Sale of Wycombe FC by it's Trust

[Funny_Old_Game]

Originally Posted by KM Red

Wycombe now run and owned by the Couhig family, Rob, wife and son, together with the two trust members who got the club in to financial problems and then brokered a deal and kept their places on the Board ! Not sure how much the Couhig family know about football so may not end well.

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/sport...l-town-2564079

Meanwhile Chesterfield are going in the opposite direction having been bankrupted under private ownership for the last few years. They are being taken over by the clubs community arm with the help of local councils.

Council Loans for Club Takeover Approved - Chesterfield FC Community Trust

I’d get those hours changed with Andy Cobra if you can, nobody wants to do the graveyard shift on here.

[dragonspark]

the board or boards with their constitution and society complete with their 200 or followers will ensure that the current situation continues, they will claim it is democratic but it is not the majority of fans just want to go and see football, and there has not been much of that for a while even well before lockdown, the majority of fans are not members, the do not want to become involved in the politics of what has become our football club and so that is it, a politically biased minority will win the day, the majority look on but the majority see thye decay the minority do not, or will not

[KM Red]

Originally Posted by crazywelsh

So because your not sure what they know about football it may not end well but he has done this for over 30 years, so chesterfield have been bankrupted under private ownership but you haven’t mentioned the new owners are loaning money (which needs to be paid back) with people similar to ourselves who know nothing about running a business nevermind a football club. 1million pound loan to acquire the club!

Hypocrisy..... just seems nobody can do better than a useless supporters trust!

Looking at Couhigs CV I would be confident he knows sweet F A about English football. You would have to be very gullible to think otherwise. I am sure Wycombe will be an entertaining plaything for the Couhig family.

Chesterfield Commuity Trust need the money to save the club bankrupted under private ownership. Private ownership got us relegated to non league and we lost our ground and training ground. Would have been relegated much earlier but got lucky one season when someone went bust.

[KM Red]

Originally Posted by dragonspark

fan ownership without the appropriate expertise results in failure

Exeter, Wimbledon and Newport suggest you have a point. We need change at Wrexham but not private ownership.

[dragonspark]

ask any business owner what their opinion is of the way the club has been run in the last ten years, this will give you a clear indication of the mismanagement that has occured, the club has not been able to invest in the team since moss departed, the team that got us to wembley twice was the remains of saunders squad, all the money from two wembley trips, being the best or second best supported club in non league for all that time, the windfalls from sell on clauses, it is millions of pounds and we end up nearly going down, this is not simply one bad season it is ongoing decline, changing the board from one group of supporters to another group of supporters will not change the descent

[crazywelsh]

Originally Posted by KM Red

Looking at Couhigs CV I would be confident he knows sweet F A about English football. You would have to be very gullible to think otherwise. I am sure Wycombe will be an entertaining plaything for the Couhig family.

Chesterfield Commuity Trust need the money to save the club bankrupted under private ownership. Private ownership got us relegated to non league and we lost our ground and training ground. Would have been relegated much earlier but got lucky one season when someone went bust.

So couhigs CV means he knows nothing of English football, so what does it say about the wst and football club board at our club as it’s apparent they also know nothing about football? It’s been really entertaining at wrexham under fan ownership if you enjoy poor football, a few managers a season and ideological driven fans who love failure.

The tactics used to scare everyone off is what lost the club/training facility/stadium as a deal was at its head until those militant tactics were implemented by the WST.

You and your 1199 other members, the penny will drop for you when the club gets no support.

[Inside Left]

Originally Posted by Quay Red

Deal was done some time ago. 75% ownership to the bloke who nearly bought Yeovil.
I think the trust still own the ground?

Quay,,,,,The Trust don't own the ground. Any new club owner would be picking up a lease that any sane person wouldn't want to touch.

[The Only Way Is Up]

Originally Posted by Inside Left

Quay,,,,,The Trust don't own the ground. Any new club owner would be picking up a lease that any sane person wouldn't want to touch.

Just Google "Leasehold Property Values" if you don't think that we have an asset.