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Old 9th June 2019, 19.10:44   #19-0 (permalink)
Todd Sweeney
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Default Re: Football club ownership model

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Originally Posted by Foxy View Post
It would yes. Clearly Barcelona are sort of fans owned, but with their numbers and a global profile (coupled with the fact that they are essentially a Catalan national side) they can be very prolific. Our fans support is enough to make us competitive at National League Level , hence every season we start off with a hope of the play offs. But at any level above this , our limited number of fans makes fans ownership increasingly likely to fail. Hence the point I have been making (accurately and with much personal abuse) for 6 years now....

Fans ownership under a good and lucky manager may get us up BUT IN THE LONG RUN FANS OWNERSHIP WILL FAIL.
Wycombe, AFC Wimbledon, Exeter and Newport seem to be doing OK. And I’d argue we have bigger support and more potential than all of them...
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