Potential New Owners

[From Despair To Where?]

Ross McCormack?

[Snowflake Royal]

Ross McCormack?

That's the fella I think. Was thinking Mc something.

Flopped iirc.

[From Despair To Where?]

Wasn't that his move from Fulham to Villa where he proceeded to fall out with Steve Bruce for repeatedly missing training for halfwit reasons?

[Hendo]

Wasn't that his move from Fulham to Villa where he proceeded to fall out with Steve Bruce for being a lazy bastard?

Leeds to Fulham was £11m

Fulham to Villa was £12m - signed by Roberto di Matteo

[WestYorksRoyal]

I read somewhere that in Spain and Portugal it's obligatory to have a minimum fee clause in the contract. Most clubs set it ridiculously high just as a formality. When Alfa Semedo moved from Benfica to Vitoria Guimaraes, he had a €30m release clause.

Good thing we were under EFL restrictions by then otherwise Dai would probably have triggered it.

[From Despair To Where?]

Wasn't that his move from Fulham to Villa where he proceeded to fall out with Steve Bruce for being a lazy bastard?

Leeds to Fulham was £11m

Fulham to Villa was £12m - signed by Roberto di Matteo

Sign by di Matteo who promptly got sacked 3 months later and replaced by Bruce.

His record at Fulham was ok. He scored 3 in 20 games at Villa over 3 seasons.

[Snowflake Royal]

Wasn't that his move from Fulham to Villa where he proceeded to fall out with Steve Bruce for being a lazy bastard?

Leeds to Fulham was £11m

Fulham to Villa was £12m - signed by Roberto di Matteo

Ahhh, I got the move the wrong way round. Whoops.

You just assume Leeds are the shit ones, don't you...

[YorkshireRoyal99]

Well we did basically get to a PO Final and FA Cup Semi under them ... and it seems like letting McDermott go was more personal circumstances they couldn't talk about, which was my only real bone of contention with them.

Yeah sorry I wasn't very clear there - I meant as if they'd have stayed on instead of selling to Dai. All immaterial as it happened and they didn't have the finances to keep up with us unfortunately.

Still had some strange moments under them with the season where we made several loan signings and we all know about "that" song...

I liked it.

Football songs have always been tripe. It was fun and poppy.

I kept my head down out of embarrassment when people used to talk to me about it.

[Snowflake Royal]

Yeah sorry I wasn't very clear there - I meant as if they'd have stayed on instead of selling to Dai. All immaterial as it happened and they didn't have the finances to keep up with us unfortunately.

Still had some strange moments under them with the season where we made several loan signings and we all know about "that" song...

I liked it.

Football songs have always been tripe. It was fun and poppy.

I kept my head down out of embarrassment when people used to talk to me about it.

I don't think I could function if I was that sensitive to embarrassment.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Wasn't that his move from Fulham to Villa where he proceeded to fall out with Steve Bruce for repeatedly missing training for halfwit reasons?

Couldn't leave his house because his electric gate was broken.

[Orion1871]

Going back a few years, I remember someone at Bradford saying they got a call from Aston Villa offering £100,000 for Ian Ormondroyd. Although he wasn't a 1st team regular, they weren't particularly looking to sell him so as a joke, they replied if you come back with a £500,000 bid, we'll think about it, knowing no-one in their right mind would buy Ormondroyd for £500k.

20 minutes later they get a call back from Villa offering £500,000 for Ian Ormondroyd.

This is what I thought when Neymar moved to PSG originally. Barca having a £200m release clause on him thinking that nobody would pay that sort of fee for any player, but it turns out PSG did.

Also how Barca lost Figo to Real. Figo didn't think Perez would win the Presidential election so he agreed that if Real met the release clause he would join. Perez won and made sure to include a clause that if Figo backed out he would have to pay a huge amount of money to Perez.

[royalstevep68]

What’s all this got to do with new owners. Still to the thread theme people it’s not hard.

[Snowflake Royal]

What’s all this got to do with new owners. Still to the thread theme people it’s not hard.

Nothing. Because there's a whole lot of nothing happening.

[Whore Jackie]

Wasn't that his move from Fulham to Villa where he proceeded to fall out with Steve Bruce for repeatedly missing training for halfwit reasons?

Couldn't leave his house because his electric gate was broken.

Up there with Villa's Alan Wright having to have a knee operation, caused by the heavy clutch in his new Ferrari.

[From Despair To Where?]

To be fair to Alan Wright, he probably couldn't reach the pedals.

[Ten Bobsworth]

To be fair to Alan Wright, he probably couldn't reach the pedals.

'Silence est d'or' was a favoured phrase of one of my primary school teachers. Its definitely better than the claptrap Bolton fans were served at the height of their concerns and that they are still served whenever the slightest opportunity arises.

At the moment most Bolton fans think the club is owned by Auntie Sharon who is perfect in every way and the complete opposite of the dastardly Ken. Actually the ownership is presently a bit of a patchwork quilt with Sharon, at the last count, controlling just over 50% in association with former Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and a retired insurance guy. As the last two have no known interest in footie it has to be presumed that their 'investment' was a bit of a punt with money they could afford to lose.

If someone wanted to own a significant or majority share in a League 1 football club why would they not be interested in Bolton, one might ask?

Silence est d'or.

[From Despair To Where?]

And what on earth has all that gibberish got to do with Alan Wright being 5ft 4?

I think you need to put on your thinking head, you pea brained pillock

And your fcuking off feet.

[Ten Bobsworth]

And what on earth has all that gibberish got to do with Alan Wright being 5ft 4?

I think you need to put on your thinking head, you pea brained pillock

And your fcuking off feet.

He used to be such a nice boy, you know.
I wonder where it all went wrong for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG1I1KAzmRg

[From Despair To Where?]

Still using your "talking out of" arse, I see.

[Ten Bobsworth]

Still using your "talking out of" arse, I see.

Nil desperandum, Old Bean, I’m sure you will be able to get the help you seem to need.