Takeover

[NewWanker]

No, no, nobody knows.

You'd hope that Lai and his gang, the buyers and all of their legal people would know, if they don't know by now then it really aint happening!

[Stars n stripes]

Like a good many on here I have no idea how long these takeovers take to conclude , and relise no matter how much ,money any buyer has it will be a while before we feel the benefit of it .My concern though is do we have enough to cover the bills and for how long .I know players sales will help but if we don't sell anyone and a new owner how long will it be before we're looking at points deduction and administration,?

[Fulham Fallout]

Like a good many on here I have no idea  how long these  takeovers  take to conclude , and relise  no matter how much ,money any buyer has it will be a while before we feel the benefit  of it .My concern though is do we have enough to cover the bills and for how long .I know players sales will help but if we don't sell anyone and a new owner how long will it be before we're looking at points deduction and administration,?

Only those who are privy to the forecasted cash flow statements can answer that question accurately. 

We don’t know if 
1) the club means what it says in that they will only sell players if offers match or exceed the club’s valuation.  Or is this a bluff to try to hike up offers?

2) the above (if true and we can wait until the summer) is dependent on the takeover going through and the new owner(s) pumping cash in to the club.

3) the amount of the MSD top up loan. 

What we can have a guess at, is the amount we are spending over and above our income each month and that’s around £2m per month. That clearly isn’t sustainable.

[Jerry]

Like a good many on here I have no idea  how long these  takeovers  take to conclude , and relise  no matter how much ,money any buyer has it will be a while before we feel the benefit  of it .My concern though is do we have enough to cover the bills and for how long .I know players sales will help but if we don't sell anyone and a new owner how long will it be before we're looking at points deduction and administration,?

Only those who are privy to the forecasted cash flow statements can answer that question accurately. 

We don’t know if 
1) the club means what it says in that they will only sell players if offers match or exceed the club’s valuation.  Or is this a bluff to try to hike up offers?

2) the above (if true and we can wait until the summer) is dependent on the takeover going through and the new owner(s) pumping cash in to the club.

3) the amount of the MSD top up loan. 

What we can have a guess at, is the amount we are spending over and above our income each month and that’s around £2m per month. That clearly isn’t sustainable.

4) if the moneys owed by Lai and Peace’s loans are paid back.

[Fulham Fallout]

Like a good many on here I have no idea  how long these  takeovers  take to conclude , and relise  no matter how much ,money any buyer has it will be a while before we feel the benefit  of it .My concern though is do we have enough to cover the bills and for how long .I know players sales will help but if we don't sell anyone and a new owner how long will it be before we're looking at points deduction and administration,?

Only those who are privy to the forecasted cash flow statements can answer that question accurately. 

We don’t know if 
1) the club means what it says in that they will only sell players if offers match or exceed the club’s valuation.  Or is this a bluff to try to hike up offers?

2) the above (if true and we can wait until the summer) is dependent on the takeover going through and the new owner(s) pumping cash in to the club.

3) the amount of the MSD top up loan. 

What we can have a guess at, is the amount we are spending over and above our income each month and that’s around £2m per month. That clearly isn’t sustainable.

4) if the moneys owed by Lai and Peace’s loans are paid back.

That will be by the new owners (or at least wrapped up in the takeover I’d imagine).  Repaying the loan Lai took out benefits the club in respect to FFP, whereas repaying baldies loan doesn’t benefit FFP. 

Repaying both will obviously help cash flow.

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5) we also don’t know how the MSD loan + interest are to be repaid. I.e. the amounts to be repaid to MSD and when.

[igorbalis]

Excuse my laziness in not reading back through this but what are people thinking about the aforementioned takeover?
Happening and HMS piss the league/play offs or impending doom/carry on as you are?

Lazy sod! It's only 135 pages....

I think most will be happy having an owner that actually cares, takes a vested interest, and has a long term sustainable plan. We've never really spent big money well at the Albion, so the reintroduction of a scouting system that we had under Ashworth would be really useful. We'll leave the excessive spending to our claret and blue friends.

'We've never spent big money well' is an understatement. It could be argued we've never spent big at all, and always sold our best players. Anyway I'm pretty relaxed about the whole thing, whatever will be will be. UTFA.

[Pragmatist]

Excuse my laziness in not reading back through this but what are people thinking about the aforementioned takeover?
Happening and HMS piss the league/play offs or impending doom/carry on as you are?

Lazy sod! It's only 135 pages....

I think most will be happy having an owner that actually cares, takes a vested interest, and has a long term sustainable plan. We've never really spent big money well at the Albion, so the reintroduction of a scouting system that we had under Ashworth would be really useful. We'll leave the excessive spending to our claret and blue friends.

'We've never spent big money well' is an understatement. It could be argued we've never spent big at all, and always sold our best players. Anyway I'm pretty relaxed about the whole thing, whatever will be will be. UTFA.

We’ve certainly “spent big” but they’ve been disastrous signings in terms of value for money.  Grant, Chadli and Diangana.

[rsbaggy2]

Excuse my laziness in not reading back through this but what are people thinking about the aforementioned takeover?
Happening and HMS piss the league/play offs or impending doom/carry on as you are?

Lazy sod! It's only 135 pages....

I think most will be happy having an owner that actually cares, takes a vested interest, and has a long term sustainable plan. We've never really spent big money well at the Albion, so the reintroduction of a scouting system that we had under Ashworth would be really useful. We'll leave the excessive spending to our claret and blue friends.

'We've never spent big money well' is an understatement. It could be argued we've never spent big at all, and always sold our best players. Anyway I'm pretty relaxed about the whole thing, whatever will be will be. UTFA.

We’ve certainly “spent big” but they’ve been disastrous signings in terms of value for money.  Grant, Chadli and Diangana.

In respect of Chadli, at least we got our money back.

[Tom Joad]

Excuse my laziness in not reading back through this but what are people thinking about the aforementioned takeover?
Happening and HMS piss the league/play offs or impending doom/carry on as you are?

Lazy sod! It's only 135 pages....

I think most will be happy having an owner that actually cares, takes a vested interest, and has a long term sustainable plan. We've never really spent big money well at the Albion, so the reintroduction of a scouting system that we had under Ashworth would be really useful. We'll leave the excessive spending to our claret and blue friends.

'We've never spent big money well' is an understatement. It could be argued we've never spent big at all, and always sold our best players. Anyway I'm pretty relaxed about the whole thing, whatever will be will be. UTFA.

We’ve certainly “spent big” but they’ve been disastrous signings in terms of value for money.  Grant, Chadli and Diangana.

Don't forget when we broke the British transfer record to sign David Mills.

[wba13]

How close is our takeover, there even reporting it in America.
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