aintforever

I dunno, AFC Bournemouth didn't pay their players for months.

More ****** from the Echo, mystery = made up/non existent.

What the English game needs is a fairer distribution of the money, at the moment the Premier League is just so predictable it's dull beyond belief. Everyone knew who would be the top 4 at the start of the season, we know what it will be next year. I think the English leagues would be superb if the Sky money was distributed evenly to all 92 clubs, so Bournemouth get the same cut as Man U. Would never happen because of the greed of the big clubs but would make the whole thing an exciting competition.

I disagree, I think it is vital to have people who know the game in the boardroom.

I think getting MLT on board is a very good move, if only for the feel good factor. I certainly wont hesitate in spending £400+ on a season ticket if he is involved. MLT also knows football and SFC inside out, he has excellent contacts in the game and has a high profile in the media - it's all positive from where I'm sat.

I will settle for staying up.

Catchy song - well done.

Surely it's in no ones interest for the club to fold because SMS's value depends on there being a football team. Should none of the bids be up to sratch then surely the best outcome for the creditors would be to sell assets that are not vital like the farm, the academy and staplewood. Aviva keep SMS and rent it to SFC and someone buy the club for a nominal amount? SFC folding means the players become free agents (in no ones interest) and SMS becomes a useless pile of concrete in a **** hole area of town. It MUST be in the banks interest to keep SFC alive.

This situation is always going to go down to the last minute, unless there is a billionare involved these people are not going to want to pay a penny more than they have to. The dangerous thing is that the people involved appear to be pennyless, middlemen. One lot can't even build a decent website and the other is just a joke. There is also a chance that these "mystery" foreigners have just been made up to try and move things along.

There is no difference between "providing financial guarantees" or "sorting out the small print", either way you are not going to commit any sizable amount of money until you are getting the deal you want.

True, they are a bunch of tossers.

Agree, but if you don't KNOW anything it's best to make that obvious otherwise people get their hopes up. If it's a rumour they've heard just say so.

The people you know are obviously full of ****.

"Hurry up Matt" - Dell flashback

How good is the source on a rating from 1-10. 1 being bloke down pub, 10 Marc Fry

Also if not buying the stadium means they have a bit more cash for players this/next season then in the short term it could be a good move.

I would guess that the best thing for Aviva would be to keep the stadium and rent it back to the club. Someone will get a cheap football club but will have to rent the stadium.

I don't know wether to worry or not, which is worrying.

Liar Liar

The Echo also said we wouldn't get a 10 point deduction - they know Jack ****.

This is unbearble, something's obviously gone all ****ed up. My gut feeling is that a combination of the recession and the way SLH is structured means were ****ged.

I agree, Stoneham would have been rubbish. Lowe has to take credit for getting SMS sorted because no one managed to get it built previously. However I think most credit has to go to Sky TV because if it wasn't for their millions it wouldn't have been built. Second in line for credit has to go to Matt le Tiss for keeping us on the Prem gravey train. Lowe can hardly be considered a genius for getting it built, every other club up and down the country, from Bournemouth to Middlesboro have managed to build a new stadium in the last few years. It's hard to think of a club who havn't at least transformed their stadia, even Fratton Park has a roof on the away end now.

The problem is MJ would probably have told Fry he was fronting the consortium when the truth is I expect he knows someone who knows someone who might have enough money. Fry thinks the deal is almost there while MJ is trying to sell his plans, complete with Monkeychicken petting zoo, to people who are not even slightly interested and everyone's time is wasted.

I would have gone but I think canceling is the right thing to do. The bucket collection sort of made sense "to get Saints to the end of the season", but now the season has ended the club just needs to be sold, we might make enough to pay the administrators for another week then what? We can't hold a charity match every week.

I would have thought if the offers are that unacceptable then Fry would be in the Media making more desperate appeals, I'm hoping his silence means he has something decent to go on and he's busy playing them off against each other to get the best deal for the banks. If everything's about to go tits up I don't see why it would be so quiet?