I am sorry but is no one else a little worried that ONE person now owns over 75% ..

[ridda]

I fully expect other big players to be attracted to the club now, and for them to be putting more money into the pot therefore diluting tony blooms majority holding[ in time], so I’m not to worried.

 

[shoreham moonraker]

Congratulations on getting the funding for Falmer, as others have mentioned maybe the cautious approach is the sensible one.

Personally I think the days of throwing money at a football club are over, I would hope Mr. Bloom has a business plan and lives within the clubs means, there are far too many red letter days in football followed very very dark days. With the way football has gone it would be plainly stupid to just pour money into a very deep hole. Anxious times depending on one mans whim.

 

[Icy Gull]

Yes, of course I'm worried but it seems we had Hobson's Choice in the matter

 

[Forster's Armband]

Dick would not have let this happen if he did not think that Tony Bloom would do right by the club he has battled to save and re-home for the last 10 years.

 

[matt]

Martin Perry: "“It gives us our stadium. We would not have the stadium without him (Bloom)."

10+ years in the planning and no Plan B - let's hope Mr Bloom stays healthy, interested and rather wealthy.

 

[Scoffers]

It is a concern, because we are now beholding to the whim of one person. In that scenario, you'd want someone who has a family history in supporting the club over many years, you'd want someone that the present board trust implicitly, you'd want someone who is able to make the club financially profitable.

In Tony Bloom, we have all of the above, and some. In that respect, we are FAR better off than Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool and Man Utd.

Yes, it's a risk, a gamble even, but what are the alternatives?

No stadium
No money to invest
No money to support staying at Withdean

All in all, I think you can say that we are much better off than almost any other club.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Perhaps a risk but not many alternatives.

At least he is a Brighton FAN.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Exactly.

 

[NMH]

I'm a bit less concerned about a person who is spending many millions building Brighton and Hove Albion up into a valid and burgeoning business, than someone who is inheriting it for £50-odd quid and has the financial incentives to sell us and make millions.

 

[portslade seagull]

we should be worried


....but in the circumstances this has an inevitability and the longevity of the family's ties to the club do at least give me some small reassurance that all will be well as long as the Blooms don't overreach themselves and do remain solvent

So you would rather stay at a tinpot stadium with no hope of building a new one even with the planning permition..because no banks would fund it and Dick had no money..be grateful to Mr Bloom because he has saved us

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

As posted on another thread - on the official site Dick is quoted as saying "Tony's investment will mean no need for external funding, which is absolutely superb news for the club and its fans."

This is actually excellent news.

If we had borrowed from the banks and if things had gone tits up the banks would have foreclosed.

But now, Tony Bloom will be the guy we owe money to. A fan first, a creditor second.

OK so no doubt the rules will be changed to allow someone to own more than 49% of the club but (a) any investor putting that amount of dosh in would want control and (b) to repeat, Tony Bloom is a fan.

Tony Bloom = Dick Knight with more money?

Time will tell, let's hope so

 

[glasfryn]

this does make me a little uneasy ....tempered with the fact that we are solvent and moving onwards and upwards

 

[Was not Was]

When DK took over properly, a lot was made of the fact that the club had been restructured in a way that meant that one person would not have a majority shareholding.

This reassured me A LOT at the time.

If anything, it was the main aspect of the club's ownership, as far as I was concerned and, I thought, as far as other fans were concerned.

So I am a bit concerned.

 

[Rookie]

Don't see why it matters that Bloom now has a controlling interest. He is not Archer, Bellotti etc he is a Brighton fan who is/has pumped a hell of a lot of money in and will get nothing back unless we are successful. Just because we got bitten once does not mean its going to happen again. So many teams would kill for a man like Tony Bloom and yet here we are in the middle of moaning session. Chill out and enjoy the ride that the next few years will bring

 

[brightonmad999]

i just hope it doesnt go wrong

 

[Was not Was]

Don't see why it matters that Bloom now has a controlling interest. He is not Archer, Bellotti etc he is a Brighton fan who is/has pumped a hell of a lot of money in and will get nothing back unless we are successful. Just because we got bitten once does not mean its going to happen again. So many teams would kill for a man like Tony Bloom and yet here we are in the middle of moaning session. Chill out and enjoy the ride that the next few years will bring

Expressing a bit of concern over changing an aspect of the club that was designed to reassure supporters is NOT a moaning session.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

.of The Albion.

It also appears that this one obviously Albion mad and generous person is almost entirely responsible for funding one of the most expensive stadiums ever to be built in England.Perhaps he should be wrapped in cotton wool!

Southampton ??!!

Of course if we all lived in a more tolerant and less snobbish local society all this could have been sorted out in a boom era paid for and paid off.

I hope this thread isn't bounced in a few years for all the wrong reasons and although as a life long Albion fan I am delighted to have a stadium to take my kids to watch the Albion play in , I have some real reservations about the news finally released this evening, but initially welcome the news that the immediate future of the club appears to be secured.

I hope this thread is bounced in years to come FOR THE RIGHT reasons.

I'm very worried about all this, don't trust Mr B, I'm afraid. Can easily see this going very wrong, and I'm the eternal optimist.

So please, Bloom, prove me wrong!

.

 

[Man of Harveys]

I hope this thread is bounced in years to come FOR THE RIGHT reasons.

I'm very worried about all this, don't trust Mr B, I'm afraid. Can easily see this going very wrong, and I'm the eternal optimist.

So please, Bloom, prove me wrong!

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As one of the very good guys, have a read of the Argus interview with our Great Benefactor (as the new breed of lickers keep implying) - it certainly served to temper my initially-massive cynicism and concern about this news, rightly or wrongly.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

As one of the very good guys, have a read of the Argus interview with our Great Benefactor (as the new breed of lickers keep implying) - it certainly served to temper my initially-massive cynicism and concern about this news, rightly or wrongly.

Will do. Cheers sir

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[eastlondonseagull]

As one of the very good guys, have a read of the Argus interview with our Great Benefactor (as the new breed of lickers keep implying) - it certainly served to temper my initially-massive cynicism and concern about this news, rightly or wrongly.

He's certainly saying the right things, isn't he? Let's just hope he's a man of his word.

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