Manchester City aye... :-k

they know how to streamline the beer vending

I see there is an article in the Fin review that says there are a couple of EPL side looking to buy a stake in the Wanderers.
I'm not sure how to do this but http://www.afr.com/p/lifestyle/sport/epl_clubs_make_western_sydney_wanderers_ax4eMyRzkriFe6IRuk3ENP
in theory thats the link if anyones interested.

You make no sense what so ever, there is not an ounce of logic in your posts

Depends if you're

1. The company hired to Sell them as 'an attractive investment' or
2. The bloke filling out the request for a drawdown on the Taxpayer/ALP vote-grab funds or
3. Lyall Gorman padding his C.V

And WSW, if you can get Taxpayers to stump up for deprived communities

Palmer had a similar preference

FFA prefer owners who'll do it as a loss-making hobby.[/quote]



well who wouldn't want a benevolent benefactor with deep pockets? it works for SFC!

Palmer had a similar preference

FFA prefer owners who'll do it as a loss-making hobby.

Well it was only a few short years ago that BvB were totally bankrupt and were bailed out. There might be better safeguards these days but nothing is a guarantee.

German clubs actually know how to be solvent. Would be good for the A-League if they got involved.

Would a club of a rival football federation even if they are friendly have the best interest of the club and the league at heart. Think where this might lead in 30-50 years when hopefully by then we might be challenging for World Cups etc. Not saying its a bad thing but there are still a lot of unanswered questions.

I so want this to be true, I have no idea why, I don't expect them to be significantly different if we were owned by another football appreciative owner, but I don't care I would love this to be true

I say no such thing you son of a motherless goat, I challenge you to a duel,

Spud Guns at 20 paces

He's not a "chap". He's a cad... a poodlefaking bounder.

Edited by Obvious Troll: 24/8/2013 02:23:11 PM

Can't believe how much oxygen is given to them here. I remember a forum that added normal terms that the mods disliked to the list of banned offensive words so they could not be posted. Would be good to do the same here with anything related to "Australia's game" :-&

I'm surprised no one has referenced northern spirit-rangers yet..



I was wondering the same thing??

I don't like Collingwood, but i'll give them credit as a lot of English people who know absolutely nothing about the game AFL, somehow know who Collingwood are, what they stand for and generally they 'support' them. Sure they're not on the level of Real or Dortmund, but it is pretty funny that the only thing they know about AFL is 'Collingwood'.[/quote]

No they dont, they think Collingwood is a batesman.

The source of the link redirects me to the Bild's homepage, and not to an article. Or it's only me?

What does Collingwood stand for?

As for the topic, would be great to see Dortmund buy into a HAL club.

Probably my favourite gif for this situation

;)

They don't even have that in the stands :lol:

Jokes jokes o:)

It seems a very logical decision for Mega Club to invest in feeder clubs in leagues such as ours.
For them the cost of running such clubs would be peanuts, but the potential benefits huge.

:lol:! =d>






Well, fair point, but the very fact they 'compare', or the point of it, is to give some grounding or relative comparison as to 'how successful' they are. But still has that stench of 'small man syndrome' - lol. I guess flipside, good on them, as clearly they are reaching numbers so high, that it's just not worth comparing to their AFL rivals (The better ones who'd be little over half that?)!

So indeed, 'within the world of AFL' it's insular world, it's indeed the biggest rep club and they've travelled to 'The Oval' in London for the odd exhibition etc... And we can tell from experience locally, any who's not a fan of AFL, who gives a cursory glance, will probably notice Collingwood due to references in the media, crowds or what not? Probably helps that Eddie MacGuire was/is their President for a while!

Edited by GloryPerth: 23/8/2013 07:31:32 PM

Don't recall them being part of OLD SOCCER in Australia but maybe I'm wrong.

If these clubs invest in the game and focus on developing the sport in this country, all for it.

I would prefer to see them invest in a consortium though to be an integral part of an ownership group. These clubs have a lot to bring to the table and in partnership with local investors this would likely bring greater value to such a bid.

Dortmund also released a financial statement this week and this past season they have posted profits of 53.3 million euros. Now some places are saying this is massively helped by Gotze being sold but they actually reinvested more into the transfer market than what they got from him (they had net transfers of -5.325million euros). Anyway they have money to spend and could easily buy an A-league club which I would say are relatively cheap considering a few are not that far off being profitable I think.

Also on Collingwood comparing them being close to the size of Dortmund. BvB had $376.70 million revenue (that excludes revenue from player transfers) while Collingwood had about $70 million

no matter what you think of Borussia Dortmund they know how to run a club so would be nice to see them own the wanderers, or at least involved in football in Australia

Foxy Boxing?

I'd like to see them make a bid for Penrith..