Magpie wrote:
Alby39 wrote:
Why would Red Bull want MK?
Well, a stones throw from the HQ of its F1 team, narratively itself that sells a product as a whole.
A big stadium with plenty to do in terms of uplift, the shell of the stadium is there but change the seats to blue, tallow and red and its an RB product just by a stadium's design.
No worries of building one or planning permission bollocks.
A white kit, which already avoids the Salzburg problem of violet to white and red.
A team with comparatively little tradition to mess with.
A fanbase young enough to accept change and embrace without fuss.
A club name that is already unpopular in football, MK:RB would be welcomed by some and laughed at in equal measure by those that detest the Dons title.
A club that prides itself on young talent, the RB model also doing so.
The biggest one - being in the English Pyramid System. The higher divisions being an investment dream if things go well... thus making the merry-go-round of the model another platform for development in a strong group of divisions.
A team already hated so no worry about rocking the boat.
There's many reasons why we are ideal. Doesn't mean it should happen.
I don't think it ever will but I certainly feel whoever comes next will make big changes, some of which Winkelbot won't be able to control once the keys are handed over... which is what he's very fearful of if we're to believe him.
Come on Alby, are you seriously suggesting that because the F1 team are down the road, we play in white, have no history to speak of and we have young players (largely because we cant afford established ones) would be compelling reasons for Redbull to buy the club and the nonsense that surrounds it?
Christ, if we are that attractive to them, why arent they even a minor sponsor?
If those are your criteria, then why arent Santander chomping at the bit to buy the club, a lot of the criteria are exactly the same?
If getting in the english pyramid is so important, then I suggest there are much better options than us. Manchester Utd for one along with any other number of clubs who would happily take the coin.
Im not seeing it at all and think its just more Winkelman bullshit, designed primarily to baffle brains
It's a Hell of a lot easier taking over a club with 20 years of history in the bottom two divisions of EFL football which would be easier, in fact, the easiest club in the entire country to rebrand than Manchester United.
What you, and some others down the ywars don't seem to understand is that Red Bull don't want to "own" a football club. They want to "be" THE football club.
I'll humour the point about MUFC, Red Bull wouldn't own Manchester United, because that's what they'd be. Manchester United. They'd 1. Not be welcomed. 2. Not be able to rebrand the club with name, logo, sponsor and logo, thus making the general idea of what they do pretty pointless.
The reasons I listed aren't ridiculous. They rebranded MetroStars into New York Red Bulls. They rebranded SV Austria Salzburg to Red Bull Salzburg. They rebranded SSV Markranstädt and became RB Leipzig... They rebranded Atlético Bragantino to turn them into Red Bull Bragantino.
All these teams had their name, colours, logo, and general identity completely revamped. Most, were unappealing lower league obscure football clubs that'd create little fuss to take over with the exception of Salzburg.
In our pyramid with our traditions in English football, as seen with the Wimbledon move, changes like this are not welcome.
If Swindon Town (who I believe were once mooted for a RB takeover though it may have just been a Twitter fib) were taken over to become Red Bull Swindon, it'd create a LOT more of a meltdown than MK Dons would. Let alone the biggest club in the country if not the World. Red Bull Manchester. Eww.
RB clubs also have a system, and like them or loath them it works. Young talents transferred between the likes of New York, Salzburg and Leipzig to progress careers - youth development and stylish football under promising and highly rated coaches has been a real success story for Red Bull's football landscape.
Why wouldn't a side, with 20 years of almost always 3rd and 4th tier football on a failed "promise" of growing toward top level divisions who have a history of producing young local talent and selling them on, who play in white and red, have a 30k seater multi purpose stadium easy to redevelop, already loathed in its league system like every other of their outfits worldwide, who are also on the doorstep of one of the most successful and biggest motorsport teams be of interest of a takeover?
MK Dons make more sense than anyone. The fanbase by and large would accept it, and the club would continue to be hated but under a different guise. The fans wouldn't accept it if it were Watford or Leyton Orient.
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