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« on: May 23, 2025, 09:02:13 am » |
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As I reported a while ago , the billionaire is actively looking to buy a club and build it up , the papers say he is looking at championship clubs but I have heard he would like the challenge of buying a league one/two club with good travel connections, good location and the ability to quickly expand if it had the right catchment area….
He is also not the only sheikh currently looking to invest in a lower league club with the expectation of reaching the highest level.
I was at Doncaster horse sales this week and managed to speak to people who would know ….
It will happen…..
A couple of clubs are going to hit the jackpot….
I wonder if our owners would be interested in selling (mind you they’d need to sell the warehousing land in as well so that the club could expand , so I guess it’s unlikely…)
I’d hope our owners would be all over this as the perspective buyers could put in a very tempting offer without the need for warehousing….
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Zen Master
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« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2025, 09:23:12 am » |
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Would he be looking to rebuild the North stand with a microbrewery and stage?
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I think someone should just take this city of Peterborough and just... just flush it down the f***in' toilet
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DavCobb
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« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2025, 09:42:44 am » |
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With the greatest respect to our little ol' club there will be a few in line before us.
Look at someone like Sheff Weds. I still think of them as a big club with tons of untapped potential. I think Sheff Utd and Weds could be more 'Man City/Utd' than the likes of Bristol City/Rovers ever would. If you are talking billionaires then the purchase and running costs are inconsequential for a vanity project.
Regardless of our standing and history as a club, there isn't really a lot of romance around Northampton as a town and football club.
Stanger things have happened I guess and it must be our turn at some point. Knowing our luck it'll be Di Stefano mark 2.
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Carton Lid
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« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2025, 10:11:16 am » |
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Regardless of our standing and history as a club, there isn't really a lot of romance around Northampton as a town and football club.
Stanger things have happened I guess and it must be our turn at some poin
Similar to Bournemouth but with a bigger catchment area. |
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606 Parklands_Cobbler
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« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2025, 10:15:32 am » |
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no thanks.
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Basically in a nutshell I'm a horrible little man who has fcuked up this forum, I'm a self serving egotistical little shît
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tcobb
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« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2025, 10:56:12 am » |
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Bit of a non story then, full of if's, but's and maybe's, not even Cobblers related.  |
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Manwork04
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« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2025, 11:10:30 am » |
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Would he be looking to rebuild the North stand with a microbrewery and stage?
Looking for a tape measure apparently. |
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DavCobb
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« Reply #7 on: May 23, 2025, 11:23:07 am » |
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Similar to Bournemouth but with a bigger catchment area.
We could extend the end stands and get to 11k. We'd be in good company. |
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Tabasco Kid
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« Reply #8 on: May 23, 2025, 11:33:42 am » |
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With the greatest respect to our little ol' club there will be a few in line before us.
Look at someone like Sheff Weds. I still think of them as a big club with tons of untapped potential. I think Sheff Utd and Weds could be more 'Man City/Utd' than the likes of Bristol City/Rovers ever would. If you are talking billionaires then the purchase and running costs are inconsequential for a vanity project.
Regardless of our standing and history as a club, there isn't really a lot of romance around Northampton as a town and football club.
Stanger things have happened I guess and it must be our turn at some point. Knowing our luck it'll be Di Stefano mark 2.
Sheff Weds have been mentioned. And Millwall. https://talksport.com/football/3229435/turki-alalshikh-millwall-takeover-talks-efl-championship/ |
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DavCobb
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« Reply #9 on: May 23, 2025, 11:49:44 am » |
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I'm advising them after Manny priced himself out.  |
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SC Cobbler
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Watching Birmingham and Wrexham buy their way out of League One with famous owners - I wouldn't be too surprised to see bigger investment at our level. Probably the most appealing League One ownership has ever been to foreign investment.
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Clearly ifs and maybes but if I was stupidly rich I think the recognition of taking something from virtually nothing to a much higher level would have more appeal - clubs like Sheffield Wednesday and to a lesser extent Millwall are significantly bigger than us - I think over the next few years we could (location and catchment area having significant appeal) well be a target - however be careful what you wish for, such scenarios don’t always turn out well.
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Fabbiadini
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No thanks - rather remain as we are then be owned by someone with those connections
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ClaretCobbler
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Milwall and Southampton are the front runners. Obviously want a championship club
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TVOR
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We were favourites until they put solar panels on the south stand preventing the seating standing hybrid stand.
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Carton Lid
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We were favourites until they put solar panels on the south stand preventing the seating standing hybrid stand.
You can move Solar Panels |
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