my theory... many of those clubs will have actively solicited the approach

don't know too much about the specifics of how clubs and owners are brought together, but in many cases it would make sense if the club was in a bad state financially that their old owners would actively seek out someone with loadsa money to take them on and to help them exit.

Now we seemingly did this a while back when we were in League One as I remember photos of McNally showing Tony Fernandes round the ground and there were loads of rumours too about Peter Cullum. Don't know why neither of them happened. Perhaps it is location (probably more so with Fernandes) but I think it is more likely just that at the time we were actively soliciting buyers we were in the third tier and it was perhaps seen as too big a risk.

Hull, QPR, Blackburn, Cardiff etc were all either in the Premier League, on the fringes of it or had just dropped out of it. Maybe getting Norwich from the third tier to the Premier League was just seen as too big a quantum leap for these potentially semi-interested buyers at the time.

Posted By: pat_abb on December 15th 2013 at 20:24:30

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Curious, although don't want it to happen (NCFC) - SeattleSounders, Dec 15, 20:06:23
- Those teams were all financially f***ed (NCFC) - mr carra, Dec 15, 20:45:33
- Who was the local businessman (fan) who paid for Huckerby? (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Dec 15, 20:42:07
  - it was me (NCFC) - Monty Peculiar, Dec 15, 21:08:01
  - Carl Moore and no he pushed the boat out for Hucks he's not that rich. (n/m) (NCFC) - lovely old job, Dec 15, 20:46:31
    - Wasn't he doing something with the club fairly recently? (n/m) (NCFC) - Huge Small, Dec 15, 20:50:48
    - fair play to him. (n/m) (NCFC) - South_West_Canary, Dec 15, 20:47:22
- my theory... many of those clubs will have actively solicited the approach (NCFC) - pat_abb, Dec 15, 20:24:30
  - i heard Scott bakula was sniffing about at one time... (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Dec 15, 20:27:58
- The new Team canaries fc franchise (n/m) (NCFC) - Hit Squadie, Dec 15, 20:10:14
- Perhaps because..... (NCFC) - Barclay_Steve, Dec 15, 20:10:13
  - Isn't East Anglia a growing part of England? (NCFC) - SeattleSounders, Dec 15, 20:17:12
    - you see, thats why we'd never sell out to a foreigner like you... (NCFC) - Cheltenham_Canary, Dec 15, 20:40:20
      - I would be happy to spell it colour and centre (NCFC) - SeattleSounders, Dec 15, 21:15:02
    - Eroding all the time (n/m) (NCFC) - SCC 28, Dec 15, 20:27:10
      - as us Sussex in the sea (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Dec 15, 20:29:26

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