Was larsson really looking to be manager or was he part of a consortium to buy the club?

[Yorkshire Blue]

My guess is it is the regular rent write off...

South Eastern Leisure also had some charges satisfied in full today.

Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49980199

 

[Big_Nath]

 

[SheldonW65]

May be covered elsewhere (so apologies) but saw some interesting update on Companies House...
What could it mean...?

Relates to Sainsburys, all 3 of them

 

[duncan bulgaria]

You can’t blame Ron for getting his head turned if Larsson was mentioning Bergkamp , Koeman etc , take a step back and think about who 99% of people would appoint , 2 potential players who have played at elite level or a person who was A lower league player with zero managerial experience

 

[rlb999]

You have to admit that the straightening out of club finances, plus the bizarre and drawn out managerial recruitment process, could be explained by ownership being about to change hands. If it’s Swedish money coming in, you have to suspect that Larsson would be manager.
Whilst the thought of Ron exiting would doubtless make many people on here happy, personally it would make me very nervous.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

You have to admit that the straightening out of club finances, plus the bizarre and drawn out managerial recruitment process, could be explained by ownership being about to change hands. If it’s Swedish money coming in, you have to suspect that Larsson would be manager.
Whilst the thought of Ron exiting would doubtless make many people on here happy, personally it would make me very nervous.

Even more so if Larsson is our new Manager, especially after most on here expect Sol to be appointed!.

 

[The Blue Stig]

Well I just spoke to koeman at halftime during the Ireland game an he said he hasn't got a clue what ya all on about

 

[stewart]

Even if they have bought into the club i would be happy with that ,we need investment if we are both to survive and progress .

 

[flangejackrabbit]

With the ease of movement in the market it would have been possible to back any of the three realistic (IMO) candidates at quite long odds and come out with profit baked in. Who knows maybe another twist in the tale and we end up with someone totally different. Stendel or Jack Ross to be backed into odds-on tomorrow or something...

 

[Mad Cyril]

You have to admit that the straightening out of club finances, plus the bizarre and drawn out managerial recruitment process, could be explained by ownership being about to change hands. If it’s Swedish money coming in, you have to suspect that Larsson would be manager.
Whilst the thought of Ron exiting would doubtless make many people on here happy, personally it would make me very nervous.

If a consortium of ex-pros were investing a club would they take a punt on a Swedish manager with a fairly mediocre record?

 

[Willis]

If a consortium of ex-pros were investing a club would they take a punt on a Swedish manager with a fairly mediocre record?

They might if he was a member of the consortium.

 

[rlb999]

If a consortium of ex-pros were investing a club would they take a punt on a Swedish manager with a fairly mediocre record?

If a consortium of ex-pros were investing in a club, being honest - why would they choose Southend? What return are they expecting to see on their investment? We're not a magic money tree, we're a big dark money pit!

 

[Fairport]

If a consortium of ex-pros were investing in a club, being honest - why would they choose Southend? What return are they expecting to see on their investment? We're not a magic money tree, we're a big dark money pit!

The same could be said regarding the purchase of Salford FC

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

If a consortium of ex-pros were investing in a club, being honest - why would they choose Southend? What return are they expecting to see on their investment? We're not a magic money tree, we're a big dark money pit!

1. Cheap. If you want to get a foothold in the English market how much would it cost to buy a mid-table Championship, say a Birmingham, Cardiff, QPR, Sheffield Wednesday?
2. Your investment goes further in League One than the Championship or the Premiership. A warchest of £5m wouldn't go very far in the Championship but would be a game changer in League One.
3. Location. We're close to London, have an airport with flights to Europe. Handy if your business plan involves loaning/signing continentals from your home markets.
4. Potential. There's potentially a catchment area more than twice the size of the likes of Leicester, Nottingham, Sunderland
5. Successful ex pros tend to have an innate belief in their own ability. If they work hard at it they believe they won't make the same mistakes that all those others made.
6. Ron's dream of a new stadium could transform the club.

 

[GNH]

1. Cheap. If you want to get a foothold in the English market how much would it cost to buy a mid-table Championship, say a Birmingham, Cardiff, QPR, Sheffield Wednesday?
2. Your investment goes further in League One than the Championship or the Premiership. A warchest of £5m wouldn't go very far in the Championship but would be a game changer in League One.
3. Location. We're close to London, have an airport with flights to Europe. Handy if your business plan involves loaning/signing continentals from your home markets.
4. Potential. There's potentially a catchment area more than twice the size of the likes of Leicester, Nottingham, Sunderland
5. Successful ex pros tend to have an innate belief in their own ability. If they work hard at it they believe they won't make the same mistakes that all those others made.
6. Ron's dream of a new stadium could transform the club.

Yeah, but apart from that?.............

 

[rlb999]

1. Cheap. If you want to get a foothold in the English market how much would it cost to buy a mid-table Championship, say a Birmingham, Cardiff, QPR, Sheffield Wednesday?
2. Your investment goes further in League One than the Championship or the Premiership. A warchest of £5m wouldn't go very far in the Championship but would be a game changer in League One.
3. Location. We're close to London, have an airport with flights to Europe. Handy if your business plan involves loaning/signing continentals from your home markets.
4. Potential. There's potentially a catchment area more than twice the size of the likes of Leicester, Nottingham, Sunderland
5. Successful ex pros tend to have an innate belief in their own ability. If they work hard at it they believe they won't make the same mistakes that all those others made.
6. Ron's dream of a new stadium could transform the club.

Fair play to you for the marketing pitch. I love Southend but they aren’t a viable investment By any stretch of the imagination. I look with real suspicion at anyone coming in to ’invest’ who doesn’t already have the love.

 

[rigsby]

Fair play to you for the marketing pitch. I love Southend but they aren’t a viable investment By any stretch of the imagination. I look with real suspicion at anyone coming in to ’invest’ who doesn’t already have the love.

They aren't investing in the finished article. So it will be cheap in football terms. The most run down house on a decent plot can often be the best buy. Depends of course on the price and the area/road it is located.

Yorkshire makes some good points but I have never bought into the 20 mile radius nonsense people in Chelmsford are never going to drop their London club to come to Southend.

If not the Dutch it will be someone else once FF is passed. Its was Yanks about 2/3 years ago. They are thinking just one season in the PL gets you £100m and the parachute payments means another £100m. The owners of Hull and Blackpool had no intention of spending that money on players. They had a very nice earner out of it.

 

[Leigh_Seasider]

They aren't investing in the finished article. So it will be cheap in football terms. The most run down house on a decent plot can often be the best buy. Depends of course on the price and the area/road it is located.

Yorkshire makes some good points but I have never bought into the 20 mile radius nonsense people in Chelmsford are never going to drop their London club to come to Southend.

If not the Dutch it will be someone else once FF is passed. Its was Yanks about 2/3 years ago. They are thinking just one season in the PL gets you £100m and the parachute payments means another £100m. The owners of Hull and Blackpool had no intention of spending that money on players. They had a very nice earner out of it.

They might with Zlatan up front banging in the goals. The Swedish Stan.

 

[Shrimper]

Wonder if our Dutch friend, van Wezel, reached out to them..

 

[Firestorm]

They aren't investing in the finished article. So it will be cheap in football terms. The most run down house on a decent plot can often be the best buy. Depends of course on the price and the area/road it is located.

Yorkshire makes some good points but I have never bought into the 20 mile radius nonsense people in Chelmsford are never going to drop their London club to come to Southend.

If not the Dutch it will be someone else once FF is passed. Its was Yanks about 2/3 years ago. They are thinking just one season in the PL gets you £100m and the parachute payments means another £100m. The owners of Hull and Blackpool had no intention of spending that money on players. They had a very nice earner out of it.

Most other clubs have a 360 degree catchment, even other coastal clubs have a 180 degree one , ours is 90 and even then just half a dozen miles north is a bloody big river which can’t be crossed unless you go 10 miles west...
Our town is a chore to get from the west, and that basically includes North and south too given the river crossing, that’s basically the entire rest of the county.

A question, why would anyone want to invest in a club, which does not own its ground or training facilities ? I can only imagine that there would need to be a sizeable investment by any potential new owner, into the new stadium build , which would guarantee a ground in the future.
Maybe an investment into the ff build gets SUFC for free, or just clearing the debts is sufficient cash for MD to start the FF process finally.