Sheffield Wednesday Banter Archive August 07 2014

07 Aug 2014 20:20:45
Been looking on search engines online and I can find nothing beyond rumours that the takeover has failed. All the news outlets report the delay but seem to show that it is still ongoing. Can anyone point me towards any links I maybe missing as I like to see the full picture of a story.

I admire your optimism but things are starting to look somewhat bleak.
we seem to have improved our defence, even if nothing else materialises.

As I said I have seen nothing to say things look bleak so am still fully optimistic of the takeover happening. I see a lot of rumours both on here and other rumour sites saying the takeover is failing but nothing concrete. There is a lot of concrete stuff saying the takeover is still progressing but has just taken a bit more time than was expected. Again if anyone can point me in the direction of any links for news towards the bad news

Well I still have my fingers and toes crossed.

07 Aug 2014 15:31:10
First of all I would like to reply to SWFC13 yesterday who apparently thinks I have never bought a house. SWFC13 in the last 20 years I have sold 7 houses so I know it takes between 10-12 weeks usually, it all depends on the chain, there is no chain at Wednesday and I will say to you HAVE YOU EVER BOUGHT A FOOTBALL CLUB - probably not (just gassing I take it) I have been supporting Wednesday for fifty years so no young kid.
As for the take over the general consensus of opinion on the sites and other people is that this deal is dead and buried, something I didn't want. And as far as I am concerned it's still MM's fault if this deal falls through, if you want to buy a house (and I have experience) you have to prove you have the mortgage in place, I don't think this guy has anything in place (money)and that if that is the case that it is MM's fault. This take over has dragged on and it doesn't feel right me! And lastly if Gray doesn't kick MM and get some funds and players he doesn't deserve to be in charge, Gray needs to get some bottle. And for the people who say in 'MM we trust' get real 15.30

Its surprising that a 50 year old feels the need to justify himself, on here, with his life story.
many people believe in mm and they are entitled to their own opinion.

Sorry for making an assumption that you hadn't bought a house, it seemed by your lack of patience that you hadn't. However by saying it takes 10-12 weeks you seem to have validated my point. As you are correct I have neither bought or sold a football club, but I assume that a business as complex as a football club will take a lot more paperwork and time to buy than a house even without a chain. I bought a house with no chain and that took nearly 4 months just because of one glitch in the paperwork. The paperwork for a house has to go between two parties with a solicitor each inbetween yet the majority of the paperwork for a football club has to go between at least three parties with teams of lawyers inbetween. If HM didn't have any money in place why have we not found this out already. What has MM to gain by dragging this out, I doubt he would do something like this just to gain a few extra pounds from ticket sales. I think people are losing patience as it seems to have gone on a lot longer than other takeovers, but most takeovers are announced to the press a lot later in the process. If the French press hadn't tried to leak the story to further try and disgrace HM then we would probably be only finding out about this now, although then we would have had lots of people on here annoyed that we had made no signings. Also if the takeover has failed then why did HM sponsor us in what was reported to be a very financially significant deal for the club. Makes no sense to me to pump money into a club for no return apart from maybe a few extra tourists to your country a year. If I am wrong about the takeover I am man enough to say so if the time comes but for now I have seen more positives than negatives about it so will stick with my optomistic approach that it will happen but will be a little longer coming, and if that makes me an over optomistic dreamer in some peoples eyes I don't really care.

Im sure that some of our supporters are a cross between victor meldrew and unlucky alf off the fast show. "Oh bugger"!

07 Aug 2014 20:50:47
LMN I was replying to a comment that was left which I have replied too, that is my perogative. As for your 50 year old comment, I hope that's not an ageist dig

07 Aug 2014 14:47:25
imo our massive fans would of been more settled and swfc would of had more structure if mm and hm didn't announce the takeover deal till it was officialy confirmed and ratified by the football leagues, this would of saved a lot of uncertainty and headache from fans attacking mm whos helps us beyond what we expected and yet still getting no respect! things could of been done in a better manner but sadly wasnt meant to be done the easy way, let's be proud hold our heads high suport the team sg and mm and carry on fighting as after all not a criticism were used to fighting for strength and players so let's carry on till we get more clarity, surely it can't be long.? uto xxx

They would have announced it later but there hand was forced by the press who were going to leak the story so they had to make some sort of announcement. Even if they had waited till the paperwork was sorted I bet there would have been loads of negative people on here complaining that we hadn't made any significant signings.