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American billionaire John McEvoy considers bid for club (2 Viewers)

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  • Start date Oct 11, 2022
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #71
Tommo1993 said:
Sounds like an Italian asking ‘What’s next?’
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The British pronunciation of Moschino takes some beating.
 
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AOM

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #72
shmmeee said:
Clearly never going to happen, but it’s been a miserable season so far. So Football Manager time: what would you do if you were a billionaire coming in?

Go all out in Jan? Replace Robins?

Personally I’d give Robins enough to bring in 3-5 in Jan on real quality and see what he does with it. If we don’t look like picking up sack him off and get Klopp or whoever billionaire owners get. If he does well give him a warchest for a summer rebuild when we haven’t wasted the first quarter of the season.
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I'd be really interested to see what Robins would do with a lot of money to spend on the squad
 
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SkyBlueSam01

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #73
In this scenario I'd personally much rather MR was given a season or so to adapt to having a bigger budget vs get involved with the usual nonsense of having a new generic Spanish/German manager every 6 months
 
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skyblu3sk

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #74
Greggs said:
What's a kneck?
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it's apparently how a dyslexic spells neck.
 

jordan210

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #75
AOM said:
Not sure if just me, but I just instantly don't trust anyone who is looking at buying the club.
Feel like most are just trying to improve their public profile and any serious buyers would screw us over further down the line
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Yeah this screams of self importance. Look at me I have found our white knight.

Id much rather the deal be sorted in private than once again people trying to make themselves important. We have been burnt to many times
 
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Winny the Bish

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #76
Even Dale Evans had a bigger online footprint than this so-called billionaire
 
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slowpoke

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #77
Bloody hell for years I’ve been waiting and hoping for sisu to be f@@ked off to no avail now just like the number 20 bus three possibilities turn up together.
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #78
SBT said:
Can’t imagine any billionaire with real PL ambitions giving MR much rope. Coming in cold and with unlimited resources you want to quickly appoint someone with a proven record of Championship success, and a track record of managing a hefty budget. Robins has neither. He’s a good fit for a club in our present situation, but I don’t see mega-rich clubs straining to get him on board.
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Thing is managers are hard to get right, and there’s an argument that giving Robins the funds to grow what we’ve got is probably an order of magnitude cheaper than a full rebuild with an unknown quantity.

Should be billionaires come, I’d like to see him given one window to see how he handles it.
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #79
skyblue93 said:
Even Dale Evans had a bigger online footprint than this so-called billionaire
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TBF if I was a billionaire I’d spend a lot less time on here. No offence guys.
 
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SkyB

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #80
Why would someone buying our club come in and remove Robins?

Can't imagine that's a way to win over the fans.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #81
SkyB said:
Why would someone buying our club come in and remove Robins?

Can't imagine that's a way to win over the fans.
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The majority of fans wouldn't care if a rich Billionaire came in and was throwing money about and got rid of Robins.
 
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Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #82
shmmeee said:
TBF if I was a billionaire I’d spend a lot less time on here. No offence guys.
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This is why I don't post so much these days.
 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #83
Otis said:
This is why I don't post so much these days.
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Top Hat in the avi was a dead giveaway, as was the implication you could afford a better quality of mail order Russian bride
 
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Liquid Gold

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #84
shmmeee said:
TBF if I was a billionaire I’d spend a lot less time on here. No offence guys.
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I'd buy every single Cov discussion outlet and ban everybody that doubted Ben Sheaf.
 

Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #85
shmmeee said:
Top Hat in the avi was a dead giveaway, as was the implication you could afford a better quality of mail order Russian bride
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Yep. Now I have a Kentish lady. Or at least I think she said "Kentish."
 

AOM

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #86
jordan210 said:
Yeah this screams of self importance. Look at me I have found our white knight.

Id much rather the deal be sorted in private than once again people trying to make themselves important. We have been burnt to many times
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Yep exactly. Just look at the one that was apparently going to save Derby County and got all their fans hopes up.
Could see from a mile off it wasn't going to happen
 

jordan210

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #87
I really cant find much about him.

This shows a little insight

https://www.corporationwiki.com/California/San-Diego/john-mcevoy-P2943006.aspx
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #88
Nick said:
The majority of fans wouldn't care if a rich Billionaire came in and was throwing money about and got rid of Robins.
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Fuck the taxi off… limo for Robins
 
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Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #89
Liquid Gold said:
I'd buy every single Cov discussion outlet and ban everybody that doubted Ben Sheaf.
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I would have Ben Sheaf officially designated as a God.
 

fatso

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #90
Otis said:
You just know we will get this one though don't you

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Still better than Jamie Allen!
 

Old Warwickshire lad

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #91
SBT said:
Can’t imagine any billionaire with real PL ambitions giving MR much rope. Coming in cold and with unlimited resources you want to quickly appoint someone with a proven record of Championship success, and a track record of managing a hefty budget. Robins has neither. He’s a good fit for a club in our present situation, but I don’t see mega-rich clubs straining to get him on board.
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Surely you would have to give Robins a season/ season and half, to see how we went.
The guy deserves at least that.
 
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jordan210

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #92
jordan210 said:
I really cant find much about him.

This shows a little insight

https://www.corporationwiki.com/California/San-Diego/john-mcevoy-P2943006.aspx
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I have done some more digging. I believe he was also in a group that used to owned the San Diego Padres.

I would guess if we was looking at us. He would invest in the same way where it would be a group of owners

this is his investment company

Home - Neponset Bay Capital LP

www.neponsetbaycapital.com
 
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Sky_Blue_Dreamer

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #93
Greggs said:
What's a kneck?
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It's someone with such a prominent Adam's Apple is look like a knee joint in your neck.

Or more controversially it's a standard method of restraint by American police.
 

SlowerThanPlatt

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #94
jordan210 said:
I have done some more digging. I believe he was also in a group that used to owned the San Diego Padres.

I would guess if we was looking at us. He would invest in the same way where it would be a group of owners

this is his investment company

Home - Neponset Bay Capital LP

www.neponsetbaycapital.com
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I think I had more faith in Dale Evans at this stage.
 
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SlowerThanPlatt

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #95
SkyB said:
Why would someone buying our club come in and remove Robins?

Can't imagine that's a way to win over the fans.
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Most owners couldn’t care less about “winning over fans”
 

pusbccfc

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #96
Clearly is real interest or Dawkins wouldn't put his name and his company to it.
 
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #97
shmmeee said:
Thing is managers are hard to get right, and there’s an argument that giving Robins the funds to grow what we’ve got is probably an order of magnitude cheaper than a full rebuild with an unknown quantity.

Should be billionaires come, I’d like to see him given one window to see how he handles it.
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I mean, I would too. But billionaires don’t tend to make their fortunes by trusting the old guard with time, just so they can do things the way they’ve always been done. You look at people like Boehly at Chelsea….they know they have a small window to make the changes they’ve envisaged - especially in professional sports where the rules can change on you overnight - and the successes of the old mgmt team mean very little to them.

I’ll always love the guy but ultimately, if Mark Robins was the kind of manager that a billionaire would want managing their team, he wouldn’t be managing Coventry City today.
 
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SBT

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #98
pusbccfc said:
Clearly is real interest or Dawkins wouldn't put his name and his company to it.
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I heard that Warwick University might be involved in the bid too.
 
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Greggs

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #99
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Tommo1993 said:
Sounds like an Italian asking ‘What’s next?’
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Or asking if you want a game of kneck 4
 

jordan210

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #100
pusbccfc said:
Clearly is real interest or Dawkins wouldn't put his name and his company to it.
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Dint Dawkin also say that wasps had successfully refinanced the bonds ?
 
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AiS86

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #101
I for one welcome our new American overlord, and his little beard.
He seems to know the first priority upon his arrival at least
 
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AFCCOVENTRY

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #102
SlowerThanPlatt said:
I think I had more faith in Dale Evans at this stage.
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He’s one of the bidders… he just needs to release some equity from some of his buy to let properties.
 

Saddlebrains

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #103
Calling bollocks on it


This shit spirals off one rumour

I said on Twitter wasps sold 712 season tickets and it spiraled to even end up in newspapers as fact

If you're a billionaire, you have way more of a digital footprint than this bloke
 

jordan210

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #104
Saddlebrains said:
Calling bollocks on it


This shit spirals off one rumour

I said on Twitter wasps sold 712 season tickets and it spiraled to even end up in newspapers as fact

If you're a billionaire, you have way more of a digital footprint than this bloke
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Yup it was clearly way less then 712 you lier !
 
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ricohroar

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 12, 2022
  • #105
Any takeover would be headed up by John Dawkins, a Sky Blues fan who is the UK managing director of record label Various Artists Management. On their website he is listed as Jonny .

His US hockey team is the Nashville Predators
 
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