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Imagine buying a house and on the day of the sale you take out the kitchen. I’m sure the deal will include (at the time paperwork was drafted up) everything including players will be frozen from been sold.
You’d like to think so, but hasnt the value of the club been set at a nominal £1, with the assets of significant value being the stadium and the training ground?
You could see these shysters flogging another couple of players and reducing the valuation of the club from £1 to 75p.
It sounds like the kids are now on their knees. Unfortunately there is little option but to carry on. Sunderland had 8 first teamers out tonight due to a Covid outbreak, but still had to play the fixture. The bench was made up of 5 U23s who played yesterday and 2 first teamers who were still recovering from injury. That means the benchmark for L1 fixture fulfilment has been set that any less than 8 Covid cases in your squad and you will be expected to play.
Crewe & Bristol Rovers might be shitting themselves tonight about potential punishments for calling games off for much less of an outbreak.
Its also worth noting that tonight will be the 17th league game and the 21st competitive game in just over 3 months after the shortest off-season in history. Last season a club not a million miles from Wigan were calling games off in August because they had to field youngsters and didnt believe they were able to handle two games in a week after a whole off-season.
And yet i still try and discuss things with you, but you’re right. Waste of my time. Once a retard always a retard.
Something you and I agree on Stu.
He doesnt have the sort of money required to bankroll a football club. He is funding the rugby to the tune of between £500k and £1m per year, and that is a small-time operation compared to professional football. When you dig deeper and find that the professional football club has been living off a sugar daddy for 20 years, has a deluded culture of spend spend spend and is incapable of even being close to self-sufficient, then the amount needed to fund the shortfall would be close to £8m a year.
You need to be a multi-millionaire or a fool for that sort of purchase. Mr Leneghan is neither.
Back on topic after a pointless points-scoring exercise by the moderator:
I see that Wigan Warriors paid £241,818 to host 16 games at the DW in 2019 – source was their official accounts for that Financial Year. Very clearly laid out. Absolute transparency, as you’d expect from an owner with integrity.
How does that compare with the amount of rent paid by the Latics? I’ve looked at EOY accounts for 2019 for both WAFC and Wigan Football Company, but cant find a breakdown, or in the case of the latics, even a mention in the expenses column.
Slag him off all you like, but the one thing he isnt is a money launderer.
Its a photo from 2-3 years ago. The shirt is from the 18/19 season.
I went from the official SAFC.com fixture list for the 2020/21 season for U23s and U18s. As I said, not a single U23 or U18 game has been played there this season. The last U23 game to be played there was 30 Aug 19. I am unable to provide the date for the last time the U18 played at the SOL as the official website only goes back to August 2016 (they havent played there since then).
I’ll ask again – what are the sanctions for not playing youth team fixtures at the main stadium?
Cheers Egg. I cant see where it says that but I’m not going to trawl through a 43 page document to find it. What are the sanctions if your kids dont get to play at the DW? Is the sanction bigger than the cost of pitch repair?
Strange that your kids MUST play at the DW, yet not a single U23 or U18 Sunderland game is played at the SOL, nor are any of their away fixtures this season played (or scheduled to be played) at a first team ground.
I’d go up there, collect him and drive him to you. As would pretty much every Sunderland fan.
We couldnt even get rid of him to Salford.
I saw the predictions on the other Latics site and smiled at the pessimism shown there by some who clearly still thought we were a top side with quality and attacking prowess all over the field!
I’ve seen every Sunderland league game this season, and you were pretty much of the same standard as most of the sides we have faced recently. Sides seem to set themselves up to take advantage of the one guaranteed fuck-up per game by either the keeper, centre halves or central midfielder, then park the bus safe in the knowledge that our hopes for a goal rest on a £3m dud who’s confidence is shot to bits or a twice-signed Newcastle fan who appears to be on a mission to never intentionally score for the team he hates the most, yet pays his wage.
Considering you have a team of kids who are learning day by day, if I were you, I’d be very confident that there are four worse sides in the league come game 46.
Good luck for the rest of the season.
Enjoy your evening – after the shit you’ve had to put up with, nobody can begrudge you a glass or two.
Serious question for those who’ve watched the games this season – where does that performance rank?
Dont get this obsession with the stadium. It loses £1m a year.
Ian leneghan & his consortium probably have enough money between them to cover the loss on the stadium, but he’s a smarter businessman than the clowns that have run the Latics for the past few years, and he’s a smarter businessman than the bullshitters and fantasists that are feigning interest in buying WAFC at the moment.
If the DW was run properly, then it wouldnt lose money. The only reason it hasnt made money is because Whelan was so obsessed with the money associated with premier league football, that every other revenue avenue was ignored. Once that gravy train dried up and he fucked off into the sunset, the losses became a factor and the lack of forward planning for the stadium became apparent. The chinese only knew what uncle dave told them, so they wouldnt realise that the stadium could generate far more than it has done.
Get it flogged to someone who can make it a going concern. Get a fair rent for both sporting clubs, instead of just one, get international rugby played there, get concerts on there, get challenge cup semi finals played there. Worried about the pitch? Then stop using the stadium for reserve games and games like the EFL trophy where no fucker bothers to turn up anyway and use the Robin Park arena.
It just needs someone with a hard-nosed business brain and the DW would be a good investment.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55195930
Where does this leave you?
The council own the land on which the DW is built. If the new owners try to shaft the Warriors (eg by doubling their rent or reducing the length of the lease), the council could well be within their rights to “review” the ground rent at the same point, where “review” = double or treble it.
As Egg has said, both clubs need to use the DW just to make it a minor-loss making venture. Without one of them, the stadium becomes a big money pit.
