Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Wanderers Ways. Neil Thompson 1961-2021

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Football Ventures

Featured Replies

2 minutes ago, Dr. Feelgood said:

It is. The Govt. won't want them long term & will sell. 

At a pre agreed price with FV having first dibs?

  • Replies 4.5k
  • Views 451.6k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Most Popular Posts

  • Casino
    Casino

    Up until now, ive left you to Zico Now that youve decided to start with somebody as inoffensive as @RoadRunnerFan its up a level Stop being a cock, or its curtains Wways doesnt need you as much as you

  • And as we stand on the cusp of promotion to the Championship, let's not forget how far we've come. I posted this on Facebook three years ago today...

  • Tonge moor green jacket
    Tonge moor green jacket

    Hardly the point neither- Sluufy just being Sluffy. As the top man at the club, it was his responsibility to look after staff and ensure they got paid. To suggest he was under no obligation is frankl

Posted Images

  • Author

Couldn’t read so deleted image.

Edited by Mounts Kipper
Fucked up. 🤣

So long as there's a rainy day fund available to buy the shares back, nothing to see here

  • Author
2 minutes ago, Casino said:

So long as there's a rainy day fund available to buy the shares back, nothing to see here

I’d think FV have this well under control and it’s for the benefit of the club. 

Get a wanderersways collective together and buy a few if FV can't 😀 

Where is Miami?

 

Bolton Wanderers, the League One football club, is now part-owned by taxpayers after a £5m pandemic loan was converted into shares.

The British Business Bank’s latest update on the £1.1bn Future Fund, a Covid support scheme, showed club owner Football Ventures (Whites) Ltd among 108 companies that converted the emergency loans into shares rather than repay them.

A total of 1,190 companies took convertible loans from the British Business Bank under the scheme that closed a year ago, with 265 firms giving shares to the taxpayer in return since then.

The Future Fund was designed to support “innovative UK companies that typically rely on equity investment to fund their growth” according to the bank, which now owns an 8pc stake in a founder member of the Football League in 1888.

Bolton has been under new ownership since August 2019 after collapsing into administration almost three years ago.

The team, which is in 15th place in League One, racked up a £3.9m pre-tax loss in the year to June 2020. It took the £5m loan from the Fund in August 2020 and converted the loan to shares in October.

A club spokesman said the loan was “captured in our articles and aligned with the plan for ensuring Bolton has a stronger and sustainable future”.

A British Business Bank spokesman said: “The Future Fund used a set of standard terms with published eligibility criteria. The process provided a clear, efficient way to make funding available as widely and as swiftly as possible without the need for lengthy negotiations. Applications that met all the eligibility criteria received investment.”

The British Business Bank has been accused by MPs on the Public Accounts Committee of “woefully inadequate” due diligence over Covid loans to Greensill Capital, the finance firm advised by David Cameron which collapsed last year.

Other companies in which the Future Fund is now a shareholder include Organox, a medical company that has developed technology for storing livers for transplants; saving and investing fintech firm Plum; and sustainable fashion app Save Your Wardrobe.

Ken Cooper, a managing director at the taxpayer-backed bank, said the fund was designed to create “long-term value for the UK taxpayer”.

He added: “We’re delighted to see so many companies already going on to raise further private sector capital. As a shareholder in so many promising businesses, the Future Fund is well positioned to share in the benefits of their continued growth.”

I hope this doesn’t upset the EFL now we are partly owned by the British government bit like Newcastle with the Saudis . Boris s billions on the way 😂

just like when the GOV 

bailed the Banks out 

invested 100 billion 

sold sold them back for 50 billion 

nout to see here

2 minutes ago, Casino said:

5 million for 8%

Wow

say 10% for 5 mill 

club is worth 50 million 

Rishi is a wanderer, Rishi is a wanderer, na na na na na... Na na na na

  • Author

That mean we’re valued at over 60 million. 

Just now, Mounts Kipper said:

That mean we’re valued at over 60 million. 

Exactly

Just now, Mr Grey said:

Shouldn't be a problem, According to Jol, half the posters on here earn around 250k a year.

...and I'm not one of them.

That was @Sweep

He chats more shit than you

Of the opinion nothing to see here. In fact I like it. 

4 minutes ago, Mr Grey said:

Has Sharon charged the Government yet for use of BWFC facilities for the mass covid vaccination centre.

100k a day at least 😊

Heard they make a good screw out of moving the magistrate courts to the ground.
Would of thought they are making money out of hiring the area out for Covid vacs otherwise it would be costing the club money  

17 minutes ago, Casino said:

5 million for 8%

Wow

good job it wasn't peter jones from dragons den.

he'd of wanted at least 20%

6 minutes ago, tomski said:

Of the opinion nothing to see here. In fact I like it. 

Absolutely. 

£3.9m loss, but with £5m in.

Dion, and the others paid for by the BBB. Doncaster will be fuming. 🤣

1 minute ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Absolutely. 

£3.9m loss, but with £5m in.

Dion, and the others paid for by the BBB. Doncaster will be fuming. 🤣

Yorkshire tax payers money funding Bolton 😁

25 minutes ago, stevieb said:

Rishi is a wanderer, Rishi is a wanderer, na na na na na... Na na na na

Definitely. Bring it on.

Yoof might need it explaining to them.

50 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Definitely. Bring it on.

Yoof might need it explaining to them.

Boris is a Wanderer, He wears a Wanderers hat.

He pays for the Wanderers, And he's a fucking twat!.

He laughs at the left wing, He runs down the right.

He couldn't score a goal if he played all fucking night!

Edited by wanderer1984

2 hours ago, Farnywhite said:

Heard they make a good screw out of moving the magistrate courts to the ground.
Would of thought they are making money out of hiring the area out for Covid vacs otherwise it would be costing the club money  

Courts still there until March at the earliest apparently 

2 hours ago, Mr Grey said:

Shouldn't be a problem, According to Jol, half the posters on here earn around 250k a year.

...and I'm not one of them.

 

2 hours ago, Casino said:

That was @Sweep

He chats more shit than you

Yes, my £150k a year comment on the politics thread was repeating @Sweep’s previous (tongue in cheek) comment.

If we make out like the banks did on state capital then we are giggling. 

RoadRunnerFan

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.