28 Jul 2015 00:45:52
I believe the takeover is progressing nicely. We have signed three of the most expensive players we have ever signed in quick succession over the last few weeks. My thoughts are that we are trying to do most of our business prior to announcing any new owner as it's well known a takeover could encourage selling clubs to increase their asking price. So I'm not panicking yet. Thoughts ?

1.) 28 Jul 2015
28 Jul 2015 01:55:56
Given NOTHING has been announced, and the cash is being splashed, you might be onto something!

2.) 28 Jul 2015
28 Jul 2015 06:59:02
If you have a car you want to sell and is in need of extensive repair do you spend a few quid on doing it up to keep it road worthy, to get a good sale price for it? We are still for sale and need this injection of players to keep us on the premiership road as with TV money we would surely devaluate if any buyer thought we would crash out of the PL. RL is a business man so won't get too excited about any take over until the maths of spend are so high they go well over £40m CB and FD and the £20 plus we would have spent probably to try and stay up!

3.) 28 Jul 2015
28 Jul 2015 07:11:40
I think the new owner is being clever & has a agreement with Lerner, I may be well off but this is what I thinks actually happening.
I think by Lerner spending a lot of money say £50m before the takeover then selling the club for say £200m and not £150m will be a way around the Financial FairPlay rules.
Man City got around it by renaming their stadium the emirates for £500m.
Like I said could be wrong but seems very odd how Lerner has gone from a penny pincher to splashing the cash during a take over.
In theory that £50m then becomes money made by club turn over eg self sustained meaning the new owner could spend even more.

4.) 28 Jul 2015
28 Jul 2015 07:28:08
Think we have cut a shed load of wage bill and players in so far wouldn't be on that much

5.) 28 Jul 2015
28 Jul 2015 07:47:04
I'm hearing we have been sold to a consortium led by Henry leconte, we are apparently changing name to Aston le villa and will in a shock move that will shake europes foundations take our place in ligue une next season turnin our backs on the EPL

6.) 28 Jul 2015
28 Jul 2015 09:59:31
We still haven't actually spent anything jus reinvested the money from Benteke and co's sales

{Ed002's Note - That is "spending".}

7.) 28 Jul 2015
28 Jul 2015 10:50:02
While I do agree the takeover is still progressing am I the only one that thinks the money we are spending is coming from the sale of players?

So far this window we have made around £35-£40m in transfer fees and shipped out massive wages with these going.
Delph, Benteke, Bent, Luna, Given, Lowton, Weimann, Vlarr, Cleverly, Sylla.
That's probably £350k a week in wages saved!

So with roughly £28m spend on players and all on lower wages than the players going out, Lerner is by no way making a loss.

As much as I am excited about our new signings, personally I think if they were being funded by a new buyer with mega money we would be going for already established premier league players who would push us towards top half football, not keeping us in the league. The likes of Townsend, Bolaise, Austin.

Looking at the sales compared to buys I think we need at least 4/5 more players to come in.

Hopefully there is more money to spend and the buying continues!

8.) 28 Jul 2015
28 Jul 2015 12:38:12
Haha Ed what i meant was Lerner hasn't actually invested any additional funds yet but at least he's allowed all the money earned to be reinvested in the squad

9.) 28 Jul 2015
28 Jul 2015 16:27:36
Lerner wanted the club to be self sufficent which it is , no new owner imo