Its kinda funny as on Saturday night as i was waiting for my numbers to come up on the lottery, my son asked me if i`d buy Stanley if i won the jackpot, i answered yes, then we started to work out how much we thought it was worth, and we sort of came to a rough figure of around £1.5M / £2M Tops, so not sure where the other £1M comes from that he`s asking for, i cant see anyone in their right mind paying £3M for Stanley, unless they have unlimited amounts of cash at their dispossal.
I think we should go on the Dragons Den and see if we can get them to buy the club
, i think if they were allowed to go through the books though that they would come up with a far smaller figure than the £3M asking price, they`ed probably offer £40,000 for a 50% stake, as seems the norm
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Or maybe we could all write Bill Gates a nice letter asking him to help us out, as it would be a drop in the ocean to him.
The problem is that the revenue is not there to make it a worth while investment, unless you are looking at a really long term one, even if lets say somebody like Bill Gates steps in and throws money at the club and that we end up in the Prem, realistically what do you think the gate would be, my guess is that it still wouldn`t reach 10,000 because the fan base just isn`t there.
So if we accept that, we cant really set our sights on much more than where we are now, ok we might assemble a team that could one day take us to league 1, but i think thats probably about as far as a small club like ours could reach, its not about being defeatist its more about being realistic, that is of course unless a big money man steps in and is prepared to throw money down the drain to take us higher just for the pleasure of seeing Stanley back in the top flight.