Unbelievable that a bunch of fans went from nothing to a business worth £100m (£87m for 90%) in just over 20 years

DT won’t get to do anything with it as far as I understand as although they pay us £16m at he start they then have full autonomy to do as they please. It’s a bit like Jim Ratcliffe at United to my mind.

Ridiculous amount of cash – you have to suspect that it's window dressing and the reality will be less.

Most of the investment will be on the footballing side and SSC will control that. DTB are more of an oversight body with safeguards which is really the best scenario we could hope for.

So it only took the DTB 6 months to do this? :-)

OI I get the impression the DTB won’t get to just spunk this up the wall.

I hope they do get control, they can't be worse than the recent DTBs

Plus, of course, if we turn it down we got bust in 4-6 months

One good thing is unlike the hidden ones a few years back, these guys are talking about putting real money in to get control. Rather than about a third of the debt to take control.

Ridiculous amount of money but who is complaining? Haven't looked at how the money will be spent but even if the DTB waste some of it, it is a hell of a lot.

Music to the ears [Link]

Ah we keep the freehold! Hmm. This is well thought through.

Looking at that 90% after 5 years they sort of are buying outright. About 14m per year is a fighting relegation budget in the championship. Which means we’d need more than just that. Also need to consider what happens after 5 years as the club could struggle to match that budget without constant capital. Which might be why they want to complete stadium etc. otherwise we could free fall.

I have been very critical of the DTB, but in fairness they seem to have negotiated a very good deal here

This almost seems too good to be true so my one question is - how do we ensure the stadium is secure?

That level of investment will add growth above their investment, we have that potential, lots of clubs are pretty much saturated on their potential ability to leap forward with their demographic.

Timmy , indeed. Reminds me of the presentation about broncos. We never got anywhere near what’ we were told we’d get:

Dr Omar Mir: 1) He is an International Board Member of World Wide Technology, which describes itself as the largest privately owned tech company in the US. 2) He co-chairs G42 Europe & UK, the London subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi AI group. 3) He is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic. 4)He is Principal Benefactor of King’s Trust International.

Sell sell sell. This seems too good to be true!!

This is absolutely nuts. Would never have expected this level of investment wildest dreams. However it does make me wonder, why us? Why bother with all the hassle of dons trust, fan ownership etc when they can just buy a club outright.

Aaaaagh!

87 million ,not to be sniffed at,make it happen people

Was it definitely the £71m was additional to the £16m? That's what I thought just wanted to check.

No way this won’t pass - you had me at £87million

Very good and clear presentation- you can tell that there is a professional organisation involved here