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Raptor wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2026 8:04 am
I think we just need to be prepared for what comes next. Similar to Moshiri these wont care who the next custodian is, they have little interest in being it themselves, they will sell to whoever offers the most money, whether that's the likes Andy Bell & George Downing, 777 or Textor. Its a bit of a lottery from here on in, we just need to hope the league are thorough and rigorous about their owner processes.
I just think the pool of potential owners is very small and to expect one of that pool to be someone/a group that (even if the rules allowed) we’re willing to sink a shit tonne of money into the club to make it genuinely competitive, are next to zero.
People will say we don’t need spectacular investment, just expertise so we can become the next Brentford or Brighton, but those clubs are where they are now off the back of over a decades worth of planning and good decision making. No investor will have the patience for that.
I can’t see past us just getting another cold investor who’s looking to make money off the back of a stable PL club.
Raptor wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2026 8:11 am
The names were largely irrelevant, it was more the characters and background, however, I dont think any potential buyer will be using their own money, they'll all be leveraging debt.
Im personally expecting some serious Amanda Staveley links in the coming days
Her name also crossed my mind, if not P.E group then she is more than capable of pulling a Middle East consortium together.
The other two serious bidders that spoke to Moshiri were BDT + MSD Partners (backing Downing and Bell), and MSP Sports Capital. Downing and Bell ruled themselves out recently, wonder where MSP are at.
Shogun wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2026 10:11 am
Given they don't acknowledge anything ever then the fact they've put that statement out on the OS would suggest things are happening quickly
As in you think they have another fit and proper person lined up or they just want out quickly?
Shogun wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2026 10:11 am
Given they don't acknowledge anything ever then the fact they've put that statement out on the OS would suggest things are happening quickly
All things considered, this is probably the best thing that could've happened, if they have no interest in pushing the club forward in any meaningful way.
Much worse would be them owning the club, and just raking in TV money for years and years and the club standing still/going backwards completely rudderless. A number of others clubs are dying for their owners to sell up, and unable to do anything to bring it about.
Might as well sell up, make their profit and for us, we'll have to take our chances in the new owners lottery and hope the next lot are more ambitious.
Escalator wrote: Fri Oct 09, 2026 10:53 am
Except they were prepared to spend £40 million on deadline day ?
Because the club’s money (not theirs) was sat there from the Illy sale. When people say they weren’t interested this summer it was that they wouldn’t front money for acquisitions.
If you can’t join the dots then I don’t know what to say.
Probably the worst time to find a buyer in the last 20 years, it will no doubt be a leveraged buyout, interest rates at the highest rate since the 2008 crash, bond markets highest rates, the magic money cherry blossom tree of the Japanese Yen has been switched off.
It will be interesting to see who will pony up at the moment, if anyone any time soon.
