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If you want to know what they’ve bought in the deal and who sold shares scroll down to the bottom. As far as I can see their getting some serious amount of land in the deal.
http://www.ientcorp.com/attachment/pdf/1526915010vVfgf.pdf
I think a dirty great big 24/7 Casino Hotel will go up with riverside waterfront views and all it’s wildife habitants
which equates to
Cat size rats legging it round the duggy
Guys, Mr Whelan is a brilliant business man and also the family are true Latics fans. I’m pretty sure he will not want this fabulous club to go into decline. He will have done his very own due diligence to ensure he has sold the club to owners that he himself as a fan is happy with. He undoubtedly has done his homework on these guys.
They can do all the checks they want but once the sales done Whelan has no say what so ever and within reason they can do as they please council permitting. That should be easy enough once they get their bag of HK dollar.
Don’t forget, their main business is leasing so I wouldn’t be shocked at a few pop concerts at the DW.Granted, the board members are very rich men but this IEC is a separate entity from their wealth, a cheap way to get into UK football and what their getting is a club with the ground , training facilities and know how for the Prem.
I just hope I’m wrong with my doubts and Cook gets a chunk of dosh to strengthen the squad.[/quote]So they will knock down the stadium,training ground and all other land acquired to build hotels at the cost of millions and hope they can turn a profit in a few years. OR they can try to gain promotion and land hundreds of millions guaranteed. Mmm wonder which way they will go.[/quote]
So which bit did i say knock the stadium and training ground down ??, give your glasses a wipe. looking at same of the board members involved in the takeover I personally feel were no more than an assest to establish them as a company in the UK.
The head honcho is a guy called Stanley, a professional poker player so you can say calculated gambling is his forte. As far as I can see their main assest is leasing and one hotel so on paper Whelans JJB at it’s height was worth far far more than IEC.
Now if the rather rich board members start dipping into the XXXXXL pockets then strap yourselfs in because we might just be in for one hell of a second ride on the Wigan Athletic roller coaster and we all know how wild that can be.
Guys, Mr Whelan is a brilliant business man and also the family are true Latics fans. I’m pretty sure he will not want this fabulous club to go into decline. He will have done his very own due diligence to ensure he has sold the club to owners that he himself as a fan is happy with. He undoubtedly has done his homework on these guys.They can do all the checks they want but once the sales done Whelan has no say what so ever and within reason they can do as they please council permitting. That should be easy enough once they get their bag of HK dollar.
Don’t forget, their main business is leasing so I wouldn’t be shocked at a few pop concerts at the DW.Granted, the board members are very rich men but this IEC is a separate entity from their wealth, a cheap way to get into UK football and what their getting is a club with the ground , training facilities and know how for the Prem.
I just hope I’m wrong with my doubts and Cook gets a chunk of dosh to strengthen the squad.One of the worst things that could possibly happen is for us to end up as a non league club again but hey ho who remembers that? It wasn’t that bad really was it!Oh it was
I just have my doubts about this whole takeover melarky , I hope Im wrong. They are a company that lease and buy hotels and looking at last years accounts it’s hardly a company with the so called billions. The board members might be wroth that but that doesn’t mean jack poo if it’s not invested into IEC.
I can see some of the land having a hotel built on it in the not so distant future. Few back handers to the council (as they do) and up it goes. Try getting a 2 stroey extension on your house and you’ll have to contact the Queen to get approval
have a read:
http://www.ientcorp.com/attachment/pdf/1513670174J7gmg.pdfRumour or no agent rumour there should be at least 1 or 2 coming through by now who should be at least within touching distance of a first team outing or as I previously pointed out, what’s the point in a youth system ?.
Lets not forget the money we made on Baines and MacManamam all be it Everton cast off’s but without been given a chance at Wigan they”d never got to were they did.
If the rumour is true then we should bring him back and let him learn off the likes of Powell, Grigg, Vaughan, seasoned pros, surely thats better than playing in League TwoAs for Callum Lang, well he is a Latics player, so if the Toffees want him let’s see the colour of their money and slap the monopolising gets with a massive valuation or sell on clause.I know a better idea, lets stick him on the bench then ease him into our side, hopefuly he pitches in with say half a dozen goals and keep us in the Championship for more than one season.
As for someone saying “Everton snap up young players so other team cant have them”. Seriously , your saying Everton want Lang, a player that can’t get into a League one side so others cant have him ??.
Everton obviously saw something while he was on loan at Morecambe. If Everton are willing pay £1 million now what would he be worth if he plays for us and bags goals ?.
Bring him back I say, let him train and slowly introduce him in games from the bench and in cup games like we use to do or just scrap all youth sides altogether because if they get rid of a promising young player before he gets chance to help us then it proves all Latics youth sides is pointlessGotta agree, but then again what’s the point keeping a player if he’s never gonna get played. Genuine question, how many players have come through our Academy in recent times to the full squad ?Pointless having one.
If DW had er sorted this when we were a few years into the Prem years we would more than likely have an established Academy producing young players worthy of a first team run out. Were in probably the best catchment area outside London for other clubs for released playersWhat I wanna know is, were have the chickens on the pitch gone ?, feathered one’s that is. I don’t hear of many protest these days
The takeover can take up to two months so, in the meantime what happens with players contacts and potential new signings ?, who gives the nod ?. Without a clear outlined budget surely nobody will be coming in till the end of July
Ill tell you what’s wrong with Mr Stones’s remarks, thier buying a club who went to both major Cup Finals and a budgies nad off winning one back to back.
A very well run club unlike some just ask Sunderland. A club that wont cost the earth with an excellent stadium but Mr Stones highlights crowds of 10k ?.
50k+ a week home crowds hasn’t won Newcastle anything bar the Championship.If I were shopping for a budget club with years of experience at been in the Prem, an excellent stadium – training already in place and 1 tier off the big boys then Wigan would be right up there.
You should take time to read what thier worth the takeover gang, it makes interesting reading, a 50million investment would be like me doing a big shop at Asda.
But again our fan base size gets attacked. Without investment we would float around Div1 for the foreseeable future so for me im all up for it.
Lets not forget how and and were we started on this journey and if we ended up back were we started i’ll look at the roller coaster ride with fondness not the crowd size….
Did he mention Saturdays amazing away following taking half our home attendance ? No because it doesn’t make good readingYou make a good argument Cup Winners and I can see that side of it too but I still see nothing wrong with what he’s written as he makes valid points too – all of them.
In every takeover there are going to be arguments for both sides & he is just putting forward one of them, & as i said he’s not said anything that plenty of other Latics mons & monesses have already said.I think what seems to be riling people is that he’s mentioned our crowds. My opinion of that is so what? Its a fact. They are what they are & plenty of Latics people complain about them. I think its also a fact that if crowds stay around that level (and with the relatively low prices that Latics will charge to get in compared with other Championship clubs) then our budget will be low compared to others in the division so it will be difficult (but not impossible) to compete at that level & you (Cup Winners) say so yourself “Without investment we would float around Div1 for the foreseeable future so for me im all up for it”.
PNE & Millwall will also find it difficult (some seasons more so than others). Bournemouth would not have got out (or even into) the Championship without spending the money of their Russian billionaireFor me all this BBC guy is saying is that Latics would struggle in the Championship without outside investment so in that sense its welcome but that there is a cautionary note as we don’t know a great deal about them or what their aims are. Oh & we only get 10k crowds!! ;)[/quote]
Name me any club that’s that’s also taken the double drop and kept their fan base ? (all bar Leeds they have 100k a week and take 50k away).
The vast majority of fans are finicky and can’t help himself but to mention 10k crowds while were in Div 1 that is. I had to rub my eyes at home against City and when I watched a Cardiff game the other week but this happens everywhere , sorry except for Leeds.
That 10k figure will rise next season to 15k+ on many occasions (and 75k when Leeds come) and again if we happen to get back into the Prem.
The fact is, fans don’t win you trophies, never have, never will, well run clubs with hard working players and backroom staff do.
I just hope the Hong Kong take over people don’t start handing out those Everton type questionnaires because I will have to just draw a horse taking a slash when asked, “What do you think of the beverages ?”.Ill tell you what’s wrong with Mr Stones’s remarks, thier buying a club who went to both major Cup Finals and a budgies nad off winning one back to back.
A very well run club unlike some just ask Sunderland. A club that wont cost the earth with an excellent stadium but Mr Stones highlights crowds of 10k ?.
50k+ a week home crowds hasn’t won Newcastle anything bar the Championship.If I were shopping for a budget club with years of experience at been in the Prem, an excellent stadium – training already in place and 1 tier off the big boys then Wigan would be right up there.
You should take time to read what thier worth the takeover gang, it makes interesting reading, a 50million investment would be like me doing a big shop at Asda.
But again our fan base size gets attacked. Without investment we would float around Div1 for the foreseeable future so for me im all up for it.
Lets not forget how and and were we started on this journey and if we ended up back were we started i’ll look at the roller coaster ride with fondness not the crowd size….
Did he mention Saturdays amazing away following taking half our home attendance ? No because it doesn’t make good readingWho’s this bell end ?? “Simon the testicle stone”
BBC Sport’s Simon Stone
Interesting times ahead for Wigan.
A provincial club, driven to heights it could never have imagined by local businessman Dave Whelan, is now being transferred into the hands of owners from Hong Kong few fans will have a clue about.
The worry will be that many similar deals – Blackburn Rovers being a prime example – have gone disastrously wrong.
However, with average gates hovering around 10,000, the brutal truth is Wigan cannot hope to compete in the Championship, let alone get back to the top flight, without some kind of outside investment.
The big question surrounds the International Entertainment Corporation. Namely, what’s in it for them?
