19-05-2019, 06:40
(18-05-2019, 19:24)Phil Penn Wrote:(17-05-2019, 20:43)St Charles Owl Wrote:(17-05-2019, 17:20)Phil Penn Wrote: You must have financial support from your owners to survive in the EFL
Some say Sheff Utd got promotion without investment - absolute rubbish Kevin McCabe has invested £100 million
Abdullah bin Musa'ad has given them £3 million as a gift this season, but has probably invested a lot more.
£20 million on average is needed in the EFL just to tread water, so enless Lai opens his wallet we on our way down boys.
To be fair to the Blunts, this 100m from McCabe was invested over 13 years but they have sold well, in the summer they sold Brooks to Bournemouth for 10m. Of course with their owners now in court battling over who now has control, it has emerged that the 10m investment the Saudi Prince gave them included 3m from the Bin Laden family!!!! That's not a headline you want to see about your club!!!
Bin Laden's extended family amounts to an awful lot of people (thousands) including Saudi royalty, but disowned by them all of course.
More of a BS Media headline grabbing IMO - the Bin Laden Family is ranked as the 5th richest in Saudi so it's fair to say they have a few quid.
Phil, stop spoiling my fun!!! If the Villa got money from a Saudi called Bin Laden you would be all over it just as we Owls are over this little revelation!!! Lets not let real facts get in the way of football banter!!!