What is a 'Brexit style poll' and how is it different from an ordinary poll? Many of us, it is obvious from this thread, would be uneasy about a Chinese takeover, but it's a bit insulting to imply that makes us all xenophobes.
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How would you feel if Tony Bloom sold the club to the Chinese?
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Postman Pat
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TB is a fan like the rest of us at the end of the day, I am 100% confident he would not consider selling any % of the club to anyone that didn't have its best interests at heart.
I would be very surprised if he hasn't already had a number of calls offering to buy some or all of the club, given our situation and location we must be a very attractive proposition for a foreign investor.
I would be very surprised if he hasn't already had a number of calls offering to buy some or all of the club, given our situation and location we must be a very attractive proposition for a foreign investor.
Do you have an alarm that goes off every time someone types "Brexit"?
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I'd be very, very unhappy if the club was sold to overseas "investors". We could not possibly be in better hands right now. We have the rare luxury of knowing that the owner of BHAFC is 100% trustworthy, and will always act with the clubs best interests at heart. Its not an ego trip for Bloom. Its not a plaything. Its not something he uses to seek a high profile in the media, or with his business associates. First and foremost, he's a lifetime fan, who just so happens to have pockets deeper Neville Southall's bath.
Not ALL foreign owners are "bad" of course. And there are plenty of UK-based owners who have made a right old Horlicks of their clubs, whether it was deliberate or not (us in the past, Blackpool, Bolton). But I look at the owners of Blackburn, Birmingham, Wolves, Cardiff, Leeds, Forest, Pompey (wonderfully), Orient, Villa, Notts County, and the sheer levels of cluelessness in the boardrooms at those clubs just makes me shudder. Those owners are so detached from the most important aspect of whats needed to make a club successful - stability - that they just lurch from one disaster to another as those clubs invariably stagnate, and then inevitably tumble.
We could not possibly have a better owner than TB. I know he'd always do his utmost to leave us in safe hands, but I honestly hope that I never see the day he sells up.
Not ALL foreign owners are "bad" of course. And there are plenty of UK-based owners who have made a right old Horlicks of their clubs, whether it was deliberate or not (us in the past, Blackpool, Bolton). But I look at the owners of Blackburn, Birmingham, Wolves, Cardiff, Leeds, Forest, Pompey (wonderfully), Orient, Villa, Notts County, and the sheer levels of cluelessness in the boardrooms at those clubs just makes me shudder. Those owners are so detached from the most important aspect of whats needed to make a club successful - stability - that they just lurch from one disaster to another as those clubs invariably stagnate, and then inevitably tumble.
We could not possibly have a better owner than TB. I know he'd always do his utmost to leave us in safe hands, but I honestly hope that I never see the day he sells up.
- Aug 8, 2005
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I agree with most of the sentiment shown on here. Also worth adding he is only 46 so has a good 25-30 years left of good health and therefore the time where he may need to sell is some way away, unless he runs out of money which seems unlikely to me.
However if someone comes in and offers him his money back plus 50%, and says they will invest a further vast sum into making BHAFC a champions league contender what would you say/do? It may not happen, but it certainly could in today's very odd football world.
However if someone comes in and offers him his money back plus 50%, and says they will invest a further vast sum into making BHAFC a champions league contender what would you say/do? It may not happen, but it certainly could in today's very odd football world.
No, just surprised when some twonk tries to introduce Brexit into a totally inappropriate thread.
nwgull
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I'd absolutely hate it. All the far eastern owners in both the PL and Championship seem to be completely clueless about football culture. There's no loyalty to them and they're likely to get bored of their plaything a couple of years.
Meade's Ball
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It's all about change, so if I was to accept someone else taking over from Sir Tone, then I'd want his opposite, perhaps from a North Korean bank. Someone fiendish should rule the roost in the wake of our saint.
Kalimantan Gull
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I'd feel very let down.
When we wrestled control of the club from Archer the clause was put in to prevent single ownership of the club again. Knight reluctantly agreed to waive this to get the investment in the stadium, but he sold up to the right man and to someone he trusted.
To see it all sold - well I think its incredibly far-fetched - but to go along with the hypothesis of this thread, yeah I'd feel very let down
When we wrestled control of the club from Archer the clause was put in to prevent single ownership of the club again. Knight reluctantly agreed to waive this to get the investment in the stadium, but he sold up to the right man and to someone he trusted.
To see it all sold - well I think its incredibly far-fetched - but to go along with the hypothesis of this thread, yeah I'd feel very let down
Wouldn't happen in Germany
Red Bull s***.
Agreed, but in investment terms many people are put off of investing in a company with minority shareholders who don't take dilution. Although he/she may buy the club for say £500m to TB, but then go on to invest in squad, facilities etc and lump another £mx2 ... x3 etc and that benefits everyone.
Just my observation, on the pancake rolls you're so wrong, think you meant to say pots of chicken and mushroom with egg fried rice, non of your pastry crap!
Whilst I agree and can't see this happening, foreign investors have a huge amount of liquid to invest. Imagine a small club like us, we're not talking SWFC or LUFC now, was to make it to the Premier League and retain our position. TB then knows the golden rule of business is you can't stand still, it never works, so what next?
Foreign owner says, "Tell you what TB old chap, I'll lump in £xM and take say 25%" TB still has control.
This takes us to a Top 10 club with ambitions to break the Top 6, because you can't stand still, and more cash is needed ..... just an observation.
maybe Vincent tan likes the look of us
.... and he'd allow us to retain our blue stripes, but would want the white stripes replaced with red?
Nixonator
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Seeing your chairman and owner on the train/platform/getting in taxi at station or even in amongst the crowd at away games adds something extra to whole experience. He's a true fan and makes the whole #together theme fitting for this club at so many levels.
It will be a very sad day when that is gone, unless his son takes over and is equally passionate. The good news is that I think he's far from done yet.
Regarding foreign investment, I imagine it will be an inevitability unless we can track down another football loving, albion supporting, brighton based billionaire businessman who has strong family ties to the club. Unless he keeps it in the family as Norwich seem to be doing which their fans are not happy about.
It will be a very sad day when that is gone, unless his son takes over and is equally passionate. The good news is that I think he's far from done yet.
Regarding foreign investment, I imagine it will be an inevitability unless we can track down another football loving, albion supporting, brighton based billionaire businessman who has strong family ties to the club. Unless he keeps it in the family as Norwich seem to be doing which their fans are not happy about.
beorhthelm
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Austrians dont count as they're Germans really, right?
spring hall convert
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If the North Koreans bought us we'd beat Barcelona 9-0 in the Champions League Final.
Every year.
spring hall convert
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It was a joke that you took waaaaaaay too seriously. Wasn't it?
Dick Swiveller
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Despite the claims on other forums, Bloom is one of the few chairman doing things the right way. He doesn't overspend on overpriced players and has hugely invested in the infrastructure to try and make the club self sufficient and sustainable. We sign either younger players with high potential resale value or older, experienced players on frees or loans where the only outlay is wages. He won't cash in where he could make a quick buck when it is not in the club's interest. He shows loyalty to staff beyond most other chairman.
He has spent an awful lot of money so other clubs are right to be envious but very little of it has been wasted or gambling. There have been a few failed calculated gambles on players like Elvis but no Adebayors. And certainly no Derby/Massive scatter gun 'buy as many strikers as you can' strategy.
If there is a better chairman in the league then I am unaware of him. Just because someone throws money at overpriced players, that doesn't make them a good chairman in my eyes. I would be very upset if we ever sold to faceless foreign investors who want us as a play thing.
He has spent an awful lot of money so other clubs are right to be envious but very little of it has been wasted or gambling. There have been a few failed calculated gambles on players like Elvis but no Adebayors. And certainly no Derby/Massive scatter gun 'buy as many strikers as you can' strategy.
If there is a better chairman in the league then I am unaware of him. Just because someone throws money at overpriced players, that doesn't make them a good chairman in my eyes. I would be very upset if we ever sold to faceless foreign investors who want us as a play thing.