Quote: Ruddy Duck "A problem which needed not to have happen but for Whelan moving the finances of the stadium from his Whelco Holdings company to his Wigan Athetic company in order to get a bigger profit for himself from the sale of his football club with the stadium included.
That's how much Whelan cared about the people of Wigan!'"
Agreed....only done to realise £22m out of the sale of latics he would have otherwise been lucky to get a million quid for. Shrewd man but screwed over wigan royally (latics included). As much as latics see the ground being owned by the same bahrani consortium as a good thing, it is really not. Our prime sporting venue in the town is owned and operated upon the whim of its overseas owners. As soon as they get bored, latics and the stadium will be plunged into chaos again whilst we have no option but to go along for the ride.
Stadium should have gone to the council with small interests to each club, exactly how the huddersfield situation works - which also elimiates the whole nonsense arguments about the stadium. If we could get to a position where Wigan athletic is owned by a local or UK group and the stadium shared, it would be much better for the whole town.
The whole nonsensical thing about the bahraini offer was the admins insistence upon it. They had nearly a million quid in the supporters funds, plus leneghan fronting 3.5m for the stadium. Surely the better and more sustainable option would have been for latics to become a community club run by a consortium of intelligent fans (needle in haystack i know), and the stadium owned locally. The problem was the EFL 5/6m guarantees, but you would have had a mill to start from the supporters and surely they could have cut cloth accordingly to diminish those projected losses?
