Spanish Bid fallen through!

Surely now is the time for another Leneghan bid, which appears the only realistic and sensible one left on the table?

Leneghan buys the stadium, use the fans money raised for the supporter's club to buy the football team. Wigan give latics a long lease.

Everyone's happy. Saves them from being liquidated, preserves their football league status, and ensures the ground isn't at risk.

Pie-Ella off the menu at the DW it would seem.

Adios Amigos.

Granted my figures are only based off a quick skim read of a few articles, but I've heard the figure of £3m being touted for everything. If IL can buy the stadium for £2m then Latics fans have already raised £900k. You'd think that would cover everything.

Time for the fat controller administrator to check his ego and accept IL's money (if he's still willing to buy it that is) & time for Latics fans to accept it's 'us' or failure.

Doesnt the buyer have to prove they have funds for 2 years? Fans can't do that on 900k.

IMO its the only realistic option now. And one which is hugely beneficial for both clubs. As a plus, if we could pull it off we would have avoided all the running costs of a stadium thats been unusable for a year due to covid, picking it up just as things start opening up again

I think thats comes from the EFLs requirement to show they will be solvent for the next two seasons (this and next), which is why they wanted proof of 5m plus 3-4mil for the sale.

If leneghan took the stadium, their fans the club, surely whelan would be prepared to guarantee their losses up to that much to keep them going? Not even the price of an average footballer in the days he was loosing tens of millions a season on them! You'd think he'd do that as a parting gift.

If I were leneghan, id get onto Whelan, then approach the supporters club with the proposal. Its about all they have left which is viable tbh!

It's time to put the rugby/football bitterness aside. The town need BOTH clubs, whoever finishes up owning them needs to respect the other and work together for the good of both.

It would seem a few on social media would rather go bust than IL be involved with a buyout.

Unbelievable.

They have a strange dribbling bunch of fans. One section in particular. The 40 somethings that hate Maurice Lindsay and bring their kids up to follow suit. Let them eat cake. If they want to go bust i hope Lenegan is listening to them. Hope they enjoy Frickley and big local derbies against Chorley and Bamber Bridge.

both clubs need each other you are right, I wouldnt want them to go belly up

Yup that's what I've seen too.

Whilst I don't think this moronic bunch are representative of the majority of Latics fans, they do make up a fair chunk of them sadly.

Like you said it's unbelievable. IL is a decent guy and more importantly from a Latics POV, he's got strong footballing connections. He'll run a steady ship and look to promote youth - pretty much ticks every box you'd want from an owner

Surely these are a relatively small number compared to those who just want their club to survive?

I've heard before about fan power in football, but that usually refers to clubs like Juventus and Barcelona, who can call upon legions of supporters.

It surely must be the case that Latics' hardcore dissenters can walk away and no one will even notice?