The Club is for sale and we don't know a price that DA will accept.
This is a far bigger problem than when we had to drum up finances for the DB era and everyone is waiting for a knight in shining armour to appear in Chesterfield. Lot's of hot air & guessing going on which is not helping the club or team at this moment in time. None of us know for sure where we will be playing next year and although I am not a fan of DA, I am certainly grateful to him for getting us to Sheffield Road & creating the fantastic facilities we have. The fans can't really do much more or say anymore to either DA or AC, they get your message loud and clear. Some will still want to chase them after they have gone. The days of tar & feathering have gone!!
Every problem needs to find a solution and the problem the fans have is that they want to remove the current ownership of CFC. A solution would be to find a buyer but nobody is really coming forward, a deal is supposed to be not far away but is it a deal that will save CFC and be in the interest of the fans or just an opportunity for DA & AC to cut and run?
How about we start creating a list of people who are prepared to invest into the future of CFC? I have no idea what DA would accept as a minimum offer but let's say he was willing to accept £5M. How about setting a target of getting pledges of a minimum of £5,000 per person. That's only 1,000 people pledging. We would need to create at least 1,000 pledges plus additional money if we have fans that could afford to donate in multiples of £5,000 for the future investments into the club and running of. Once DA breaks away, you can't go running to him every month with the cap in hand tactics to meet expenses.
How the mechanics would work, I don't know. But it is only a suggestion which could be thought about and if we have enough interest from individuals & businesses, then it might be worth following up.
AC will know of my suggestion as soon as I press the post button, so I would know within a few minutes if it was something that we could follow through. I know of a few that would be willing and some of my associates would jump at the chance of helping.
Over to you for discussion.
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