Rumour hath it that he has put a bid in for the club that has allegedly been accepted.
Anybody else know or heard about this.

If true will save a few bob on a physio!

I was told ages ago he was set to take over, but then it went quiet, him and a few others. Rumour also has it musgrave possibly could get involved. But that could be nonsense.

Hopefully but bunker rumours dont have much meat on the bone.
A game of wait n see.
UTP.

Maybe some potentially interested parties went quiet waiting to see how events would unfold and when Raj contacted the Trust they resurrected an interest.
After all if they follow the Trust's statement of only being interested in a seat on the Board and around say a 2% holding they can probably handle that.
Something like that needs to happen if the club has any chance of being financed to EFL standards.
If the Trust is the only option of running/financing the show then our prospects will be dented somewhat.

dented is the biggest understatement you might ever have used. if thats our best option then that really is it for me finally.

If true, wonder how much he'll buy us for? Then three possibilities:-
1) will Singh backstab him and ask for more money and come up with a sad excuse not to sell and Gough pulls out Singh lives on as a Pools Legend

2) Singh doesn't care anymore and looking to part company with a quick sale and fudge the book to make them look better than usual. Then Singh down the A19 with £800,000 in his back pocket

3) Nothing happens and we stay the same.

Was there a star in the East ..or was it one of his wind-up phone calls …?

Absolutely Mr Accy . I don't like exaggerating disaster, but that is what we're facing unless somebody turns up who can and, more importantly, will finance us.

Well that is exactly whats happened the trust said this the other week. They just didnt mention names.

ISS wasn't it. As it obit the Earth it Lead him to the Dog Track, realising the Dog Track went out of business and couldn't afford to buy Morrisons. He thought 3rd best thing to buy was the Wesley. Then found out it burnt down. So last but not least it had to be Wilkinsons..

Look on the bright side the born again Poolies having exorcised Raj from the club and lead us into a land of purity and contentment will be wetting themselves with joy and be over the moon…. That, along with our future.Hallelujah …or possibly not

We could just stick with raj and lose every week or we can take our chances on someone else having a bash.

Has he won the lottery, no way unless he has backers has he the finances to buy or even run Pools.

It was 5 or 6 people with american investment so the rumour had it. That will probobly change in time.

We could have a Casino running up from Vegas. Hasn't he been out there for last few years or am I thinking of someone else.

Who said anything about sticking with Raj, doesn’t bother me if he stays or goes.
Understand that all I care about is keeping this club alive , the rest is froth.
But saying that, I haven’t been waging a war against him for the past couple of years….you’ll miss him when he’s gone….I won’t

Brett Maverick coming to take over then…?
He can moor up in the Marina on his boat, should be fun.

We'll just have to wait and see, as is always the case.

Morden Society can't wait these days. We need information now now now

He has/had business interests in the States, Orlando I think, he has 4 Physio places in the N.E. Doing a company search he doesn’t have a load of cash in hand.

Spot on Snowy the only people who'll miss Raj will be those who've been demanding g he goes for years. Mind they'll have to update their predictive text to put the new owners name in place of his in their hate templates.

It’s automatically set to default to the new owner….seven minutes after the meet the new owner interview is aired.

All pretty sad and concerning. Wondering why the Raj haters are so sure any new owner (yet to be revealed) will take us to the promised land. Most likely outcome is we will continue to bounce along the bottom of lower echelons of the football pyramid rather like when Raj was the boss. There is no defending what happened last season but I am pretty sure Raj would have pulled out all the stops to get us promoted like during Challinor's heyday. As it is it seems he has been hounded out by a small but gobby minority.

Very true, I'm not a Singh Fan, I admit that, but can't fault him, as said before He as been our Saviour and Destroyer. If he sells up he sells up and if he walks he walks. I'll always support Pools no matter. New owners and players come and go, Pools will always be there for now.
New owners will not change anything, but the people who want him gone will be HAPPY, as change brings happiness for a few weeks or months, but as said above in another post, will change the names on the template to the new chairman and say the same crap about 18 months time.

Was the same for Gibson, Hornsey, IOR, Sage, Coxhal and Singh. Nothing changes. Personally for me IOR were the best but sadly same people voiced their own opinions and looked at our history since.......

Fingers crossed.

So true…. But this constant long term demolition of all aspects of the club must get to the players too…..some times in a twisted way I’d like to see what happens, and if it did got tits up the snipers would still pass the blame to someone else, now let’s guess who.
My belief is…Support your club, back your players and hope.

The only way Pools can reach the heights when IOR were in charge would be for a multi millionaire to buy the club. Personally I believe all the names we keep referring to would only keep us at the present level.

Amen to that.

Could this article in yesterday's Northern Echo be the source of the rumours...

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport ... usa-grows/

Behave! Paul Gough has done well and is no doubt comfortable but he's not in this league. The only one I can think of is the guy who made a fortune in property development, can't recall his name.

My worry is that Raj Singh and Jess Stelling have explored all the options they can think up and come up with naught. Fan buy out is the final possibility and we are offering pennies when it needs pounds.

Were do I start with this nonsense. You should be all over this Snowy. Or are you politically selective with your campaign against guessery?

IOR were not hounded out. Their business went tits. Uncle Ken said so.

Raj didn't buy us promotion. It was DC who spent his modest budget wisely, making bread and butter National League signings into a promotion side. Raj made the good decision to hire DC tob he fair. Shame about later appointments. Oh dear. Askey though, good move.

I don't know maybe people really enjoy us getting smashed by Oxfords second club or a day off football on FA Cup round weekend. I'm scratching my head why anyone thinks things are so rosey. If Raj is the kind of guy that needs his ego massaging on social media (as you're all kindly doing for him) then I'm not sure he is an ideal owner for the club anyway. Never going to be a very stable situation.

Double post. Don't feel strongly enough to say it all over again

Did you read the full article Mr.I?, his guest speaker is reportedly worth 500 million, now if you could get people like that on board?, who knows

I cant speak for others but for me, it is obvious things are far from rosey but in Singh's defence, he backed Challinor which enabled promotion out of the Conference. No idea what Luke Armstrong's wages were but they would have been significant. Singh rescued the club when it was about to go under, brought financial stability and made the decisions that got us back into the FL. Even when Challinor left Pools we had decent cup runs and survival was achieved fairly comfortably but then stagnation set in which led to the sacking of Lee (plenty were calling for it) which then lead to the abomination that was last season. Clearly last season was an unmitigated disaster but in my view Singh has done more good at Pools than he has done harm because without him Pools may well have gone bust. The club is now financially stable and although on pitch things are not going well its a bit early to throw in the towel on this season. I cannot understand this relentless vendetta against Singh.

I suspect I can Mr O.

Modest budget, have you seen the books of every club in the division then? You're just guessing.
As for DC (not Raj) got us promotion by spending the budget wisely. If that's the case then last seasons spaffing of the budget and subsequent relegation must also be down to the managers (Hartley & Curle) not Raj.
More like its Raj fault for every fook up at the club, but it's nothing to do with Raj's efforts when anything positive happens.

If it goes wrong it’s down to Raj.
If it goes right, it’s despite Raj.

Rinse and repeat.

I did. But it’s a hell of a stretch to conflate that to buying Pools without a shred of evidence.

Come on Snowy, you're capable of much higher definition thought and comprehension than that Sir.

Ifs and buts what's and when's. Totally irrelevant ( sorry Mr I ) until we find out the truth behind this rumour.

I saw the article yesterday. On the face of things it's a little puff piece blowing hot air up Goughy's back passage and reminding people that he's a big fan of Pools.

The thing that intrigues me is that it was in The Northern Echo, a paper that has hardly give Pools any coverage since they were relegated back to the NL. Coincidence, or have they have wind of something?

We'll soon find out according to the rumour mongers - but when you see how long other takeovers this season have dragged on for, that sounds highly unlikely.

On IOR - they were hammered on a regular basis for lack of investment in the team by some folk on the Bunker for the last 5 - 6 years before they finally bolted. Most of the names have changed since those days, but but the sentiments are the same.

My instructor many years ago , a man who if he was a undertaker, people would stop dying, said ‘keep your notes concise young man’
I said ‘concise Sir?
He sighed and ‘Yes, concise, brief but comprehensive!’

I learned quickly, because I was in the ‘knitting circle from Hell’

I never changed mine, it was after one of my favourite terriers, didn’t have the heart to.
It wasn’t all sweetness and light towards the long drawn out end….it was like being on a sinking ship where we were the passengers and IOR were the crew and the crew were slipping over the side bit by bit till there was no one left and we were taken in tow by Coxall Tugs straight to the breakers….but narrowly escaped.

Lashed to the wheel in a force nine with nowt to eat but hard tack.

You can’t beat it, pitching and rolling, the salt spray, the wind , the wicked wind, the creaking of the timbers, the doom of the rocks …woke up just in time thank god it was just a dream…

To be fair Raj admitted he made some bad decisions last season. He didn’t need to come out and take responsibility . Just because he is a good business man doesn’t make him a successful football club owner. I don’t like that his family has been targeted . That’s wrong and the guy stepped in to save us when others didn’t . IMO he should be given the benefit of the doubt. He is only human after all. Be careful guys what you wish for.

On the list of bad owners down the years, Raj doesn’t even appear on the radar.
The bills are paid, the ground maintained …..even IOR wasn’t apparently interested after being refused permission to buy the ground and it showed.
He was the owner who would sharp remedy any wrong appointments as manager, in contrast to IOR, as for Hartley, no one complained at the time, with a couple exemptions who complained about everything down to the length of the grass, but who was advising him about these appointments…?
Some people in love with DC just couldn’t stop crying into their waterlogged pillows and have been bitter ever since, ignoring the fact that their hero left in circumstances that were of his own creation and could have been done better but the man love squad never got over it.
Also the rumour squad who know every financial detail of Pools from their own vivid and tortuous imagination ….all from a bloke who knows a bloke but never had answers when asked for details of financial transactions.
God knows what some of the whingers would make of some past owners activities, they’d have had a meltdown if they were on social media then…well we may well be getting a Raj free world and let’s see what their preferred option is like..

FFS Snowy.
Snap out of this silly fishing.
Just try to enjoy today's win.
Chill matey.
Please put it on the back burner till monday.
Its remembrance Weekend.
Show some respect.
UTP.