Dispatches  how to buy a football club

Anyone watch the programme on how to buy a football club would like to no what people think on the matter and how would you feel if it was our own club that was being brought in some back street club in Thailand views please

Sadly missed the programme but how would I feel ?
Tricky one, some may just want success and you could fully understand it but there's something re-assuring about having a local owner even with an arguably poor track record.
I know what I don't want - someone who doesn't give a toss about the club or the fans and is using it for their own commercial interests.
Whatever you think of Fenty and his decisions, he continues to subsidise the club, has kept us afloat and deserves much credit for it.
Thank you John. (and Mike too)

Available on the nations favourite independant online video service if you missed it: http://www.seesaw.com/TV/Factual/p-43108-How-to-Buy-a-Football-Club

Cheers, forgive me for asking but is it safe ?  

I saw the last half of it....didn't show things in a very good light really

I can't recall all the clubs up for grabs but two Sheffield clubs (not the one we'll be playing on Wednesday), Cardiff, Leicester, Oxford and maybe Leeds were all being touted by the Thai "businessman" who is big buddies with Fergie (or so he'd have you believe)

There seemed to be a common Man Ure thread running through the part I saw with Bryan Robson featuring as a go-between too....all seemed a bit too loose for me but then again, no smoke without fire maybe?

At least we more or less know who owns our club but for something like 15/20 Prem clubs and 15/24 (could even be more) Championship clubs, it's a lot murkier...the basic finding was that since the big money arrived so have the vultures who want to feed off it. No surprise to anyone really is it?  

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Cheers, forgive me for asking but is it safe ?  

Yeah, shameless plug, because they employ me. But it was a joint venture between ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, that was blocked by BskyB. All legal and above board, just different owners now. I do wish our owners would invest their money in town, they've just brought a club in Israel

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Yeah, shameless plug, because they employ me. But it was a joint venture between ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, that was blocked by BskyB. All legal and above board, just different owners now. I do wish our owners would invest their money in town, they've just brought a club in Israel

ITV should never be allwoed near football ever again ,no wonder they got blocked .

What is happening here happened in Italy many moons ago, where money is, so are vultures waiting to take what they can get and they don't care how they get it...one problem we seem to have though is our clubs seem even more greedier and will do anything to get large amounts of money.

There was a big manure thread running throughout but then we shoudl have all expected that, the so called biggest club and all that bollox, easy to namedrop for some dodgy arab, i know fergie etc.

Would i want an unknown in charge of my club? who knows, success would be nice just once as opposed to total dross that we have had served up under the current ownership and press conferences which make sense blah blah but then again, least we know where our money has come from etc...

Didn't the bit on how to get the fans on your side concern anyone, it just highlighted the fact they are aware that part of the process is nullifying fans concerns by announcing a token figure of investment in players. To be honest tho if they did invest what they promised and delivered a new ground, doubled attendances and promotion to the championship then sold us at a profit I think most fans wouldn't care that the owners made millions off their investment! That is business!

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Anyone watch the programme on how to buy a football club would like to no what people think on the matter and how would you feel if it was our own club that was being brought in some back street club in Thailand views please

missed this last night but will be watching it at some point this week via the internet.For anyone interested there is a book that deals with the financial irregularity's that go in football and is a decent read        


Broken Dreams Tom Bower

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/mar/02/sportandleisure.sport

Initially worried to hear City's name mentioned but it doesn't seem as though the club or our owners are embroiled in anything dodgy, in spite of the obvious Thai connections.

They've named the stadium after their company, have their names emblazoned on our shirts, took us over to Thailand to play the national side in an international break and are going to massive lengths to sell the Leicester City 'brand' in Thailand. Everything we're seeing so far indicates they're here to stay and have big ambitions for the club so from our point of view, the programme and the revelations it made are a lot less worrying than they could have been.

The consortium that bought the club is also believed to have several very wealthy backers in the Indonesian fuel industry so it's serious.

Not sure what happens if we don't make the Prem in a couple of years though.....

This sht just depresses me. I can't stop following the game because I love it so much but I really am teetering on the edge.
If town ever get caught up in this bullshit race to buy the best team I'm wahing my hands of the sport and finding another one. That is until that one's raped as well