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How many season tickets did we sell? 12,750 was it? Half that and a bit more say to be conservative at 6,000 and double the season ticket prices across the board. Which other club still would get near 6,000 season ticket holders if we pay say on average when you include seniors and children £300? Then you have to take in to account every other club has a discount for seniors and children. Even with cheap tickets we should bring in more than any other club at this level, then you have the sponsorship that goes with having more viewers, more shirt sales etc. I’d be shocked if we don’t bring the most money in, yet our budget feels like it’s not even top 3. Something doesn’t add up, for me we don’t need an owner who is going to throw good after bad money away on big expensive squads, we need on who cares about football and will go through every part of the business as to why our income alone can’t give us the biggest budget at this level.

First thing that springs to mind is we don’t own our own facilities and I imagine they cost a fortune for this level especially the stadium, until we get someone in who won’t just rely on a cup run or player sale to give a bit extra but looks for a way to get that expensive weight from around our neck we won’t progress. If someone came in and bought the stadium back, even if they made the club pay it back in a long term loan we could add £2-300,000 a year onto the playing budget just there. Selling the stadium saved us, but this last 10 years it’s played a part in holding us back imo.

Personally I don’t think Rupp cares as long as it’s self funding and has no ambition to develop the club, Sparks and Adams can talk about Championship football but their hands are tied without the right owner.

 

A long term lease is the worst way of having the use of anything, You have all the responsibility of repairs and maintenance but none of the advantages of ownership, It can also deter buyers as they not only buy the club but have to legally take on the rest of the lease,

 

Don't usually disagree with you Wilsden, but your comment, presumably aimed at my generation, that we started watching City in the 4th and have the mindset of not having the right to be higher, is so untrue of anyone I know. We all want to get out of this awful league and personally, we should be aiming for establishing ourselves in the Championship.

 

No difference with BCFC fans then! No difference with Oldham fans then, No difference with Charlton, Swindon, Blackpool and many others including instant judgement yesterday at the Blades. In fact no difference full stop.

 

Sorry but that's absolute nonsense. You don't delete your social media account just because you want a "few days" off.

You put the phone on silent or mute the notifications for a while.

If it's a long term illness though and potentially affects, and has been affecting his job for the last few months then I'll apologise in full and retract the statements I've made.

 

I think Rupp could/should start to build some bridges with fans by spending more time in Bradford at fans forum events.
I don’t wanna hear Sparks bullshit, I wanna hear it from the organ grinders mouth on how he intends to push our club forwards rather than just stagnate and survive in league 2.
This coming January window is crunch time for him really because failure to invest could see season ticket sales drop substantially in the summer.

 

Just goes through the motions like everyone at City.

 

You can blame Rupp for all failures at the club. He’s accountable because he’s a shite owner and needs to bloody leave the club.

 

Rupp could give Adams 10 million to build a team and he would buy the wrong players and then play them out of position in some daft formation only seen in his head, Blame Rupp all you like but the blame for the shambles on the pitch is down to Adams

 

People like yourself need to get away from this Rupp saved us nonsense, he rejected a business deal if he’d have got a price he wanted I’m sure he’d have sold. I’m sure he’s not a bad guy but he’s still a business man and certainly not a football man. Rupp out .

 

It's Rupp it's Rupp,
It's Stefan Stefan Rupp,
he says feck all he does feck all,
it's Stefan Stefan Rupp

 

I think for Fordy to feel that he is committed to the club Rupp would have to relinquish all his other business interests, business interests that made his wealth, move to England (probably move into Valley Parade), and throw his money into the bottomless pit that is English football.I
None of us actually know how deep Rupp's involvement in the club is and if some of us aren't prepared to believe anything Ryan Sparks tells us we will never know how strong his commitment is. Glass half empty syndrome.

That's reminded me of my plans for my two days off, after washing to car!

 

Yes exactly and I naively bought the 1903 club with the campaign stating it would give DA a bigger budget, is that why we have ended up with Port Vales 4th choice striker ?
There’s some brilliant people but the club really does annoy me at times.

 

Unless you already own it I don’t understand the owning your own ground saves rent argument. If you live in a rented house, then unless someone gifts it to you, or you have the purchase price in your bank account, then if you buy if you need to pay a mortgage or a loan. Unless someone donates £5m or whatever to Bradford City, they’re going to have to pay back the debt instead of rent. And unless Stefan is either very generous or very daft, he’s not giving away £5m unless he’s damn sure he’s getting it back when he sells up.

 

It is his business and I'd suggest he wants to grow it as with any other business, he's not in business to stand still, so although it would be great to be self sufficient come January a cash injection to cement our promotion push would be a wise and welcome move, you remember the Curle/Townsend scenario Jack kept his brass in his pocket saying the squad was good enough to achieve promotion and that ultimately cost us a great chance of League One football IMO.

 

I think this deal collapsing was for the best. I dont see how selling pieces of digital art - worthless to anyone outside of city’s fanbase in truth - could generate enough money to sustain what we are looking for. Let another club be the guinea pig but surely the idea only works at man utd level - a club with global appeal.

i hope others are interested in buying the club but lets have it in pounds sterling - a worthwhile currency trade-able between clubs in real life.

 

@ModernBantam without wanting to veer too far away from Rupp on this thread, I don't think there's any doubt that they had the means to buy the club - apparently they've got some very serious financial muscle behind them. It's not even about all the crypto/NFT stuff because that created a massive "dead cat" type diversion of people arguing the pros/cons and ignorance/knowledge of NFT's etc rather than looking at what the business plan was. Look at FGR for example, Dale Vince's latest business scheme is about making diamonds out of the sky which makes NFT look safe, boring and easily understandable but no one is up in arms about the weird stuff because he's got a cogent plan for FGR.

I agree with you on the visibility of the deal being a huge issue, if it hadn't blown up on Thursday, I think they would have had much more chance of getting a deal done.

Re the adidas stuff - I can see the advantages to a tie in with Pixel Vault (which is very different to a buy out) and there are a lot of clubs already exploiting NFT. NFT in English football is still relatively new but anyone who keeps an eye on football finance news will have been familiar with the concept for at least a year. There has been a lot of bad press but most of that is focussed around the value to fans/investors (but let's leave that argument to one side for now) rather than business side of things from a club perspective. I think that will start to change over the next 12 months as club's 2022 accounts are published and we'll start to see what sort of impact NFT is having to balance sheets in the industry.

 

Excellent post - I think a lot of peoples reservations have been purely because they don’t understand the business that these guys are coming from.
Id much rather have someone invest in us in the crypto currency business rather than what the owners of Man City and Newcastle represent.

 

James Martin deleted his Twatter account and all other social media presence after he got a load of pelters. A load of pelters cos he charged punters 40 quid for a "personal online cooking class", and the live feed went down, and then the audio went down, and most people couldn't follow the recipe correctly. And he didn't refund anyone, and when people were calling him out for being unprofessional, he threw all his toys out of the pram and deleted his accounts. So yeah, people do it. Generally those people who don't like to hear the truth up close.

Of course....a week later, he was back on all platforms again!

 

I don’t know what’s wrong with him but you do understand that he can just not look at his social media if ill.

Who is taking over while he is off? The tea boy?