Everyone over on Into the Valium are in a delirious state of excitement and knicker wetting, after the forum‘s owner put out this post yesterday…..
”Just had an update guys......
This is of 2.30pm today.
Increased offer has been submitted and has been accepted by TS.
We are now in the hands of the lawyers.
This is now at the most advanced stage it’s been at any point.
Come on Josh lad, get it over the line!!”
Seems like it’s gonna happen now
I suppose it’s possible that Tommy Two Chords could change his mind about selling to the new buyer, as he did to the previous buyer, but if that happens he’s liable for around £3M which he’ll have to spend out to cover players wages, staff wages and the general up keep of the Valium whilst in the close season of June, July and August! Can’t see him wanting to do that, so it will make him push this deal over the line!
Even if the sale goes through, I still think the spotters might not be promoted next season! It all depends on a couple of things! Firstly, how much transfer budget are they going to give the manager? Will it be enough to buy anywhere between 5 - 12 new players? Will these new players wages be part of the transfer budget, or will wages be on top?
Secondly, where are they going to get these players from? They can’t or won’t want to risk buying league two players again (or get them from the conference), because they probably won’t be good enough for league 1 football or to help mount a promotion push for them, so that leaves only Prem or Championship players to go for! Any half decent player from either of those two divisions would hope to go to other clubs in their own division, or go up or down to these two divisions only! That and the fact that any half decent player would probably be on the sort of high wages that the spotters couldn’t afford, means it’s not going to be easy to get in the right players, at the right price and the right wages!
Hopefully, it’ll all come crashing down around the heads of these new owners, and they’ll be thinking, “Fuck this for a game of soldiers,” and fuck off out of SE7 sharpish! If that happens, and there’s no one else to take over, administration would surely follow!