Deano is selling up

theo_luddite · (This post was last modified: 25-10-2022, 19:14 by theo_luddite.)

https://www.htafc.com/news/2022/october/...ean-hoyle/

https://www.htafc.com/news/2022/october/...-director/

So what do we want in terms of new owners?

Chinese take-aways with debatable finances?

Rich Arabs with debatable human rights?

Rich Yanks with requests for time-outs and draft picks?

Rich Europeans with the money to give you wiiiiinnnngggsss?

Rich Brits? (aka Deano II)

A gambling company? (see Stoke).

Your own choice of alternative(s)?

**Lord Snooty** · 25-10-2022, 18:52

Oh for goodness sake!

Who'd want to buy us now? Sorry, Deano but that ship has sailed.

Should've cashed in when we were in the Prima Donna. In the summer of 2018 would've been the best time probably.

But now sadly, just like the fuckwit I work for, it's too late baby.

The only type of investor we're likely to get is a dodgy far east, no offices, no employees type being and get administered like Wigan.

Never mind League One, League Two here we come.

theo_luddite · 25-10-2022, 19:15

Sorry - that was supposed to be two separate links, now fixed.

Chuffing keyboard short-cuts, mutter, mutter, mumble, mumble. Angry

WakeyTerrier · 26-10-2022, 09:27

I wasn't sure what to post about this and so I've slept on it.

Dean came in to the club in 2008 and was like a breath of fresh air, he could see the club was stale and going nowhere fast, he could see fans had pretty much given up and decided that change and investment was needed. and for the best part of 10 years he had loyalty from the fans that was unmatched I would say anywhere else in the Premier/Football League.

He then got ill in late 2018 and that's where everything began to unravel, because he wasn't there, we were effectively rudderless, the other members of the board were just yes men/women and had no financial or football input. Despite soundbites we did sleepwalk into relegation and by the end of the season he had decided to sell up. The whole deal to sell the club and how it was structured has held the club back to this very day IMO and has tainted Dean Hoyles time at the club, I know many many others have this very same opinion.

I wish him well for the future and hope that any deal to buy the club is done with any debt owed to Dean and Phil vastly reduced/written off otherwise I feel we are going to be in a much worse position than we have been up to date

**Lord Snooty** · 26-10-2022, 09:40

I agree with what you're saying, Wakey. But if Deano hadn't held on to that ten percent or whatever it was, where would we be now after Hodgkinson went bust?

In administration? Back with Ken Davy?

I hope for all our sakes, he gets the right buyer this time.

Don't we have a billionaire celebrity supporter somewhere? Whistle

Devongone · 26-10-2022, 10:41

What you probably need is a radical re-structuring of ownership so that you are no longer a pawn in a rich man's game, or a half-forgotten betting slip in some far-eastern gamble.

A bad sale or no sale with never-ending rumours of expressions of interest are dreadful options and tend to coincide with you tumbling down the divisions on the field of play.

Good things CAN come out of this. Mrs Sunak may want to spend some of her wealth in Yorkshire. I hope something good happens for you. Above all I wish the club could belong to all of those who love the game in Huddersfield.

theo_luddite · (This post was last modified: 26-10-2022, 21:18 by theo_luddite.)

Well Devon, given that her husband thinks Darlington is in Scotland (well the road sign when leaving Richmond says Darlington and Scotch Corner) and she's rarely seen anywhere near Downing Street, the chances of her (and him) rocking up at The Creamery in Hawes to buy a block of Wensleydale (he does look like a very sun-tanned Wallace though) are pretty slim, given the locals rarely seem to see them in the southern part of their constituency. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/202...take-stock

So the chances of her spending some of her non-dom untaxed brass in West Yorkshire, which for them is nicely by-passed round about Wetherby and Wakefield, if they actually go up and down the A1(M)/M1, I would say is at best marginal (to be polite). I doubt between them they have a Scooby Doo where the M62 starts or finishes, let alone which towns and cities are on it's path.

WakeyTerrier · 27-10-2022, 11:29

It always amazes me that more clubs don't run a members scheme like Barcelona

Devongone · 27-10-2022, 14:01

I think given a choice between buying you, Harrogate or Darlo, I'd go for you and after all you are only loose change to Mrs Sunak, who probably doesn't know what loose change is.

The bad news is that if someone buys you, it is almost certainly going to be a Tory.

theo_luddite · 27-10-2022, 16:17

If they inherited their brass, or are working for the "family firm" that daddy or grand-daddy founded, more than likely. If they made their own, like Deano and his missus, don't be too sure. I've no idea of the politics of our last 3 owners and in all honest I don't care, (even if I could probably give at least 2 of them a good guess).

I just want the club to be successful without going bankrupt doing so (we've been there before) so all the other bs going on in mine and others lives right now can be parked to one side once or twice a week.