Good God!...another attempt at a loan, a good player but can't see him coming here.

Armchaircritic - a majority stake of 52% is available.

That is an investment, for sure, it’s also a majority stake and the sum total equity of our owners .., that’s an exit.

It couldn’t be any clearer…, there isn’t even a vague amount of ambiguity …, sake.

If we didn’t have a command of the language, or understand what the word majority and number 52 means, then you’d be correct.

Bizarre to read Brett’s statement and conclude that it’s a minority investment.

Ashton was careful with his words…., a majority is an investment.

I really don’t get why you and some others even will suspend your ability to read, in order to ‘believe’

Is it because your self esteem is now attached to Ashton etc

What does it say to yourself if it wa slightly misplaced?

Nobody has plucked the words £100 million player sales, majority stake for sale (of club equity) from thin air.

If you’re saying Brett and the people closest to the owners, don’t have a clue what’s going on, I’d be really worried.

You think you have a better idea than Brett?

Why don’t you publish the correction form the club…, that states it’s a minority investment?

There’s a reason you can’t and there’s a reason that statement doesn’t exist.

Because it’s true. We ARE for sale, and it is as Brett says, a majority stake.

Even if you felt bad about it, and so like a religious zealot just denied it …., look at the £100 million sales you said wasn’t true…, replaced by loans

What does that tell you?

You do know we have parachute money, apparently didn’t need to sell players, and other relegated clubs go and spend record anounts on England players like Harry Winks and retain their talent.

We sold all of ours.

You don’t need to be Columbo do you…, even if Brett hadn’t laid it out in basic English.

You make it easy for Mark to treat you like a village idiot…, he needs to respect fans more…, but you need to learn to see past your blind emotions.

Your follow him off a cliff.

You already have. FOR SALE.

That’s nobodies opinion…., it’s what the owners have laid out in the most basic language imaginable…, you only need to understand one word…, majority.

How many of our fans don’t understand what that word means? They deserve Mark selling them Merch while we sell all our players. They couldn’t find their backside in a funnel.

Your ignorance is the biggest threat this club faces to progress.

Blueboy1981 .., dollar weakness, probably, but not Brexit.

Their investment has shrunk maybe 15% due to currency and dollar devaluing against the £.

They’re looking at that or maybe more in the next year or two.

If you had an asset, worth maybe 30% less just because of currency, and you could inflate its value by at a huge amount with player sales, while the club actually has players worth a significant amount, you’d sell too.

Them staying makes little financial sense. And they’ve lost faith in Ashton to deliver…, it’s a confluence of issues.

But apparently.., a rump of ignorant low IQ, emotionally invested types ‘know better’

The $ isn’t making their investment look poney, and we didn’t just come of the back of our worst ever top flight season, having spent a fortune.

It probably is the best timing for them to exit, it is what it is.

They’ll squeeze the balance sheet, very tightly, because any buyer faces the same challenges.

$200 million valuation or thereabouts …, will likely cost $220 million if you wait long enough…, assuming it’s American investors.

Suspect Textor or similar when the window is shut.

As low as £150-170 million…, and we’ll have a large amount of that sitting in cash. We don’t own our ground, and we are not asset rich .., hence the greater urgency to move players in to cash.

It’s fine… probably good for longer term.

Just pathetic how the club and their media lie to fans and how that’s ‘ok’

They treat us like village idiots and it’s not ok…, and their media machine is no better, although good of Phil to publish the statement in full…, just a shame some low IQ people need him to go around to their house and explain in LEGO what it actually means.

The factual truth is that the club is not currently up for sale but just like other clubs with more than one investment partner, the majority stakeholder could change in the future. For now the club is looking to use its strong paper valuation to attract new investment. Much of what dark horse says is accurate but it is misleading to say that the club is currently for sale…….. until it is ! For now best to concentrate on what we know rather offer speculation.

Bert - including you , in terms of your ‘Club not for Sale’ - Relegation killed off all Gamechanger plans - no point in denying it, or wishful thinking.
Looking to Off Load means For Sale.
RELEGATION was a Disaster, and now showing wholesale - as expected !!

There's a lot of very short memories here: loan with obligation to buy is good business and NOT the sort of nonsense that we had during the Evans years. Balancing the books a little more after 3 years of upward trend and heavy investment is prudent. We're not owned by Oil Sheikhs. Additionally, we are investing in youth with massive academy improvement after 25 years of neglect. It will take another 5 to "grow our own".

Blueboy - and what may I ask has Brexit got to do with Gamechanger’s plans ? I ask it as someone who voted to remain. You seem to position yourself as someone who loathes and detests anything to do with the club so your line of thought appears to be conditioned by that and that alone.

We are clearly being sold as part of game changers plans when they brought. Goal was to get to prem in 5-7 years and sell. We made it quicker than that but our value has massively increased as a result so they are selling up. The profit we have made for sales is not for re investing it's part of the strategy for making money for gamechanger. A small proportion will be used to try and find the next player that will make a big profit, hence our players trading model.

We will loan in players who have potential to improve and make money if we buy. Promotion is an added bonus.

Good grief, what a lot of bloody know it all whingers you are. Double guessing everything,
having conspiracy theories and purportedly knowing of course exactly what the shareholders are going to do.

Why cant you just support the club and take it as it comes, you can't change anything. I accept people are going to have different views but keep it real and try and keep it short.

dugoutdave…I totally agree (for what it’s worth.

I think maybe people are identifying the wrong person or people to vent about perceived lack of transfer dealings in. The people deciding who we want are KM and the data/scouting team, I hope I can safely say.

Then I'm sure MA has been given a budget to work with by the powers that be, that may be less than the over £100M we've pocketed through the first parachute payment and sales of Delap, Hutchinson and Broadhead, judging by the £8M spent so far, I think that's a reasonable assumption. That's not to say some decent money won't yet be spent on a couple of players, circa £15-20M each, say.

MA is not a miracle worker, he can't force players to sign for the club, and he can't spend more than he's got ( would be interesting to know how much, but never going to happen ).

I think we'll all hear the sounds of panic buttons being pressed in 5 days time when clubs everywhere realise there's just a week left of the window. It could all become very interesting then.

I guess we're all frustrated, but I would imagine the most frustrated of all is KM, and as one or two posters have pointed out, it has to be the right player at the right price and I would add to that, a team player with the right temperament and attitude too. Lets all just wait and see, a lot can happen in a few hours, never mind days. As a final comment, I have no problem with the right loan players, I just don't want to see half a team of them (or more ). Sorry for the length of this post, at least I hope you can understand it!

Moaners out in force again. WTF? 7 players in, 2 freebies, four loans with manageable fees and 4 year commitments and only one fee paid.
I reckon we are £57.5m up in CASH in this window, enough to sign Hackney (who DID NOT turn us down, just wanted to see if a PL club came in) and the lad from Scandinavia. If we land both of those, which I understand is really possible, we will still be £20m up and have signed 9 players. Given we lost Sam (34 next month), Cam B (wanted a 3 year deal at 30) Omari, (refused to play) and Liam (who was going to Southampton without that release clause) I think this will potentially be an excellent window. We have work to do to get those last two in, but FFS give the management a bit of credit, or go back to watching gogglebox!

Bert- as you would have seen by reading all posts not just some - I explained that I used the word Brexit as an alternative to the word RELEGATION - both have had the same effect - one on the Country, the other on the Club !!
Both a total Disaster !!

Well at least that’s one thing we agree on Blueboy !

Bazza, I think many in here are looking at things from a purely football point of view and not a financial one, though we should all know it's very much a business too, especially these days. Darkhorse28 certainly knows, as he has the figures close to hand and certainly seems to be coming at it from a financial point of view. As I've said to him in a previous post, if he turns out to be correct, I will most certainly apologise to him as I think I'm gracious enough, and I certainly don't go around accusing people of having a low IQ.

As for his mention of " Textor ". Heaven forbid, a majority owner in now two clubs, ( in Brasil and Belgium ) as he resigned at the end of last season as majority owner of Olympique Lyonnaise after they had been " relegated " by the French football authorities as a result of ongoing financial irregularities . He also sold his share in Crystal Palace in June (43%) to try and balance the books at Lyon. Subsequently you may know that OL appealed and were reinstated to Ligue1. Nothing there is a coincidence. Not the sort of guy we want holding the purse strings here, high IQ or not!

darkhorse28, I forgot to mention, as you state, a 52% majority stake is available. That leaves Gamechanger with 48% if it was to happen. That's not a sale, but a change of majority stake ownership. That doesn't make any purchaser of the 52% the sole owner. I am talking a complete change of ownership, with Gamechanger gone completely, when I say it is not a sale. If I was unclear, I thought I'd better explain.

One thing I'm sure we'd both agree on ( I hope!), is we want the best for ITFC on and off the pitch. Probably best to leave the financial side of things in the hands of those who's job it is. What will be will be, neither of us or anyone else in here can do anything about it. Let's call a truce, no more mudslinging, and just support the team, whatever we may think of off pitch activities.

This loan phenomenon seems to hark back to the Jewell and McCarthy eras...do we really need any more loanees...what has happened to our once vaunted youth system, which under Sir Bobby was the best in Britain ?

I have reliable info that the reason we are not getting him is because he only 12