FCBEARS
Vital Football Legend
Just watched the interview with our new American investor (Mark Attanasio). He comes across as very likeable.
Few takeaways
The interviewer --- Legs, but she felt false!!!
He said he will look to increase the training facilities (more pitches)
Felt like a gauntlet getting here today as an investor. Delia and Michael put him through it (I bet that is why others never invested).
Made mention of 'take over of the club but maybe a slip of the tongue
The interviewer said that Delia and Michael are held in high regard by Norwich fans
First got interested in an English football team via Liverpool owners, and Norwich was on his first list of interested clubs. He had about ten clubs originally. He says that he was interested in Italian sides.
Said that the whole thing felt like a date (without a face-to-face meeting) - questions about personality and ambitions.
Another shareholder's shares might come up in the future, and he would be happy to buy those too. Said Delia is still in charge. He is just a minimal shareholder at the moment.
He will be learning for now.
His main point of coming in is to offer analytics, better training techniques and business/finance knowledge
He seems to have lots of wealthy businessmen/investors too who will be involved in this.
No involvement in offering his advice or thoughts on transfers.
He will watch Norwich games when he can. Has staff/office in London who will watch the games and report back to him. When he can, he will travel to Carrow Rd. He has purchased a pass to watch all our games. He said that he watched all our last games and thought that we needed a better offence (attack)
He will offer as much support as Delia wants.
He said that in the first call, he was told that Norwich had a 15% chance of going down, and he did think maybe it isn't right, but the zoom call with Webber and Zoe calmed him. Said everyone around him said that Norwich was losing every game and he is crazy. He said he likes DS a lot.
He says he hates losing and will not take that - DS watch out!!!!
He spoke a lot with Liverpool owners about investing in Norwich.
All his friends own bigger clubs - AC Milan, Liverpool, for example.
It is a passion and not an investment. He is doing it to win.
The interviewer seemed to say the fans want to keep to the self-funded model - Of course, she would. It is a Norwich city set up an interview. He said that he will not look to rebuild.
Richard Scudamore said that Norwich is a brilliantly run club and their finances are amazing. MA said that he thinks we will need to take risks to allow us to move forward ---- that sounds good. He seemed less a fan of the self-funded model than the interviewer made out we do.
He said that the Liverpool model will be much the same at Norwich with his investment.
He likes the soccer bot and might get that set up for his Baseball club
Club has everything there. It just needs that next step.
Said he went out with Webber and his wife away from Delia, who took him and his team to her restaurant (cheap old Delia), to local towns around the area, and he fell in love with it all.
He and his investment team will take it slow but expect more exciting things/times to come in the future
Few takeaways
The interviewer --- Legs, but she felt false!!!
He said he will look to increase the training facilities (more pitches)
Felt like a gauntlet getting here today as an investor. Delia and Michael put him through it (I bet that is why others never invested).
Made mention of 'take over of the club but maybe a slip of the tongue
The interviewer said that Delia and Michael are held in high regard by Norwich fans
First got interested in an English football team via Liverpool owners, and Norwich was on his first list of interested clubs. He had about ten clubs originally. He says that he was interested in Italian sides.
Said that the whole thing felt like a date (without a face-to-face meeting) - questions about personality and ambitions.
Another shareholder's shares might come up in the future, and he would be happy to buy those too. Said Delia is still in charge. He is just a minimal shareholder at the moment.
He will be learning for now.
His main point of coming in is to offer analytics, better training techniques and business/finance knowledge
He seems to have lots of wealthy businessmen/investors too who will be involved in this.
No involvement in offering his advice or thoughts on transfers.
He will watch Norwich games when he can. Has staff/office in London who will watch the games and report back to him. When he can, he will travel to Carrow Rd. He has purchased a pass to watch all our games. He said that he watched all our last games and thought that we needed a better offence (attack)
He will offer as much support as Delia wants.
He said that in the first call, he was told that Norwich had a 15% chance of going down, and he did think maybe it isn't right, but the zoom call with Webber and Zoe calmed him. Said everyone around him said that Norwich was losing every game and he is crazy. He said he likes DS a lot.
He says he hates losing and will not take that - DS watch out!!!!
He spoke a lot with Liverpool owners about investing in Norwich.
All his friends own bigger clubs - AC Milan, Liverpool, for example.
It is a passion and not an investment. He is doing it to win.
The interviewer seemed to say the fans want to keep to the self-funded model - Of course, she would. It is a Norwich city set up an interview. He said that he will not look to rebuild.
Richard Scudamore said that Norwich is a brilliantly run club and their finances are amazing. MA said that he thinks we will need to take risks to allow us to move forward ---- that sounds good. He seemed less a fan of the self-funded model than the interviewer made out we do.
He said that the Liverpool model will be much the same at Norwich with his investment.
He likes the soccer bot and might get that set up for his Baseball club
Club has everything there. It just needs that next step.
Said he went out with Webber and his wife away from Delia, who took him and his team to her restaurant (cheap old Delia), to local towns around the area, and he fell in love with it all.
He and his investment team will take it slow but expect more exciting things/times to come in the future
