A successful football team is a nice hobby if you have money to burn.glad we have someone who thinks so!

Oddsock - thanks :)

I don’t get it. Omar has made mega amounts of money and seems on paper to be a really smart bloke. Why oh why would he want to invest in us. Maybe it is just for philanthropy, if you have that much money maybe can do good

Aideen was thinking the same thing

BBC already has a write up of sorts [Link]

After the £16million is the rest a loan

Can someone help me understand what the SSC guys meant by a B team? Seemed to be different from an U21 squad. What league would they be in? I thought they mentioned about playing in Europe or something. Was confused!

If it’s Hugh in and Buckley out then that will sway it for me. Speaks well, not patronising or smarmy, and doesn’t make it look like we have no right to ask questions.

The "other guy" is Omar Mir who is the money behind the consortium (maybe others too). He's an AI man

£16 million initial investment for 34% followed by at least £87 million (think this includes the £16m) over at least 5 years. They get 2 people on the board. Trust retains 50.1 voting rights but they end up with 90% commercial value. They will invest in training ground, stadium, playing budget for both men and womens teams and youth development. Man with the money is some geezer called Omar Mir.

Oi, teacher [Link]

Donial - I do agree, Hugh seems like he'd be a good asset for stadium development and marketing, Ryan may be quite fresh faced, and not adding much on the face of it, but also willing to admit the existing football management team have been effective. Not really too worried about the 'faces', as long as the money rolls in then we'd make it work. DT still have that challenge at board level rather than investors operating in a vacuum.

you should get an email with all the documents tomorrow a4e. I only dipped in and out of the meeting so won't try to give a summary

*TIA btw

Not at the meeting and not been able to see it - for those in the same position as me (probably most fans), what’s the simplest summary, and who are “the investors”? Can it be made a sticky for people to refer to, including a link to whoever the moneymen are - be useful to have an idea where the money is supposedly coming from…

Sean Fox on X. "Bribe".

This Hugh guy is impressive, Bertrand talks in meaningless buzzwords, and the other guy looks like the intern was invited on stage.

Ultimately we had no option but to take whatever deal is on offer- in that context what we are being offered is pretty much as good as we could hope for

Pound for a pound. These people aren't doing it for altruistic reasons but anyone who thought someone would put that kind of dough in out of kindness was deluded. What a time to be a womble, time to strap ourselves in.

I know what you mean Bush

Presumably Nick Robertson will get some for having his holding diluted as it appears to be. I doubt the fan's small number of shares will accrue much

My gut instinct doesn't trust them. But that won't change the fact that this will pass with flying colours

" Something about minority shareholders getting £2m as a thank you." What's that all about?

I wonder if any of the investors may take over as plc Chair, thus ending Mr. Buckley's multi year search for a succession plan.

Has the £400K been mentioned yet