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Re: Mikheil Lomtadze confirmed as one of three new directors
He says... "The total amount of investments in Kazakhstan will be more than 10 billion tenge."
10 Billion tenge is about 18 million pounds!
Re: Mikheil Lomtadze confirmed as one of three new directors
I completely agree. I've actually felt quite worried by this change of ownership, but if Wycombe are going to be more focused on youth development than some Premier League pipe dream, I feel reassured.
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Come on Crawley, let’s keep Winkelman’s abominations down in the basement. Thanks.
Re: Mikheil Lomtadze confirmed as one of three new directors
Josh Parker on our bench, who used to play with the Oxford defender, called out his nickname and to leave it, the player assumed it was a call from their keeper. The rest is history.
Championship level shithousery
Re: Mikheil Lomtadze confirmed as one of three new directors
Yes we have been very fortunate to have had Rob and his family as the temporary custodians of this amazing club of ours. I am sure he wouldn’t pass it on unless he believed that the new owner would take on the challenge in a rightful manner in his absence.
Rob - we owe you so much.
Re: Mikheil Lomtadze confirmed as one of three new directors
A tweet that’s just appeared on the Kaspi.kz Twitter feed:
After receiving consent from the English Football League, Mikhail Lomtadze (@m_lomtadze) became a member of the board of directors and partner of the English football club Wycombe Wanderers, on the basis of which a world-class football academy with branches in Kazakhstan and England will be established within 3 years. The total amount of investments in Kazakhstan will be more than 10 billion tenge.
Mikhail commented:
"It is my personal dream to create a professional world-class children's football academy in Kazakhstan and England, where the best and most talented young football players and future stars can be brought up. Training at the academy will be completely free, and young athletes will have the opportunity to study with the best coaches of our country and the homeland of football - England.
Football is the most popular and spectacular sport with great potential for improving sportsmanship, and is a source of pride in many countries. I am sure that our football can be raised to a new level using my experience in creating an innovative business, using the most modern technologies and artificial intelligence capabilities. I hope that we will be able to bring up world-class stars for Kazakhstani football.
For students of any football academy, the dream is to be able to play in the main team of the football club. And that's why the academy without a football club has no chance of success. In simple language - you train and improve at the academy, and there is no opportunity to play in the main team of the club. I plan to change it, because the club will be aimed at creating opportunities for our graduates and will become a window to big football for them.
Re: Mikheil Lomtadze confirmed as one of three new directors
In terms of big signings I'd settle for Big Chris Forino. Doubt they'll be any major names in this summer, hopefully more a case of getting hold of some impressive talent from lower levels/Scottish/Irish leagues and building a pool of talent with value
Re: Mikheil Lomtadze confirmed as one of three new directors
With the number of squad players we have retained and the focus on re-building our academy, it looks very much as if we are putting in place the building blocks for a long term sustainable existence as opposed to just splashing the cash.
I am sure our Georgian gentleman will want to have a bit of fun with the squad additions and loan players we add to the existing squad. However, I anticipate a very sensible and businessman like approach.
Re: Mikheil Lomtadze confirmed as one of three new directors
We will look back on this in 10 years time when we are founder members of the European Super League and think this is when we started to take off.
We will look back on this in 10 years time in our first season in the Spartans South Midlands Football League and think this is when we started to crash.
(In 10 years time when I’ve learnt how to hack into the Gasroom and change my edit time to 87648 hours you will all realise how right I was)