A town and catchment area the size of Northampton should be enjoying football at Championship level. On this I agree with Beds - success has to have the foundations of reliable continuing investment combined with the infrastructure of a good stadium with modern facilities. Add to this having your own training ground also with state of the art facilities and a player recruitment team that is more than one man and a car. KT alone with David Bower cannot and will not deliver this but with KT plus the Chinese we may have a chance although writing this after yesterday's dismal performance watched by a large Chinese contingent I wonder what they are thinking today. The Council also need to get off their backsides and sort out the land issues at Sixfields. The Council is serving no one including themselves well. The message has to be you created a big part of the current problem so solve it.
No ones really got a clue who owns what,who has invested what and what the future holds.
Is KT a money man or just a figurehead of a group of investors hoping to turn a profit.
Has KT invested himself?
Was the money running out and investment hurriedly acquired or was it really an attempt to improve the clubs fortunes?
This is beginning to seem like a stuck record to me.
Investors see an opportunity to profit from ntfc,they find its trickier than anticipated and will take a long while,if indeed at all to recover their investment or turn a profit and then the club is sold on to the next group hoping for a profit whilst the previous incumbents shuffle away.
Meanwhile there is no progress on a ground redevelopment and we are left with a dilapidated half built ground that has been mothballed.
Wouldn't it be great to actually have owners whose main objective was to invest in the club,build a new ground from scratch away from sixfields leaving the council to argue over what to do with the ground and its variously owned parcels of land?
Instead we only seem to attract owners because they are seeking a jackpot return on an investment which seems to be a pipe dream
I may well be completely biased but I still believe if we actually had wealthy owners who could pump £20M pounds into building a brand new stadium and another £10M into the team you could eventually rise to the championship and the way footballs going actually sell the club on for a substantial profit.
Instead we go round in the bargain basement with owners trying to make a few bob out of the club spending as little as possible on the ground until they can get the green light to make a profit,leaving us with at best a slightly less delapidated stadium in a best case scenario.
Oh how I wish for a proper football investor to spot a golden opportunity with ntfc and turn dreams into reality.
If the Chinese owners actually realised what an opportunity they have purchased I'd be looking for a very wealthy owner to sell onto for a substantial profit straight away.
Instead we stay at sixfields with constant arguments about a council holding back the club(you know the same council who managed to get us £10M investment and even after losing the lot refused to have the club liquidated) and fail to see any plan B.
The reason is that it takes a shrewd businessman to realise they are actually sitting on a potential goldmine but it's easy to overlook it if you yourself are unlikely to be the ones who may fully benefit financially further down the line due to lack of capital at the present time.