I wonder why Hull, Middlesbrough and others turned PMG down .

Portsmouth are spending over 11 million developing their ground and have a million pounds in the bank......

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/...l-impact-of-coronavirus-becomes-clear-3633215

They will be one of our promotion rivals next season but are in a much better way than us.

 

Cheers

 

This. Thisthisthithisthisthis!
Well run club? My ****ing arse.
The only reason for anyone thinking it's ok for a wealthy individual to pump millions into his preferred club is if they're secretly hoping that somewhere down the line it'll happen at Barnsley. Well, there's zero chance of that. So let's start calling it what it is: Cheating. Perhaps not according to the rules, but morally, in a pure sporting sense, it's cheating. Gibson is playing real-life fantasy football while simultaneously helping to destroy any semblance of financial fair play.

 

What is there to stop you running a pub at a loss?

 

Football isn't a level playing field. Money buys better players. Going by that ideology there'd be one division with 92 teams in it and a season would be 4 years long.

 

At least we wouldn't finish bottom then

 

Don't talk daft.

I can accept that clubs with bigger attendances will skew the playing field, but allowing people to act like Gibson does is a step too far.

 

Well currently its like playing uphill all the time with no turn round at half time if you are not willing to join the "cheat brigade". Money to fund the club should be earned and not gifted and the clubs who attract more punters and other revenue streams would obviously have more buying power. The powers that be also need to think long and hard about the disparity that exacerbates this situation in the form of the relegation "bonus" from the premiership. This then may have the knock on affect of reducing the ridiculously high wages paid to players.

 

i heard he did the due diligence on them and whilst wasn’t interested in selling was interested in exploring commercial opportunities with them.

 

I was told from locals that Peter Kenyon invited Chien and Conway as guests to a game and arranged a meal at Rockcliffe with Gibson.
At this meeting he was offered £50m for 50% which he declined.
I was also told Gibson up to that point wasn’t aware they were interested in investing but after the meeting had them checked out and tried to explore commercial deals with them as his diligence showed they had money.

 

Then that is a totally different kettle of fish , I would trust Gibsons judgement , shrewd man

 

As a hierarchical structure we'd probably slot in about where we are now. If you look at our history we've always been somewhere between Championship and League 1. I don't think other teams cheating is why we're where we are.

It's how wasteful we've been as a club with the resources we've had available and not seized good opportunities. That's not just under this regime. I can go back as far as John Dennis and his board of directors. I'm not going to go through every instance down the years. It's too tedious.

I get what you, Tosh and Loko are getting at and for the most part I agree. However, that's the way it is and we have to adapt or die in current footballing society. When I say adapt I don't mean "cheat".

Ultimately though not taking risks puts you in exactly the same position as taking risks does. League 1. I'd rather try than fail miserably.

 

This is professional football - not a gathering of Socialist Social Workers. It's always been like this. It's governed, like so many things in life, by the market. Having a pop at Steve Gibson is bizarre. Bit like scolding Johnny and Jimmy for a playground fight whilst the Russia-Ukraine conflict is going on. It's not he Gibson's of this world that are the problem in England. it's the fact that US investment corporations , Oligarchs and now even other Countries can buy into Clubs with no effective regulation of the purchase or their future management/spending.

If we're going to sit on the side-lines saying "it's not fair" the we're going to be sat here for a very long time. If you don't like it - give up the interest in football and get along to that Social Workers meeting.

 

Thank you for wording it better than I did .

 

Nothing that was my point

 

Socialist Workers or did you really mean socialist social workers !!

 

As I said.

A meeting of Social Workers - who happened to see things from a Socialist perspective.

 

sounds like a bloke id want in charge of us!