Neath_Jack
Ivor Allchurch
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Never heard of him, but I will be suitably outraged by the morning. Probably.
Mels_Chippy said:Free bag of chips to the first investor to visit the club.
BLAZE said:Am I the only person suprised/horrified/impressed by these spam bots?
They're smarter than the average user
Chief said:We have at least 1 owner / 'investor' who is a huge star with 11milion followers on twitter. But literally couldn't care less about us and hasn't made 1 iota of effort to publicise us.
Stark contrast to Wrexhams owners who seemingly never stop talking about the club.
And this idiot Gardner has now spoken about them more in this 1 article than us (the club he actually owns shares in) in the last 5 years.
You couldn't make it up.
Neath_Jack said:I did quote a post by a suspected one and FAO'd to you, but you ignored me
Mels_Chippy said:How dare you question my botty, spam and chips is nice tho.
Up the Jacks.
Neath_Jack said:I did quote a post by a suspected one and FAO'd to you, but you ignored me
Londonlisa2001 said:The only thing that surprises me is supporters being surprised about this stuff.
I don’t know how many times it needs to be said.
The ‘investors’ have the same interest in us as anyone on here does on what their ISA is invested in. They give a tiny amount of money (for them) to an investment fund and some they win, some they lose. The ones they lose on get offset for tax purposes. They don’t give a monkeys about the underlying businesses.
That’s very different to what the two have done with Wrexham.
Selling to this sort of fund is about as bad as it gets in terms of engagement. Which was sort of the whole point. Even the managing partners (Levien and Kaplan) can’t be bothered let alone those that have shoved in the equivalent of a tenner.
Chief said:Agreed, but the Wrecsam owners don't really have much in financial terms relative to their standing either do they? They basically got the club for nothing, put some money in probably but have managed to get a lot of lucrative sponsorship.
Reputationally they have gone all in though.
Londonlisa2001 said:You’re missing the point. The Wrexham two have bought the club (£2m I think). The ‘investors’ we have have shoved some money in a fund that’s invested in us and possibly many more things as well. It’s a different investment scenario.
Our investors don’t give a toss, simple as that. Believe it, don’t believe it, but it’s pointless bringing up every example of them not giving a toss.
Neath_Jack said:Never heard of him, but I will be suitably outraged by the morning. Probably.
jasper_T said:Reynolds and Mcelhenny don't just own shares they're co-chairmen of the club. People like Jordan Gardner just have money invested in a group that owns shares, he's not even on the board of directors let alone a major decision-maker.
He apparently was chairman/co-owner of a Danish football club until pretty recently (August 2022), and previously Dundalk in Ireland. The measure of his investment and involvement in those clubs would have dwarfed his investment in us - understandably so as we were a ~£100m business when he staked a fraction of a fraction.
Chief said:Don't really see what's that different? Both groups bought a football club and both sets of owners should be doing what they can to make them successful (even though both sets of owners haven't pound for pound spent that much of the wealth they have). Whether it be a 'fund' or not, Gardner is aware what his money is in (as is Kalling) and has according to him been to Swansea and communicated with people at the club. So he's not blissfully unaware.
Wrexhams famous owners are leveraging their stardom for the good of the club they own and our owners (albeit not quite as famous, but they are more of them) aren't.
I absolutely am aware of our owners apathy towards us, it's clearly stated in my other posts on this thread. That's obvious.
We are on a football Swansea City Forum, I'd have thought it's perfectly normal to discuss such things. Its being spoken about plenty on other platforms.
Feel feel to not reply if you don't feel its worth your time though.