https://www.totalrl.com/wigan-attract-big-investor/

https://www.totalrl.com/wigan-attract-big-investor/

I’d be interested to see how much he’s taken. It’s obvious he’s not overtaken IL as majority share holder but you’d have thought he’d have a substantial share in the club.

More than 25%, less than 50%.

Sizeable chunk then. Very interesting indeed

Maybe Mr Lenagan taking us on the road previously has drummed up the interest from Mike Danson. Once again IFL proving he does things correctly and in the best interests of our club. Your all running out of things to throw at him now?

He had deep pockets allegedly but not anymore.

He only signs championship players but not anymore.

Lets appreciate what we have, maybe this is the start of the club being taken over slowly and surely and this way we will see the new investors hand before we go all in?

The Skolars pre season games may have played a big part IMO. After attending one for the first time this year, I’d imagine there would be a few people there wealthy enough to buy a stake in a rugby league team. I didn’t see many eyes water at the £7 bottles of larger in the bar, whereas I nearly fainted

I must say one of the things that i liked when i read about Mike Danson is that he was born in Wigan and isn't one of these outsider's who just buy into clubs who aren't actually from the area,a case in point being these investors who buy football clubs who aren't even from this country.I also read somewhere that he owns one of Michael Jackson's old properties i think it's in New York,hopefully we will be an even more attractive prospect to potential future players now we have 2 very rich benefactors

He can be like Roman Abromovich but instead of offering a week on his yacht, he can offer players a week in his MJ mansion in New York. It’ll still be a tough sell to get players to choose that over Eamon McManus and his villa in Parr though.

Very good I'm really hoping that we can bring some really quality overseas players from the NRL,top of the list for me would be the second row captain of Cronulla,he's an ideal replacement for o'loughlin plus he has a really good kicking game with his left foot

.... did Mike Danson abolish the salary cap and convince the Aussies to change their position on only selecting NRL players for the national side? Until then we aren't signing a current aussie international

I do really wonder about the expectations of some of our fans.
If IL buys the stadium then he will need to provide jobs for many people. One of the major concerns must be the state of the pitch.
One of the 1st things the administrators did was to make the head groundsman redundant and from what I hear the pitch is being looked after by apprentice groundsman and that only consists of mowing it at this time.
How much work and the cost of re-employing the staff to get things back in shape is anyone's guess. Then of course there are the other positions, ticketing staff, front office and catering staff etc etc.

All of this has to be done at a time of NO income.

What I will say, is that if IL does buy the stadium then all those fans who used the excuse not to attend because it wasn't ours have to good grace to get off their backsides and get down there again (once fans are allowed).

Somehow I don't think it'll happen as they will find another "reason" to not attend.

Rant over.

Why not all we have to do is clear a marquee spot and then we can pay them what we want,that's the whole idea behind the marquee spots so rich benefactors can pay players what they like out of their own pockets