Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
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Re: Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
Takeover is dead according to the papers in the last couple of days.
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Re: Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
Well, at least that means transfer funds will be made available!biggeordiedave wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 8:29 amTakeover is dead according to the papers in the last couple of days.
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Re: Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
If customers keep turning up, why sell?
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If no customers, why buy? Killing revenue and morale isn't going to attract a buyer, just as losing value on the investment isn't going to hasten him selling. Small annual revenues are worth less to Ashley than selling the club for a profit and having a few hundred million free again to invest differently. Getting that price where he can stubbornly accept he won the investment is the issue.
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If he is asking for £300/£350m I still think it’s a fair asking price, regardless of what changes need to be made to the squad and facilities.
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Oh I don't disagree. Fans scoff at the price, but then expect a new owner to throw hundreds of millions of pounds down the hole that is football club ownership, and it just strikes me as such a contradiction.Bodacious Benny wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 3:28 pmIf he is asking for £300/£350m I still think it’s a fair asking price, regardless of what changes need to be made to the squad and facilities.
Re: Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
Fans turning up or not makes no difference whatsoever. Match day revenue is peanuts compared to what clubs get from TV deals / prize money.
Also Ashley isn't making any money from the club. We just about broke even in the last few accounting periods and we needed a further loan from Ashley to do that.
Ultimately that is down to how horrendously he's running the club. Our commercial income was much higher pre Ashley.
Since he's bought the club all he's done is lost money. Selling makes sense but rather than cutting his losses he's holding our for a ridiculous over inflated price to try and make something from us but nobody is going to pay it so we're stuck with him and he's stuck with us until he finally wakes up or someone who likes being ripped off purchases us.
Re: Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
£300m is probably just about reasonable but he supposedly wants closer to £400m. He rejected a bid of £300m last year.Bodacious Benny wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 3:28 pmIf he is asking for £300/£350m I still think it’s a fair asking price, regardless of what changes need to be made to the squad and facilities.
Re: Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
It depends who is buying the club. If it's some rich bloke like the Man City owner buying it as his plaything then aye fair enough.Remember Colo wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 3:36 pmOh I don't disagree. Fans scoff at the price, but then expect a new owner to throw hundreds of millions of pounds down the hole that is football club ownership, and it just strikes me as such a contradiction.Bodacious Benny wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 3:28 pmIf he is asking for £300/£350m I still think it’s a fair asking price, regardless of what changes need to be made to the squad and facilities.
If it's an investment group or a half decent business person then they aren't going to want to be ripped off and expecting them to come in and 'throw hundreds of millions' around is ridiculous.
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Just because NUFC isn't making money, doesn't mean he isn't profiting off of owning us.TJR wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 3:24 pmFans turning up or not makes no difference whatsoever. Match day revenue is peanuts compared to what clubs get from TV deals / prize money.
Also Ashley isn't making any money from the club. We just about broke even in the last few accounting periods and we needed a further loan from Ashley to do that.
Ultimately that is down to how horrendously he's running the club. Our commercial income was much higher pre Ashley.
Since he's bought the club all he's done is lost money. Selling makes sense but rather than cutting his losses he's holding our for a ridiculous over inflated price to try and make something from us but nobody is going to pay it so we're stuck with him and he's stuck with us until he finally wakes up or someone who likes being ripped off purchases us.
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I completely agree, and I think people with those expectations are ridiculously optimistic. I guess my broader point is that I find club ownership pretty baffling right now, because so few owners seem to care that they've allowed transfer and agent fees, and contracts to spiral out of control, creating an outrageously inflated market, and yet there doesn't seem to be the same willingness to spend money on the actual asset which are clubs.TJR wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 3:45 pmIt depends who is buying the club. If it's some rich bloke like the Man City owner buying it as his plaything then aye fair enough.Remember Colo wrote: ↑Mon Dec 31, 2018 3:36 pm
Oh I don't disagree. Fans scoff at the price, but then expect a new owner to throw hundreds of millions of pounds down the hole that is football club ownership, and it just strikes me as such a contradiction.
If it's an investment group or a half decent business person then they aren't going to want to be ripped off and expecting them to come in and 'throw hundreds of millions' around is ridiculous.
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But it's a pretty safe bet that the opportunity cost of having hundreds of millions of pounds tied up in the club exceeds whatever value he's deriving, especially as a guy who wants privacy to do business continuing to get dragged into a national spotlight.PTAO? wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 4:24 pmJust because NUFC isn't making money, doesn't mean he isn't profiting off of owning us.TJR wrote: ↑Tue Jan 01, 2019 3:24 pm
Fans turning up or not makes no difference whatsoever. Match day revenue is peanuts compared to what clubs get from TV deals / prize money.
Also Ashley isn't making any money from the club. We just about broke even in the last few accounting periods and we needed a further loan from Ashley to do that.
Ultimately that is down to how horrendously he's running the club. Our commercial income was much higher pre Ashley.
Since he's bought the club all he's done is lost money. Selling makes sense but rather than cutting his losses he's holding our for a ridiculous over inflated price to try and make something from us but nobody is going to pay it so we're stuck with him and he's stuck with us until he finally wakes up or someone who likes being ripped off purchases us.
Re: Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
I don't agree at all. I'm fairly sure if Ashley would be better off without NUFC he would have sold.Remember Colo wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 3:24 pmBut it's a pretty safe bet that the opportunity cost of having hundreds of millions of pounds tied up in the club exceeds whatever value he's deriving, especially as a guy who wants privacy to do business continuing to get dragged into a national spotlight.
You don't become a billionaire by clinging on to failing projects, unless you're doing it for fun.
People talk about the price tag being reasonable etc, but I'll eat OT's regurgitated cock if the sticking point in any sale isn't because of something like all the contracts/deals with Sports Direct having huge financial penalties if cancelled.
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I'm not suggesting it's failing, I'm suggesting he's at a weird point where if he can get his asking price he'd sell, but if he doesn't receive it, the club is doing well enough that he'll hold on until he does. I guess I'd also say that there are better ways to make money than football club ownership - or I should say, there are better returns available on multi-hundred million pound investments. But obviously that's made more complicated when you consider pride, advertising opportunities, etc.PTAO? wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 3:42 pmI don't agree at all. I'm fairly sure if Ashley would be better off without NUFC he would have sold.Remember Colo wrote: ↑Wed Jan 02, 2019 3:24 pm
But it's a pretty safe bet that the opportunity cost of having hundreds of millions of pounds tied up in the club exceeds whatever value he's deriving, especially as a guy who wants privacy to do business continuing to get dragged into a national spotlight.
You don't become a billionaire by clinging on to failing projects, unless you're doing it for fun.
People talk about the price tag being reasonable etc, but I'll eat OT's regurgitated cock if the sticking point in any sale isn't because of something like all the contracts/deals with Sports Direct having huge financial penalties if cancelled.
I do completely agree with you that there are contracts and other complications that are making the sale more difficult, and it's not just sticker price.
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Re: Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
Talk that Ashley wants a bonus as part of the Sale if we qualify for the Champions League in the next 10 years he'll get a % of the earnings from it.
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Re: Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
I think that people are just speculating about anything and everything, probably very little of it actually being based on sound knowledge or true.
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Re: Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
speculating about something thats not going to happenBodacious Benny wrote: ↑Fri Jan 04, 2019 3:24 pmI think that people are just speculating about anything and everything, probably very little of it actually being based on sound knowledge or true.
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Re: Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
Talk that Ashley wants new owner to sit at his feet dressed up in a gold lame bikini with two croissants strapped to the side of his head.
Re: Sky: Peter Kenyon in talks about taking over NUFC
Reasonably significant development this evening:
The fact that Kenyon is now on the record, and that Garry Cook and Kenyon are in the same group (not separate as previously reported) suggests that there's a much more real chance this could happen. Still a long way to go... but positive.
The fact that Kenyon is now on the record, and that Garry Cook and Kenyon are in the same group (not separate as previously reported) suggests that there's a much more real chance this could happen. Still a long way to go... but positive.
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