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And how much did he put in before hand?

 

While today’s performance was incredibly disappointing, I think you have a very short memory. ‘The enjoyment disappeared a long time ago’ at Oakwell? Give me a break. Our unbeaten home run ended 36 days ago. Get some perspective.

 

He had owned the club for 10 years subsidised the accademy year on year, bought winnall,conor and mawson with his own money.
He like john Dennis and a couple of others over the years put their own money in and didnt do it as a investment they did it for the love of the club he paid 350k for Conor he could of got injured and his career ended that would have been 350k down the shitter.

 

He didn’t have to make £13m of profit in one year though did he?

 

Do you think he forced winnall and conor to leave? Do you think they wanted to stay? If they had stayed he would have lost 4millon on those 2 players, players who he signed with his own money.
Those players had 6months left this lot are selling players with 2 years left for average fees.

 

He couldn’t have spent a bit of that £13m of profit on some quality replacements?

 

If patrick have had half the money behind him this consortium do I'd imagine his era at the club would have been very different.

 

I know you're being sarcy, but I'm sick of hearing that phrase. It's an insult to my intelligence. It's also an insult to the club's history. We signed Ronnie Glavin in June 1979. It doesn't get any better than that.

 

I’d hazard the £38 million he took when he sold Isoft meant he had more in his personal bank account than any of our board (with maybe the exception of Chien)

 

The consortium is worth in total close to 9 billion isnt it? Its quoted to be the 2nd wealthiest in the championship someone else.

38 million isnt alot in football terms

 

That’s the value of their businesses not the individuals.
It’s all on paper, it’s like having a mortgage on a £250k house and counting that in your wealth.
I agree 38 is not a lot but I bet it’s more than Conway etc have in their personal bank account.

 

"Worth 9 billion" doesn't equate to having 9 billion in the bank.

 

Me too mate and you're spot on about other signings in our past. I didn't like the phrase when it was first uttered and I dislike it more with each passing week.

 

I'm not wanting them to spend their own hard earned cash by the way. I just don't want them to sell out best players and top scorers for average fees and replace them with players who aren't good enough or fit enough, I would have also liked the summer windows priority to have been safety not future profit. Not much to ask is it?

 

They haven’t even returned us to the position we were in when they took over, heading for two relegations in 3 years, shocking

 

Peter Doyle's legacy was the high interest Sterling Consortium loan which cost PC millions to clear. We didn't know about that until PD was long gone.

 

The same people are responsible for recruitment today as they were before the takeover. The strategy is the same.

This lot will want at least their money back as did, ultimately, Mr Cryne. I see very little difference today to two years ago. In fact, it's absolutely no different so I don't get how suddenly folk are surprised & why it's a shock. It's been in front of people for years, they've just chosen to ignore it.

 

Strategy's not quite the same. It's now more strict than before on the playing side.

Upper age limit and no loanees is making the job harder.

 

The only times I think we've 'broken' the strategy since it came to being was to bring in Long & Hammill 3 years ago because we were right in the **** & Matty James for the same reason. Remember the rules on the loans have changed so it's unfair to compare like for like IMHO.

It is exactly the same.