the take over bid for Barnsley

I do not want this, I want honest football, I want us to keep to the Path HillFlicker have us on now,that will give us a truly proud feeling.I want teams to all live within their respective budgets. BUT unfortunately this is the beginning of the end for all of that. I can only see a future where the top tiers of football will go this way,or the club/s will face oblivion. the Premier league and Championship are ,IMHO, destined to a future of corporate ownership by who ever has the dosh. the first division may go that way too. I would not be at all surprised to see a two tier top league (Prem & Champ) and the rest being regionalised. I would rather then go support a small club in a regionalised league , where the players are honest local lads or at least home grown British lads. Sadly,to me,the knock on effect too from this inevitability will be a poorer national side too.Take a look at American Football(superbowl), Baseball, basketball and Ice Hockey.... that my friends is the destiny of Professional Football. I only hope that FIFA,UEFA, the relevant countries FA's can see this spectre looming and stop it right here and right now.But sadly I also believe , just like council planning permission, that a brown envelope will do the business.

 

I want a takeover.

 

Why?

I agree with the OP.

 

Its not about what you want

unless you can come up with 10 million quid. Patricks had enough, time for someone else to come in.

 

so if you get your wish you can say goodbye to the likes of

Butterfield,Stones,Digby,RNL etc etc etc ...because quite simply there will be no place for home grown lads, Read the post that links to the article on Watford, thats what it will be like. For me its a huge NO THANKYOU.

 

absolutely agree matey

I know what I would like ,but I am not that Naive to realise what will occur.It will be a very very sad day for Barnsley as Mr Hill has already said in his interview.Some say he was being big headed,I disagree.I believe what he was actually meaning is that the sad aspect is just what Watford have now...and thats the way most other clubs will HAVE to go if they want to remain in the top 2 tiers of football., thats what he means will be sad I believe.

 

Re: Why?

Although I like the idea of us battling on and achieving without investment, our current position is unlikely to be sustained with the way football is going.

If we continue to over-perform, 'bigger' clubs will come and poach our better players come Janaury, and maybe even our management team? Who knows.. Players will want to leave for higher salaries, and we already know we have a deficit to be plugged each year by player sales so we are hardly in a position to resist and decent offer.

Unfortunately, we are not playing by the same rules as everyone else at present, which places us at a massive disadvantage. If we wish to remain competitive, we need new owners

 

Re: so if you get your wish you can say goodbye to the likes of

Of course there will. A takeover woupd be better for youngsters. The club will beable to offer more money to kerp it the best it can be to attract 9/10 year olds from across south yorkshire. at the mo barnsley find it hard to battle with united but with a bit more cash we could get players from under there nose like the club did with Digby and Ali Taylor....

 

Re: Its not about what you want

Ultimately, we are a club for sale and we're going to change hands at some stage in the near future.

We have no idea who the parties are, how interested they are and their motivation for buying us. I guess we'd all love local owners. A fan with the conviction to protect the club and be a custodian similar to Cryne.

But how likely is that? How many multi millionaires just happen to be Barnsley fans?

 

Football is now becoming a rich mans Subbuteo, just a toy

its that simple

 

Re: Its not about what you want

There will always be people that are frightened and opposed to change........Sheldor is one of those people

If we dont adapt then we are very likely to become extinct

.............come on you YORKSHIRE TYKES !!!

 

Re: Its not about what you want

is adapting seling our soul to follow the rest?

A question... for anyone ... which clubs do we perceive to have good owners that we'd be happy to emulate? Just from the top 2 divisions.

 

not opposed to change at all, you miss my point Sir

I understand what you are saying, change is gonna come to the entire football as we know it in UK ,its inevitable.But that does not mean we have to approve and go meekly with it. I prefer to have our "Changes" be achieved in a more workmanlike way rather than a Chelski/Citeh/ManUre cheque book way.If this means being a lower league club then so be it as far as I am concerned, if you want the chequebook kinda football team,Nudger, then cross the pennines every week its not far. Or simply sit down in your armchair and switch on SKY.

 

Re: Why?

So we can get some much needed Revenue into the club. Cryne, Rowing and Taylor cannot sustain a Championship club, they've dropped on for the time being by unearthing a very good turd polisher in Keef Hill. If he gets us a top half finish he will be poached by bigger and better clubs, do you then think that Cryne & Co will be able to find another cheap manager that can sustain Championship football with the current wage bill?

Crowds are getting worse season by season, incomes dropping, its only a matter of time before we are relegated. Luckily for us we have Hill who's managing to get the best out of a very cheap bunch of players.

 

I want paragraphs.

Cheers.

 

Re: so if you get your wish you can say goodbye to the likes of

Who's saying it would be like Watford? What if the other party made a bid and not Italians? Who's to say all Italian owners would do what the owners at Watford are doing? If the other party take over it could be like Forest...

You're looking too much at Watford mate.

 

Re: Its not about what you want

Very few in the top two leagues.

Dave Whealan
Bloke at stoke
Kenwright
Norwich are well run
Mill wall to a degree
Swansea

 

Re: not opposed to change at all, you miss my point Sir

I want Barnsley to be able to compete better than what they are doing at the moment.
In my view this means giving Keeeflicker more flexibility with who they sign and for how long they sign them for.
A bit more money released into this club is going to make Barnsley a wealthy and successful club. You only have to see what happened last year with the loss of Vaz Te and Butters to realise this. The year before it was Shackell, the year before that it was Hammill.
Talent is leaving the club for next to nowt because we cannot afford to keep them on longer contracts.
Plus talent is not coming to the club because they are getting better offers elsewhere. Example - Norwood.

I dont mind players being sold...............but we need the going price for them when they are sold. We haven't been getting that price over the last few seasons

 

they dun't like change in't tarn i se

 

What take over? Link please. You know the rules.