Blackburn Rovers Sold

[m0r94n]

For those who do and don't care, The Walker Trust today sold Blackburn Rovers to Venkys for around 23 million (plus the clearing of 20 million in debt apparently).

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Glad its over and done with, especially after the business with Shah and Syed a month or so ago. We've needed something like this for a while now and although I'm not expecting substantial investment we will hopefully have a small cash boost in January to bring in some new players.

Hopefully within a season or two we'll be a fair bit stronger as a club, possibly aiming for something better than mid table.

 

[m0r94n]

Worthless is one word I suppose... I'd agree with the suggestion it was a coup .

As for a new manager, hopefully not. I'm one of the few that likes Sam and his massive hippo head. After the calamity that was Ince he rescued us from relegation and although we've not done much, I've been happy with him during his time in charge.

Plus "The_Big_Sam" on twitter is fantastic and I'd hate for the Blackburn jokes to stop on there.

James Milner is worth more than Blackburn

As is Gareth Barry, and Adebayor.

 

[m0r94n]

Hate to stick my beak in again but so is Jo Lescott. How does this make you feel?

Like value for money.

Mid table is probably about as good as we'll ever be able to get now, with the occasional poor run in Europe, as we're just a small club without the fan base to support anything more. I'm glad I was there for the Walker years as that sort of thing won't be seen again in English football for a long time.

As long as the takeover doesn't result in us overspending and building up debt I'm happy enough with it but I don't quite see how they're hoping to make a decent return on the investment.

I'm not sure, if we are sensible there is no reason at all we can't compete for Europe. From the looks of their earlier statements they're looking to tap in to the Indian market for merchandise and overseas support (the takeover story has been front page news over there). I'm keeping optimistic for the time being, provided we are prudent it could be an amazing deal for both parties.

Man City are doing what Walker did? Spending loads of money in the attempt to go from a small club to one who wins the league? Chelsea also did it recently. It's not exactly unique what B'burn did

I love this argument. Yes we spent money, but on the same level as Chelsea and Man City? No way. We spent money building the club up rather than attempting to buy success instantly and whats more, we made a very good return on a lot of what we spent. Jack Walkers philosophy was that youth should be the foundation of a clubs future, we spent the majority of our money on training facilities for the club. As for the title winning team, a few of them were already playing for us post 91 and we spent a further three years building ourselves up before we won the title.