Sunderland takeover

[ravenrover]

Surprised no ones mentioned this

French billionaire-heir Kyril Louis-Dreyfus secures majority shareholding in Sunderland after EFL approval; Stewart Donald, Juan Sartori and Charlie Methven retain minority shareholding; Sunderland currently seventh in League One, one point off the play-off places

[Chris Black come back]

He is 23 years old so despite the money it looks like a rich boy’s plaything. I would say he cannot be any worse than their previous owners, but then again, they’ve said that before.

The small chance that this guy does make a success of this aside, this is an exceptionally good season for us to be challenging as probably the three biggest clubs in this league - Sunderland, Ipswich and Charlton - are all in a real mess and massively underperforming. That will not always be the case so we have to take advantage of this window while we can.

[graingrover]

He is much richer than anyone before in ownership there and will invest because like it or not there is tremendous community support from fans and a good existing infrastructure of stadium and training facilities .

[keith79]

Big club in our league.

[selby]

  The players there and the players they might want are sat there thinking YES I will have some of that.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Just because they're rich, doesn't mean they're spending their own money. Look at the Glazers and many others, making money from other people's money!

[NickDRFC]

It’s not really going to make much difference this season given the fact that the window is closed, maybe a boost for the club as a whole given the mood has been so low for the past couple of years. If they don’t make it up this year, though, I imagine they’ll be going all out for it next year.

[RobTheRover]

He's majority shareholder now, Stewart Donald is still around in the background no doubt hanging on to the chance he can make some money off this.

[tyke1962]

Going for a data driven approach under the new owner .

Plenty of clubs on this strategy now , we've used it since 2015 and Brentford are probably the most successful club using it .

At least it's a plan and a strategy rather than the shyte show they've put their fans through for the last few years .

Someone needs to tell the fans up there that this strategy is very much a long term thing and won't necessarily produce success overnight .

Sunderland fans and patience stuck in league one owned by a billionaire may not run so smooth if instant success isn't forthcoming .



https://the72.co.uk/222956/louis-dreyfus-first-move-as-sunderland-chairman-suggests-data-driven-approach-to-performance-recruitment/