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, Dec 15, 20:24:30