Mostyn6

#FAPpleby

I'm about in my own final strokes now.

Ooh Andy Babyyyyyyyyyyyyy

4 minutes ago, Rev said:

Laziness, mostly. 

It's just such a nice complex, well spread out along a private beach, loads of different restaurants and bars to choose from, even a proper nightclub. 

The staff are incredible, can't do enough for you, which takes some getting used to.

By the time we'd got past our imposter syndrome, we were too relaxed to leave.

what resort/town/village did you go to?

11 hours ago, Eddie said:

I used to be a technical author, urged to phrase such matters in such a way that a layman could comprehend.

Try 'Proper-talking dudes'.

same, spent a few months re-writing Bombardier Train Maintenance Documents, using Simplified English, so they could be easily translated into Indian once the trains were too old and were sold on.

9 hours ago, Rev said:

Just back from Corfu. 

Don't ask me what it's like, I don't have a clue.

Shamefully, I never left the confines of the hotel grounds for more than 20 minutes.

I went to Kavos/Chavos for the Euros in 2012. I let someone else pick the venue, he picked the cheapest! Luckily we had a really nice hotel. The resort itself was the pits. We were way too old. The drinks and music were dreadful. The only highlight was having a few drinks with Derby County Wonderkid Callum Ball, in an attempt to get "Derby County" to the top of the drinking league in a pub.

I think I can safely say there was not one part of the holiday I wish to repeat!

What was your reason for staying in hotel?

2 hours ago, Boycie said:

Who thee flying with? I don’t mean your mates either.

Easyjet- Luton! 

On 02/06/2022 at 13:35, Boycie said:

7 weeks @Mostyn6 ?

4 weeks*
 

*if flight ain’t been cancelled

8 hours ago, B4ev6is said:

Look if tom throught about it if wanted picture him fine but dont post on twitter but could kepted on his person photos on his phone or on his computer.

I love to see how rooney deals with this I bet he wont be pleased with him one bit.

Rooney took the photo

1 minute ago, RoyMac5 said:

So not Appleby's latest bid.

I get the impression that Appleby’s bid has been submitted with the line “divide that however you see fit between you lot and Mel!”

49 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

Well for one made public and if needs be like done with other companies they could emerangy funding And two made very very differcult to carry like they have been doing in the past.

That’ll be too late for Derby tho

11 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

Or could it be the take over all done being confirmed by radio derby.

Eh? What are you on about? 

6 minutes ago, Bris Vegas said:

Bias aside, I think they have very little chance of survival. They aren’t as good as Fulham, while not one of their players would get into Southampton’s starting XI who they must view as a potential team to overtake.

I think their only battle this season will be with Bournemouth and who finishes bottom.

 

We can agree to disagree. A lot rides on how they replace the players they didn’t own. But the performances against strong PL sides in the cup shows me they can compete. I imagine you’d have said same about Brentford last season. They proved that a team full of individual talent loses against individuals in a team. 
 

as a disclaimer, they’re gonna be in the relegation mix, they could however get lucky if another team goes full basket case mode. 
 

As for Fulham, they have several proven PL flops. Will struggle. 

1 minute ago, KBB said:

I want B4 to be in charge of all transfer negotiations for the club.

FULHAM "Hello its fulham here. We were interested In bringing roos in as our backup keeper"

B4 " 45million or no deal"

Source or GTFO

No way Fulham want Roos

?

1 minute ago, Augustus said:

Yeah I certainly won't be accepting us as established Premier league. Massive, massive task to get competitive and stay up.

We've been linked with every man and his dog as agents are looking at our situation and going mad with excitement but it's mostly just paper talk I'm sure. Cooper and the team have shown so far that they're very good at keeping things under wraps until the last moment and signings usually come out of nowhere.

rivalries aside. Good investments and you have a good chance. As long as you don't do the Fulham scattergun approach of couple seasons ago! I always think better spending £60m on 3-4 solid players than £150m on 10 potentially good players and ending up with a disjointed team.

Organised and well-coached promoted teams have proven able to stay up comfortably in recent years. It's the basket-cases that have no clear plan or identity that struggle.

I have no idea who will come down. Can Brentford survive second season syndrome? Will Leeds sort themselves out? Will Southampton continue their implosion. You have a decent chance of survival IMO.

Just now, Augustus said:

Both, if you like.

We're literally swimming with cash now...

Might throw you a few pennies this summer for a few young players you have. Doing our bit to help you lot keep the lights on.

I remember when we got promoted and our then chairman said "We will take the Premier League by a storm, we are not there to make the numbers up"!!.

Yeah, chairman talk a load ashite.

Good luck with that.

2 hours ago, Augustus said:

With what we'll be spending this summer we could buy your entire club 2 or 3 times over.

'Club'? or 'Squad'? 

Buying our Squad 3 times over will be easy!

9 minutes ago, Macintosh said:

Except it comes at a huge cost, take Burnley as an example going this route: ALK Capital took out their £65m loan from MSD Holdings to finance the buy out and currently pay only interest – at 8 per cent – on it. The full amount is due to be repaid in 2025. That is £5.2m each year or £21m interest they will have paid. You can buy Pride Park for that and have your own car space!

that's the risk worth considering though. Restructure and free up money for squad improvements and hope to be in a better position (higher division) with bigger turnover/profit. Or pay as much now and have to find other ways to fund the squad rebuild.

Not sure the Burnley deal was the same as I am thinking of though. The MSD loan to us must've already had a repayment plan. The Burnley owners put the loan against the club to leverage the ownership, MSD quite cleverly put clauses in that relegation meant a quick repayment. Not sure any such clauses exist, save the Stadium being the collateral.

I believe the MSD interest rates were quite decent at the time. Whether a restructure at this stage would have crushing interest rates, who knows. BUT, it is worth having the conversation to see what options are available, especially if it means the initial bid investment can be less and satisfy the rest of the creditors.

the way MSD have been offering us cash, I would be confident that they will accept a restructuring of the loan/debts.

Only guessing though. I have no ITK. But if I was one of the bidders, I would (via the Administrators) ask if the MSD debts can be paid over 5-7 years, and not starting until next season. This would make the initial investment less. There's no rule that clubs mustn't be in debt, just that they must not be defaulting on those debts.

1 hour ago, Rev said:

There is literally no way on God's earth Blackpool would pay 300k compensation for the assistant manager of a Lg1 club.

I think staff compensation is based on current salary and length remaining in contract. 

2 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said:

There is no deadline set for bids to be in by.

first good bid wins. End of.

1 hour ago, Leeds Ram said:

Not sure how you come to that conclusion. It was undoubtedly wasted time, as the time we could have spent getting a deal over the line with a credible buyer was wasted on crypto boy. The fact that buyers haven't had a bid accepted as of yet doesn't mean that those precious 2 months weren't completely and utterly wasted.

there is no rationale for your assertion anyone would've made an acceptable bid (we need acceptable, not credible)

1 hour ago, RoyMac5 said:

But at least one bid has gone in, less than a week after CK's bid was withdrawn. The time was wasted, other bidders could have offered low bids to let Q know they were expecting too much for no assets.

If the bid was worthy, it would've been accepted. It's not, it's clearly not good enough.

1 hour ago, Topram said:

Whilst we wasted 2 months on him no one else could make a bid due to exclusivity? 

But nobody wanted to make a proper bid anyway, before or after.

13 minutes ago, Topram said:

The start of probably a pretty depressing few weeks of players leaving, can’t blame them, glad we wasted 2 months on an American fraud 

the fact that NOBODY has had a bid accepted since Kirchner pulled out suggests it was not 2 months wasted time. It was wasted hope, but the fact that nothing has happened since has proven no time was lost/wasted.

close the thread.... 

looks like CK's world is being demolished around him.

I read somewhere that the difference in an acceptable deal, and a rejected (-15pts) deal is about £800k-£1.2m. Any further reductions in bid would mean we wouldn't be allowed to exit administration and would not get the Golden Share.

I cannot believe any potential bidder would be so short-sighted as to risk 15points and potential success for the sake of say £1m!

But if potential bidder is truly underbidding, there could well be a rejection from EFL.