| New Owners at Ipswich Town 10:38 - Jan 15 with 1053 views | bournemouthblue |
A hypothetical scenario, the only way I can see a way out of our current mire. Ipswich must be available at a knockdown price currently with Evans' primary income being in the hospitality industry. We also have the new CoVid wage caps kicking in next season.
It must be remembered we were very close to be being bought by Sullivan and Gold before Evans stole in and hoovered us up. Karen Brady is our Chief Exec in a parallel universe somewhere and I'm sure we're not playing in League One but we are where we are sadly.
What are the likely options out there?
Mike Ashley - Much rumoured to be interested, if he can ever get Newcastle sold, probably not the dream candidate but has a better record than Evans and probably has more capital. Newcastle expect more than us but Ashley probably wouldn't seem to tight in comparison to Evans
The owners of Godolphin, relatively local with their Newmarket connection, we already have a horse on our badge and we play in blue. I'm led to believe Alan Brazil has continually pleaded with the Godolphin people to buy us, on his various Newmarket visits. As many have said before, the moral compass of the owner is highly questionable and would be likely to put many fans off.
The owners of the Port of Felixstowe, if only for some kind of semi-local connection. The company who own Felixstowe own most of the major ports around the World, if they had any interest in sport, they may have already bought someone if they don't already own a Chinese Club?
Red Bull are supposedly keen to own an English club, the obvious choice was MK Dons however they have distanced themselves from them, I believe West Ham were mooted also and you certainly sell your soul to the devil with Red Bull but they certainly know how to achieve success.
Another modern football consortium, much like Watford's model, however for every Watford success, there's a failure like Charlton so be very careful what you wish for!
Ed Sheeran, always an unrealistic prospect I suspect, he is very wealthy and he wants to stay that way but he might be able to attract someone to the club who does have the cash flow required. It's fair to say, no one buys a football club to make money, there are other reasons for owning a football club, sadly in some cases they become a bit of a play thing for someone where money has ceased being an issue, that's modern football sadly but ultimately you need a decent owner who is ambitious. I believe Evans threw the ambition out the window once Paul Jewell was gone. McCarthy was a very decent manager but he was never given the budget he deserved to get us over the line.
There are countless other candidates out there I'm sure, Burnley are about to be taken over, hardly the sexiest prospect but far more appealing given their recent Premier League success.
We are a gamble at the moment, anyone with any ambition would be buying us on the hope to take us back to the Premier League and that's probably a ten year project at the very minimum. The main appeal is we are probably available on the cheap, not that Evans will necessarily take a cheap offer. [Post edited 15 Jan 2021 11:50]
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| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 10:48 - Jan 15 with 1013 views | RegencyBlue |
I do think if someone was looking to acquire a football club, now is the time to do it. You could drive a very hard bargain as you are effectively buying at the bottom of the market and my guess is there are a lot of owners out there desperate to sell.
Having said that I see two obvious problems as there are, unless you have an affinity to the club, better options out there to buy. Firstly Evans has done long term damage to this club, which will take a while to fix, and secondly I really do wonder if he has accepted the value of the club is virtually nil. |  | | |
| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 10:51 - Jan 15 with 1015 views | Guthrum |
One possibly attractive factor is that, assuming the pricetag is reasonable enough, we are getting into the realms of being a "development project" akin to Swansea or Bournemouth. Picked up in the lower division and carefully - but well - funded on a run to the Prem over several seasons.
Obviously the wage caps make that more difficult today than it was 10 or 15 years ago when those clubs set out on that course. |  |
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| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 10:58 - Jan 15 with 984 views | SomethingBlue |
| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 10:51 - Jan 15 by Guthrum |
One possibly attractive factor is that, assuming the pricetag is reasonable enough, we are getting into the realms of being a "development project" akin to Swansea or Bournemouth. Picked up in the lower division and carefully - but well - funded on a run to the Prem over several seasons.
Obviously the wage caps make that more difficult today than it was 10 or 15 years ago when those clubs set out on that course. |
This is a good observation and there are definitely potential investors out there right now looking at bottom end Champ/top half L1 with an eye to something like this, although having a name and a history like we do does help massively. |  |
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| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 11:19 - Jan 15 with 936 views | LankHenners |
Is the Bergkamp/Kuyt/Larsson consortium still looking around after not buying Wycombe? Expect they won't have the funds to take on a club like us but would know how a club should be run. Might be a bit of a laugh as well. |  |
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| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 11:23 - Jan 15 with 927 views | footers |
| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 10:58 - Jan 15 by SomethingBlue |
This is a good observation and there are definitely potential investors out there right now looking at bottom end Champ/top half L1 with an eye to something like this, although having a name and a history like we do does help massively. |
I think that's one thing people have to praise ME for, if nothing else. His refusal to sell us to some fly-by-night chancer is admirable, even if it means him losing millions each year. Our name and history deserve the right custodian, otherwise we run the risk of tarnishing our reputation even more than we already have.
I'd hope that some of those investors could be the right match for us, but it would mean fairly heavy initial investment followed by years of steady custodianship to get us back to where we were. Taking a gamble and ending up with a 'pump and dump' type owner could see us spiral even further down the leagues. |  |
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| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 11:26 - Jan 15 with 910 views | Pendejo |
| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 11:19 - Jan 15 by LankHenners |
Is the Bergkamp/Kuyt/Larsson consortium still looking around after not buying Wycombe? Expect they won't have the funds to take on a club like us but would know how a club should be run. Might be a bit of a laugh as well. |
Probably still better at their nature age than some of ours theoretically at their prak |  |
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| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 11:52 - Jan 15 with 878 views | bournemouthblue |
| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 11:23 - Jan 15 by footers |
I think that's one thing people have to praise ME for, if nothing else. His refusal to sell us to some fly-by-night chancer is admirable, even if it means him losing millions each year. Our name and history deserve the right custodian, otherwise we run the risk of tarnishing our reputation even more than we already have.
I'd hope that some of those investors could be the right match for us, but it would mean fairly heavy initial investment followed by years of steady custodianship to get us back to where we were. Taking a gamble and ending up with a 'pump and dump' type owner could see us spiral even further down the leagues. |
That's the danger really, we don't what a snake oil salesman
We want good owners and with new owners, there's no guarantee they'll be that
However, the only way our trajectory under Evans seems to be is down and we desperately need a new injection of life into this club
The issues transcend Lambert, who maybe making lots of mistakes but he isn't the root cause of the issue ultimately. | |
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| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 12:41 - Jan 15 with 849 views | Guthrum |
| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 11:23 - Jan 15 by footers |
I think that's one thing people have to praise ME for, if nothing else. His refusal to sell us to some fly-by-night chancer is admirable, even if it means him losing millions each year. Our name and history deserve the right custodian, otherwise we run the risk of tarnishing our reputation even more than we already have.
I'd hope that some of those investors could be the right match for us, but it would mean fairly heavy initial investment followed by years of steady custodianship to get us back to where we were. Taking a gamble and ending up with a 'pump and dump' type owner could see us spiral even further down the leagues. |
Altho we are distinctly less attractive for the chancers given we don't own the land under our ground, so it can't be sold off or used as collateral for loans. | |
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| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 14:04 - Jan 15 with 787 views | BlueandTruesince82 |
We were never close to being owned by Sullivan and Gold.... Evans had entered into a period of exclusivity before they even bid.... not sure what impact that has on any parallel universe but just saying |  |
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| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 14:05 - Jan 15 with 779 views | footers |
| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 14:04 - Jan 15 by BlueandTruesince82 |
We were never close to being owned by Sullivan and Gold.... Evans had entered into a period of exclusivity before they even bid.... not sure what impact that has on any parallel universe but just saying |
I'm glad that the shady pornographers didn't buy us. That goes treble if they were to bring the awful Karen Brady with them. | |
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| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 14:09 - Jan 15 with 769 views | longtimefan |
| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 11:23 - Jan 15 by footers |
I think that's one thing people have to praise ME for, if nothing else. His refusal to sell us to some fly-by-night chancer is admirable, even if it means him losing millions each year. Our name and history deserve the right custodian, otherwise we run the risk of tarnishing our reputation even more than we already have.
I'd hope that some of those investors could be the right match for us, but it would mean fairly heavy initial investment followed by years of steady custodianship to get us back to where we were. Taking a gamble and ending up with a 'pump and dump' type owner could see us spiral even further down the leagues. |
Very much agree with what you’ve said there. However, because of the salary cap any investment in playing staff will be severely limited. I’d probably argue that investment would be low initially (unless you’re just talking of the price paid to purchase the club), but would need to ramp up substantially following any promotion, | | | |
| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 19:01 - Jan 15 with 621 views | istanblue |
| New Owners at Ipswich Town on 11:23 - Jan 15 by footers |
I think that's one thing people have to praise ME for, if nothing else. His refusal to sell us to some fly-by-night chancer is admirable, even if it means him losing millions each year. Our name and history deserve the right custodian, otherwise we run the risk of tarnishing our reputation even more than we already have.
I'd hope that some of those investors could be the right match for us, but it would mean fairly heavy initial investment followed by years of steady custodianship to get us back to where we were. Taking a gamble and ending up with a 'pump and dump' type owner could see us spiral even further down the leagues. |
What evidence do you have that Evans has rejected offers for the club on that basis? Far more likely would be that any potential new owner didn't meet his asking price, or - as I've heard recently - he doesn't want to sell. |  | | |
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