Do they own the stadium if they expand it? Do they own the training ground if they invest in that? It is easy to come up with ideas that benefit us but people want something more than a minority shareholding if they are sinking a load of money. No control doesn't cut it.

Finding gems in the players that other folk left behind is pretty much our current mantra so I don’t see that investment plan as much of a change from our current way of doing things. I would prefer it if they said they were going to invest capital and expand the ground so it generates a few million a year in additional revenue, though.

The problem with the sell-up option has always been this ie not that there aren't investors out there, but that quite a lot of them are fools and liars.

Silk - absolutely, but the idea that there are loads of undervalued young players out there in London that have somehow escaped Chelsea, Fulham, Brentford, Hammers, Arsenal etc and will bring both profit and success on the pitch if we can unlock them is just snake oil.

If If that's the plan, we know it won't work! It's a no from me. Hopefully we'll get a detailed statement from the trust very soon. Speculation not what we want.

It's bound to be a Trust stitch up.

If we want to stay in control what do we offer investors to secure their investment? Nobody is going to keep covering our losses whilst leaving the same amateurs (choose your own meaning of the word) in charge. So it has to be something carved off that they are in control of.

I would like to see some guarantees written into the investment proposal as such. Something legally backed up which would protect us from lazy planning or at least allow recourse if promises are not met.

From the Brentford video I linked yesterday it showed how good recruitment can aid in selling talent.

The devil will be in the detail. For example, if Harrison and Richards were our players then the best way to garner value for them is within a good side. Having the experienced players in the squad is vital for maximising the sale value. Money from the sales could go to keeping that experience and pay off the bonds and the debts. For example the £1 million we may have got for Nkeng could be spent spent £500k against losses, £250 k to settle some bonds and £250k to reinvest in the squad.

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Bigger worry for me is that that IS the main plan from the investors but the trust will put it to us surrounded by lies about investing in the stadium and clearing the debt in order to get it past the vote (and save their skins from their pitiful financial conduct) before we then spend a few years asking “where is the investment?” while we see youth players getting passed off the pitch before the investors realise it’s not working and walk away.

That’s brilliant Vic.

Concerning if that is what the boards have been working on and will present to us with a gun to our heads.

Doesn't make a great read that Beetrand piece. Sounds like he thinks the Robinson/Chelsea approach works brilliantly (eye roll).

If the Bertrand consortium invested, could we please play “Ça plane pour moi” as the players run into the pitch every home game?

We don’t need an investor for the football side. We need someone that will clear our stadium debt. That debt is a millstone round our neck as it stops us having a decent playing budget or extending the stadium.

Nice one Mike Batt [Link]

Speculative article that to be honest is not particularly well written (seems written by chatgpt) and doesn't do a good job of explaining what this investment actually is. However good that there has been a leak as that means we should be pretty close to an actual announcement by the club which will hopefully go into more detail.

Proper F1 cars from the 60s racing at Goodwood on Sky.

(I’m guessing the answer is that it’s whether the ref sees a player as being in an attacking or defensive position at the time of the handball incident - and also whether they’re wearing an MK or a Wimbledon shirt too of course…)

Hopefully the right link this time [Link]

RP - exactly, and what about midfielders….?

We’re a football club not a WeWork.

The whole youth conveyor belt route failed at Chelsea so I don’t see why we should try to replicate it at L1/L2 level and expect any different.