Who is it this time? The statement says “alterative bidder”, not new bidder, also the negotiations are expected to finalised by 22nd. April, the EFL deadline. Rob Couhig??? Watch this space.
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BBC thinks it’s Couhig.
It would be easy to deduce it’s Couhig, and I would be very surprised if it wasn’t him.
I hadn’t seen that, maybe this saga will have an ending soon. Hopefully.
I feel like it is inevitable we are going to face a rejuvenated Reading in the playoffs.
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Couhig and Lommy are ‘best mates’ and own two football clubs next to each other.
They do half and half scarves. Do they do half and half bedsheets?
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Those would work well for when a couple has one bland personality and one with charisma.
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We move closer to owning half of Bearwood.
If Couhig gets the deal done then you can guarantee he will be straight on the phone to sell half of Bearwood Park to Mikhail.
The ultimate fear would be Mikhail sees the benefits of Reading and jumps ship lock, stock and barrel.
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Is there a precedent for clubs sharing a training ground?
I don’t see how it’s workable when they would want to train on the same days. If they had a fixture against eachother coming up it would be chaos on the snooping front.
This is a great fear of mine. Part of me thinks Rob wouldn’t do that, but then ultimately, it’s business.
Isn’t it general consensus here and elsewhere that Rob is just playing frontman for an American consortium, and probably won’t stick around?
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Surely if ML had wanted to own Reading, he could have just bought Reading. He didn’t have to go down the complicated route of buying Wycombe from Couhig to free Couhig to buy Reading to sell to ML after he has sold Wycombe.
If they were only interested in the academy and not the first team, they didn’t need to invest the money they did in the first team in January.
If they wanted Bloomfield out from the start, they could have just sacked him rather than a protracted freezing out process. But maybe Bloomfield just didn’t fancy the structure they wanted to introduce.
And if we share Bearwood perhaps more likely we would split it in half with a fence down the middle rather than take it in turns to use the same pitch.
The club has changed. We are more corporate now. Serious money is being spent on it. It’s a little hard to understand why but it’s happening. It would be almost impossible to navigate a path back to the old Wycombe even if we wanted to. I am afraid we simply have to ride the ride and try not to worry too much about the worst case future that frankly we can’t influence now anyway.
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Our Academy would use the Bearwood facility, the first team would either train at Booker or another appropriate site.
Couhig gets an instant £12-15M in the bank and halves many of the costs of running a Cat 1 academy. ML gets the facilities he wants for his academy and we get around the covenant as Reading are still onsite.
I thought that the academy would stay at Harlington to enable them to tap into the London market.
Another feature of the academy was that they wanted it on the same site as the first team. Maybe Harlington’s issues have made them have to reconsider that.
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Well good for you that the long-term sustainability of Wycombe Wanderers FC isn’t something you’re worried about.
We are in a very vulnerable position right now at the whim of someone who has no connection to High Wycombe or seemingly any desire to even publicly acknowledge he plays a role on running the club.
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I think that was based on taking his previous statements about being tired of transatlantic flights. I think most of us have learned in the meantime that we can’t take anything he says at face value, better to see things through the prism of following the money.
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I don’t understand why ML didn’t just buy Reading either. Maybe he didn’t want to get involved with whatever Dai Youngg has going on there, while Couhig’s investors were a bit less picky.
Not hard to see a scenario were the first team are back at Booker and the academy share Bearwood with Reading.
What a time to be alive.
I still have a concern in the back of my mind that the two clubs will eventually be amalgamated. Would have a big stadium, large catchment area and a fit for purpose training centre.
Which is why I mentioned half and half scarves earler.
It would never be allowed. The precedents have been set - not just due to MK Dons, but Reading themselves during the Thames Valley Royals debacle.
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