American billionaire John McEvoy considers bid for club (8 Viewers)

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AOM

AOM

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shmmeee said:
Clearly never going to happen, but it’s been a miserable season so far. So Football Manager time: what would you do if you were a billionaire coming in?

Go all out in Jan? Replace Robins?

Personally I’d give Robins enough to bring in 3-5 in Jan on real quality and see what he does with it. If we don’t look like picking up sack him off and get Klopp or whoever billionaire owners get. If he does well give him a warchest for a summer rebuild when we haven’t wasted the first quarter of the season.
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I'd be really interested to see what Robins would do with a lot of money to spend on the squad
 
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SkyBlueSam01

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In this scenario I'd personally much rather MR was given a season or so to adapt to having a bigger budget vs get involved with the usual nonsense of having a new generic Spanish/German manager every 6 months
 
jordan210

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AOM said:
Not sure if just me, but I just instantly don't trust anyone who is looking at buying the club.
Feel like most are just trying to improve their public profile and any serious buyers would screw us over further down the line
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Yeah this screams of self importance. Look at me I have found our white knight.

Id much rather the deal be sorted in private than once again people trying to make themselves important. We have been burnt to many times
 
SkyblueDad

SkyblueDad

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Bloody hell for years I’ve been waiting and hoping for sisu to be f@@ked off to no avail now just like the number 20 bus three possibilities turn up together.
 
shmmeee

shmmeee

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SBT said:
Can’t imagine any billionaire with real PL ambitions giving MR much rope. Coming in cold and with unlimited resources you want to quickly appoint someone with a proven record of Championship success, and a track record of managing a hefty budget. Robins has neither. He’s a good fit for a club in our present situation, but I don’t see mega-rich clubs straining to get him on board.
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Thing is managers are hard to get right, and there’s an argument that giving Robins the funds to grow what we’ve got is probably an order of magnitude cheaper than a full rebuild with an unknown quantity.

Should be billionaires come, I’d like to see him given one window to see how he handles it.
 
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SkyB

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Why would someone buying our club come in and remove Robins?

Can't imagine that's a way to win over the fans.
 
AOM

AOM

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jordan210 said:
Yeah this screams of self importance. Look at me I have found our white knight.

Id much rather the deal be sorted in private than once again people trying to make themselves important. We have been burnt to many times
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Yep exactly. Just look at the one that was apparently going to save Derby County and got all their fans hopes up.
Could see from a mile off it wasn't going to happen
 
Old Warwickshire lad

Old Warwickshire lad

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SBT said:
Can’t imagine any billionaire with real PL ambitions giving MR much rope. Coming in cold and with unlimited resources you want to quickly appoint someone with a proven record of Championship success, and a track record of managing a hefty budget. Robins has neither. He’s a good fit for a club in our present situation, but I don’t see mega-rich clubs straining to get him on board.
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Surely you would have to give Robins a season/ season and half, to see how we went.
The guy deserves at least that.
 
jordan210

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pusbccfc

pusbccfc

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Clearly is real interest or Dawkins wouldn't put his name and his company to it.
 
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SBT

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shmmeee said:
Thing is managers are hard to get right, and there’s an argument that giving Robins the funds to grow what we’ve got is probably an order of magnitude cheaper than a full rebuild with an unknown quantity.

Should be billionaires come, I’d like to see him given one window to see how he handles it.
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I mean, I would too. But billionaires don’t tend to make their fortunes by trusting the old guard with time, just so they can do things the way they’ve always been done. You look at people like Boehly at Chelsea….they know they have a small window to make the changes they’ve envisaged - especially in professional sports where the rules can change on you overnight - and the successes of the old mgmt team mean very little to them.

I’ll always love the guy but ultimately, if Mark Robins was the kind of manager that a billionaire would want managing their team, he wouldn’t be managing Coventry City today.
 
Saddlebrains

Saddlebrains

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Calling bollocks on it


This shit spirals off one rumour

I said on Twitter wasps sold 712 season tickets and it spiraled to even end up in newspapers as fact

If you're a billionaire, you have way more of a digital footprint than this bloke
 
jordan210

jordan210

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Saddlebrains said:
Calling bollocks on it


This shit spirals off one rumour

I said on Twitter wasps sold 712 season tickets and it spiraled to even end up in newspapers as fact

If you're a billionaire, you have way more of a digital footprint than this bloke
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Yup it was clearly way less then 712 you lier !
 
ricohroar

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Any takeover would be headed up by John Dawkins, a Sky Blues fan who is the UK managing director of record label Various Artists Management. On their website he is listed as Jonny .

His US hockey team is the Nashville Predators
 
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