Quote from: Ads on September 08, 2021, 11:00:26 PMQuote from: Rory on September 08, 2021, 10:55:10 PMMy main concern is that we're accepting of the word 'disinterested' when we mean 'uninterested'.But in all seriousness, if NSWE were to look at selling now, would they recoup their investment? If they'd purchased us as a Championship club for half a Grealish, invested nothing, and were now looking to sell us as an established PL club, okay. But it seems a pretty stupid move to me. With the way the game is going, if we become regularly top 6-8 (and I don't think it'll take much to get there) we'll be a club worth £800m-£1bn within five years.Do serious investors get involved in football for short term profit anymore?I think we need to break this Brummie mentality that pain is always imminent. We're ultimately a small business in both of their portfolios. We seem expensive from our side of the fence, but it isn't like Lerner where he's spending his sisters money too or Xia where he's a front. These are insanely wealthy chaps and we are their prestige toy. The club in Vegas, the way they celebrate when they're at VP. They're balls deep in this thing of ours.I'm not a Brummie, but I always assume that pain is always imminent. Because it always fucking is. I need to stop going to that dentist.
Quote from: Rory on September 08, 2021, 10:55:10 PMMy main concern is that we're accepting of the word 'disinterested' when we mean 'uninterested'.But in all seriousness, if NSWE were to look at selling now, would they recoup their investment? If they'd purchased us as a Championship club for half a Grealish, invested nothing, and were now looking to sell us as an established PL club, okay. But it seems a pretty stupid move to me. With the way the game is going, if we become regularly top 6-8 (and I don't think it'll take much to get there) we'll be a club worth £800m-£1bn within five years.Do serious investors get involved in football for short term profit anymore?I think we need to break this Brummie mentality that pain is always imminent. We're ultimately a small business in both of their portfolios. We seem expensive from our side of the fence, but it isn't like Lerner where he's spending his sisters money too or Xia where he's a front. These are insanely wealthy chaps and we are their prestige toy. The club in Vegas, the way they celebrate when they're at VP. They're balls deep in this thing of ours.
My main concern is that we're accepting of the word 'disinterested' when we mean 'uninterested'.But in all seriousness, if NSWE were to look at selling now, would they recoup their investment? If they'd purchased us as a Championship club for half a Grealish, invested nothing, and were now looking to sell us as an established PL club, okay. But it seems a pretty stupid move to me. With the way the game is going, if we become regularly top 6-8 (and I don't think it'll take much to get there) we'll be a club worth £800m-£1bn within five years.Do serious investors get involved in football for short term profit anymore?
My family history is all Irish. My brother did one of those DNA tests to see what his ancient history was. He's (relatively) dark-skinned with brown eyes (the rest of us are pale with blue eyes) so he thought he might have some Spanish or even Middle-Eastern heritage. Irish. All Irish.
Quote from: Lastfootstamper on September 09, 2021, 11:03:28 AMQuote from: Rory on September 08, 2021, 10:55:10 PMMy main concern is that we're accepting of the word 'disinterested' when we mean 'uninterested'. I'm not. Its users are marked in my revolution notebook alongside the of-havers. Room for the there/they're/their crew?
Quote from: Rory on September 08, 2021, 10:55:10 PMMy main concern is that we're accepting of the word 'disinterested' when we mean 'uninterested'. I'm not. Its users are marked in my revolution notebook alongside the of-havers.
My main concern is that we're accepting of the word 'disinterested' when we mean 'uninterested'.
Quote from: Sexual Ealing on September 09, 2021, 11:49:21 AMMy family history is all Irish. My brother did one of those DNA tests to see what his ancient history was. He's (relatively) dark-skinned with brown eyes (the rest of us are pale with blue eyes) so he thought he might have some Spanish or even Middle-Eastern heritage. Irish. All Irish.There is a school of thought that some settlers in early history may have made their way to Ireland by boat via Southern Spain avoiding the land route .
Quote from: Sexual Ealing on September 09, 2021, 11:49:21 AMMy family history is all Irish. My brother did one of those DNA tests to see what his ancient history was. He's (relatively) dark-skinned with brown eyes (the rest of us are pale with blue eyes) so he thought he might have some Spanish or even Middle-Eastern heritage. Irish. All Irish.Ah OK. You are just a miserable git then. My dad's great grandparents moved to Nottingham from Ireland. Absolutely failed to find out anything about them. I don't know whether it's because their names get spelt wildly differently on the few records I can find, they have reasonably common names and they have no dates of birth or because the lives of poor Irish people didn't get recorded in any meaningful way back then. It could also be because I'm rubbish at looking. Shame, as it would be interesting to find out about their life in Ireland.