Identity of other bidders for the club revealed?

[Splott-light...]

I have it on good authority that the main backers behind the consortium are Ben Steele, Bonny Langford and GoalPost Malone..

[Taunton Blue Genie]

I have it on good authority that the main backers behind the consortium are Ben Steele, Bonny Langford and GoalPost Malone..

Bonnie Blue more like.

[the other bob wilson]

I would say the relegation was 100% down to the players and the management thereof. Tan (and I am no fan of his at all) could hardly be held responsible for the lack of effort and pitiful performances on the pitch. We paid high wages and bought players in - they let the club down.

A phrase I heard used quite a bit when talking about our relegation was that we’d been “circling the drain for years “. By contrast, our two relegations from the Premier League before this one were both one year affairs, but sometimes a relegation can be years in the making. For example, the first two relegations I can remember (74/75 and 81/82) followed years of struggle on and off the field and 24/25 followed the same pattern.

I agree that last yearÂ’s team was poor and lacked character and leaders and that Bulut and Riza have to be judged as failures, but we were also a shambles off the pitch ( we still are). Furthermore, who hired the succession of managers weÂ’ve had in recent seasons who werenÂ’t up to the job and who was it liked to tell us about their involvement in a recruitment process that was instrumental in putting together the team you say lacked effort and provided a pitiful level of performance?

[splott parker]

I have it on good authority that the main backers behind the consortium are Ben Steele, Bonny Langford and GoalPost Malone..

That bloody Bonnie Langford has been involved before along with her mate Sharon Stone, eventually rumbled as being Sam Hammam’s shower of crooks. No thanks!!!

[Mr Ducie]

This clarifies the situation and confirms what I have previously said.

Although there may well have been interest expressed from a few parties no formal bids at all have been received by the club

.Furthermore, claims elsewhere that Vincent Tan is flying in to negotiate a deal, or that interested parties have visited the CCS or flown to Monaco to speak to the club Chair are all false and therefore misleading for any readers of such claims.

In addition, as no offers have been received, claims that due diligence procedures are in progress are a nonsense. No due diligence has been carried out either by potential bidders or by the club on such potential bidders.

On what evidence other places base their claims is far from clear.

https://x.com/tonyrivers1927/status/...219814286?s=12

They can only put out what they’ve been given permission to. Same with Paul. Mark Denham is a stickler for it


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[The Prophet of Doom]

TOBW - Good points, well made.

I will buy you a pint if you are ever in The Pendragon!

[the other bob wilson]

TOBW - Good points, well made.

I will buy you a pint if you are ever in The Pendragon!

[Pedro de la Rosa]

I would say the relegation was 100% down to the players and the management thereof. Tan (and I am no fan of his at all) could hardly be held responsible for the lack of effort and pitiful performances on the pitch. We paid high wages and bought players in - they let the club down.

I think it is a culmination of all things, and the fish rots from the head as they say. We're very Man Utd like, there is something fundamentally wrong. I don't think the recruitment team can possibly be as bad as they've shown, nor can the players but we need a completely fresh start. The players don't even stay fit, and those that get injured stay injured. I do think we've massively overpaid and Tan trusts the wrong people, but I do ultimately think Tan is to blame for our relegation.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

I think it is a culmination of all things, and the fish rots from the head as they say. We're very Man Utd like, there is something fundamentally wrong. I don't think the recruitment team can possibly be as bad as they've shown, nor can the players but we need a completely fresh start. The players don't even stay fit, and those that get injured stay injured. I do think we've massively overpaid and Tan trusts the wrong people, but I do ultimately think Tan is to blame for our relegation.

Difficult to argue against any of this.

[The Prophet of Doom]

I think it is a culmination of all things, and the fish rots from the head as they say. We're very Man Utd like, there is something fundamentally wrong. I don't think the recruitment team can possibly be as bad as they've shown, nor can the players but we need a completely fresh start. The players don't even stay fit, and those that get injured stay injured. I do think we've massively overpaid and Tan trusts the wrong people, but I do ultimately think Tan is to blame for our relegation.

As has been said elsewhere - a very good synopsis of where we are.

But do not worry according to other places the takeover by top blokes is happening very soon. So all our worries will be over....

[Sloop_Jon_Bee]

I think it is a culmination of all things, and the fish rots from the head as they say. We're very Man Utd like, there is something fundamentally wrong. I don't think the recruitment team can possibly be as bad as they've shown, nor can the players but we need a completely fresh start. The players don't even stay fit, and those that get injured stay injured. I do think we've massively overpaid and Tan trusts the wrong people, but I do ultimately think Tan is to blame for our relegation.