AB4 wrote:
ChaChaDon wrote:
Aliramone wrote:
AB4 wrote:
ChaChaDon wrote:
This club is broken. In every sense of the word. Jackson is not the man, he never was but it’s not his fault and changing him now would be a pointless, expensive exercise.
The Dons need to reset because the recruitment this season is the worst I have ever seen at this club. I would love to see how much money has been put into the team, as I would suspect PW is the only person that comes out of this financially better off.
I'm not sure PW will come out of it better off. We paid a lot of money for players like Grant and Tucker and they are worth virtually zero now. Plus we'll miss out of the big crowds like Sheff Weds, Ipswich, Bolton, etc, are less likely to get far in the cups, will have to reduce the ticket prices for league games and could see another reduction in attendances
I agree. He's not made good decisions but I very, very much doubt it (MK Dons and the other companies) was all a scheme for him to personally massively enrich himself quickly and easily. Make money yes obviously; that's what entrepreneurs do but 'make a vast fortune? - I know that is not what has been said. He's no fool and he will have known how difficult running a football club successfully is. He's, IMHO, undoubtable underestimated how much his existing business acumen and the help of others would have helped him with this. But I've never bought into an argument it was all for him to 'make millions' and that he never cared about football (Again, I know that is not what was said above -
I'm just sayin!!).
I don’t think it started like that either, but PW surely will be thinking that retirement is on the horizon and he’s one decent offer away from that.
I am probably wrong.
Who would be silly enough to buy the most hated club in English football though? We make little financial sense to buy and PW will want far too much I expect.
I'm still hopeful that we are planning on sorting everything out for L2 next season but currently have almost zero confidence that we'll put a team and staff together to come back up.
We basically need a bunch of brick shithouses and we are lacking in that department. We also need to get rid of a lot of players and I'm not sure who will want to buy them off us.
Disagree with this. No club makes financial sense, you're always going to lose money when investing in football.
The club has a lot more going for it than a lot of other EFL teams. You've got significant untapped potential in terms of supporter reach. 300k population in MK and no other professional football team close by. I live in Bedfordshire (Biggleswade area) and MK is the closest team for a lot of people (Stevenage is a shit hole and is well avoided).
You've got the stadium infrastructure already in place and the training ground on its way (hopefully).
Compare us to a lot of other League 1 and League 2 teams and we're up their in terms of investment attractiveness.