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| When Steve Parkin was interested before he was willing to pay every single creditor, player and staff member in full to the tune of around £3.3million. He’d already spent £200k+ on due diligence, finding 1 or 2 skeletons that hadn’t been revealed to him but he said “it’s pocket change and makes no difference”.
He promised the RFL that Wakefield would never ever again suffer a financial crisis or embarrass the sport again. He also pledged to build the best training centre outside the top Premier League clubs and to give England teams free use of it.
It was a time of franchises and all he asked was an assurance that having spent the best part of £4 Million investigating the club, clearing debts etc that he wouldn’t find himself with a very very expensive Championship Club. I suspect a nod nod wink wink would have sufficed but the RFL refused (rightly or wrongly maybe naively) so he walked away, can’t blame him.
Glover took over, and the rest is history
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| Quote: The Avenger "Steve Parkin has just sold Clipper to US giants GXO for around £2 Billion his stake is around £1.2 Billion giving him a personal wealth of around £2 Billion.
He’s a Wakefield bloke and is very interested in sport, he doesn’t strike me as the type to retire to his garden'"
Then you gotta ask why he hasn't already made an effort.
With a personal wealth of 2 billion Trinity is chicken feed.
I'm not taking the mick here, if you know him or at least know how to contact him drop him a line.
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| Quote: vastman "Then you gotta ask why he hasn't already made an effort.
With a personal wealth of 2 billion Trinity is chicken feed.
I'm not taking the mick here, if you know him or at least know how to contact him drop him a line.'"
The sale of Clipper has just happened in the last couple of months, It’s a done deal but I’d guess there are still some things being worked out.
I do know him, to say hello to but I’m not one of his buddies or anything like that.
He’s heavily involved at Leeds United, not just as a major sponsor but I believe he has some shares
He also owns Guisley FC along with 3 other Directors who themselves are worth around £200 to £300 million each
The problem with Guisley FC is that they’re in Leeds and no matter how big they get or even if they were promoted year on year to the Premier League, within Leeds they’ll always be smaller than Leeds United, always second biggest, second fiddle, second choice.
Hence the interest in Wakefield
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| Quote: The Avenger "The sale of Clipper has just happened in the last couple of months, It’s a done deal but I’d guess there are still some things being worked out.
I do know him, to say hello to but I’m not one of his buddies or anything like that.
He’s heavily involved at Leeds United, not just as a major sponsor but I believe he has some shares'"
No reason he can't do both, especially as ones a winter game. Who knows, these are a different breed of people to the rest of us and they don't think like we do. To me Trinity sounds like an ideal project for him, but he may well just shrug his shoulders.
Slightly OT: I had an uncle who was a hugely successful Doctor, one of the very first to open a medical practice in the 80's and then expand. Yet he and my Aunt used to travel to France for four weeks every year in the most rubbish 20 year old camper van you've ever seen. I never got it, he never seemed as wealthy as I thought he was and never seemed all that happy. When he died four years ago he left an estate worth 28 million to be split between his four children and a bit for hangers on like me . My laboured point is that he hardly spent any of his great wealth either on himself or anyone or anything else whilst alive - I'll never understand the rich or the posh
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| Quote: vastman "No reason he can't do both, especially as ones a winter game. Who knows, these are a different breed of people to the rest of us and they don't think like we do. To me Trinity sounds like an ideal project for him, but he may well just shrug his shoulders.
I’ve got to ask
Was it Harold Shipman?
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| Quote: The Avenger "I’ve got to ask
Was it Harold Shipman?
No
Shipman was a hugely successful murderer, he was a terrible Doctor
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| Quote: vastman "No reason he can't do both, especially as ones a winter game. Who knows, these are a different breed of people to the rest of us and they don't think like we do. To me Trinity sounds like an ideal project for him, but he may well just shrug his shoulders.
Slightly OT: I had an uncle who was a hugely successful Doctor, one of the very first to open a medical practice in the 80's and then expand. Yet he and my Aunt used to travel to France for four weeks every year in the most rubbish 20 year old camper van you've ever seen. I never got it, he never seemed as wealthy as I thought he was and never seemed all that happy. When he died four years ago he left an estate worth 28 million to be split between his four children and a bit for hangers on like me
So we need your cousins to invest then?
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| Quote: PopTart "So we need your cousins to invest then?'"
I'll mention it, but they are all Sheff Wed fans so I think they have suffered enough
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| Quote: The Avenger "Steve Parkin has just sold Clipper to US giants GXO for around £2 Billion his stake is around £1.2 Billion giving him a personal wealth of around £2 Billion.
He’s a Wakefield bloke and is very interested in sport, he doesn’t strike me as the type to retire to his garden'"
Would be nice.
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| Let’s be honest. If Parkin were to come to the table even as a hobby to invest then it wouldn’t take much to get trinity up towards the top. It would be likely if the current directors were kept on to efficiently run the club that it could become a success story on and off the field.
The likelihood is slim as if he wanted to I’m sure he would have but maybe after the sale he’s looking for another hobby or side project.
I genuinely feel with some investment we could become a club capable of challenging on and off the field the best in the competition. With IMG and coming changes the sport could be dragged through into a more lucrative era in terms of financial rewards too.
Head in the clouds stuff maybe, but how nice would it be for someone to have the desire and the financial clout to come in and transform us. No disrespect to the current regime who run a tight and respectable shop.
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| Sounds just like what we need, or is it deep pockets and short hands
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| Sounds like a job for Sir Rodders???
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| Quote: MKcat "Sounds like a job for Sir Rodders???'"
I sincerely hope you’re joking.
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