Doug King Takeover (40 Viewers)
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Samo
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Like I said... cheeky.
olderskyblue
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Ah, the good old days…
Skyblueweeman
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I don't mate, that's why I said 'no one knows and i'd ask the question'. ;-)
The Philosopher
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Hard times for ex-Wasps players if their hooker has to do these things.
Skyblueweeman
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They've not asked me to go to EFL HQ yet to be fair...
Standard practice,?
Telfer85
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I think we all just need to sit back and take stock a bit. A lot has happened over 48 hours but that doesn’t mean whatever happens next has to happen over the next 24 hours, weeks or months.
Ashley now owns the cbs fact. That doesn’t mean he automatically wants the club same as it doesn’t rule out that he might want it further down the line. I don’t believe he’s going to make life hell for the club by putting up rent or any other shenanigans. As it stands at the moment if the club is successful he will be successful and it will drive more business into the area. So it would work for him to have a good relationship with ccfc and work together positively for mutual benefit.
King - yes timing is suspicious I agree however just because he hasn’t said he’s gonna spend x, y and z in jan or spoke to robins etc doesn’t mean he’s some crazy loon or Sisu stooge that it’s all some kind of front. One I imagine he’s waiting for efl approval before making any promises he can’t keep and two clearly due to there being a very important court case of course his main focus over the last 48 would have been the stadium. He has clearly said he would continue with the purchase without the stadium so you’ve got to just take him at his word until anything changes. If he pulls out then people will know it was never serious. If he continues with the purchase then clearly he will have a plan on how he is going to be successful.
Hopefully we’ll see more investment in the playing side than we’ve seen over the last few years an attempt at promotion. But we don’t have to spend millions and millions. We can all see the team is playing well and with just a little bit of more depth and quality we have a great shout of playoffs or better.
I think we’ve had so much shit over the years and understandably we are suspicious over people’s motives and ambitions when it comes to this club. However we can’t control anything so we’ve just gotta sit back and see how it all plays out.
Ashley now owns the cbs fact. That doesn’t mean he automatically wants the club same as it doesn’t rule out that he might want it further down the line. I don’t believe he’s going to make life hell for the club by putting up rent or any other shenanigans. As it stands at the moment if the club is successful he will be successful and it will drive more business into the area. So it would work for him to have a good relationship with ccfc and work together positively for mutual benefit.
King - yes timing is suspicious I agree however just because he hasn’t said he’s gonna spend x, y and z in jan or spoke to robins etc doesn’t mean he’s some crazy loon or Sisu stooge that it’s all some kind of front. One I imagine he’s waiting for efl approval before making any promises he can’t keep and two clearly due to there being a very important court case of course his main focus over the last 48 would have been the stadium. He has clearly said he would continue with the purchase without the stadium so you’ve got to just take him at his word until anything changes. If he pulls out then people will know it was never serious. If he continues with the purchase then clearly he will have a plan on how he is going to be successful.
Hopefully we’ll see more investment in the playing side than we’ve seen over the last few years an attempt at promotion. But we don’t have to spend millions and millions. We can all see the team is playing well and with just a little bit of more depth and quality we have a great shout of playoffs or better.
I think we’ve had so much shit over the years and understandably we are suspicious over people’s motives and ambitions when it comes to this club. However we can’t control anything so we’ve just gotta sit back and see how it all plays out.
SkyblueDad
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Not the only time though is it.
SW-Sky Blues
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I was really excited but then I heard him say this. Why mention that it's clean? That's raised my eyebrows.
“The deal is done,” he said. “As long as I am approved, the deal is done. It’s clean"
Dhinsa's_Millions
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I think he looks like Ted Danson
Skyblue_CP
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The thing is, with the club having potentially been bought by a new owner etc, there hasn’t been much communication with supporters through official channels about ambitions etc. It’s all been very, Sky sports snippets and CWR. It still doesn’t feel like a serious take over. How do you take over a football club and haven’t even spoken to the football clubs manager?
the rumpo kid
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Has anyone interviewed Mike Ashley and asked him directly , why he bought the stadium ? And if he wants to buy the club ? I've heard nothing.
Samo
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I think that's to do with timing though. If not for the court case yesterday, they probably would have delayed announcing him as the new owner until after EFL approval, at which time he will be free to say a lot more. No point until then Really.
CovLis86
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Never known a place where every word and phrasing be so scrutinised. If you were asked a question on the spot after a stressful / eventful 48 hours and shoved infront of a camera, are you going to be able to communicate every word exactly as you intend? I've done presentations in a professional capacity for years, and guess what, I stumbled over my words on one I did this week. Thankfully, I wasn't called a fraud and didn't know what I was talking about and clearly up to no good because of it.
Why doesn't everyone just have a breather, take a step back, look forward to the weekend (albeit without a Coventry game to enjoy) and wait and see what happens.
Why doesn't everyone just have a breather, take a step back, look forward to the weekend (albeit without a Coventry game to enjoy) and wait and see what happens.
oscillatewildly
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Or Craig Bellend. Then again, hooray for David Cross and er, Greg Downs.
Happy_Martian
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Keep it going, folks.
Almost at 2500 posts. We're on course to have 2 10K post threads within a week
. Both filled with hypotheses, conspiracies and a lot of guesswork.
@Nick , will this be the first time of this phenomenon on this forum ? And shouldn't these be in the Ricoh/SiSu sub-forum as they're not about the footballing side of the club ?
Almost at 2500 posts. We're on course to have 2 10K post threads within a week
. Both filled with hypotheses, conspiracies and a lot of guesswork.@Nick , will this be the first time of this phenomenon on this forum ? And shouldn't these be in the Ricoh/SiSu sub-forum as they're not about the footballing side of the club ?
COVKIDSNEVERQUIT
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Nick
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Im not sure many do though, do they?
All of the stuff before the court stuff was clearly to try and get the Ashley deal to fall through.
IF he is staying about as he says then he really needs to get FL approval and then get to Ryton and then to those fan meetings.
Samo
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Keep it going, folks.
Almost at 2500 posts. We're on course to have 2 10K post threads within a week
@Nick , will this be the first time of this phenomenon on this forum ? And shouldn't these be in the Ricoh/SiSu sub-forum as they're not about the footballing side of the club ?
Here come the grown-ups!
shmmeee
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Pure conjecture here, but he mentioned the whole process taking a couple of weeks, which takes you back to Nov 1st when Ashley got exclusivity.
It could be that was the trigger for Joy to sell, or at least look for a different investor as the likelihood of getting the arena shrank dramatically.
If that’s the case, he would have had no way to bid before exclusivity and the deadline moves to the court date to get the deal done.
As I say, not based on much but seems a plausible timeline.
shmmeee
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Trish Adudu??
Nick
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She's laughing with all the OAPS on air but really she's like Harold Shipman on steroids.
SkyblueDad
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There’s one good thing looks to me like sisu & Joy could be on their way out, if Doug King is for real they are down to 15% 
at least that’s a start. Hopefully there is light at the end of a very long tunnel, a few months ago you couldn’t even see the tunnel.
at least that’s a start. Hopefully there is light at the end of a very long tunnel, a few months ago you couldn’t even see the tunnel.
Greggs
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You can here the panic in his tone, his voice nearly breaks a few times during the 'script'. I don't trust this man.
skybluetony176
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Local business man from… err… err… Lowestoft? I’ve lived in Coventry and Warwickshire my whole life can’t say I’ve heard of a local place called Lowestoft.
Sick Boy
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Most of the write ups have said "locally based" from what i've seen.
tisza
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One business in Atherstone but he's based down south.
MalcSB
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I wonder how much media work he has done before - it’s not easy. I didn’t see any problems with what he said, or the way he delivered it. Give the guy a break and the benefit of the doubt. We all wanted Sisu to sell, which on the face of it they have done, and still we aren’t satisfied. Who were we hoping for, Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk?
MalcSB
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Where is Ashley based?
Greggs
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Sisu have sold to Sisu, at least Joy knew to keep her nose out of the playing side, i get the impression this guy is gong to be far too involved.
tisza
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No idea