American company pay £105 million for 40% stake in Ipswich.

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Values them at £260 million.
What would we be worth ?taking into account they could be going up.
 
Like many before them gambling on potential prem money, doesn't work out for most but guess itsnot really their own cash
 
They are in far better financial shape than MFC.
They owe much less and very little overall, their nett shareholder value is positive (there's a thing).
They did lose over £18m in the season getting out of League 1. That is a stunning figure. Their accounts really do give the bare minimum of detail.
It is one hell of a high valuation of Ipswich IMHO
 
I did read a while ago that there has been a massive revaluation upwards in Premier league clubs. I think it had been mentioned that Crystal Palace had been try to sell up for £250m or so but due to (I think) the valuation on Chelsea they had revised that to £600m. Basically it looked like even a middling Premier league club like Palace was valued at £500m+.

Haven't seen the Ipswich report but if the price goes up to £100m+ for 40% if they are promoted, that seems consistent with these revised valuations.

It feels like there's a massive bubble in Premier league clubs. American investors are most focused on the business opportunity and I suspect a lot of them are looking at the potential for the Premier league to become a closed shop which means they need to buy before that happens.

As far as I can see it you get
business investors - they believe they can increase the worth of the club and make a nice profit. Some of those are actual sports business focused and reckon they can improve the club enough to increase its worth while others are just about extracting maximum return.
vanity investors - billionaires who see it as a shiny thing to have and which will possibly add value to other assets they have
sportwashing investors - treating the club as an expense to provide marketing for themselves
Influence investors - billionaires buying influence at the top level of UK society
crooks, grifters and chancers - 'nuff said

There are very few old style local owners such as Gibson.
 
The_Big_Woodowski said:
Never done that trip but it don’t look that close and can’t imagine the transport links been great.
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I don’t mean it’s next door but it will feel a lot closer to the London football fraternity than a lot of clubs north of the midlands. I think it will be an advantage if they choose to dress it up and use it.

As an aside I went to Ipswich for that last game of the season when Pulis was the manager and it is easily the friendliest away ground I have visited, my daughter who was 18 at the time was walking around Portman Road in her Boro shirt and loads of Ipswich fans came up to her just to have a chat about the match, it was brilliant, just how football should be.
 
Wish we would seek investors like this as we really do need changes and some sort of ambition as the clubs seem content to sit in this division for eternity seems no urgency to get us promoted from our transfers
 
Norwich is long trip by road - the time I did in 2014 it seemed to take 2 hours to get to the M11. Its the type of road where a minor crash/breakdown etc can hold up traffic for a long time.

Ipswich is easier from London - maybe 100 minutes each way.

Ipswich reminds me of Middlesbrough in some ways its sort of unfashionable to people who don't know it - working class industrial heritage but rural middle class about 20 miles away.
 
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