Times Article - Fans Ready To Invest In Clubs

MFC would be an awful investment let's be honest. Which is why I think we are very lucky to have Gibbo, he might not always make the best decisions for managers and players etc but you know he's always putting the club before any personal gain.
 
MFC would be an awful investment let's be honest. Which is why I think we are very lucky to have Gibbo, he might not always make the best decisions for managers and players etc but you know he's always putting the club before any personal gain.
I don't think you're meant to see it as a financial investment - basically I think you're paying to have some say in certain aspects of how the club is ran/decisions it makes rather than to come out with more money than you put in.
 
Simon Jordan made a good point about fan on the board who would it be and how representative would they be as in no time this people champions will be castigated as an ivory tower deserter.

I just don’t think it works in this country.
 
Simon Jordan made a good point about fan on the board who would it be and how representative would they be as in no time this people champions will be castigated as an ivory tower deserter.

I just don’t think it works in this country.
Possibly - but if that person or persons are representing an organisation (Trust) and have to be elected and are accountable to the Trust members it might.

The problem is with such a wide societal fan base that clubs are not made up from one section of society so it will always be the case that the representative will be perceived as not relevant to or not representing accurately a large proportion of the people they are representing.
 
My understanding is that you wouldn’t be buying a personal share of the club. You would be donating to a supporters group who would own the share on behalf of all fans of the club. A decent percentage share in a club like ours could be bought with fan donations as we’re not really worth that much on paper. It would be highly unlikely though as it would still require several million pounds. Clubs like the big 6 would take hundreds of millions if not billions, which just isn’t going to happen.
 
£150 a year for my season ticket, like the German fans pay, and £250 into the club as my investment would be good. If we didn't have a system where ever penny earn't (and then some) went into players and agents pockets, starting at the top clubs, which necessarily filters down to all the others.
 
£150 a year for my season ticket, like the German fans pay, and £250 into the club as my investment would be good. If we didn't have a system where ever penny earn't (and then some) went into players and agents pockets, starting at the top clubs, which necessarily filters down to all the others.
The top clubs could easily afford to sell tickets at those prices and it would probably put pressure on others to reduce theirs too. The gap between top and bottom would be far bigger as a result though, as ticket sales are a much bigger proportion of our overall income than even bottom of the Premier league clubs, never mind the big 6.
 
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