Sell or invest or neither?

[surreyr]

This is something I can't get my head round. If the owners neither sell nor invest heavily in the playing squad then in all likelihood their investment in the club will be worth 20% (or maybe less) of its current value by Christmas as we may be adrift at the bottom of the league.

If they are such astute business men why cant they see this?

[roose]

Why pay wages now? sign the new players just before pre season starts will save money Qpr don't have any money so if I was a owner i would not want to pay 3-4 weeks wages for a player to be on holiday.

[stan_bowles]

I reckon they are hoping to sell ASAP to avoid having to invest in players and maximise profit.

If stuck with the club at kick off i think we will see only frees/loans have come in.

[roose]

Yea cos if they sell us for 70m Bernie would get 60% = 42m mittals 33% = 22.5 m Flav 7% = 5.5m roughly speaking. So flavio get's less than he has put in Bernie would make say 25m you really think he will walk away only making 25m he has 2200 million in the bank, also nobody is gonna pay 70mil for QPR it's not worth any money at all.

[winalotto]

Its a buyers market, as someone once said, so you will find players at the moment in no hurry to sign for clubs, wait till end of july and players and agents alike all start to panic. All players want to be in a first team squad and you'll find sign quite quickly, and probably for less money than they would hold out for in june, so hanging on is a clever thing to do if your a club owner. If all clubs realised that and made players wait the prices some go for would dramatically drop.

[Gerryhatrick]

I reckon they are hoping to sell ASAP to avoid having to invest in players and maximise profit.

If stuck with the club at kick off i think we will see only frees/loans have come in.

I agree, the value for the club is at it's peak right now. Not sure about Bernies £100m valuation tho, especially as he and FB valued the club at only £1m in 2007. 15% share cost BE only £150,000, and 54% to FB for £540,000

The dilemma is current value versus the value when we're 15 points adrift if we haven't invested in players, plus the additional earner of the interest rate on the loans. If he can see a way to continue to bleed us dry he will stay interested financially, but the risk will be the falling valuation. I hope he sells and also hope that by 1st Aug the Mittals will be in control.

[qblockpete]

We have to stop dreaming The Mittals wil take full control.

On the other hand quite conceivable we sell to someone or a consortium in next few months.

One things you can say about Bernie Ecclestone, he is out of touch with football fans of this club but he does have some big contacts in the world and I'd be expecting one of those to make an offer.