Paninistickers

And that's the core question.....

Question for buyers of this level is not what we cost, but what we could be worth. You basically buying a turnkey business with stadium, training and feeder club all sorted and it needs a decent 250m of working capital pumped in over the next 3/4 years to get the club back in the EPL. Which, when added to a buy price, would a healthy LCFC 15th in the EPL be worth, say, 450m+

I hope you're right. Hampshire embarrassed the last final. Couldn't have had 200 there. Fortunately we made the final our own.

It'll be a pleasant surprise. I hope they do. I can't see the good folks of Ruislip and Uxbridge and Ealing taking their picnic baskets and man from del monte hats up to Nottingham

This is guesswork, but I suspect accurate. The player sales pay the day to day. We sell Fatawu. Run the invoice straight down to Macquarie. Cash it in. Keep the lights on.. KP are the masters of kicking the can down the road

Same, with no pressure for ticket sales, I'll buy on Friday Unfortunately, Middlesex are a disastrous team for a final. Literally no supporters apart from the egg and bacon tie brigade. They'll have nobody there. We're never going to take more than 2k-3k ....but at least it's a noisy 2k. Ideally, we needed the final to be Lancs

Personally, and I'm prepared to be wrong here, I don't know where and what all the supposed debt is. The Macquarie debt is a technicality only. The payments are covered. The club is in essence the underwriter, rather than debtor. KP have basically written off hundreds of millions with debt to equity conversion. Which tbf explains the high asking price so they can recoup some. The only debts I work out are transfer instalments still owed (Skipp, herrmansen, Cullen, Stephy, Faes, VK, Souttar and maybe some others I CBA to think of) and hidden debt for seagrave (which I don't think was ever put through the club's books)

Not sure that's correct. I think the ownership - to huge surprise - deposited the money into the bank account at the start of the season (the statement says as much) to cover the shortfall and comply with the financial rules. Surprising? Hugely. But the club went up for sale immediately after. As has been pointed out, the cash injection is from the family's view a necessary evil. And the conversion to equity is window dressing. That's not a criticism by the way. It's another (all too rare) logical business manoeuvre (similar to rejecting money for Louis Page - he's worth more as an asset than he was as a cash injection)

I doubt very much he has ever wanted to sell. There's no change of heart to have. Simply, he's run out of money. His choices are limited to selling it or losing it completely.

The non sale of Page indicates a rare moment of the idiot listening to some sound business advice. Or the situation has almost entirely been taken out of his hands by the family / family advisors. Keeping Page as an asset bumps the value of the club up by potentially 20m-40m.

Subject to weather, I'll be there. Fox Road stand!

Did anyone see that extraordinary attempt at an overlap early on first half? He's so docile. Took him an age to realise the overlap was the right play, then came 'steaming' past Alves with all the pace of BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardener getting off a plane

Anyone with an idea of ticket sales for the final? Last time there was quite a campaign on here to encourage city fans to attend (as we'd played Southampton on the Friday night prior) And it worked. A raucous 3k

Management teams are usually obligated to stay in place when the buyer is buying into a healthy, growing business. In this case, the buyer is acquiring a distressed business. It's inconceivable that Rudkin and Kevin Davies remain in situ

Absolutely this. But it's Hobson's choice for the little owner. He's months away from the club being unable to continue and it taken out of his hands .....or him needing to find 50 odd million in cash, again, to deposit in the club's accounts. The best (only) deals I can envisage are either to accept a low ball flat fee (5m is better than the nothing he gets from insolvency) with earn outs, as you say. Or, structure a deal where he retains the freeholds on the land, which the new investor has an option on, as & when revenues permit.

I think that's the hope. A manager who can turn around a nosedive really does earn their stars - with fans and players. The managerial and mental skills acquired while negotiating heavy turbulence are worth their weight in gold. If - big if - he can adapt (and the friendlies suggested he does have a more pragmatic, direct side) we'll have a manager on our hands. If he chooses to roll the dice on his career on natural born losers Thomas & Bob plus Souttar, Burns, McCarthy and Cullen - regardless of system - he'll fail.

Agree with all that. But to add, they also don't get the game. She'd be the sort to buy stadium gig tickets to Harry styles or Taylor Swift or Jay-Z. Jet2 Holidays. Birthday meals at nandos. Nice clothes from Zara. Turkey crown for Christmas. Bottomless brunch. West end to see the Lion King. Weekend in Barcelona. Live, laugh, Love.

The absolute last thing we need is the experienced players or what's left of the previous regimes. It needs energy, fitness, structure, tactics, talent and, yes, the much mocked (on here) passion.. If I never see Bob, Thomas, Burns, Cullen, Souttar again, it'll be too soon Edit; And Chaplin. and McCarthy. I just don't want them representing us. I'd rather lose.

That's garbage pal. He struggled. He lent on some good coaching (from man city obvs not us) to try and cope with a superior player. He tried, he failed, he'll learn. Place him anonymously in a Sunday league team, he'd tear it up .place LT incognito on a syston park tomorrow morning, nobody would know

No, it wasn't.. He was up against a winger better than him. I watched him to see how he'd cope. And for a young lad, he did a lot of things right when a full back ie up against a better opponent (exhibit A, he ran quickly back into position, rather than chase the player, when he got skinned once.....and his eyes had the wherewithal to check the line while running back. LT would've just attempted his usual method of a failed rugby tackle) Back to the theme, LT is a loser. As in it is all he's ever known. For that alone, I'd never have him.near a squad, let alone a team. His loser aura is contagious. Aside from the fact he's amateur level.

It's an interesting point actually worthy of a proper almost academic look. Over the last five seasons, the fans (KP drongos aside) have been right on almost every big selection call and signing. Every week this board selects fitter, stronger, technically better XIs pre match. And every week the same tried old shite is trotted out. Not just Martin. But the prior two seasons too.

His performative press achieves nothing. Even the most cumbersome third rate defender can glide past him. Its because he doesn't really want to win the ball. It's an act. Look at me! I'm working hard! Same goes for these flicks of his. He's never really making himself available. He's not really showing for it. He's kinda pretending he's showing for it. And the occasions he gets it, he can't wait to get rid. Hence this 'clever flick' routine. It ain't clever. It's his defence mechanism.

Burns and Bob. Goodness me.

No exaggeration, I find it upsetting to watch Bob. All 5ft 2 and five stone of him snarling as if he's some kind of enforcer, all the while being an easy a yard off the pace whilst huge lumbering useless centre halves glide past him like they are prime Bobby Moore

'Khun Top' FFS But back to theme, from a pure business perspective alone, the decision is correct. The lad is absolute class and will soon add 30m to the book value of the club.