Millsytidus_mi2 Yeah, not sure what the Dai Outs are hoping to achieve, it would be great to have a SJM with deeper pockets but those are few and far between. Ultimately when I looked last night we have a debt of about £100m most of which is to the owner, if he wants to get out of the club there are two options:
Sell the club, good luck finding someone who wants to pay at least £100m for a League One side, he could write off some or all of the debt to just get rid
Go into administration and lose everything that is invested into the club.
So I don't think that happens, if he has truly learned from the mistakes of the past, listens to people like Bowen, then we might ultimately rebuild and bounce back stronger as a club but considering how long he gave Ince before dropping the axe, I'm still very skeptical.
That’s the problem, I agree. This isn’t a case of a couple of mistakes against a background of sane behaviour. Not just Ince but years of bullshit bizarre manager appointments, dodgy agents, zero interaction with fans. He’d have to basically transform into a completely different person.
It’s comforting to think that he may listen to Bowen but even if he does, with all respect to Bowen it’s far too much pressure to put on the shoulders of one man, who we are also just assuming is some sort of über genius.
Honestly the best case scenario is for him to piss off as soon as possible. Very long shot but the absolute best case scenario would be for him to cut his losses, and let someone come in who has an ounce of business sense.
While I would agree that a change in ownership would be good, just who on earth would be remotely interested in buying Reading in it’s current situation, bearing in mind the sort of people that have the billions and billions required to throw at a football club for pretty much zero return for long periods are presumably very shrewd with their money and investments. It’d be like that Monty Python sketch where the charity worker goes into Mr Banker and asks for a donation to be met with the argument “and what am I getting in return”.
At the moment we have to stick with what we know (and to be fair to him he has put the money into supporting and building the Academy) and hope that going forward the advice and recommendations he acts on will solely be that of people who understand the game in this country e.g. Mark Bowen.
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