MarkG
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I don’t particularly care for Darryl Eales. I called it out when he arrived and got canned for it on here. He was, like any good investment banker, good at schmoozing his key stakeholders. But nobody held a gun to Tigers head.
Stewart Donald saw the terms of sale for what they were and avoided it like the plague.
The sale took forever, whilst we as a club tanked downwards, and the reason it took forever was because Darryl was working out how to screw the most out of Tiger (read oufc) and Tiger was working out how to buy a club with no financial backers whilst committing no upfront cash.
He found away to trade off future oxford United assets against his current purchase, buying his way into a club he didn’t want for anything else but as a property pawn against the council. He then sought backers, very wealthy property investors , who looked to join in anticipation of future fruit. None are willing to commit funds to keep Whyte or Nelson, or get us to the championship, as that’s not the strategy.
That’s why we have never heard the strategy, because it would be PR suicide to own up to it.
This summer was the acid test. Fail. Two players in and eight senior pros out. KR forced to negotiate on a shoe string whilst a wealthy board of property moguls ignores our reality.
Meanwhile we lost decent football people off the board like that nice young man from sky. I’d love to hear the inside scoop from him and I hope oxvox have asked him for his opinions. Football people out. Property people in.
Tiger may not be a bad human. But equally he may not be at oufc for the same reasons we all are.
Don’t you mean the Sartori takeover? Or was that all a smokescreen ?