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Duncan Disorderley
Player Valuation: £750k
Remember the players we had then compared to what we have now!!!!!
It takes time to build a confident winning team, so please give Bill and Bobby a chance
Next year will be OUR year!!!!!
It takes time to build a confident winning team, so please give Bill and Bobby a chance
Next year will be OUR year!!!!!
Garrick
Awesome, lid.
Yeah, the fact that the Padres never won a World Series under his ownership shouldn't be too big of a deal for us. Baseball's a hard sport if you're a small or mid market team. Competitive for a year or two, maybe 3 if you're lucky, then you get to blow everything up for 4 or 5 years while you rebuild for you next shot. Rinse and repeat, ad nauseam. Even then, there's no guarantee of success.
The only teams that can stay at the top are the big market teams who have the cash to throw around in free agency to plug the holes, and the only exception to this rule are the St. Louis Cardinals. The Padres had two division titles a decade ago, so they've been in the mix.
tl;dr don't look too much into the Padres' performance when trying to evaluate these owners.
Duncan Disorderley
Player Valuation: £750k
Look at Villa and ask the question of :,would I like that to happen to my football club?
4737carlin
Player Valuation: £90m
Me too, just not feeling it, for some it seems to be just a case of wanting to see Kenwright gone no matter who comes in, just like we all just wanted to see Johnson gone.
Maybes its because its American buyers, which hasn't done Liverpool or Villa any good.
If you aren't sharpening your spear now you'll miss all the good action
Garrick
Awesome, lid.
So we've done poorly with the two clubs Evertonians wish were both relegated.
No mate, we've just been clearing the path for Everton's return to greatness.
madkiwi
Koffee please
If you can purchase the majority of shares, and therefore push through a compulsory buyout of the rest, why wouldn't you do it?
You get full realisation of any share value you add. You avoid having a minority of shareholders that can cause problems (see our last AGM).
Only reason I could see for not going all out is a lack of funding. Which is a worry with the amount of future investment we're hoping for.
You get full realisation of any share value you add. You avoid having a minority of shareholders that can cause problems (see our last AGM).
Only reason I could see for not going all out is a lack of funding. Which is a worry with the amount of future investment we're hoping for.
Mo' Better Blues
Player Valuation: £950k
Same here, completely irrational as I'm not basing it on anything other than 'a feeling', I'm utterly ignorant of the whole financial side of things, but from the perspective of the parasitic speculator (just a generic one, not specifically these American guys), laying down £200 million (of a banks money from what I'm gathering, i.e. the parasite lays down £0) then 4 or 5 months later Sky gives you £100 million TV dough, bank the lot and start piping off about prioritising a new stadium, sell Stones, Lukaku and Barkley for approx £100 million and throw Roberto £40 million for new players whilst still banging the new stadium drum, bank another £60 million from that and your on easy street, even if your relegated next year from what I'm hearing 20th place will bank £100 million from the TV trough, so within a year you can have paid off the initial £200, have some profit and now can sell the club on for pure profit... probably a completely oversimplified thought, but not outside the realm of possibility
Anyone
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TheFinnFan
Finners
Surely (if this speculation proves to be right) Moores has other plans than just sit in Kenwrights place. Kenwright wouldnt sell if Moores would continue the stagnation.
Spot on.
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