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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: Dagenham Rover on September 29, 2025, 05:46:41 pm
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Basket case Sheff Weds not paying players this month again and possibly not paying non playing staff
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c1wg43zl49wo?fbclid=IwZnRzaANHkKxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmo-a_rOm506FNMPK_x-Wnh294IurJKDfyzeQAhRAVUN7cQErPmaAvSukBH6_aem_jT534pfaBKd9dU8n0iBOVA&fbclid=IwY2xjawNHlsJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETB1amE4U28yc2I3ZUN2eWpXAR6fQiPbyUB-urK57-o6pXS30sBC_7whOjyCebOL5K5hHufoAaMWsdpSuPflcQ_aem_sksEKE-kfkGNrT1zGm0S6g
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Any club in Lg.1 or 2 would have been closed down by now, this joke of a club is not worth preserving.
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As much as i don’t like them from a friendly fan rivalry, I do feel for the fans.
We should remember not in the too distant past we were in a very similar position.
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Think a funding page has been set up for non playing staff,they have bills to pay ,these are the people you feel sorry for
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Can't believe anyone still trusts him to be paid surely most will leave their jobs to work anywhere else
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They have an owner who £££’s wise is head & shoulders above Terry.
What you sow. Feel sorry for the ‘average Joe’ who has attended games since the 70’s & beyond, as for the club….it’s thankfully not mine.
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First team to end a season on minus points??
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1/16 at bet365 to be relegated!
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I thought Sheffield Wednesday players had another way of getting paid.
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They have an owner who £££’s wise is head & shoulders above Terry.
He very much isn't, however that isn't the point, T. Bramall is putting money in, hence promotion last season, money invested in the stadium and training ground as well as into the team this season.
Wednesday owner isn't putting any money in, which is from where their current problems stem.
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They have an owner who £££’s wise is head & shoulders above Terry.
What you sow. Feel sorry for the ‘average Joe’ who has attended games since the 70’s & beyond, as for the club….it’s thankfully not mine.
He’s not though is he. He has very little money hence the hand to mouth situation at Wednesday. He’s skint.
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They have an owner who £££’s wise is head & shoulders above Terry.
What you sow. Feel sorry for the ‘average Joe’ who has attended games since the 70’s & beyond, as for the club….it’s thankfully not mine.
His family is worth more than Terry. Dejphon Chansiri as an individual has never been clear about his personal financial situation though. No one knows how much he's really worth or where his money actually comes from.
Rumours from the Wednesday fans are that, due to the nature of the people he owes, he can't afford to sell the club for anything less than the inflated value he's asking for, which is why he's hanging on despite being potless.
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They have an owner who £££’s wise is head & shoulders above Terry.
What you sow. Feel sorry for the ‘average Joe’ who has attended games since the 70’s & beyond, as for the club….it’s thankfully not mine.
His family is worth more than Terry. Dejphon Chansiri as an individual has never been clear about his personal financial situation though. No one knows how much he's really worth or where his money actually comes from.
Rumours from the Wednesday fans are that, due to the nature of the people he owes, he can't afford to sell the club for anything less than the inflated value he's asking for, which is why he's hanging on despite being potless.
The family are not incredibly wealthy either. £400m their business is worth I believe. He’s a 1% share holder I think! There’s just no liquid cash to keep the club going.
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I do remember seeing the TUG business had taken a kicking in recent years, didn't realise it was that much though. Does make you wonder why he's clinging on at all, unless he really does owe some unsavoury people.
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1/16 at bet365 to be relegated!
Had them @4/9 before a ball was kicked with all the issues it looks a dead cert
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I do remember seeing the TUG business had taken a kicking in recent years, didn't realise it was that much though. Does make you wonder why he's clinging on at all, unless he really does owe some unsavoury people.
He’s looking for an inflated amount from the sale. Greed, desperation, who knows.
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In 1992 they were founding members of the premier league, and they were not bothered one iota what happened to any other small club in the country in fact have always and while they exist will always welcome every supporter from the Doncaster area with open arms.
I have no sympathy with anything that happens to them, the same stance they took when clubs like Hereford, Chester, Bradford Park Avenue were shown when they hit difficulties, which from clubs like Sheffield Wednesday was the square root of FA.
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Things are very, very bad thats for sure.
One of the most difficult and frustrating things is actually getting to the truth about what’s going on at the club. Thanks to the joy that is social media it’s very difficult to get to know what’s the truth and what’s not.
The stadium is falling apart, the team is one of the worst that I’ve ever seen, we’ve no money, under a transfer embargo, we have an owner digging his heels in and the fans are boycotting home games.
I genuinely wouldn’t be shocked if we don't see the season out.
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In 1992 they were founding members of the premier league, and they were not bothered one iota what happened to any other small club in the country in fact have always and while they exist will always welcome every supporter from the Doncaster area with open arms.
I have no sympathy with anything that happens to them, the same stance they took when clubs like Hereford, Chester, Bradford Park Avenue were shown when they hit difficulties, which from clubs like Sheffield Wednesday was the square root of FA.
I have to take issue with this. When Rovers were having their difficulties in the 90’s what should Wednesday, or any other club, have done? When Rovers were relegated to the conference, I’m pretty sure that Wednesday (and the other South Yorkshire clubs) all released statements in the Star in support of them returning to the football league asap. Short of that there wasn’t a great deal else that they could do?
I agree that the FA were, and are, insipid at best but the issues affecting clubs isn't the fault of Wednesday or anyone else.
I don’t know of any Wednesday supporter that I knew taking any pleasure in the plight of Rovers or any other club in peril of going out of business. In fact, as I recall there was a lot of sympathy for the Rovers at the time. Sure, you’ll get the odd idiot at every club, but generally speaking I remember people feeling quite sad at what was going on at Belle Vue. Again though, what else could we do?
Players, owners and staff at the clubs will be able to move onto other things, but as fans we are stuck with the club who we support. Whatever happens.
As for Wednesday opening their arms to any supporters from the Doncaster area, again what should the club do? Ban supporters who don’t live in Sheffield?
What’s going on at Wednesday right now should put the fear of god into every football fan in the country as it could easily happen to any club at any time.
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As much as i don’t like them from a friendly fan rivalry, I do feel for the fans.
We should remember not in the too distant past we were in a very similar position.
They never lifted a finger to help us back in our dark days, Sheff Utd on the other hand did.
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What’s going on at Wednesday right now should put the fear of god into every football fan in the country as it could easily happen to any club at any time.
Yep. We know. We had our own episode a generation ago. For some inexplicable reason, it didn't put the fear of god into many fans of bigger clubs.
I wouldn't wish what we went through on ANY other set of fans. Genuinely.
But let's be honest. If we had gone under, who else would have really cared? We were, at best, a subject of momentary sympathy before other fans went back to their interests in their own clubs.
I think that experience gave a bit of a steely hardness to many of us older Donny fans. If SWFC go under, it'd be a shame. And I would genuinely feel for your fans. For a bit anyway.
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In 1992 they were founding members of the premier league, and they were not bothered one iota what happened to any other small club in the country in fact have always and while they exist will always welcome every supporter from the Doncaster area with open arms.
I have no sympathy with anything that happens to them, the same stance they took when clubs like Hereford, Chester, Bradford Park Avenue were shown when they hit difficulties, which from clubs like Sheffield Wednesday was the square root of FA.
I have to take issue with this. When Rovers were having their difficulties in the 90’s what should Wednesday, or any other club, have done? When Rovers were relegated to the conference, I’m pretty sure that Wednesday (and the other South Yorkshire clubs) all released statements in the Star in support of them returning to the football league asap. Short of that there wasn’t a great deal else that they could do?
I agree that the FA were, and are, insipid at best but the issues affecting clubs isn't the fault of Wednesday or anyone else.
I don’t know of any Wednesday supporter that I knew taking any pleasure in the plight of Rovers or any other club in peril of going out of business. In fact, as I recall there was a lot of sympathy for the Rovers at the time. Sure, you’ll get the odd idiot at every club, but generally speaking I remember people feeling quite sad at what was going on at Belle Vue. Again though, what else could we do?
Players, owners and staff at the clubs will be able to move onto other things, but as fans we are stuck with the club who we support. Whatever happens.
As for Wednesday opening their arms to any supporters from the Doncaster area, again what should the club do? Ban supporters who don’t live in Sheffield?
What’s going on at Wednesday right now should put the fear of god into every football fan in the country as it could easily happen to any club at any time.
Sheffield United helped us out, Wednesday did nothing, Rotherham fans spat in our collection buckets
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Totally agree Filo. Only Sheff Utd stepped up. Not good for the fans but where was our support when we needed it. You rep what you sow. That’s why I drum into my lad, how blessed we are with our owners and staff.
Where were the big clubs with the likes of us, Bury, Boston, Macclesfield etc ( only the football authorities help the so called bigger clubs)
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We might hope that the new Regulations will improve the quality of owners, but surely no authority anywhere in the world can assess the true wealth (or lack of it) of likely prospective owners. I am not sure that any Government in a democratic country has that power on a practical level even over its own residents, and in relation to the assets situated within its borders. Even if governments assume massive powers of discovery and investigation, moneyed people tend to have complicated finances and therefore often potential disputed wealth or lack of it.
The best you might hope for is that the forthcoming tighter regulations here might deter the worst potential owners from attempting to buy clubs. Someone said fairly recently that Hubert Bates was the "owner" of Rovers whereas he was just the Chairman of a Board back in the days before clubs were the commercial businesses they are now. I was not aware that he had a controlling shareholding, but the club did not prosper whilst he was in that position.
As Chairman, Frank Wilson did a far better job to further the club's fortunes in the McMenemy era. He will be remembered for the good times he brought whereas no one I knew had a good word to say about Mr Bates. Even in the pre-commercial era, not all those who served on boards prioritised the best interests of the club over their own.
Perhaps the answer is a Supporter Cooperative (Trust) as an owner, but you wonder how they can potentially compete with the vast wealth of the top end of the English game and so far the model can only claim a handful of modest successes. Yet there is FC Barcelona and also Bayern Munich and other big Continental European Clubs. I expect this debate has been held here before, but and perhaps it might be reignited in considering the post Bramall era. Exeter City have sustained themselves rising from the Conference to League 1 and AFC Wimbledon are a more recent modestly successful example and when all's said and done that is our current level too.
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In 1992 they were founding members of the premier league, and they were not bothered one iota what happened to any other small club in the country in fact have always and while they exist will always welcome every supporter from the Doncaster area with open arms.
I have no sympathy with anything that happens to them, the same stance they took when clubs like Hereford, Chester, Bradford Park Avenue were shown when they hit difficulties, which from clubs like Sheffield Wednesday was the square root of FA.
I have to take issue with this. When Rovers were having their difficulties in the 90’s what should Wednesday, or any other club, have done? When Rovers were relegated to the conference, I’m pretty sure that Wednesday (and the other South Yorkshire clubs) all released statements in the Star in support of them returning to the football league asap. Short of that there wasn’t a great deal else that they could do?
I agree that the FA were, and are, insipid at best but the issues affecting clubs isn't the fault of Wednesday or anyone else.
I don’t know of any Wednesday supporter that I knew taking any pleasure in the plight of Rovers or any other club in peril of going out of business. In fact, as I recall there was a lot of sympathy for the Rovers at the time. Sure, you’ll get the odd idiot at every club, but generally speaking I remember people feeling quite sad at what was going on at Belle Vue. Again though, what else could we do?
Players, owners and staff at the clubs will be able to move onto other things, but as fans we are stuck with the club who we support. Whatever happens.
As for Wednesday opening their arms to any supporters from the Doncaster area, again what should the club do? Ban supporters who don’t live in Sheffield?
What’s going on at Wednesday right now should put the fear of god into every football fan in the country as it could easily happen to any club at any time.
Sheffield United helped us out, Wednesday did nothing, Rotherham fans spat in our collection buckets
Wednesdays offered to lend us some of their training gear. I also have a vague memory of them offering temporary use of their training ground too but I might be wrong on that point
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Rotherham loaned us robert pell did they not for free
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Ante raised.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4g3x7ek4ggo
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Set to be placed into admin imminently according to a few local journos.
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Set to be placed into admin imminently according to a few local journos.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c1lqmmml533o
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Won't be long till some Wednesday fans are claiming they'll soon be taken over by a multi billionaire and heading to be champions of Europe
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The FA and the EFL should be hanging their heads in shame. After 3 decades they STILL can't police their own f**king product.
BobG
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The thing is how much money has this guy spent on Sheffield Wednesday? They had massive spending over previous years and on the pitch they were as successful as they'd been for years. Clearly he's just ran out of money, almost as if his big gamble didn't pay off. Surprises me we've not had more of this.
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A great deal was made about the fans’ boycott of the game against Middlesbrough the other night.
The BBC match report states it was a “deserted Hillsborough” because fans “stayed away in huge numbers”.
The match was played “in front of a sparse crowd in an eerie atmosphere”.
Attendance: 21,578.
Really?
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Yes, if you watched it you would have seen 3 mostly empty stands, obvs counts sth who are refusing to show up as per any reported attendance figure
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It's all well and good them rejoicing about this finally bringing to an end his ownership of the football club. He still owns and will continue to own Hillsborough through a separate company. He's still their Landlord until he decides otherwise. And we know this is all about the ground and its value, as it was with us back in the late 90s. The football club is merely collateral damage in the battle over the ground.
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Mixed feelings really. The part of me that saw the feral Owls scumbags overrunning Belle View like a plague of rats in first round league cup tie around 75/6 can’t help but think ‘who’s the big club now then?’
But I had an uncle play for Wednesday in the 50’s when they were a well respected side and club and they were worthy of that respect. And I know ex players and staff and friends who are Owls supporters who are good people and they will be suffering right now and having been there and done that with Rovers I can’t help but feel sympathetic. As per usual, the devoted match day punters are the ones getting a kick in the belly with this sort of thing.
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We've got to stay in League 1 for next season - Wednesday joining the league makes for some incredible local games and another full house and classic away day. Let's get back to putting points on the board!
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It's all well and good them rejoicing about this finally bringing to an end his ownership of the football club. He still owns and will continue to own Hillsborough through a separate company. He's still their Landlord until he decides otherwise.
A representative of Begbies Traynor has said on camera that the administrators have also taken control of the stadium
Edited 14:14. Now confirmed in EFL statement
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Yes, the stadium ownership is also in administration and - stated by an 'expert' interviewed on Radio 5 this lunchtime - the club and stadium will be rejoined when (if) new owners take over.
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The FA and the EFL should be hanging their heads in shame. After 3 decades they STILL can't police their own f**king product.
BobG
I would say that when he bought the club he had money and spent loads. He’s just run out of money. There should be more in place to enforce compulsory sales though. He could have sold the club but is asking for too much money for it.
It’s tricky policing private businesses though admittedly.
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No sympathy from me, they had non for us.
f**k em
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Yes, if you watched it you would have seen 3 mostly empty stands, obvs counts sth who are refusing to show up as per any reported attendance figure
Good point Ldr, I didn’t think of that.
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Yes, if you watched it you would have seen 3 mostly empty stands, obvs counts sth who are refusing to show up as per any reported attendance figure
Don't understand that, if your a season ticket holder. You've already paid your money, so the people being impacted by boycotting are the players who are fighting to stay in the league.
They should give their heads a wobble
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This should be a blessing for Wednesdays and long overdue. Chansiri got himself into a mess after throwing money at it over his tenure. His valuation of the club was never likely to be met but now the administrator will try and get the best deal from any interested parties which is likely to be well short of what he maybe could have had, had he acted sooner.
He's unlikely to be the only casualty with staff who might not get paid in full but longer term, someone could turn the ship around fairly quickly.
I'm sure the fans will view their likely relegation as a minor inconvenience when other clubs have been wound up completely. They now need to show their support to keep the club going while in administration and show the potential to new owners. It's not a given, there will be a Saudi Prince in the waiting so it will still be nervous times.
Agree with others though, there has to be a change to the process of applying sanctions when red flags are raised. The EFL should be able to force owners to open their books much sooner when wages aren't paid with a view to helping the club stay financially fluid before the drastic action of administration is forced.
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A great deal was made about the fans’ boycott of the game against Middlesbrough the other night.
The BBC match report states it was a “deserted Hillsborough” because fans “stayed away in huge numbers”.
The match was played “in front of a sparse crowd in an eerie atmosphere”.
Attendance: 21,578.
Really?
Is it not practice to include season ticket-holders in the attendance figures whether they are present or not?
As for the likely wealth of Mr Chansiri I’d say it was difficult to track the wealth of UK residents and impossible for those domiciled abroad. His worldwide assets do not necessarily equate with the amount he is prepared to put into Wednesday. His alleged wealth in 2020 was over $500m, but according to Wikipedia he stopped putting big money into Wednesday 3 years before then and their fortunes have declined accordingly. Whilst it is possible that he may have run out of money himself, it is equally possible that he has not. There are many instances of business men sustaining they own wealth at the expense of creditors of liquidated companies of which they have been directors.
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From an Owls point of view the appointment of an Independent Regulator has come a bit too late.
Its for scenarios like this that we campaigned for many years for Governments to set up the Fan Led Review. Once everything starts to operate the way we expect then stories like this should be3come a thing of the past.
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To be honest, due to the massive fan base, the Fowls can drop down 2 leagues and run the team on peanuts, using the gate money to pay off their debts.
It may take a few years but if the fans get behind them they can recover.
I wouldn’t advocate getting some benefactor in and expecting promotion for a few years!
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It's all well and good them rejoicing about this finally bringing to an end his ownership of the football club. He still owns and will continue to own Hillsborough through a separate company. He's still their Landlord until he decides otherwise.
A representative of Begbies Traynor has said on camera that the administrators have also taken control of the stadium
Edited 14:14. Now confirmed in EFL statement
And Begbies Traynor know how to bleed every bit of money out of any business and srcrews anyone that is owed money,I was owed money by a company that went into admin and it was a waste of time trying to get anything back once the first letter arrived and the changes they have to be the administrator
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Chansari probably represents a typical example of the type of foreign owner who believed that you could achieve a degree of fame and standing in the world by buying and making a success of an English football club. Perhaps Mohamed El Fayed was an early example. His Fulham connection probably bought him wider celebrity than Harrods.
Although people like him are very wealthy by most standards and yearn for the fame that they hope for alongside the success of the club they acquire, history probably shows that most of them don’t succeed. Some may reach the Premier League but only the mega-rich conquer it. After several tens of millions without even getting there, like Chansari perhaps, many seem to cease investing, allow debt to accumulate to avoid further personal losses and thereby drive the football club to the wall.
So I wonder if this kind of adventure is probably no longer within the means of the Chansaris of this world. I don’t think we have seen mega-rich Middle Eastern owners let their clubs down yet, probably because it’s relatively small beer to them and perhaps they will be the only ones that will require serious vetting on an international scale as time goes on. It leads you to hope that the dubious international element has already been priced out. If it hasn’t, let’s hope that the Regulations will have the capacity to investigate and expose them before they get involved.
Protection will certainly be needed at the other end of the scale though. Those who acquire a club simply to use as a vehicle to build their own personal wealth; people who can convince existing shareholders of their means, yet who waste little time in exploiting the club’s assets for their own personal gain with no regard for the fortunes of the team. We’ve seen many examples of that throughout the lower leagues with notable examples of former league clubs which have sunk to National League N and S and worse.
I really don’t think the typical Wednesdayite will have any more connection with the downside of this than we did at our nadir. It may be difficult for younger football fans to understand their feelings, like the young men I knew in their early 20s around 1960,61 and 62, now in their mid 80s, when Wednesday were second in the old First Division. I feel for them.
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Worth a punt on wendies today in
An acca. They will Have a proper 12 th man there today. And they are over even money at home .
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Forsolong,
I once heard. (Q) How do you become a millionaire as a football club chairman?
(A) Start off as a multi- millionaire!!
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The American chap who was involved with Crystal Palace John Textor in an interview said his next foray into English football would be owning a Championship club
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The American chap who was involved with Crystal Palace John Textor in an interview said his next foray into English football would be owning a Championship club
He wouldn't touch Wendies with a bargepole then, a Lg.1 club at best, a defunct club if there is any justice.
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If the price is right
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It's amazing that no-one has made a go of them.
Famous name. Decent size stadium, even if it is decrepit. Guaranteed 40k a week if they were top half of the PL
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If the price is right
I do wonder how much Chansari put in but converted it into loans which is still owed to him and he still owns the ground so will be the landlord of anyone taking over
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It's amazing that no-one has made a go of them.
Famous name. Decent size stadium, even if it is decrepit. Guaranteed 40k a week if they were top half of the PL
The gound doesn’t hold 40k . Intellectually bone idle
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If the price is right
I do wonder how much Chansari put in but converted it into loans which is still owed to him and he still owns the ground so will be the landlord of anyone taking over
No he won't be landlord. That's already been posted above. Replies 37 & 38.
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It's amazing that no-one has made a go of them.
Famous name. Decent size stadium, even if it is decrepit. Guaranteed 40k a week if they were top half of the PL
The gound doesn’t hold 40k . Intellectually bone idle
Bit unnecessary given it holds 39,700 ish and they’ve got permission to expand to 45,000 ish. The capacity is only temporarily reduced for repairs, which obviously would have been made if they got to the Premier League like Billy suggested.
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It's amazing that no-one has made a go of them.
Famous name. Decent size stadium, even if it is decrepit. Guaranteed 40k a week if they were top half of the PL
The gound doesn’t hold 40k . Intellectually bone idle
Bit unnecessary given it holds 39,700 ish and they’ve got permission to expand to 45,000 ish. The capacity is only temporarily reduced for repairs, which obviously would have been made if they got to the Premier League like Billy suggested.
It holds less then 35000 now (check their website) and my comment was a bit tongue in cheek as a response to his inane ramblings on the political forum
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It's amazing that no-one has made a go of them.
Famous name. Decent size stadium, even if it is decrepit. Guaranteed 40k a week if they were top half of the PL
I suggest you keep ‘politically driven’ remarks for the ‘Politics’ section of the forum.
If your dislike for a posters political stance irks you to the extent you have to ‘attack’ them on the Football Forum, I think you should seek help.
The gound doesn’t hold 40k . Intellectually bone idle
Bit unnecessary given it holds 39,700 ish and they’ve got permission to expand to 45,000 ish. The capacity is only temporarily reduced for repairs, which obviously would have been made if they got to the Premier League like Billy suggested.
It holds less then 35000 now (check their website) and my comment was a bit tongue in cheek as a response to his inane ramblings on the political forum
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It's amazing that no-one has made a go of them.
Famous name. Decent size stadium, even if it is decrepit. Guaranteed 40k a week if they were top half of the PL
The gound doesn’t hold 40k . Intellectually bone idle
Bit unnecessary given it holds 39,700 ish and they’ve got permission to expand to 45,000 ish. The capacity is only temporarily reduced for repairs, which obviously would have been made if they got to the Premier League like Billy suggested.
It holds less then 35000 now (check their website) and my comment was a bit tongue in cheek as a response to his inane ramblings on the political forum
What happens on the Political forum should stay on there, along with your obsession
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It's amazing that no-one has made a go of them.
Famous name. Decent size stadium, even if it is decrepit. Guaranteed 40k a week if they were top half of the PL
The gound doesn’t hold 40k . Intellectually bone idle
It would if they made it to the PL, at relatively low cost.
I realise that takes a tiny bit of intellectual effort, but you can do it.
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https://news.sky.com/story/sheffield-wednesday-handed-further-six-point-deduction-for-multiple-breaches-of-league-regulations-13475853
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What's the earliest a team has ever had relegation confirmed? I know we have the worst team tag for losses , but with them already now 27 points adrift we at least had a piss poor Brighton the at least keep the maths possible with only one down . For them to get fourth bottom needs 10 wins now and 3 teams to get nothing . Could it be all over by January? Unless they go on a rovers esque end of season run for twice as long
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It's amazing that no-one has made a go of them.
Famous name. Decent size stadium, even if it is decrepit. Guaranteed 40k a week if they were top half of the PL
The gound doesn’t hold 40k . Intellectually bone idle
It would if they made it to the PL, at relatively low cost.
I realise that takes a tiny bit of intellectual effort, but you can do it.
Is it possible in the modern game to get into the PL at relatively low cost?
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It's amazing that no-one has made a go of them.
Famous name. Decent size stadium, even if it is decrepit. Guaranteed 40k a week if they were top half of the PL
The gound doesn’t hold 40k . Intellectually bone idle
It would if they made it to the PL, at relatively low cost.
I realise that takes a tiny bit of intellectual effort, but you can do it.
Is it possible in the modern game to get into the PL at relatively low cost?
I think "relatively low cost" refers to any potential development of Hillsborough.
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I reckon the only development of Hillsborough will involve a wrecking ball and a lot of diggers. The costs of fixing the stadium up will far outweigh the building a new stadium on the outskirts of Sheffield, with a possible ground share with United or Rotherham, it would be too expensive for any owner coming in to afford in addition to building a football team. It would not surprise me to see Wednesday in League 2 and struggling unless they find a billionaire to lose their mind and waste half of their assets.
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It's amazing that no-one has made a go of them.
Famous name. Decent size stadium, even if it is decrepit. Guaranteed 40k a week if they were top half of the PL
The gound doesn’t hold 40k . Intellectually bone idle
It would if they made it to the PL, at relatively low cost.
I realise that takes a tiny bit of intellectual effort, but you can do it.
Is it possible in the modern game to get into the PL at relatively low cost?
I think "relatively low cost" refers to any potential development of Hillsborough.
Maybe, I read it differently.
It isn’t overly clear though.
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I reckon the only development of Hillsborough will involve a wrecking ball and a lot of diggers. The costs of fixing the stadium up will far outweigh the building a new stadium on the outskirts of Sheffield, with a possible ground share with United or Rotherham, it would be too expensive for any owner coming in to afford in addition to building a football team. It would not surprise me to see Wednesday in League 2 and struggling unless they find a billionaire to lose their mind and waste half of their assets.
There's no way the Owls and Blades fans would agree to a ground share, just as Everton and Liverpool fans knocked the same idea back several years ago.
New stadiums these days cost hundreds of millions of pounds. Unless Sheffield City Council agrees to fund it, it'll never happen.
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I did see that report the Blades approached the Owls administrators about buying them and merging the clubs. If I didn't already know the Blades were owned by americans that would be the giveaway. Utter yank nonsense.
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I did see that report the Blades approached the Owls administrators about buying them and merging the clubs. If I didn't already know the Blades were owned by americans that would be the giveaway. Utter yank nonsense.
There’s land in DARNALL, where they originated, My sources tell me there is well over a dozen parties interested in in acquiring the club.
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It's time they called it a day.
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It's time they called it a day.
F*cking brilliant.
Are you here all week?
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I'd like to buy 'em too Sproty. I've had a windfall. I reckon 50p will do it.
BobG
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I'd like to buy 'em too Sproty. I've had a windfall. I reckon 50p will do it.
BobG
The interest is due to the huge fan base and the income they can generate.