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I politely disagree. If you sell your car to someone who uses that car 2 years later as a getaway car in a robbery that doesn’t make you complicit or an accessory to that robbery.
Would it have been different if it was a consortium fronted by, say a Peter Coates from Stoke on Trent?
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Car analogy doesn't really work I don't think.
Owning an EFL club seems to very very rarely be a lucrative money-spinner, especially for a club without a real fanbase. So if a professional gambler with no obvious connections to English football at all, let alone Wigan, wants to take over your club - one that you've poured millions into to take them well above their natural position - surely you'd be asking questions.
Perhaps he's just been unlucky, and these deals just seem shady with hindsight.
But if you're trying to imply there's some kind of xenophobic attitude behind it, not at all.
Same with Steve Dale taking over Bury - not a football fan, and a guy who had never been to Bury in his life and having no discernable means of income. Why the fuck are people selling football clubs to these?
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I agree with @jaw here. Whelan was 81 and had done right by Wigan for what 20+years? He sold to what was by all accounts a reputable business who have hit harder times since then judging by their financial performance. I think they gambled on Wigan getting promoted, that didn't happen and then have tried to fudge it from there
tbc
Tenderloin
Well the implication is he sold it to a scammer. I suppose a scammer isn't going to tell you they're a scammer. But is a Hong Kong consortium funded by a professional gambler a safe pair lf hands for your passion project?