Morning all. I think we must give a lot of credit to the board for the work to bring us to this point. A much better proposition than I was expecting. I look forward to reading the detail. Was impressed by Hugh, albeit I suspect his day to day involvement will be limited.

Nick / you are right - but a presentation taking out the flowery bits would just them saying we are going to invest lots of money and we want to make more money when we leave - they touched on the community stuff - and again you are right - they were talking about expanding community outreach to more of London and Internationally

I agree with everything Hash says at 7.04 - only one thing to add: 12. Omar Mir to henceforth be known and referred to as “Freddie” (from last night…).

Also, Pricey did a LOT of the heavy lifting last night, kudos to him.

I know. It’s still a donation though. My biggest worry in this is Bertrand. I know we’re not all good at public speaking, but he spoke in so many vagaries. If he’s in charge of all football ops thats a bit scary. I hope the investor has an easy way to get rid of him if we end up being one of his mates bitch clubs

TM - they're not donating £200k unless the vote passes. It's part of the deal.

* ... if the vote doesn't pass.

They're here to make money, however they do this. They are our new overlords because there's no future for us if it doesn't. But please no-one fall for any illusion or bullshit about them seeking us out because they love us and they want the best for us. Rosen: "We have looked before at investment at other clubs." That tells you what they're about. It's fine because it's what has to happen because we have millions of pounds of money to source and we don't have it. But please let's all just be honest about this. All the stuff about charity involvement and British culture is charm offensive irrelevance. And we don't need any help strengthening our links with the community. We're already amazing at that.

They’re donating £200k to the DTB lol, but yeah, the finance bros said they took this to the money man so it’s not like Omar had a burning desire to invest in a fan-owned community club. That said, Im vote “yes”. Life moves on, we got to L1 that seems to be the ceiling. Let’s push on

If this was philanthropy, we'd be getting donations and they wouldn't be getting 90 per cent of any sale.

Still waiting for that pack to drop. Having slept (a little) on it: 1. This will change our club for ever if this goes through. If it doesn't go through we are in the shit so... 2. I don't like it philosophically - money, money, money. 3. I don't trust them 4. It's obvious we don't have any other choice but to say yes. 5. If we say no we will just have the same thing in 6 months time but with different people and maybe/probably with less favourable terms for us 6. We go to football to have fun and it is more fun when we score goals and win games and this seems like it will help us do that for the next few years at least. 7. The safeguards seem almost too good to be true and if they are true / too good (let's see what the pack lays out) then we have what we need. 8. I do like what they are intending to spend money on...having a really good academy, training ground, infrastructure and youth development....this is sustainable and could make us a great community asset in SW London. 9. I am still absolutely staggered by the amounts of money involved. It is way more, way more way more than i was expecting. 10. Nobody with a brain cell would invest in any football club to 'make money' so whatever their motivations are - if it is really philanthropy, or is it ego, or just having some fun / hobby or maybe he thinks this gets him an 'in' in a sporting industry where he thinks he can use his tech company to make money in other ways. 11. vote yes. Maybe we will regret it in 5 years, maybe we will regret it in 10 years or in 20 years or maybe we won't. If we vote no, we are likely to regret it in a few months and the best case scenario is someone wins the euro millions and gives it all to the club which is probably a one in a million chance.

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Investor

Told you it was a lot of money and our potential investors isn’t even a football fan.

I wasn’t exact a massive JJ fan from his early days but I do think he’s done ok given his resources. I don’t think that if and when he leaves here via whatever mechanism that he’ll go on to higher L1 or championship - but I wouldn’t begrudge him if he does I think he’s kept his head down and got on with it here against all the club bullshit he’s had to deal with.

Let’s be honest we can scrutinise it as much as we want but the ‘sheeple’ dons trust members who only got membership via ST purchases will follow the DT recommendation anyway.

Good,move us forward. We are all ageing, would be great to get to the championship. And would be lovely for our younger fans who have only experienced boring football and lack of goals.

I think CC may survive some while but if the deal goes through I think that it is odds on for JJ to be given a short period to prove himself then be pushed out for a higher profile manager (which we would have a chance of attracting if we have a decent budget/can pay a realistic salary)

💥 NickD this is the new reality.

These will buy the club eventually. This is the inevitable outcome. We can talk about protections of 50.1 and the stadium etc etc but money will talk at the end of the day. But it's either this or extinction, so pick your poison.

I hope the investment isn’t going to be spaffed away as rewards for current players.

It’s a survival season either way.

Well they made it clear that they felt JJ and Cope had done a great job and would want to see what they could do with a proper budget

After the last two games it makes you wonder if it has already happened

Changing Man, thats a good point, but could it work the other way to spur them on to try and impress the new guard? Potential more salary amd rewards for players