanks to @LeedsCityRam and @Brailsford Ram for bringing these fabulous memories back to life. it sweeps me back to my childhood like I was in a time machine.
Well done fellas.
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I'm really struggling to see the sane business case for this, from Ashley's point of view.  Sure, he might save a few million from the purchase price by driving down what the creditors are willing to accept... But the cost for that is additional borrowing in the mean time to cover running costs (plus interest that he will have to pay), potentially a significant hit to the playing squad as he will have lost the chance to renew contracts with many senior players (some of whom will almost certainly walk away), and he's probably adding a least one more 'lost' season if we start on -15 that he's going to have to fund, as it's pretty unlikely we get out of league 1 from that start (and even risk another relegation).  I just don't see how it makes any sense...

Which seems at odds what his actual spokesperson said.

Which seems at odds what his actual spokesperson said.

no wignall.
 
i expect the admins to give us an update when a deadline that THEY set passes and you hear nothing but silence. especially when a deadline set by the EFL is coming up and we all know they could run out of patience.
 
i dont demand minute by minute, i demand clarity when they cause confusion and anxiety.

The one he earned by carrying us for most of the season. He made a mistake ffs and he will come back to make amends in the run in. We don’t need this kind of regurgitated negativity. Bore off 

@Ghost of Clough
ME Wouldn’t season ticket sales achieve this? Normally starts in March. 
YOU Season ticket money is released on a game by game basis, so no.
But there is no problem with money released on match by match basis if it is funding "beyond the summer" that we need....this would be it.
Again, we just want to be treated like any other Club, surely? We will have season ticket sales at the top end of the Championship, Gates the same, probably corporate sales the same and sponsorship the same. Every other Club will be looking ahead at their projected income so why would we not be allowed to if we secure the £5m deposit?

@Ghost of Clough
ME Wouldn’t season ticket sales achieve this? Normally starts in March. 
YOU Season ticket money is released on a game by game basis, so no.
But there is no problem with money released on match by match basis if it is funding "beyond the summer" that we need....this would be it.
Again, we just want to be treated like any other Club, surely? We will have season ticket sales at the top end of the Championship, Gates the same, probably corporate sales the same and sponsorship the same. Every other Club will be looking ahead at their projected income so why would we not be allowed to if we secure the £5m deposit?

I bet you're fun at a party, FFS

I bet you're fun at a party, FFS

I bet you're fun at a party, FFS

I bet you're fun at a party, FFS

I bet you're fun at a party, FFS

Anyone know what Posh have sold.....are they into mini bus territory yet or are still looking at a taxi?