Interest in club

coluka said:
I saw these vehicles and stopped in my tracks, screeching to a halt in my brown Austin Allegro. I took my Nokia 3310 out and immediately phoned Neil Bausor who is number 2 on my speed dial. I immediately heard Van McCoys ‘The Hustle’ ringing out from within ASDA, so I believe your scoop must have legs after all r00fie1..
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So is was you I saw in Debs Deli on Chipchase Road?
Did you see that bloke with dark glasses, saying he was off to Rockliffe for a meeting with a couple of bankers?
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Where's this rumour come from what is the source? I would very much welcome some form of investment and succession planning as clubs falling backwards under Gubsin at the moment
 
This isn't even the craziest rumour I've read within the last week.
A friend of my sent me a screenshot of a conversation with a fella who claimed that Gibbo had turned down multiple offers and one of them was from Red Bull 🤣 RB Middlesbrough!

As nonsense as I thought that was I'd welcome any kind of investment into the club. As Bernie continually says to disgruntled fans on his streams 'Gibbo has been amazing but he's a millionaire in a billionaires game'
 
Morton94 said:
This isn't even the craziest rumour I've read within the last week.
A friend of my sent me a screenshot of a conversation with a fella who claimed that Gibbo had turned down multiple offers and one of them was from Red Bull 🤣 RB Middlesbrough!

As nonsense as I thought that was I'd welcome any kind of investment into the club. As Bernie continually says to disgruntled fans on his streams 'Gibbo has been amazing but he's a millionaire in a billionaires game'
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RB Middlesbrough 😂😂😂
 
coluka said:
Why would anyone invest in a company that has debts to the tune of Boro’s? Indeedido has made it cystal clear the Boro’s financial situation and the stranglehold one man retains on it. Unless there is huge multi million pound write off, the club is not in a position to be attractive to anyone that retains a modicum of sense. It is as likely to happen as Boro winning the champions league consecutively between 2026-2029.
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A lot of the clubs that have been bought out recently had massive debts. The difference was that they were in the Premier League. Since there aren't many Premier League ones left, it's not out of the question that someone may be willing to cover them for a shot at owning a Premier League club.

Sometimes it's best to be careful what you wish for though. For all the good owners out there, there are the clubs that have spiralled out of the divisions or even existence due to a bad one.
 
Dybuk said:
Wasn't the rumour about RB Middlesbrough about 15 years ago when the advert with middlesbrough red socks came out.
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No, that was just a silly Budweiser advert.

The Red Bull rumour was from a few years ago and was fairly believable given their ownership of Leipzig and New York
 
atypical_boro said:
I wouldn’t be too enamoured with the name of the club being changed and used as a marketing tool within a huge energy drink company’s marketing machine.
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We could become the Wrexham of the Championship

(For the record, I actually like what has happened to Wrexham, and they've been very entertaining in League 2 so far this season!)
 
If I was a billionaire looking to get into football… Boro look pretty tasty compared to most Champo clubs tbh.

Underachieved for 15 years but really should be in the PL, good manager, big fanbase and stadium, don’t have to deal with a lunatic owner like at Leeds or Sunderland.

We’d be a bargain.
 
He's the biggest private landowner in Scotland and it looks like he's buying clubs.

Why buy a stake in Boro? The business case is better than it looks.
1) Nearly all the debt is owed to Gibson (via his holding company). Inevitably, when the time comes to sell, unless we're established in the Premier league, Gibson will write off some of the debt.
2) Looks like he's buying a portfolio of clubs. This is the new big thing so that clubs become unofficial feeder clubs. E.g. I think Brighton(?) loan out players to other clubs in their family to get a higher level of experience than PL2. It's scummy and I can see it getting clamped down on one day.
3) We do have the potential to become an established Premier league club* and have a recent(ish) high profile. Getting a stake now while we're about as cheap as we're going to be is fairly small beer for him but has the potential for huge gains.
4) If he is buying a portfolio and he has agents doing research, Boro looks ripe for take-over. Under-performing, sole-owner, all debt private, owner in his 60s and been the sole owner for 25 years or so. Clearly, Gibson won't sell out-right straight away.
5) Don't know what the share capital for us is but if he invests say £20m for a stake that's a huge impact for us which means that his stake also has a potential impact when it comes to promotion.

I suspect that if there's anything in this, that his buyer is sounding out several Championship clubs where he can see the potential to get promoted after a fairly small stake. He might also be looking at someone like Sheffield Utd but that would be more expensive and there's a risk of relegation which means the value of his stake reduced almost immediately. Buy low, sell high.

*To be honest, given broadcast revenue, any club that can get 20,000 in their stadium can become established in the PL.
 
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