Remember Ebsfleet - investors making footballing decisions is a recipe for disaster. We currently have twenty somethingth playing budget but are 7th in the table, so thus far JJ and team doing fine.

Yep, I'd wait and see what is actually on the table, if anything is offered, rather than a piece of speculation that nobody else has picked up on.

Nicander, i really wouldn't worry about that article at all or read anything from it about the specifics of the investment. It didn't say anything really apart from the name.

Absolutely nicander!

RIP Angry Anderson

The big Q for me is simply around the media suggestion that they want control over football matters and strategy. I'm sorry, you simply don't get that for this level of investment. Not to mention that our success as a club has been built on hiring football professionals and supporting them to do their jobs. The minute you get investors or board members sticking their fingers in is the minute we're completely fucked, frankly. We want investors to be supporting us on the commercial and infrastructure side of things, not football.

Why are we having exclusive conversations with a bidder who has basically said that their offer would materially change over whether we have to finance £1m on a 10% vs 5% interest rate? It seems pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things (£50k per year additional interest payments). Slightly worries me that the buyer is holding all the cards in this negotiation and we are getting stiffed!

Probably checking their X accounts , left wing,social justice, flip.flop wearers only:-)

That email implies that a formal announcement / investment proposal is not imminent otherwise what would be the point of sending that. But the new info is that we are in 'exclusive' negotiations with someone and that also implies the deal is in an advanced stage. The rest of the email tells me we are taking ages in doing our due dilligence / legal work which is a) good and b) we always take ages to do these things because we don't have millions lying around to get the lawyers to get on with it.

Morning all. Think the most important bit of that email is announcing we're in a period of exclusivity with a potential investor. Which I guess is new news...

Another begging email that has a lot of words but doesn't provide any new information. Does the DTB not think people already know all this? Why don't they ask themselves why no more money is forthcoming rather than constantly asking the same people for it who have already decided enough is enough. They've recklessly approved a budget we cannot afford and their financial chickens are coming home to roost. I knew this would happen and said so many times. If this deal falls through then what? They should cut the budget to what is affordable or seek member approval to allow the stadium to be used as security for a bank loan. I'd prefer the former as with the latter we could lose everything. Administration would be better than just losing the stadium. Wake up DTB. Begging isn't working anymore.

RP - agree about Knats, I bumped into the drummer afterwards and thanked him for the set - he was very grateful, lovely bunch of people :)

Another begging email today, far more informative and better structured than the previous ones though. It still doesn't address the key issue which is that League 1 and fan ownership are probably not compatible now and in the foreseeable future.

The thing with ladbaby, and their Christmas 5 x number 1s , it probably was the best song of the year:-)

Is the latest Rolling Stones album new music or old music? I like bits of it but it could be an album they made in the 70s. There are always some good new people but for me they are mostly working in old genres, e.g. Keb Mo or Elles Bailey.

There was that guy that did sausage roll based covers for Christmas No. 1 for a few years I think last year he agreed to stop doing that.

Trigger😀- do 'novelty' songs like that get into the charts these days? Last one I can think of was maybe Gangnam Style, which I quite liked, or Baby Shark, which I heard about 10 seconds of before the off button was deployed.

50s 60s,70s and 80s that is all, love greatest hits radio

A4E - I hear plenty of Ezra Collective on 6, and Femi Koleoso also DJs regularly on the station. I saw Knats at Green Man and they were excellent - great playing and more humour than I'd expected. Shook the hand of the singer/poet afterwards and said how much I'd enjoyed their performance.

(That link was a tongue in cheek reminder of how good many 80s songs were rather than an instruction for you to shaddap you face.)

That's not true RP I grew up in the 80s when every single song was an absolute banger [Link]

I agree Alan, and I would run a mile from any 'controlling' group. I just see 'most modern music is crap' posted quite a lot by people who wouldn't want to admit that loads of the popular music that was around when they grew up (so not 'modern' in their terms) was also crap.

People get hung up on latest music, films, comedy and books. The truth is anything that floats your boat is great for you. But in whatever form, great art is great art.

RP - good choices (of course…), and I agree, there’s so much great new music, it’s just knowing where to find it - 6Music is one of the best places to find it. For anyone into jazz, if you haven’t already heard Ezra Collective or Knats (“Geordie jazz”), try them…

[Link] I think the 'big' clubs may already have the discarded (& hidden) gems market covered.