The clubs off field marketing & merchandising is poor, & has been for as long as I can remember – however even with the slickest marketing dept in the EPL we’d never create the kind of revenue’s required to close the gap on our closest rivals. As the market for these goods isn’t as great as the Big 4 – our recent success is limited – we may have finished 5th last season – but we’ve hardly been tearing up trees in the last decade – it’d take years of sustained success to build our “brand” to the same or similar levels.

Turning that business around & at the same time continuing the progress made on the pitch & resolving the stadium issue – wouldn’t appeal to many – as there’s no profit to be made, certainly in the short term. To buy the club, clear the debt & fund the stadium / player investment – you’d be looking at chucking the thick end of £300M at it – any investor will be looking for a return on capital employed in excess of 11% – if you can see how they’d manage that I’ll doff my cap to you sir. Unless of course they lumped the debt onto the club as the Americans have done at Liverpool. In which case the business would have to grow to 3 times it’s current size, merely to pay the interest.

http://www.followeverton.com/web-search

I heard rumours a few weeks ago of a month from Mittal Steel – Indian billionaire….

If somebody bough the club with a few to putting these area’s right revenue and profit could be increased significantly.

We are a loss maker because we dont have a robust business plan in place. The failings of Wyness and Bill have been masked by the success of Moyes who has achieved off the back of a very limited NET transfer budget.

We are the 5th bggest club in the biggest league in the world awash with money. Our stock is rising and to think nobody would want to buy us would be a mistake. We are the only ‘big’ club left in the premiership now not to have been nought out – to the extent that Championship sides are now attracting investment.

At present we are not for sale – despite Bills comments at the ESCLA AGM – the planning application for Kirkby backs this up. He is first waiting to see if he can line his grubby little paws with cash following the Kirkby move.

His performance at the ESCLA AGwas nothing short of disgraceful. To not know about basic issues such as transport at Kirkby and the clubs merchandising is shocking. For a Chairman not to know about the basic affairs of multi million pound turnover business he is responsible for defies belief. Lets not forget however – he is an actor and I have seen similar vague answers from him before at AGM’s. He does this so he can evade the questioning. Also the disdain he showed some of the supporters at teh ESCLA meeting is just not on. Since he took over debts have doubled and assets sold.

Time to go Bill.

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How about we go the RS way and all donate 5,000 to buy our club and have a president (not a real suggestion)