Takeover

[Fulham Fallout]

If the best we can hope for to make money is ticket sales, flogging our best players every season and adding a few pints and pies on match day  whilst renaming of the ground at normal not Blues valuation… we are fugged.

I'm with Dekka on this on general.  The best we get is a shit band outside next to Greggs.  Hull give the away fans a bar, Bristol City has a great set-up with the bar restaurant and no doubt countless other clubs have similar ideas too.

A question re FFP, I don't know the answer.  If this extra development income came into the club, whilst the income may not count towards the wage% could it be used to pay for the academy and other non-playing costs?  If so would it mean any additional funds put it by the owners (£8m per year) could be used for playing staff as opposed to covering the academy.  Therefore it would, indirectly, be beneficial. 

We're central, have great transport links and a huge catchment population that could be attracted to the area for more than just 90 minutes on a Saturday, be that directly in the stadium or the land around it.  A separate venue for darts/boxings/bands/comedy surely isn't that unrealistic.  Link it to the ground that has a nice new bar area with eating/drinking and the club has now got an income from the bar takings at the very least.   I'd struggle to believe there's not enough events going on that it couldn't grab it's fair share.  

A potential new owner may be happy to get hold of some of the land and use it for leisure purposes income, a few eateries, bowling alley type stuff.  This is the type of thing that could mean more people come to games.  Allow people to get there earlier, eat/drink and then go home or do something post match.

At the moment, I park up at 2.30, walk to get in the ground for 10 to and back on my way home just after 5.   Things happening in and around the ground may just improve the match-day experience (god i hate that phrase but welcome to modern soccerball) and get more people in the ground for these higher prices you all want to charge.

Albion used to own how many social clubs in the local area? All sold off.

There's some small-time thinking on here that will see us remain small time.  Landlocked ffs.

The £8m is only a cap for the FFP calculation and more could go in, but only £8m used in the calculation. 

It’s therefore irrelevant where that money comes from, be it from an investment nearby or the other side of the world.  So….  Invest in West Brom surrounding areas or Dubai or anywhere else in the world?  You see where I’m coming from?   

It’s not small time thinking at all, it’s common sense. Fuck me, some wanted a Bicester Village equivalent built this morning FFS sakes!

I'd settle for the second tier 

Exactly. 

People have seriously lost the plot on here.  And they say Villa fans are delusional