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If you had £100K mortgage on your house and due to a number of circumstances it is now worth £10k, however rich you are you are not minded to sell it. However if your house , again due to a number of circumstances, has the potential over time to be worth considerably more than £100k you might look at selling. IMO the club has to be worth something close to what it owes Tan for him to contemplate selling. We are lucky in the sense that most of our debt is owed to Tan not to banks or other lenders but because of this it seems likely that unless there is a quick change in the club fortunes Tan is likely to be in situ for a good time. I, like you, have little idea as to what the future holds but it seems that we, like a host of other clubs, have to come to terms with economic reality and start by stop paying grossly obscene wages to ordinary players. The average Championship player salary for 20/21 season is reported at over £29K per week, much more than your average Joe earns in a year. This lunatic scenario is not sustainable and will have to addressed by Tan, and many other clubs, in the near future.
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The team playing in blue would go back to just having a bluebird as a badge i.e the badge worn when I first went down in season 68/69
The team playing in red would have a giant millipede as it's badge.
Meanwhile the team playing in blue and red would feature a bluebird with a giant centipede in it's mouth
We all know the solution is to appoint a football person to run things. Preferably someone with an affiliation with the club that can connect with the fans. But that's isn't going to happen. Tan wants his mate to run things as he trusts him with his money and said mate doesn't know anything about football so it's wipe and repeat from here on in.
Forget a DOF. The first and most pressing matter is getting Mick and TC out of the club.
You are ignoring the running costs. On purely economic grounds most people would sell something for £10K right now if it costs them £1K a month in running costs for the year ahead and when they are unlikely to be achieve a selling price that rises more than £1K per month. The cost to Tan is escalating month by month.
You ignore the fact that Tan is rich enough to afford the running costs and to a billionaire are probably just a nuisance. He is probably in a position where he could pick and choose when and if to sell but only an idiot, and you cannot call Tan an idiot, would be likely to contemplate selling up now. Having watched the U23’s this season and just now, he might get lucky and be able to cash in some budding Grealish or two coming through.
Exactly that.
It isn't a case of being right and wrong.
Everybody isn't right 100% of the time either.
If you can't discuss/debate it here then where can you?
I do think some mix up support at the stadium with discussing topics on message boards though but it happens.
In this case, I was referring to the person TBG was talking to, I thought TBG was right but the person then replied with a different view to what they originally started with, seemed like moving the goal posts as not to lose, hence my reply to TBG who although usually rather intelligent, seems to have gotten a little sensitive to my reply, judging from the response I got. Oooooh bitchy.
I think it isn't unusual for clubs to lose money in their first year in the premier League, as there is often a lot of squad strenghening to do. I think we last made a profit in 2019, bit most of our recent seasons have been a loss.
Sadly most championship sides are making losses most of the time
Not that it matters to most, but generally I am always friends on here. A lot gets lost in translation when you type, me and my mate had a chat about it Sunday after we had disagreement/misunderstanding on the Saturday and talked it through over txt. He said to me Sunday that I was pissed off Saturday and replying in an angry manner etc, which was all laughed off when we saw each other on the Sunday and things were explained better dace to face..
Not sure why I've typed that out but it seemed relevant before I started to ramble.
I think I'm right in saying that CCFC has made a profit just once or maybe twice during Tan's reign, and each time the profit was relatively small, especially by comparison to the losses.
The club has decided to cut its losses on players often enough in recent years. I don't think it would be at all idiotic if Tan was to decide to cut his losses on the club. On the contrary, unless he's going to dramatically change the way he runs the club, it would seem the sensible thing to do.