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Clever the way you did that, I'm impressed.

 

Read about the average losses in the Championship, in the 17/18 season it was skewed by Villa, Fulham and Wolves, but the average that season was £22m. About £1.9m per month, £430k a week. Rupp doesn’t have the money to fund that for long. At the moment there is excitement over a few tens of thousands for progress to the third round of the cup. You’re a mug if you think Rupp is funding a rise to the Championship.

 

Yes there may well be another person willing to buy the club, but that's not what you are asking for. You want someone with the will and the funds to invest heavily in what you admit is a permanently loss making business. I don't believe that person exists in Bradford or beyond at this moment in time.

On the question of why did Rupp buy in the first place. This is just my opinion, but I think he was buying a rich man's toy. Something he has that his mates don't. As I say just my own thought with nothing to back it up.

 

I agree its important, and we all want progress, I just don't see that investor waiting in the wings, so maybe we need a different plan. As I said you made some good suggestions elsewhere in the thread.

 

It’s a tricky one as we’ve no doubt gone backwards under Rupp so I can’t praise him, however last season we did have our biggest budget in years without player sales and cup runs. So for me money isn’t the issue under Rupp it’s who he trusted with the company credit card, and unfortunately it was a mad man who’s set us back years.

I don’t buy into that we’d still be top end League 1 if Lawn and Rhodes were still here though. That 15/16 season we were overstretched with loans and I think Parkinson would have left to Bolton regardless with their big budget and he’d realised that was his best opportunity at Championship football. If Lawn and Rhodes has been here for 16/17 we’d still have needed a new manger imo and it wouldn’t have been McCall if Lawn were still there. But I bet a party line of “we need to cut our cloth accordingly” would have come out as we’d not had a cup run in over a year and no player sales. We had to sell Wells only a year after getting to a cup final, so who knows what our budget would have been.

If there’s a stupidly rich person out there, who’ll chuck money at us and let footballing people call the shots, come this way please.

 

I was a bit peeved when the only english footie on the telly this last weekend was Tranmere v Wycombe, galls me to see these 2 mediocre teams in a league above us, we must get out straight away this season whatever the cost...

 

Or sell up with potentially more value in the club? Assuming there is somebody willing to invest.

 

And kissing the badge at Fleetwood after the playoff win.
It’s time he dug deeper than he currently is and get us to the championship where we can then attract bigger fish as far as investors are concerned.

 

I have to admit, I checked the bbc website to see if they were non league or not.

 

Stefan doesn't give a flying fck if we get to the Prem. This was his sidekicks dream. I get the impression Rupp doesn't even know or care what division we are currently in. The last piece of engagement we had from him was when he fired Rupp Rahic. Since then, nothing. Come January, we'll see how interested he is in propelling us up the leagues.

 

@Bradford End said you’re a delivery driver, didn’t know they had PA’s?

 

Easiest thing in the world to say he or and other needs to go, have you anyone in mind to replace him ?..

 

A typical @Fordy117 reply to a simple question he tell us all he wants Julian out but can't put a name to his rellacement.
We're 3rd in the league with games in hand for Gods sake and Julian is very much a part of that team that has got us there but not an ounce if credit from Mr Negative..

 

Right. You can't name one single person can you Fordy? Not one. As such it's all nonsensical gibberish, a fantasy. We can all live in a fantasy world, it's not that difficult and of course I would love a rich investor to pop along and start spending the dosh.
I've seen precious little sign of that happening. There lies the problem. Bradford City have never really been an attractive proposition for investment and we all know that buying a football club is incredibly risky.
Where's the evidence?