Investment

[Rev]

1 hour ago, jimtastic56 said:

If Amanda Staveley sold her small stake In Newcastle Utd , she could easily afford to buy the Rams . She is well connected and would bring in massive investment . We could get in the Prem and pay the likes of Raheem Stirling £250k a week . But would us Rams fans be happier paying double for our season tickets ? We haven’t had a poll for ages . 

A. She sold her stake over the summer, and left Newcastle.

B. She's relatively potless, and a liar. 

https://www.ft.com/content/5f2b79cc-6ca0-4f2d-9ab8-ebb456972f01

 

[Eoghan1884]

Interestingly on Steve Pagliuca, he’s made it pretty apparent he does want a multi club group. He’s been in talks recently to buy Red Star FC in France who are a second division team. He seems to like the idea of buying a club at cheap and building them how he wants to. We would tick a lot of boxes in that ideology. 

[AljosaAsanovic]

Multi-club ownership is a cancer in the sport and I don't want my beloved club to be any part of it. 

[jimtastic56]

2 hours ago, Rev said:

A. She sold her stake over the summer, and left Newcastle.

B. She's relatively potless, and a liar. 

https://www.ft.com/content/5f2b79cc-6ca0-4f2d-9ab8-ebb456972f01

 

She might have good lawyers . But if we did get in the Prem , would you be happy to pay double for YOUR season ticket ?

[eddielewis]

1 hour ago, AljosaAsanovic said:

Multi-club ownership is a cancer in the sport and I don't want my beloved club to be any part of it. 

I would say after all of the recent examples it's probably no worse than a singular owner. I think the main problem recently is that a lot of these owners rush in and get trigger happy and start accumulating clubs without really laying down the framework and getting success with their original purchased club. Boelhy with Chelsea/Strasbourg, Textor with Lyon/Palace/Botafago are a great examples of that. Obviously the player swapping in order to cook the books should be outlawed.

CFG seem to have got it right with the 13 clubs they own where the ownership is catered to the situation. They own only 20% Yokohama F Marinos for example just to keep the club competively ticking by in the top end of the J league. What they get out of it is a scouting network in Japan and a entry way of marketing for Man City in Japan.

If the rumours are true with Pagliuca and with how currently operates Atalanta where he's very much at arms length and doesn't delve too much in terms of the operation of the club where he could leave that to Clowes with Derby then that would be a tempting prospect and could work for all.

Edited 1 hour ago by eddielewis

[ilkleyram]

In all this chatter about investment we should also consider that returns are not only financial. Fame/notoriety, free advertising for other businesses, associations with other clubs or other football organisations, helping an area to develop or just pure enjoyment of being closely involved in a professional sport for example, may also be reasons for people to invest in a club whilst knowing the financial downsides. Forget the Mel we ended up knowing, at the beginning his money was all about developing the club; his desire for half the first team to be made up of academy players was mocked by some but we’re now largely having to start again when, without administration, we might have got pretty close to that target this season. It doesn’t have to be all about the financial returns.