Venky’s v Indian Government (a) - 5/8/2025 - Post-Season Friendly (s/t late postponements)

[wilsdenrover]

2 hours ago, JHRover said:

A fairly rapid return hearing date there.

Supplementary matters is further down the list than new matters…

[wilsdenrover]

Just to lighten the mood…

I was watching the case and my wife woke up and asked what on earth I was doing.

I’d have felt less ashamed if she’d caught me watching porn 😁😁

Edited 12 hours ago by wilsdenrover

[Bohinen1983]

hahaha, how do you watch it? Wouldn't mind catching the next one..

[wilsdenrover]

6 minutes ago, Bohinen1983 said:

hahaha, how do you watch it? Wouldn't mind catching the next one..

You need to down the Webex meet app - then when the cause list is published there is a link on there.

I’ll add that link to this thread if you wish? - cause list is published the working day before the hearing is due.

Edited 16 hours ago by wilsdenrover

[lraC]

1 hour ago, bluebruce said:

That money can't have ran out already.

It depends on who has been having a slice.

[Forever Blue]

57 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Just to lightened the mood…

I was watching the case and my wife woke up and asked what on earth I was doing.

I’d have felt less ashamed if she’d caught me watching porn 😁😁

Did Barry have his nipple out again? 

[Tomphil2]

3 hours ago, bluebruce said:

That money can't have ran out already.

The bulk of it will have although no doubt further instalments are due.

Didn't the accounts get signed off because there was enough guaranteed income for about 12 months ?

It also said large owner support would be required to keep trading beyond that !

There's goin to have to be a player or two sold pretty soon i'd wager.

Edited 14 hours ago by Tomphil2

[lraC]

7 minutes ago, Tomphil2 said:

The bulk of it will have although no doubt further instalments are due.

Didn't the accounts get signed off because there was enough guaranteed income for about 12 months ?

It also said large owner support would be required to keep trading beyond that !

There's goin to have to be a player or two sold pretty soon i'd wager.

No need to sell anyone, as there is no impediment to them funding. 

[Tomphil2]

42 minutes ago, lraC said:

No need to sell anyone, as there is no impediment to them funding. 

When is an impediment not an impediment ?

When is no impediment actually an impediment ?

For answers contact Mr S Waggot, Ewood Park, Blackburn.

[bluebruce]

1 hour ago, Tomphil2 said:

The bulk of it will have although no doubt further instalments are due.

Didn't the accounts get signed off because there was enough guaranteed income for about 12 months ?

It also said large owner support would be required to keep trading beyond that !

There's goin to have to be a player or two sold pretty soon i'd wager.

There's nobody to be sold for more than about 3 million. Travis or Brittain, maybe Tronstad, could feasibly attract something like that. Carter maybe, he was once touted as being worth about 8 mill, but I think his stock has tanked with injuries and loss of form. There is no golden goose anymore since Szmodics and Wharton.

[Atko's Engine]

57 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

There's nobody to be sold for more than about 3 million. Travis or Brittain, maybe Tronstad, could feasibly attract something like that. Carter maybe, he was once touted as being worth about 8 mill, but I think his stock has tanked with injuries and loss of form. There is no golden goose anymore since Szmodics and Wharton.

Don't disagree, though tbf no-one considered Szmodics as a golden goose until 6 months before we sold him. You never quite know what's around the corner.

[Tomphil2]

1 hour ago, bluebruce said:

There's nobody to be sold for more than about 3 million. Travis or Brittain, maybe Tronstad, could feasibly attract something like that. Carter maybe, he was once touted as being worth about 8 mill, but I think his stock has tanked with injuries and loss of form. There is no golden goose anymore since Szmodics and Wharton.

Wouldn't be shocked to see a Tom Cairney style sale appearing overnight in desperate need of a few million to pay a bill.

Brittain would fit that kind of mould, couple of million up top and some add ons.

[Wheelton Blue]

1 hour ago, Tomphil2 said:

Wouldn't be shocked to see a Tom Cairney style sale appearing overnight in desperate need of a few million to pay a bill.

Brittain would fit that kind of mould, couple of million up top and some add ons.

The situation is a ticking time bomb.

There's only so many assets of worth left to sell.

Once they've exhausted these, then what next? The Academy? Ewood itself?

Sooner or later, the owners are going to have to stump up some cash, impediment or not. Otherwise, boom....

[JHRover]

2 hours ago, Tomphil2 said:

Wouldn't be shocked to see a Tom Cairney style sale appearing overnight in desperate need of a few million to pay a bill.

Brittain would fit that kind of mould, couple of million up top and some add ons.

Yep we are getting to that territory now. Flog Brittain, Travis or Tronstad to a Middlesbrough or West Brom for a couple of million to pay the lekky bills until August.

 

[simongarnerisgod]

17 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Yep we are getting to that territory now. Flog Brittain, Travis or Tronstad to a Middlesbrough or West Brom for a couple of million to pay the lekky bills until August.

 

im`e thinking similar,probably sell them all,then attempt to blame the players,saying they wanted to leave despite all of them receiving a "substantial  contract extension"

[Upside Down]

1 hour ago, Wheelton Blue said:

The situation is a ticking time bomb.

There's only so many assets of worth left to sell.

Once they've exhausted these, then what next? The Academy? Ewood itself?

Sooner or later, the owners are going to have to stump up some cash, impediment or not. Otherwise, boom....

Bring on the boom!

[lraC]

On 21/05/2025 at 01:32, Upside Down said:

The manner in which funding mysteriously just dried up as soon as they were under investigation leads me to believe that they were always doing something nefarious financially with the club.

That's not to say they ever actually funded the club properly, they just had no problems with spaffing 15m on losses that could have easily been avoided by just running the club properly.

When the investigation started in 2021 we saw an end to the lucrative contracts being handed out left right and centre (with lots of juicy commissions for agents) and saw a move to allowing contracts to expire when they became too expensive and the fire sale of everything that isn't nailed down. The downgrade of the women's team is the latest of these actions.

Although I don't believe that the financial element was 100% the reason for them buying the club in the first place, I'd hazard a guess and say it was a big part of their reason for the purchase. The othere three venktards would have needed to see some benefit to the purchase beyond fat baz wanting a new thing to flex in public. I'd say an overseas business woth turnover in the millions that can make huge losses without drawing much if any scrutiny could be deemed quite handy to a multi billion pound corporation looking to skirt some rules on regulations.

 

It certainly draws a lot less scrutiny, when not in the premier league. Funny how they couldn’t wait to relegate us and then ensure they firebomb any attempt to get promoted, each time it looks like it might happen.