Wigan Athletic sold to a Spanish group

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southportcdm
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Wigan Athletic sold to a Spanish group

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Just seen this headline on sky sports. Does anybody have any details please?
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Re: Wigan Athletic sold to a Spanish group

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Its amazing isnt it... could have been sold to an english man in brexit britan but that wasnt good enough and its been sold to a European group
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What’s wrong with that?
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Time will tell what's "wrong" with that

The administrators have been under HUGE pressure to find a buyer when it came to light they were raking in over £750k per week - selling players to do this

Are this Spanish consortium any different? The Americans were purely asset strippers after relocating the latics to Leigh and selling the ground et all off to property developers

Another consortium talked about selling the ground for shopping units and playing "on the road" totally against the football leagues rules.

I don't think we will have to wait long to see what this consortium does with no imminent sign of the 7000 or so latics fans.

Even the rugby fans purchasing food (that will have long since had to be disposed of) will not make for good financial reading with nothing coming in no matter how much money or plans this set up has
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Re: Wigan Athletic sold to a Spanish group

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Charriots Offiah wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 6:29 pm What’s wrong with that?
Whats right with it? You had IL who had experience running a football club (Oxford) and being chair of the EFL who is known for being financially stable something Latics need but because he owns Wigan Warriors its a no from the vocal fans...
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Re: Wigan Athletic sold to a Spanish group

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Real Wigan?

Not really.
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ian.birchall wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2020 9:36 am Real Wigan?

Not really.
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Caboose>

I can't say I've followed this lengthy saga closely, but as you really saying that Lenagan was discounted because Latics fans (allegedly? how expressed?) didn't like him? Would the people taking the decisions need, or want to take account of Latics fans' wishes anyway?
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moto748 wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2020 11:02 am Caboose>

I can't say I've followed this lengthy saga closely, but as you really saying that Lenagan was discounted because Latics fans (allegedly? how expressed?) didn't like him? Would the people taking the decisions need, or want to take account of Latics fans' wishes anyway?
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Re: Wigan Athletic sold to a Spanish group

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Caboosegg wrote: Thu Oct 01, 2020 7:49 am
Charriots Offiah wrote: Wed Sep 30, 2020 6:29 pm What’s wrong with that?
Whats right with it? You had IL who had experience running a football club (Oxford) and being chair of the EFL who is known for being financially stable something Latics need but because he owns Wigan Warriors its a no from the vocal fans...
Did he make an offer? If he did, was the offer equivalent to the Spanish offer? If the answer to either of those questions is a negative then your argument falls.
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