It's happening. 

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/17405193.bolton-wanderers-close-to-takeover-from-uk-based-consortium/

Thank fuck

How do people know so many facts?

 

amazing!

Can't wait to start supporting a football team again. Feels like being doing business studies at night school last couple of years with Bolton.. No idea what's going on

Non- story everything on track to get deal done - all of the previous non payment of wages have ended in what two parts of fuck all like this one will.

its not ideal but it was bound to happen and if anything it tells me the deal is nearly done

Edited February 28, 20197 yr by onlyoneawalker

If it's all just a non-story and everything is on track, why make it a story by not commenting or telling staff why they've not been paid, and when they might be?

1 minute ago, Tombwfc said:

If it's all just a non-story and everything is on track, why make it a story by not commenting or telling staff why they've not been paid, and when they might be?

Slight difference this time not one statement from BWFC, Anderson, Aldridge or club spokesman. 

Spoke to 3 people at the club today.

No one has a clue what’s going on. No communication whatsoever. 

They, still, maybe paid today they may not.

It’s not pleasant and it’s not right.

Whatever is going on behind the scenes, at least have the decency to tell the staff what is going on.

56 minutes ago, Boby Brno said:

Spoke to 3 people at the club today.

No one has a clue what’s going on. No communication whatsoever. 

They, still, maybe paid today they may not.

It’s not pleasant and it’s not right.

Whatever is going on behind the scenes, at least have the decency to tell the staff what is going on.

Perhaps they can’t under NDA?

If the takeover wasn't as close as we are told it is what would Ken have said about staff not getting paid?

28 minutes ago, bwfcfan5 said:

Perhaps they can’t under NDA?

Surely that would not be part of an NDA just a message to say will be paid on a certain date would suffice. 

5 minutes ago, Mounts Kipper said:

Surely that would not be part of an NDA just a message to say will be paid on a certain date would suffice. 

How can Ken promise that? Won’t be his responsibility if it goes through. And he cannot say when people will get paid. Nor potentially can he say ‘it’s ok cavalry is coming’ under an NDA...

i think folk need to realise we are a business about to go bust

it happens

and when companies go bust, people lose jobs

at the moment, i dont think anybody has lost their job

so hold tight and hope for the best and maybe we wont go bust and maybe youll all have jobs for a few more years

 

i know it sounds heartless, but its the truth

ps losing your job is shit

happened a couple of times to me and after a bit you get over it and crack on

4 minutes ago, Casino said:

ps losing your job is shit

happened a couple of times to me and after a bit you get over it and crack on

Too true... Hopefully it won't come to that; should the worst happen, I trust the wider Wanderers family will do all they can to help

1 hour ago, Boby Brno said:

Spoke to 3 people at the club today.

No one has a clue what’s going on. No communication whatsoever. 

They, still, maybe paid today they may not.

It’s not pleasant and it’s not right.

Whatever is going on behind the scenes, at least have the decency to tell the staff what is going on.

That’s a concern unless they are literally looking to close the deal tonight and neither party felt they had the right to say anything. 

New owners wanted to make announcement tomorrow and make wages payments.

thats best case - worst case there’s been a wobble and ken doesn’t want to set alarm bells ringing until it’s truly dead and he’s on to plan b

9 minutes ago, onlyoneawalker said:

That’s a concern unless they are literally looking to close the deal tonight and neither party felt they had the right to say anything. 

New owners wanted to make announcement tomorrow and make wages payments.

thats best case - worst case there’s been a wobble and ken doesn’t want to set alarm bells ringing until it’s truly dead and he’s on to plan b

Deal can’t complete until EFL have approved business plan. If Iles is right this hasn’t been submitted yet as due diligence is still taking place. That’s a big IF. Still I’d be surprised if deal was that close, I suspect end of next week realistically.

4 minutes ago, Biganddaft said:

Sorry that's to simplistic, people have bills to pay, losing your job is one thing and I have been through that myself, but not letting people know if the wage is coming or not is just plain cruel. Hiding behind "that's business" is just utter bollocks we don't live in the 20s, or30s for fu*ks sake

your opinion on what should happen is very different to what actually happens...

anyway, it all irrelevant. tomorrow is a massive game changer for BWFC

2 minutes ago, bwfcfan5 said:

Deal can’t complete until EFL have approved business plan. If Iles is right this hasn’t been submitted yet as due diligence is still taking place. That’s a big IF. Still I’d be surprised if deal was that close, I suspect end of next week realistically.

as of last night, tomorrow was the target (this is a massive fooking fact). so unless something has come up today, that is still the target.

5 minutes ago, HomerJay said:

as of last night, tomorrow was the target (this is a massive fooking fact). so unless something has come up today, that is still the target.

Fact according to whom? Or ITK? I hope that is the case for everyone’s sake.

6 minutes ago, bwfcfan5 said:

Fact according to whom? Or ITK? I hope that is the case for everyone’s sake.

I may have missed it, but who said people are not going to get paid tomorrow ?

Edited February 28, 20197 yr by tyldesley_white

If it was end of next week I think the clubs employees should really have been informed that the wages would be a week late. According to Iles the wages would be delayed which would hopefully mean the deal is probably imminent. 

If they leave the staff players or whom ever dangling for a week they’re a set of cunts

I know someone who works on the turnstiles and they haven’t been paid and no indication as to when they will. 

4 hours ago, Tombwfc said:

 

I'm only going off what the man himself says about money coming out of the club.

Not much doubt the money came out in 2017. The question is where it ended up. A bigger question is how much came out in 2018?

But everything pales into insignificance when set against whether a transfer of ownership is going through or not.

1 hour ago, Casino said:

i think folk need to realise we are a business about to go bust

it happens

and when companies go bust, people lose jobs

at the moment, i dont think anybody has lost their job

so hold tight and hope for the best and maybe we wont go bust and maybe youll all have jobs for a few more years

 

i know it sounds heartless, but its the truth

Spot on there. Mrs Manc worked for Citilink. Worked right up until late on Xmas Eve and on Xmas Day suddenly found out they'd gone bust. Owed thousands in salary, expenses, pension, etc and got fuck all back

Feel massively sorry for staff at BWFC but at the moment there's still hope. A deal is on the table so let's wait and see. The Twittermongs/local press/etc need to hold fire for the moment but won't as there's shit that can be stirred up aplenty 

Edited February 28, 20197 yr by MancWanderer

Takeover will go ahead  

folk need to calm the fuck down. 

Club is skint. Sweaty doesnt have the funds to keep us going. It’s why he’s selling it. This is what we all thought would happen wages going unpaid again none of this is a surprise so why act like it is??

Wish folk would just fuck right off with the doom and gloom