Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Bloom is just in it for the PROFIT, won't be too long before ASDA open up in Dicks
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Watching brief can we trust Bloom and the board
- Thread starter scousefan
- Start date
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
TB has given my club a home, I can see all mates from years gone by bringing the their kids to the Amex the next generation of the Albion faithful. Are people really that desperate for PL league football? just enjoy what we have instead of worrying what we could have.
grubbyhands
Well-known member
£200 you say? I could just about match that if he's looking for a bit of financial backing.
Is it his own cash though? I've always wondered if it is all his.
- Jul 10, 2003
- 25,864
Well if it isn't, it must be someone very trusting. Yeah sure Tone, take my money, give it as an interest free loan to your football team, and then if it's not paid back, convert it into shares in your name
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,207
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
If it isn't, he is paying the interest on it and he is getting the "benefit" of it in the form of shares when he converts loans into equity. Shares that are worth tuppence ha'penny
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
That's gone now - it was blown up yesterday in the Bedfordshire countryside.
drew
Drew
You need to deduct the cost of building the homes!
drew
Drew
So, you don't like Bloom. That is apparent as you wouldn't start a thread like this if you were a fan. You lost any credibility when you started on about Blackpool.
Exactly how much does an owner need to know about football. He has been watching football for many years and he also employs people to help make decisions. I own a television but could't tell you what everything inside does. I just have to point the remote at it. As for Dick Knight, yes he is a true Albion hero but no more and no less than Bloom. As for negotiating deals, how much involvement do you think Bloom has. Surely he leaves that to his underlings.
redoubtable seagull
Well-known member
- Oct 27, 2004
- 2,531
Indeed, to suggest some future scenario that is comparable to what the Oystons have done at Blackpool is crass. Perhaps the OP was not around during our darkest hour?
The OP is very dismissive of Burke's achievements. Yes, the player acquisitions last season were disasterous but let's not forget he oversaw the Academy's elite award of Level 1 status and he must have had some involvement in player appointment during Gus's time, some whom have turned out to be pretty successful for us and their new clubs.
I'm intrigued to learn how the OP thinks Bloom can turn a quick profit from his investment to date. Unless we are promoted to the PL, Bloom is not going to see a return.
The OP is very dismissive of Burke's achievements. Yes, the player acquisitions last season were disasterous but let's not forget he oversaw the Academy's elite award of Level 1 status and he must have had some involvement in player appointment during Gus's time, some whom have turned out to be pretty successful for us and their new clubs.
I'm intrigued to learn how the OP thinks Bloom can turn a quick profit from his investment to date. Unless we are promoted to the PL, Bloom is not going to see a return.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 70,207
I'd absolutely LOVE to see TB lead his club out at Wembley. It's the absolute minimum he deserves.
I trust Tony Bloom although I have to admit to becoming increasingly frustrated at the way we appear to continually lose out on players to other seemingly more ambitious clubs (eg Bournemouth - what the f**k is that about??, middlesborough etc etc) and I cannot see this changing unless TB goes for broke. The evidence to date suggests this will not happen. Anyone who thinks it's the underlings or the Board that takes the final decisions on expenditure is living in cloud cuckoo land. It's TB - end of.
I find it hard to believe there are still people questioning the intentions of a lifelong fan paying £200 + Million into what is generally perceived as a financial black hole. Bloom has turned this club into one capable of competing in the higher echelons on English football. Anyone sat at Withdean when we were in the Championship with Hinch in charge, getting battered each week due to our poor facilities and lack of financial clout would've bitten your hand off for what we have now.
RexCathedra
Aurea Mediocritas
"Turning a quick profit?"
Turning any kind of profit on a football club requires selling it, and selling it to a greater fool.
Which assumes there's always a greater fool.
Because you certainly don't turn any kind of profit from the revenue stream it generates.
How many of the 92 run in the black? Half a dozen?
Turning any kind of profit on a football club requires selling it, and selling it to a greater fool.
Which assumes there's always a greater fool.
Because you certainly don't turn any kind of profit from the revenue stream it generates.
How many of the 92 run in the black? Half a dozen?
KZNSeagull
Well-known member
I would think that the person who recommended that to TB has paid with their job.
Well if it isn't, it must be someone very trusting. Yeah sure Tone, take my money, give it as an interest free loan to your football team, and then if it's not paid back, convert it into shares in your name
He might be the front for, or part of, a syndicate. Which involves none of what you suggest.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
Can't think of a better man to be in charge myself, seems a bit of a daft thread if I'm being honest.