Well no real need to tell you the main news of today. Yep we were waiting for the statement and we got it, Randy has said the club is up for sale. To this author this is no surprise and has not been since we found out the extra shares issued.
However lets take the statement at face value and I would be worried.
– Club up for sale
– Lambert gone (d0es anyone doubt that ?)
– Faulkner off in the summer to the FA
IF the club was still up for sale then, then there is no one left at the club. So I think and looking at Randy’s use of the past tense in his statement and the weird one from the General that Randy has already packed his bags and gone.
I firmly believe the the club is almost sold if not already sold and this statement is Randy’s goodbye. Within weeks if not days we will get a simple statement saying the club is sold to xxxxxx
We will not hear from Randy again ….
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106 responses to “Club has been SOLD”
Unless we get someone with deep pockets i can see us getting relegated and the ‘owner’ selling up. We need somebody onboard with a football background not just Mr Moneybags. Id like to see John Gregory in an advisary role to any potential new owner and i think lambert should be given another season but this time with a war chest i honestly think we could do well
No Lambert… He’d just waste money and we’d be a more solid version of this season. Incredibly defensive garbage.
Much as I hate automatically blaming ‘the manager’ for all the crap, I think you’re right:
Lambert seems to be one of those who can bring a team out of Division 2 and maybe just about keep them up.
It’s difficult to imagine what he’d spend really-big money on: probably follow MON and stock-up with a lot of expensive misfits who’d get one game in the 1st team and then 3 years in the reserves.
Plus I just don’t see the point, If and when he had failed (which Lambert most likely won’t be here thankfully), we have to again get a new manager, who may or may not want his players, and go on yet another spending spree to overturn the club once again from a poor spot. Lambert’s not worth taking a risk on.
An odd reference in Lerner’s quite moving valediction to the Shumannite. However the bible has it she called for the prophet Elijah to breathe life back into her dead son. Lerner is not underestimating his successor’s task then.
I agree with some of the other posters, Lerner came in with good intentions and gave it a go. He was unfortunate that serious oil money was about to make a simultaneous entrance, and he found after four years he no longer had a tenth of the money that was to be thrown at Man City. My criticism of him is two fold. 1/ He picked some real duffers to follow MON. Who interviewed Lambert? The man is practically incoherent. 2/ It is obvious Lerner gave up on the Villa at least two seasons back, so why not hoist the sale board then instead of running the club down to the relegation fight.
because two years ago we still had very high wages, large debt etc That had to be cleared for a sale to happen, it happened …
That is true it happened, but meanwhile Lerner has taken the losses himself with a debt for equity swap. He might have sold for less 2 years ago and come out no worse off. Perhaps he was also misled into thinking the “talented youngsters” we had would make the grade as EPL players, particularly in defence, so his clear-out of high earners would not weaken the team. The youngsters have been very disappointing.
Let’s not forget that Lerner’s money was heavily tied-up in the banking/financial sector when the Big Crash happened in 07/08: I’ve always felt that was the time when he realised that he didn’t have unlimited funds to throw at the EPL, hence having to try and ‘control’ MON’s free-spending, etc., and eventually leading to where we’re at now.
But you’re right – there was just one season before the oil sheiks starting pumping petro-dollars into ManCity, and by then the rules of the game had changed for keeps.
Also agree with you about the ‘Academy’ – been hearing the same rubbish about ‘talented prospects’ for years. Allowing for Cahill, if Agbonlahor is the prime example of what that lot can churn out, they might as well close it down.
Ardent, genuinely hope you are well sir, I don’t profess to have a clue about how this sale will or will not go, but I do know that our academy is not churning put talent for fun…Moore brothers, Gabby(pathetic to watch if we’re all honest) say it all, we nicked Barry from Brighton and Der Hammer was also poached, Cahill is the only one to have proven himself, and guess what…we flogged him for 5 mil……..genius.
Is it about that or him trying to tell us he was a good person that had the clubs best interests at heart possessing the three qualities of Contentment A kind heart ,compassion and Persistence?