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Typically it's not investment per se. It's interest-free loans, most of which get written off. I get what you mean, they're not shareholding with a view to "be a shareholder" in the sense of holding a growth stock or a dividend stock. But while many will have grand designs of making their team successful and thus growing the market cap of the company that way, in practice it seldom actually happens. They just loan money, they eventually write it off, and they'll eventually sell to the next guy who wants a crack at turning Queen's Park or Dunfermline into a European powerhouse.

I mean yeah, Fever is a huge platform and is truly industry-leading. But at our level it seems like overkill.

Nice to have a feeder club. edit: In seriousness, it's great that we've been able to do this by cultivating a relationship with agent(s) and proving to an MLS club that we're a good place to blood young talent like Schwake. Operating at our level and with our financial issues means we need to be creative because we can't compete on a direct footing with other clubs of our level. Of course this approach brings its own challenges; they operate on a different season timeline to us, there's a ton of immigration and work permit stuff to do (presumably), and we won't be able to scout them easily in person. But it speaks well to the club that they've been able to pull this off.

It's not that. It's that neither they nor anyone else is going to be so desperate that they "need" to acquire a stake in Morton.

I was never convinced this consortium actually existed. You'd think one of them might have stuck his head up during the fighting fund to get some good PR. Estrella can still get lost.

The goal's up on facebook. Excellent move and though the angle's bad I think both questionable passes were onside. The second one, I think the big galoot 32 just about plays us on.

I think the 600k is because they didn't realize what a state we were in, and frankly I don't think it was that unreasonable. The way they conducted themselves however was totally unreasonable, they seemed to think they own the entire club already and were coming the billy big baws in our hour of need, so I think any working relationship between them as minority stakeholders and the MCT reps as majority stakeholders was doomed to fail from the outset. Nothing in this interview does anything other than cement my view.

I didn't even notice that Calvin Miller scored.

Oisin McEntee misses a shoot-out penalty but 10-man Hearts somehow still scrape past Rapid Vienna to enter the Conference League league stage.

Apparently played on loan in the Qatar 2nd tier last season and despite having an option to buy the borrowing club did not do so. He's played a lot of youth football, including PL2. His entire first team experience is 9 games (not all starts) for that Qatari mob, a couple of National League Cup games for U23s, and 1 (one) minute in the EFL Trophy in 2023 for Brighton U21 against MK Dons. (But in that one minute, he scored!)

That was my concern but from looking at his parent club salary, there's no way we're paying for Cupps. Maybe we got him a taxi from Glasgow Airport or something but I bet we're not paying his wages or even a percentage. Remains to be seen who else arrives tonight though.

MLS salaries are all publicly available because it's a union shop. Cupps' guarantees salary is $116k for the season, or around 88,000 GBP. Not sure if he'll have bonuses on top of that. Their salary is season-based and not exactly annual but if we just take it as 52 weeks for the fun of it, that's about 1,700 GBP a week, in other words he'd most likely be our top earner. So I think we can take it as given that he's here almost purely for experience and not because Chicago were trying to shift his wage.

Their regular season runs through to mid-November. Chicago will qualify for the playoffs so potentially they could be playing almost as long as us, through to the week before Christmas. Hopefully none of their starters get injured and he can stay here.

If we can serve as a shop window for these guys then it's win-win.

This is what I expect: https://themortonforum.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/44664-gmfc-fighting-fund/page/3/#findComment-1189941