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Post by skemstokie on Dec 8, 2017 18:23:43 GMT
(or Russian or Yanks or ANother) And would you want them? Gouranga. NO NO NO.
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Post by Edward Tattsyrup on Dec 8, 2017 18:32:49 GMT
Wolves seem to be doing ok after being taken over by chinese Ill take that statement seriously when they have spent 10 consecutive seasons in the premier league and frozen season ticket prices for that period of time. FFS!!
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Post by Olgrligm on Dec 8, 2017 18:38:06 GMT
It's like people are desperate to have a 'tunnel club' at Stoke or something.
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Post by Sfance on Dec 8, 2017 18:47:43 GMT
As much as I like China and as much as I wish Coates would not always be so true to form, I think it’s much better we have local ownership. Counts for a lot, and especially if we get bumped into the Championship, I don’t think a foreign owner, Chinese or whatever, is likely to persevere. There wouldn’t be any sentiment. Stoke is still a pre-eminently local English side, I have no wish to barter that away for the possibility of a few more wins.
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Post by thevoid on Dec 8, 2017 19:08:22 GMT
It's like people are desperate to have a 'tunnel club' at Stoke or something. Naah just a modicum of ambition and less penny-pinching when we're in the most profitable football league in the world.
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Post by wuzza on Dec 8, 2017 19:23:25 GMT
Foreign investment isn’t an automatic route to anything - see Swansea, West Brom etc etc. Knowing our luck it would all go horribly wrong. I think all things considered we should probably be thankful for what we’ve got and plough on in the hope we get a few breaks and win a cup in the not too distant.
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Post by mouseykanga2 on Dec 8, 2017 19:29:46 GMT
We've become stagnant and quite happy to survive, let's get a team to shout about and look forward to watching. Never done Chelsea or man City any harm has it.
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Post by adamsson on Dec 8, 2017 19:40:56 GMT
We've become stagnant and quite happy to survive, let's get a team to shout about and look forward to watching. Never done Chelsea or man City any harm has it. Blackburn?
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Post by Sfance on Dec 8, 2017 19:43:27 GMT
Why do people keep banging on about winning a cup? We don't win cups, we're Stoke. And that's just fine.
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Post by hanibal7 on Dec 8, 2017 20:19:43 GMT
If we had a new manager, errr foreign, zillions of expensive players, and finished 3rd in season 1 and fourth in season, nutters like Biscuit will say we are not progressing, and sack the manager and tea lady.I honestly think nothing will make the numbnuts happy.
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Post by hanibal7 on Dec 8, 2017 20:21:48 GMT
We've become stagnant and quite happy to survive, let's get a team to shout about and look forward to watching. Never done Chelsea or man City any harm has it. Blackburn? local business man who supported Blackburn but ran out of money.
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Post by benjaminbiscuit on Dec 8, 2017 20:28:40 GMT
If we had a new manager, errr foreign, zillions of expensive players, and finished 3rd in season 1 and fourth in season, nutters like Biscuit will say we are not progressing, and sack the manager and tea lady.I honestly think nothing will make the numbnuts happy. I think you'll find I've been very supporting Be and grateful to the owners . If they wre to choose to sell , the only real benefit I can see would be the immediate removal of the executive management . The manager may then get the players he lists rather than cheap . Loan , knackered , lost alternatives , the tea lady could take that truly ridiculous 50p sticker off the coffee machine in reception
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2017 20:32:29 GMT
Don't care if they are Chinese, just as long as there wasnt Sum Ting Wong with the offer.
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Post by lordb on Dec 8, 2017 22:15:06 GMT
Don't care if they are Chinese, just as long as there wasnt Sum Ting Wong with the offer. I thought you were dead Bernard.
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Post by riproaring on Dec 8, 2017 22:17:38 GMT
A lot of foreigners want own football clubs as a status, I heard on the radio that the Venkies bought Blackburn believing it’s was like the MLS with no relegation so they thought no money was needed
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Post by robwahlmann on Dec 8, 2017 22:28:21 GMT
I really hope the Coates family never will sell to any foreigners (I'm a foreigner too!)! I really like to think of Stoke being run by local supporters, that to me is a part of making this club more special than most other clubs in the PL.
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Post by Dresden_scfc on Dec 8, 2017 22:34:29 GMT
Hopefully not, it can bring short term success but then they can get bored leave you in debt n fuck u over ! Hopefully they stay and keep it local.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2017 22:51:53 GMT
There are 20 teams in the prem and about 3 billion mega rich investors in the world........it will come or we won't be in the prem simples really. With more matches screened by more companies the rise in income will make for a big undertaking for one person, even a rich local one. I've said before some outside investment would be fine by me, perhaps we could keep that investment British as there are plenty of rich people in Britain. Investors would mean someone would have to answer for the continued cock ups on transfers, we might even get a competent transfer team. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42278119
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Post by alster on Dec 9, 2017 10:48:12 GMT
local business man who supported Blackburn but ran out of money. Come on then fill us in with your vast knowledge of when Jack Walker ran out of money.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Dec 9, 2017 10:58:59 GMT
Just need the Coates family to show a little bit more ambition,what we spend on transfers for players may seem a lot, but compared to how much the club gets each season from the Premiership, it is peanuts.
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Post by AlbertTatlock on Jan 3, 2018 12:25:58 GMT
One thing is for sure there wouldn't have been all the dithering, burying their heads in the sand and singing lalalala loudly hoping tings would get better if it were foreign money men in charge. Gouranga.
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Post by skemstokie on Jan 3, 2018 13:15:07 GMT
(or Russian or Yanks or ANother) And would you want them? Gouranga. No
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Post by knowingeye on Jan 3, 2018 13:37:15 GMT
I like the current ownership profile, ie local owners of an English club, as it goes against the fashionable foreign-owned clubs, especially after the Icelandic Pantomime.
However if Newcastle United is worth £300 million to buy, what would Stoke City be worth versus how much is need to be invested to get things back on track?
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Post by shangamuzo on Jan 3, 2018 13:50:08 GMT
The Chinese can stay in China. They ruin pretty much everything they touch. Currency manipulation by the CCP.
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Post by Staffsoatcake on Jan 3, 2018 14:16:11 GMT
At the moment I would take Bob Cratchet over Scrooge.
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Post by Northy on Jan 3, 2018 14:43:10 GMT
local business man who supported Blackburn but ran out of money. Come on then fill us in with your vast knowledge of when Jack Walker ran out of money. When he died He didn't run out of money, I think the money he left to Blackburn did. His wife founded Flybe airines with the money she inherited from jack, didn't turn out too badly for her and the family
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Post by skip on Jan 3, 2018 14:59:19 GMT
As I posted a couple of months a go they’ve already had some tentative enquiries from the Chinese and met with their representatives but “the family” decided against selling. Apparently - someone in the media did some digging into who actually owns AC Milan recently. The trail ended in a filing cabinet in a windowless office in Beijing. We really don't want to be going down the route of faceless, soulless remote owners. Or singularly egotistical oligarchs. Let's face it, Stoke is being run like a fiefdom at the moment so I don't know what we've got to lose. To paraphrase a Stoke supporting pal, Bet365 happen to be local, happen to be part of a family that supports Stoke but let's be clear, Bet365 do not want to bankroll Stoke City football club. So what is the point of rich 'local' owners anymore?
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Post by skip on Jan 3, 2018 15:01:58 GMT
Come on then fill us in with your vast knowledge of when Jack Walker ran out of money. When he died He didn't run out of money, I think the money he left to Blackburn did. His wife founded Flybe airines with the money she inherited from jack, didn't turn out too badly for her and the family According to a Blackburn supporting mate of mine, his family don't have a pot to piss in. Business rich cash poor apparently.
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Post by southernish on Jan 3, 2018 19:23:21 GMT
Seen people on here complain about a disconnect between the fans and the board. Surely having some rich investors here to make money buy us would just widen that gap?
We might be able to spend some money, but West Brom and Villa have failed massively with far eastern owners.
Coates might be bad, but I still prefer him over any foreign investors.
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Post by redstriper on Jan 3, 2018 20:37:13 GMT
i'd prefer us to be relegated than sell out to faceless foreign owners.
We have a lifelong supporter at the helm, who has done a lot for the city, and for the club. If in the medium term we are the last man standing in this regard, I'd be proud.
I don't want success at any price. Principles should count for something.
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