Daggers Posted 19 January 2010 Posted 19 January 2010 There used to be a lovely babbling little brook here - Matron would walk us down here to catch fish which we'd poach over an open fire and consume with lashings of home-made ginger beer.
lcfc_jme Posted 19 January 2010 Posted 19 January 2010 I'll smack your legs! How could you! Sorry! Just don't like the idea of our already cringeworthy stadium being re-branded as the McDonalds Field Arena or some such rubbish, with gay techno music being played at random intervals during the game and time-outs being called because the ball has gone out of play and the opposition is attacking!
lou Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 Sorry! Just don't like the idea of our already cringeworthy stadium being re-branded as the McDonalds Field Arena or some such rubbish, with gay techno music being played at random intervals during the game and time-outs being called because the ball has gone out of play and the opposition is attacking! I know I was only kidding, I totally agree actually Was just gettin a bit lary after a couple of bacardis
lcfc_jme Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 I know I was only kidding, I totally agree actually Was just gettin a bit lary after a couple of bacardis Thank God you hadn't been on anything like Stella, then. :eek:
Chrysalis Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 I'm just questioning your use of the word 'saved' in the same way I questioned the £25mill he was buying/putting into the club. I don't know the facts just like 99% of the fans but I'll stick to my scepticism until someone proves otherwise. I'm certainly not taking anything written in the Mercury or proclaimed by Mandaric as gospel. If that makes me sound like victor Meldrew then you can blame it on the misdirecting, secretive, double-talking Mandaric so I'm happy to live with that reputation, sooner that than a Mandaric sycophant which the Mercury and many fans are. Some facts that were let out were. 1 - the club was almost at its overdraft limit 2 - the club at the time of sale was losing around 6 million a year 3 - milan put in 2 x 4.5 million payments as part of the deal clearly he has put in more since then given the losses and our expenditure since on wages, however that may well be in the form of loans or loan guaruantuees but however he has done it he has clearly moved us from a very fragile state. The concern is what shape the club will be in when he leaves in terms of debt and assets. The year we sold connolly and had parachute payments we scraped a small profit. That year we had 7 mill parachute money + 3 million connolly money and barely made a profit.
Shrenchel Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 Branding can only be a good thing. Always takes me ages to read the badge at the moment.
Bellend Sebastian Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 Hell yeah, can't they tell we're busy?
Babylon Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 So we all want better players, but don't want the club to fund it via attracting big paying sponsors?
Daggers Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 So we all want better players, but don't want the club to fund it via attracting big paying sponsors? No. But I like the idea of us becoming a multinational fruit-based spread.
davieG Posted 20 January 2010 Author Posted 20 January 2010 So we all want better players, but don't want the club to fund it via attracting big paying sponsors? Not if the sponsorship is transient as most of it is as it gives the club a sense of value beyond it's true worth and encourages better players who's transfer is affordable but whose contracts aren't. So no if it puts the club at risk I'll be satisfied with what we can afford and what is sustainable though the lows as well as the highs.
Thracian Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 There used to be a lovely babbling little brook here - Matron would walk us down here to catch fish which we'd poach over an open fire and consume with lashings of home-made ginger beer. Now there's a shimmering but oft-times elusive cash lake where all the chairmen piranha fish are chewing bits off each other in their desperation to feast til they're bloated and ginger beer has been bunkered in favour of pricy wine and prawn sandwiches for the windowed line of corporate merrymakers in their soulless, fireless "function" (or don't function) rooms. Some progress!
MPH Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 Now there's a shimmering but oftimes elusive cash lake where all the Chairman Piranha Fish are chewing bits off each other in their desperation to feast til they're bloated and ginger beer has been bunkered in favour of overpriced wine and prawn sandwiches for the windowed line of corporate merrymakers in their soulless, fireless "function" (or don't bother) rooms. Some progress! I was at a funeral today and the minister said " life is like a leaf floating down a river - we are forced to go where it takes us chopped and tossed around by the waters of life.." are you related to any ministers at all? I love transfer window!!! and i love the transfer forum even more!!! we have been linked no less than TEN players so far!! :w00t: And i hope we sign every chuffin one of them!!!!! I love it!!
maddog Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 MM will be dead before he turns us into this international brand crap anyway. He's 71 now.
DJ Barry Hammond Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 The guy needs to put up or shut up.It's all very well spouting about the dizzy heights he wants to take us to, but here we are in the transfer window and there's little sign of any activity. I can't believe that if NP was told he had a couple of million or so available to improve the squad that he wouldn't utilise it to try to push on for promotion. We've done very well to be in the positon we are in at this stage of the season, but realistically we are a million miles away from the Premier League in terms of quality. If I was NP, I wouldn't necessarly want to go up this season - it gives you a big risk of getting sacked the next, even if we are expected to be relegated. Hardly anybody has signed a player in this transfer window, its tends to be an expensive business at this time, so maybe the problem is getting quality in for the couple of million we have to spend. Sadly a couple of million is nothing major to shout about at this level. Spend for the sake of it or keep in reserve to use for better purpose at the end of the season?
Guest Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 I love all the facts being thrown about in this thread. It's great.
DJ Barry Hammond Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 What would people be more against - Leicester becoming an international brand or an international band? Maybe Mandy has to do the later in order to achive the former?
Thracian Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 I love transfer window!!! and i love the transfer forum even more!!! we have been linked no less than TEN players so far!! :w00t: And i hope we sign every chuffin one of them!!!!! I love it!! People must sit there making up transfer targets like journos making up correspondence for Letters pages.
Vacamion Posted 20 January 2010 Posted 20 January 2010 MM will be dead before he turns us into this international brand crap anyway. He's 71 now. If you were 71 and had £millions, would you not spend it on comfortable slippers, Russian teenagers, drugs for your prostate problem and Werthers Originals, rather than on a football club?
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.