Why is it taking so long?

That’s the worry. It wasn’t planned, despite it being inevitable

 

Why did Barnsley F.C get saddled with the most prudent billionaires on the planet?

 

You want how much salary !!!!!!

 

I'd say why did Barnsley FC get stuck with a board with the most over inflated over exaggerated wealth on the planet. Nobody as yet has come up with any evidence that they've any real wealth at all. They've spent no more and probably in truth less in Barnsley FC than a couple of moderately wealthy local business people could have. They haven't yet paid all the agreed amount for the club yet continue without any apparent questioning from the football authorities to make critical decisions about the future of OUR football club. It's a disgrace.

 

I think quite a bit of editing needs to be applied to that sentence. I believe you need to be worth a billion, before you can be classed a billionaire.

 

Pidilite Industries seem to have some dollar.

https://www.pidilite.com/

 

The board have had more than 2 weeks to resolve the manager issue but because of incompetence and feet-dragging they've done nothing. It was patently obvious at least 2 MONTHS ago that Schopp was probably not worth persevering with. At that point they should have been looking round for alternatives with a view to making a move sooner rather than later. However, they let Schopp continue for far too long. Now we have a stop gap man in and no immediate prospect of anyone else likely to come in and replace him. If they intend to get someone in they should have said so and moved on it. If they intend to keep Laumann they should say so and say why. They do nothing which simply causes more frustration with the fan base.
Joke club. Joke board. BFC is not worth following with this lot in charge. Billionaires my arse.

 

The comment about season ticket holders and being able to be sustainable in League 1 set alarm bells ringing for me. It tied in with the comments about not being bothered about relegation. The Head Coach search compounds this.

It's feeling more and more like this season has been written off. There will be a mass sale and the club will draft in players from Oostende, Thun, Esbjerg, Rostock, Nancy to try and get us back up from League 1.

 

Blimey. Take a look at this.

https://www.newcitycapital.com

These lads don't go in for detail. Or information. Or owt really.

 

I know I had a look earlier. Was going to post something similar. Chien Lee's Wiki page is more detailed. However, there is no financial information and the worst bits about his time at Nice are conveniently edited out.

 

Found this other day, showing links between Investors and clubs, Interesting that the same investor can have shares in UEFA & Real Madrid.
https://theconversation.com/footbal...d-by-us-private-equity-firms-heres-how-157445

 

If the team were winning not many people would give a monkeys.

 

It used to have an address on it. Obscurely, when a couple of us started poking around and putting information into the public domain, the address and phone number vanished off the website. Sure it was coincidence, of course.

 

Pacific Media Group doesn't have a website either. Unless I've been looking in wrong place?

 

Hmm, it definitely used to. It was very media and creative orientated. Covered film rights and equity raises largely, but was a real mismatch, included creative and web service too. Pretty sure it was hong kong/china based.

 

宏爱文化-宏爱文化 (pacificmedia.cn)

Still has OGC Nice referenced. Nice and up to date. Maybe they couldn't afford to pay a web developer to tinker with their CMS.

Lists between 11 and 50 employees. Only one on LinkedIn. Grace Hung. Who only follows 23 people.

 

Perhaps that really is all we need to know. We’re just an investment opportunity. We know nothing about them, they know nothing about us.

“NewCity Capital is a private investment company primarily focused on opportunities across the sport and hospitality industries, we invested in multiple European football clubs and have built a multi-club ownership model in the European football.”

Corporate-speak not written by someone who has English as their first language… ‘the European football.’

 

I'd like to understand in detail just what this "model" is. To the uneducated lay person it merely looks like speculative cheap acquisitions with no additional investment, little centralised operating structure and at arms length management.

 

I think you've nailed it in one there.

 

They're trying to find someone who will agree to play 343.