Jackie Broon

Not with our owner, we could be relegated to the Northern League and he'd still want £400m for the club. His ego clearly won't let him sell under any circumstance unless he makes a hefty profit.

It's very unlikely that anyone else is out there that would be willing to throw the amount of money at them that they've become accustomed to. I'm sure someone would want to buy them but I doubt that they'd get another sugar-daddy type owner. There just aren't that many mega rich blokes out there that are willing to plough hundreds of millions into football the way Abramovich, Mansour and the PSG owners have. The likelihood is that all of the people with that much of an interest in football and that much money already own clubs. They are not in a position to compete for titles as a self sustaining club, without a sugar daddy they'll drop out of the top four and that global brand position will quickly be forgotten.

I get the impression he's losing interest Chelsea now Man City are looking like they'll dominate the league for the foreseeable future. I think he's looking for a way out, at least of funding them to the extent he has, and the visa issues are a convenient excuse.

https://yellowsforum.co.uk/threads/charlie-the-big-don.903/post-51703 Methvan posts under the username lundinsponytail on there. He seems to be pretty universally considered to be a bit of a bellend by his fellow Oxford supporters.

Some guy called the Donald getting his rocks off on Twitter, who'd have thought? Let's make a marra's clerb great again!

Ashley started in much the same vein with Mort the slick Charlie to his Don. It will eventually turn very sour. At best they're going to end up stuck in the middle of the Championship without the funds to challenge for promotion.

Blind eye or deaf ear. Thanks for that, I'm as grateful as the pontiff would be for a roll of Andex when defecating in woodland.

Lots of them seem convinced that there are more investors waiting in the wings to just hand the club loads of money to spend. They seem to have turned a blind ear to the part of that podcast where they said any transfer dealings would be with the "fan's money" and that part of the problem with the club is that the fans expect the owner to bankroll spending.

It's not unusual for people to buy a business with a loan then transfer the liability for the loan to the business. It's what the Glazers did with Man United. Rather than being that type of circumstance it seems like it's just a roundabout way for Short to give the club away but take the parachute payments, they've probably done it like that for tax reasons or something. It really doesn't look good for them though, they're still going to be stuck with huge overheads for a few years and now their biggest income stream is gone.

I was at the SJP game, honestly if I were them I wouldn't let that one die either. We had had the much better season finished some 6 points ahead of them in third, the first leg we got a good result 0-0 with Budgie saving a last minute dodgy pen they got. It looked all set for us to finish the job at home, we had a lethal strike force in Quinn and McGhee, but we just didn't turn up on the evening and all I remember about that night was that fat thighed bastard Gabbiadini killing us. In recent memory it probably the most important game between the two sides and they took all the bragging rights. Still annoys me to this day that they went up that year despite them getting beat in the playoff final by Swindon. If we had've won that playoff there's every chance that the Keegan managerial years would've never happened. Much like the six in a row, they ended up languishing back in obscurity with their "bragging rights" even deeper in our shadow than before.

What a night it must've been for them... only to be relegated the following season and see us go become title contenders within a few years.

Because he didn't fling himself to the floor according to Sky. Of course, if he had he would've been a cheating forrin.

They're a strange bunch like. Their billionaire owner who had enough money to cover their operating losses out of his own pocket has been replaced by bloke who has been trying, unsuccessfully for years, to buy promotion from the conference. Cue unbridled rejoicing on Wearside They seem to be suffering from some sort of collective form of bipolar disorder. There's going to be a crashing low for them when reality hits. They're an odd bunch the mackems, after all they've been through they don't seem to have developed an ounce of healthy skepticism.

On the basis of this: https://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/football/sunderland-afc/stewart-donald-reveals-substantial-investment-in-sunderland-once-takeover-is-complete-1-9143153 He's actually talking about putting around £10m into the consortium that he's now a 'major player' in, which is a substantial amount for him, but a pittance in football terms.

In his statement Short said there were higher bidders, but these guys were the preferred bid. So there must be some cash being paid to him at some point. I think it's very likely that if/when the full details of the deal drip out the current blind euphoria on rtg will very quickly turn around. They've pretty much all gone from despising him to being entirely confident he's a good bloke with the interest of the club at heart and has given them a parting gift of £140m. There will almost certainly be some very big strings attached to that. I wouldn't be surprised if he's walked away retaining the ownership of all their land and property, rights to the parachute payment income, player sales and lots of other caveats.

No chance our fat cunt would ever do that. Yep. Interesting stuff in that statement about being run ‘realistically though’. Doesn’t sound like they’ll get much money apart from the parachute payments Realistically is sensible with them being in League One, as it's such a cut off in funds, Parachute payments aside, their wage bill is going to be monstrous at that level. I'd suspect the parachute payments have been committed to cover the part of the debt secured against them. If Short has paid that off, plus written off his own part of the debt, that's an astonishing gesture!

Fenton

It's a good read. Who wouldn't want to buy a League 1 club with £100m+ debt? "Buy us on the cheap, loads of land around the stadium ripe for development." Yes because land in Sunderland is in high demand. Maybe they could build some high end apartment blocks for rich Russians to buy? Someone gives him a reality check regarding Sunderland property prices later in the thread. Just think of the street names they could have... Relegation Way, Capitulation Crescent, Administration Close...

Classiest supporters.

Not quite, Bolton still on 40. Bolton and Burton play each other. 41 points is the minimum for survival. They are mathematically down.

That team of championship standard plodders is now possibly going to finish in the top 10, something they have managed only 3 times in the past 60 years.

And Shearer's final match, what a way to go out! I can't recall much fuss being made by us about the fact that it was the fifth consecutive win, given the 'in a row' thing that the mackems seem so obsessed with.

Yes, but only on goal difference if either Bolton or Birmingham don't get another point.