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Swansea City : This is not a hedge fund, we explore the new people involved
at 15:47 23 Nov 2024

People need to read up what "hedge fund" means as it has historical negative connotations due the the activities of people like Bernie Madoff.

In general you and I cannot invest in hedge funds as they are considered high risk and not covered by the Government compensation scheme. If you lose your money there is no one to help you. It is for people who can afford to lose big money and perceived to know what they are doing.

The LLP was probably a hedge fund with Kaplan and Levien the patrons paid an annual fee by the retail investors. This fund has done badly and they have sold up and taken a hit.

Levien and Kaplan should have down what Reynolds and co did and bought a team in league 2. In this case the hedge fund would have made money.

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OI COLEMAN
at 12:15 23 Nov 2024

I believe they gave him a budget to work to but stayed out of the club details such as new deal for Cabango and Darling. This would only be their issue if Coleman requested a budget increase.

Coleman has shown emphatically he is his own man not a poodle. He had two options resign or buy out the club.

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Tyler Morse looks set to take on a more prominent role
at 11:51 23 Nov 2024

Birch was at the club for 18 months selected Leon Britton as his advisor and appointed Cooper a on a three year deal two with parachutes. Cooper did well but left no legacy but cleared out some dead wood. Cooper did not fancy working with a tight budget and declined to see out his third year.

Swansea under Birch promoted the BLM without due diligence. It is unlikely the Swansea fan base prefer communal living runaway father's and defunding the police.

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it's done the new era begins
at 11:30 23 Nov 2024

Swansea with past recruitment people can turn £20m into dust very easily. £15m for a liga 1 hotshot Borja Baston who did not impress any Swansea manager and struggled in the championship. I saw one magical 15 min v Exeter in a friendly where I he immediately clicked with McBurnie. Then OMcB was gone.

Better to continues to bring in players like Franco and develop slowly.

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Dan James 2019 / Leeds / Amazon Prime
at 11:19 23 Nov 2024

Leeds would have paraded James around Thorpe Park and called it the "steal of the century". A loan rising to £7m for one of Wales s best players.

They found a good player and screwed Swansea to the floor. They squeezed the lemon too much and the pips flew out.

Huw fell on his sword as the legendary Neath Valley man he is.

Orta had to keep Huw happy and offer cash up front and £10m cash. They went behind his back to Jason but Jason would not sign it off either by the looks of it.

Swans got £15m in the end and Leeds forked out £20m more when £10m would have closed the deal.

God bless Huw Jenkins.

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Let the good times begin.
at 10:50 23 Nov 2024

"How are you going to create extra revenue?"

" Getting closer to the fans and getting them enthused to buy season tickets" or words to that effect.

Price rises?

The old bug bear " increase commercial revenue not discussed .

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Interesting article - NY Times
at 10:35 23 Nov 2024

Roll up roll up let's get together and crush free speech. You represent failed stale thinking. Cymru am byth no monoculture here.

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Russell Martin court case settled
at 00:07 23 Nov 2024

People were working in unison but I have been subjected to censorship so cannot comment any further on that. Similarly exposing how useless the Trust is, is not encouraged.

A majority who voted wanted devolution.50% of non voters were happy to go with the majority or did not care.

This is a forum not a Women institute knitting circle. You seem very precious. Welsh people are capable of stupidly just like any other group of people and I call it out if appropriate..Perhaps you are being what they call " woke".

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Interesting article - NY Times
at 13:01 22 Nov 2024

Profit is a dirty word where most people work for the Government. Government lives of taxes that feed of profits either by companies or individuals.

The sellouts built a infrastructure off club "profits" and cashed in selling that infrastructure and PL status. The club invested profits to avoid paying excessive tax .

The only way to cash on was to sell shares. The fans group preferred to go to court rather than sell a share.

I do not hide. Kaplan and Levien leave with my best wishes. The club is not left in a " mess*.

They could not guarantee success. Fans feel let down because other teams completed better Stoke who put bid Swansea for several players are £200m out of pocket.

I am a supporter but not an ordinary supporter. The fans body s biggest investment is English legal firms. They have taken £1.3 m from the club and only invested £200,000. Poor. The average fans does not care.

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Jamie P free agent ?
at 12:13 22 Nov 2024

Eom and Ginnelly are on the way back and may be available in the new year. If Patterson plays it prevents the development of these players.

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Interesting article - NY Times
at 12:10 22 Nov 2024

They gave handed over the club to ex colleagues at a knock down prices with debts cleared by them. The club now has a good plan.
The so called "sell outs" sold what they built from scratch. Starting with a mess at the bottom of league two and leaving with a team in the PL. It was not luck. The only owner not to cash in from Jenkins and Morgan's work we're the Trust who contributed little to the rise in reality. They must have been asleep.

I have empathy with the people who have owned the club and kept it ship shape. I cannot understand the mentality of fans like yourself who cannot give a good word about anyone except the fans.

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New Owners - Patience Needed
at 23:45 21 Nov 2024

Ginnelly is back in the grass and is an exciting footballer with goals in his locker.vHe makes things happen if fully fit. I am not sure the Summer recruitment was a disaster. Williams appears to rate Vipotnik and Bianchini who are improving. They deserve the live that Cullen has had. He his three years older than them and still trying to prove himself.

If they come good and improve as expected the club with Ginnelly and Eom returning the have some fire power.

The club would be wise to use some of the reported £20m for Cabango and Darling who would be saleable assets in future years.

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Bellers
at 23:08 21 Nov 2024

Page struggled with the basics. His substitution v Poland were shocking and made the team weaker with Dan James ending up at full back.

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Interesting article - NY Times
at 23:06 21 Nov 2024

When Swansea got relegated in the early 1980s there was no US safety belt to cushion the fall.

No convertible loan note or other investments up to £23m to help the club through and pay the local creditors. Remember the convertible loan note was needed because of the useless legal case by the fans group.

Decent people in my view Silverstein sorted out right royal Welsh mess. Kaplan and Levien failed but had good intentions . They are getting lectured but sit on a massive $800m asset in DC United. Only up $600m after the Swansea hiccup.

Much bigger disaster litter the EPL and EFL. Everton Derby Bolton Stoke even Cardiff.

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Russell Martin court case settled
at 22:56 21 Nov 2024

I accept the criticisms and do not bleat. I alone stand y up against porno filth ethnic slurs sang by Swansea fans because I do not see myself as a coward.

The club claimed " zero tolerance " but is strangely silent on these chants.

The Senedd is the culmination of 600 years of history and a wish for self determination. Welsh people can rid themselves of low life like Getting and the Labour party in the next election. Your problem is not with the Senedd but the MS s the Welsh people put in there .

Welsh language is optional and always has been. I call Welsh people dim when they behave stupidly like the Trust legal case which wanted £400k and six years of bad feeling. No one gets a free pass democratic or not. Not one member has come on here and accepted they made a bad job of it.

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Interesting article - NY Times
at 22:39 21 Nov 2024

Almost as dull as the fans group. £21m to not much on the same valuation. The Teflon boys who are given a free pass. They did not sell a share sitting on a 10,000% mark up.

Hey ho they only invested pennies. 1000 members and the only voices raised were not to sell. Incredible.

The Yankees are a free hit. Having a go at your own gets your sanity questioned.

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Interesting article - NY Times
at 19:52 21 Nov 2024

Known by the wimps as " sellouts" of course. The fans threatened to take them to court. Have you forgotten?

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Interesting article - NY Times
at 19:49 21 Nov 2024

You do not understand how it can work well. Brendan got to know Jenkins and was strong on what he wanted and did not want. Kuqi and Beattie wets dispatched replaced byy,Brendan s picks Sinclair and Borini..

He was a strong manager that knew how to work the chairman. It worked well. Laudrup got most of what he wanted but had no say in Bony apparently. That relationship went toxic.

Monk and Clement accepted what they were given. Giudoloin another experienced man was given some players but also picked Llorente and an Italian forward for half a season .

Not "drivel" at all. Try not to be influenced by the forum sages.

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Bellers
at 19:38 21 Nov 2024

I always remember him elbowing De Guzman from behind as he tracked back. A sort of sharp clip around the ears. De Guzman was thinking. " What did he do that for" and did not dive to the ground.

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Senedd Costs
at 12:06 21 Nov 2024

It is being dealt with. The people living on the street are provided with cheap basic facilities in confined controlled areas. It is a carrot and stick approach.

Police notices allowing arrest in commercial areas and provision provided in our odf sight areas with toilets etc.

One problem of homeless is a people entering cafes to use the toilets if you are lucky..

The country has gone soft in the head..People with no self discipline do not need a two bedroom flat to turn into a slum which is bad news for the neighbours .

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