Now Bale wants to buy Cardiff as well as Plymouth

[Neath_Jack]

Apparently Bale and his consortium offered £3.5m for the club

 

[Swansea93]

Apparently Bale and his consortium offered £3.5m for the club

You’re joking makes it even more funny.

 

[Pompeyjack]

Apparently Bale and his consortium offered £3.5m for the club

£3.50

 

[ABSwan]

£3.50

and a dead frog

 

[100percentjack]

£3.50

And Tan couldn’t stump up the £3.50 to get rid?

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

Its not good if they get taken over

 

[eteb]

Its not good if they get taken over

There's no guanratee a new owner will bank roll them like tan did

 

[Jackareme]

It is incredible that (even though they were not great) 9 senior pros have left Cardiff out of contract - to be replaced by. absolutely nobody....
IF this crop of youngsters that everyone keeps having a tug over are not as good as their publicity - this is a squad with serious challenges in a League 1 dogfight.
The knock on effect on their ability to support an academy also presents us with an opportunity - as funds we might leverage from investors that are used for that purpose are excluded from FFP calculations.
Lets go for the jugular and upgrade our academy right now!

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

It is incredible that (even though they were not great) 9 senior pros have left Cardiff out of contract - to be replaced by. absolutely nobody....
IF this crop of youngsters that everyone keeps having a tug over are not as good as their publicity - this is a squad with serious challenges in a League 1 dogfight.
The knock on effect on their ability to support an academy also presents us with an opportunity - as funds we might leverage from investors that are used for that purpose are excluded from FFP calculations.
Lets go for the jugular and upgrade our academy right now!

IF, a deal is going through this week, then maybe BBM doesn' t know what kind of budget he is working with. Tan's, promote the U21's, or, the new owners here is a 30m transfer budget.

That's why I am hoping no deal happens, or, if it does, then not until after the window closes.

 

[eteb]

Nobody is coming in and giving Brian fucking Barry Murphy 30 mil

 

[Itchysphincter]

Apparently Bale and his consortium offered £3.5m for the club

This not a pisstake but 3.5M is probably a very fair and possibly generous offer if the club owes Tan money. I know he converted debt to equity but he still has a hefty chunk of change to pull out, and add that to all the other debts the new owners will be buying, in reality it’s a good offer for something that without Tan is for all intents and purposes insolvent and and worth the grand total of fuck-all, just one big fat zero.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

Whoever takes over will be hamstrung by relegation to L1.

Cardiff's revenues weren't amazing anyway, but TV money drops off significantly when you hit the third tier, plus you lose a % of bums on seats.

Also, starting this season, the FFP rules that allowed Birmingham and Wrexham to go wild with owner/investor equity have been tightened significantly: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c36e4068113o

So, unless they find a way to quickly and significantly raise revenue, and/or fancy flouting FFP, there is no quick fix for them.

For a club that usually loves a quick fix, that's going to be a huge problem.