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Club Takeover/Investment

Club Takeover/Investment

Just to add to the insignificant world of football….. i didn’t know either of these until last night when I watched the football highlights.
What’s happened at Bromley and Crawley this week? No coverage at all yet massive changes at both clubs that only really their fans give a shit about.
The media just looks at the high profile clubs, the cluster fucks and then anything that they may think sells clicks and papers.
 
In Honour of Brian Honour said:
Just to clarify (not takeover news) more of the fact that I get we're irrelevant to the national media but when
Robbie Savage was appointed at Peterborough he wrote a massive essay about it but 4 days earlier nothing regarding Graham Alexander's appointment.
Today he's wrote a massive essay about Burnley & how their fans "deserve better" yet 16 years of nothingness at Deepdale & we're just expected to put up & shut up & probably be grateful.
Maybe im just that way out coz morrisons was packed & they had no baskets & had to carry my shoppin in my hands & then half the self service tills was out of service.
Then read his tweet when I got home waiting for the kettle to boil.
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I switched Talkshite on yesterday briefly and they had a Dingle on. My immediate reaction was why the fuck are Burnley getting discussed on there - sacked manager or not - they are no bigger than us, even after their Prem years
 
No Danger said:
With the fee for Hugill TH could have consulted with Alex Neil and his staff about bringing in a couple of young prospects who we could later sell on for a profit after strengthening our team. Instead we ended up with zJayden Stockley who definitely didn’t strengthen the team despite his best efforts.
Later signing a pastbit Nugent on a 2 year contract ( a TH initiative I believe) reinforced the lack of vision for the future.
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They did try it with Harrop, Bodin (who had a good scoring record at Bristol Rovers) and Maguire. Bodin just wasn't up to it at championship level. Think the other two would've been but both got bad injuries when establishing themselves.

Of course when Harrop came back and didn't look up to it he was another who got his contract extended and then just sat around here for 18 months taking up decent wages when he couldn't contribute much on the pitch.

The other bemusing thing with Maguire looking decent was the club suddenly shifting to wanting to sign anything that moved in the league of Ireland. Reading had success with that strategy a decade before but it was very optimistic (or just a cheap recruitment drive) to think half a team of them could get a club promoted from the championship.

Ultimately the club didn't push enough to sign reasonably experienced but young championship players for 2-4m in that period. Adam Armstrong was one. Kieffer Moore was another older but he's had plenty of moves since and value protected by continual Wales call ups. Even under Lowe Harry Burrows was identified and he'd have sorted the left hand side out. It didn't happen, no Plan B was sourced and Hughes had to keep playing there before KKH came in.

This ownership had one more chance in Jan 2026 to really invest to try to secure a play off place. Instead left that month with a far weaker first 11 than started it which said it all and no-one really was surprised.
 
Meldrew's Ghost said:
Nothing can be signed until the IFR gives approval to all of the individuals involved in the takeover. So it's possible that the applications could be with the IFR, and that negotiations could be going on about provisions for changes to the sale price if we get relegated at the end of the season (eg £5m upfront, then a further £20m if we stay up at the end of the season).
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Ifr is acomplete waste of time to keep Efl club s quiet while the PremiershiT steal all the money and mank city fiddle and the fa do sod all because there part of the Problem.
 
scally said:
Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford all on there arses....look at them now, look at the attacking football they play, we can only dream off enjoying that, a pure joy to watch....football business models hey, actually having long term vision and planning, signing quality young players with sell on value not our 'model' of signing has beens and worst of all injury prone players....yep the Preston/Ridsdale way....stuck in a time warp...the end cant come soon enough!
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The 3 B’s you mention are all driven hands on from the top it seems to me.
With their success they have had their best players and successful managers tempted away but they still bounce back.

It’s about drive and direction from the very top.

Something we and Manchester United both do not have…
 
Meldrew's Ghost said:
Nothing can be signed until the IFR gives approval to all of the individuals involved in the takeover. So it's possible that the applications could be with the IFR, and that negotiations could be going on about provisions for changes to the sale price if we get relegated at the end of the season (eg £5m upfront, then a further £20m if we stay up at the end of the season).
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IFR wont get involved until everything is agreed between both parties.
 
scally said:
Bournemouth, Brighton and Brentford all on there arses....look at them now, look at the attacking football they play, we can only dream off enjoying that, a pure joy to watch....football business models hey, actually having long term vision and planning, signing quality young players with sell on value not our 'model' of signing has beens and worst of all injury prone players....yep the Preston/Ridsdale way....stuck in a time warp...the end cant come soon enough!
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I think the biggest difference is that those three clubs were bought by owners who actually wanted to own a football club.
The current owners have one by default after the passing of Trevor who probably bought it in the first place just to stop it disappearing into oblivion as he did have a genuine affinity for it but was never going to finance a genuine push for the big time.
 
No Danger said:
With the fee for Hugill TH could have consulted with Alex Neil and his staff about bringing in a couple of young prospects who we could later sell on for a profit after strengthening our team. Instead we ended up with zJayden Stockley who definitely didn’t strengthen the team despite his best efforts.
Later signing a pastbit Nugent on a 2 year contract ( a TH initiative I believe) reinforced the lack of vision for the future.
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The club for a few years had a philosophy off the pitch. The issue was Trevor Hemmings and Peter Ridsdale ruined it. We sold a player for 9 million, and didn't replace him. How much at one stage were Davies, Barkhuizen, Johnson, Pearson and Browne worth, and what income did we get from them?

Common issue = Peter Ridsdale.
 
norky84 said:
The club for a few years had a philosophy off the pitch. The issue was Trevor Hemmings and Peter Ridsdale ruined it. We sold a player for 9 million, and didn't replace him. How much at one stage were Davies, Barkhuizen, Johnson, Pearson and Browne worth, and what income did we get from them?

Common issue = Peter Ridsdale.
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Preston North End was, in my opinion, just a toy/hobby for Trevorneezer Scrooge. He thought he could run the club far better than what Deadly Derek was doing. He was never going to do a D. Whelan or J. Walker. He soon realised it wasn’t quite as easy as he thought.
He has, with his appointments, destroyed much of the good work that Bryan Gray did, and left the club in a much worse state than it was before he took control, despite blowing £150M on it.
 
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Walton said:
So, as they are still haggling over the price, as we are now dead cert's for League One, according to some, after at least nine months of haggling we still have to endure three to five months of the IFR yet?
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There is no haggling over the price, Penrose said in August an acceptable offer had been accepted, presumably the delays are all the efl checks.
 
joycey said:
There is no haggling over the price, Penrose said in August an acceptable offer had been accepted, presumably the delays are all the efl checks.
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Think you need to read that statement again. He said an offer had been made that was acceptable to the Hemmings. He didn’t say it had been formally accepted yet. Based on things happening at other clubs, it probably hasn’t even gone to the Regulator yet
 
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