[Official Site] Ethan Pinnock Joins Brentford

Exactly this. "we only want players who really want to play for the club". OK, we'll put Bobby Hassell in goal, Bruce Dyer can take the outfield positions and that's about it.

The players coming in are coming to us because we're paying more money than the club from which we signed them. If Stoke or Brentford had offered them more they would have gone there. The idea that they want to play for us more than Pinnock, Lindsay or Davies did is romantic twaddle.

 

According to Yorkshire post forest green have a sell on. Doesn't say how much

 

Only fair to them that they do really

 

Fair enough, will make a big difference to them, depends on how much, doesn't help it look like any better business for us if they have.

 

if you think the owners give a flying **** about what happens to the clubs future you are deluded which unfortunately seems to effect a large proportion of Barnsley fans
They are here for one reason and one reason only to make money.
if they can sell player A invest a part of it back , leave the rest in the club for the clubs future = when they sell it
do that over and over again sure they will be happy,
As soon as they have made the money they bought the club for which according to Red Rain was 2.5 million they are free rolling from then on.
Anything else and when they sell is all gold
the investment bible says that your investment can be no longer than a maximum of 5 years
you will take or build that company using Tax incentives, your business skills etc so its at peak for selling or it is time to get out,
so we will see i guess

they have proved time and time again that they are incapable of telling the truth about anything and have been run out of town at OGC Nice by the fans.

The last straw that sent them in to hiding was the loan that pontyender linked in his post which surprise surprise the thread went dead after that
Usual BFC fans behaviour prefer to stick there heads in the sand and think everything will turn out great.

At a board meeting at OCG Nice the smiling Conman Chien as there fans call him said they "Needed " there money back they had bought the club for.
The part owner and chairman said there was no money in the club to pay them back.

they voted and the co owner(20%) was outvoted and Mr Lee went on a tour of America to get a loan and was turned down by every American Bank.
ended up getting a loan with a offshore company in Luxembourg who are under investigation called Paphos at a staggering Wonga style exchange rate.
Loan for 20+ million to be paid back over 3 years
30 million to be paid back
the loan terms were described as bizarre the loan couldn't be paid back early and the loan was backed by the clubs TV money etc.
if they fell to 14th place in the league the loan had to be payed inside 7 days as they would be in danger of being relegated and losing the TV money

At one stage they were in 12th if a couple of results had gone the other way they would have gone bankrupt and i presume into administration.
over the course of the transfer window they sold almost to the penny 30 million worth of players
what a strange coincidence.

so to sum up they got a loan to buy the club , got another loan which by the width of a hair nearly sent the club bust ,a loan which robbed the club of most of its talent and will effect the club for years to come.

sold players to cover the loan they had taken out to pay themselves back ,then after saying going to be here for 10 year and more etc , Mr Conway going on TV media promising to buy new players.going to build hotels centre of the world etc
Sound familar ?
Bought not one player sold more players then said adios . a couple of months later

A few things to come out of that
Why would people with 14 billion " Need " there money back at all costs.

why would every American bank turn these people down for loans who i am told have a portfolio of companies and are wealthy beyond comprehension
why would they take on such a toxic loan with mind boggling terms and loan rate which could and nearly did sent the club bust and will effect it for years to come

i thought only desperate people took on desperate loans
why would people who claim to be so careful and run things properly and correctly look after every penny and take there time buying the correct club/s throw away a obscene amount of money 10 million in loan payback charges.

logic says there combined wealth is probably closer to 14 million than 14 billion
wouldn't surprise me for a second that the money which was used to buy the club/s is not actually theirs and there are front persons quasi actors for someone or some country if so (probably China hiding behind nondescript offshore papers.

 

Wow.

 

Never read so much crap in one post if I'm completely honest.

 

Interesting post.

 

I have no idea about the state of ogc nice. If all that post is made up then it is a remarkable piece of imagination. If some is correct then it's very disturbing. All I can say is I am genuinely puzzled as to why such apparently very wealthy people buy a club and then just let it tick over

 

I am sure the poster missed the part about how the turnover at Nice increased year on year, also the superb new training facilities put together by their regime... Got them into the champions league...

 

Whilst I have no idea if what you're saying is true, it ought to start a search for whether it is true or not.

 

Absolutely no way that sort of info would be public knowledge, details of how board members vote etc.. utter tripe.

 

Summat went wrong in Nice though.

It's hardly a model we can cheerfully hope our owners follow.