BBC Radio Lancs interview with JASON

[Crazeenick]

Lengthy interview with Jason this afternoon:

https://x.com/BBCLancsSport/status/1885325478766272670

[twosheds]

Blimey...that was a marathon....

[Crazeenick]

Reassuring, taken at face value. But can we trust what Jason says?!!

[black morse]

Actually I thought it was a very good interview and that he spoke well but, whilst I'm sure that some it was true, only time will tell if it was all true. We must wait and hope....which is what we always do!!!!!

[Wild Bill]

Wow, that was quite insightful.

He has no money, and is borrowing to keep the club going.
He seems to take little responsibility for the club and its situation.
He doesn't really know what he's doing and is basically letting Derek and the board to 'get on with it'.
It doesn't sound like a sale is coming through before the end of the season.
He hasn't planned for relegation.
He plans to do more engagement with the fans.
Derek has submitted paperwork to sign a player.

[nobbyshrimp]

Because he’s a financer, a bank roller and not a football fan. To be fare, it’s rare that owners are fans nowadays sadly. I found that interview quite interesting actually but JW hasn’t got a bloody clue what happens on the ground floor and quite rightly that’s why he leaves it to the board to sort out but I think there is a serious communication issue between him and them. The board and Derek took him at word and trusted him regarding finances and it back fired unfortunately and imo it’s all tied up & to do with the sale. One thing he was very much right about though and I totally agree with him on, slag him off if you want, tell him to his face if you can find him, do it on social media if you must but DO NOT BRING HIS FAMILY IN TO IT! That is just plain disgusting, childish and cowardly! If I fell out with you, would you like me slagging off your wife and kids at the bus stop or on social media? Get a grip

[Hodgie1978]

The man's a liar.
I don't for one minute think his family is getting abused.
Would you not get police involved?
It's easy to find out where so called messages come from

[Redalert1970]

Maybe he has got the police involved Hodgie.. If it's true about his family then that's a step too far

[nobbyshrimp]

The man's a liar.
I don't for one minute think his family is getting abused.
Would you not get police involved?
It's easy to find out where so called messages come from

Yes he is I agree but having listened to the interview and it’s only my opinion, he’s not lying about that. He has nothing to gain from it, he never brought it up he was asked about the fans not liking him blah blah If it’s true, if, then it is diabolical and pure cowardly. Enough said, over and out

[Andy D]

The man's a liar.
I don't for one minute think his family is getting abused.
Would you not get police involved?
It's easy to find out where so called messages come from

exactly why i haven't listened to it.

[Little Shrimp]

Good interview from Andy Bayes. Jason offering his usual sob act, trying to make out like nothing is his fault and events have simply conspired against him. Thought he had a bit of mask slip in how glib he was about the late wages, basically trying to say because they still got paid that month it essentially didn't matter.

Despite raising a fair point about wage inflation etc and the crazy cost of running a football club, at the end of the day the reason he is still he is because of the choices he has made over the past few years.

He chose to enter into an exclusivity agreement with Sarbjot. He chose to turn down a good bid shortly after that agreement ended. And more recently, he has chosen to entertain Kuljeet/Panjab Warriors over the many months they have failed to provide adequate documents to the EFL.

Events have not just randomly transpired against him. He has made a series of decisions to reject other potential offers and stick with parties who are unable (at present) to pass the EFL checks, which is ultimately why he is still here and has had to find whatever amount of money he has to keep the club going. This whole situation is entirely his own fault, and it's pathetic of him to try and pretend that it isn't.

[Billy bodger]

Firstly Jason said the price he is selling at if this deal goes through is less than when he first put the Club up for sale. I think there maybe some regret in that he didn’t sell while we were in league 1, after the first season in League 1 when we managed to stay up, he must be selling at a much lower price than at that time.

My opinion rightly or wrongly, he was greedy and probably being to smart for his own good, instead of selling to one of the initial potential investors, he chose a complete waste of space, all the bids at that time must have been more than what he is going to get now.

Secondly he’s hoping the sale will go through to Panjab Warriors/the Momi and associates bid, is finally rectified by the EFL before the end of the season. If he doesn’t, he will be getting less yet again, if Morecambe lose league status.

Otherwise it was the same answers as the talk sport interview.

Thirdly let’s hope Panjab Warriors are the real deal, I think we missed out on a few better owners through Jason’s intransigence. What would have Derek done with the influx of funds say Carlisle owners have put into that Club.

[redrobo]

Firstly Jason said the price he is selling at if this deal goes through is less than when he first put the Club up for sale. I think there maybe some regret in that he didn’t sell while we were in league 1, after the first season in League 1 when we managed to stay up, he must be selling at a much lower price than at that time.

My opinion rightly or wrongly, he was greedy and probably being to smart for his own good, instead of selling to one of the initial potential investors, he chose a complete waste of space, all the bids at that time must have been more than what he is going to get now.

Secondly he’s hoping the sale will go through to Panjab Warriors/the Momi and associates bid, is finally rectified by the EFL before the end of the season. If he doesn’t, he will be getting less yet again, if Morecambe lose league status.

Otherwise it was the same answers as the talk sport interview.

Thirdly let’s hope Panjab Warriors are the real deal, I think we missed out on a few better owners through Jason’s intransigence. What would have Derek done with the influx of funds say Carlisle owners have put into that Club.

Problem is that the new proposed owner is connected to Jason's Bond Group who he wants to have at least 2 Bond Group people on our BoDs. Suggests to me that although Jason will not be the owner he will still be around hovering in the background.....PLEASE TELL ME I'M WRONG..

[Hodgie1978]

So every time Jason sources money from other people I'm guessing that will be added onto the price of the sale.
Relegation and the clubs value plummets again.
This isn't gonna end well

[CityShrimp]

Good interview from Andy Bayes. Jason offering his usual sob act, trying to make out like nothing is his fault and events have simply conspired against him. Thought he had a bit of mask slip in how glib he was about the late wages, basically trying to say because they still got paid that month it essentially didn't matter.

Despite raising a fair point about wage inflation etc and the crazy cost of running a football club, at the end of the day the reason he is still he is because of the choices he has made over the past few years.

He chose to enter into an exclusivity agreement with Sarbjot. He chose to turn down a good bid shortly after that agreement ended. And more recently, he has chosen to entertain Kuljeet/Panjab Warriors over the many months they have failed to provide adequate documents to the EFL.

Events have not just randomly transpired against him. He has made a series of decisions to reject other potential offers and stick with parties who are unable (at present) to pass the EFL checks, which is ultimately why he is still here and has had to find whatever amount of money he has to keep the club going. This whole situation is entirely his own fault, and it's pathetic of him to try and pretend that it isn't.

Spot on.

Signing a YEAR LONG exclusivity agreement with someone who can’t satisfy the EFL was just plain dumb and at least explains partly why this sorry saga has taken so long.

Now we have Panjab Warriors who have taken months to sort themselves out and submit the initial application to the EFL and he’s saying there’s nothing he can do. Totally disingenuous. He could give them an ultimatum or just pull the plug on the deal and sell to someone else.

Other people have bought football clubs in a matter of weeks if not days. We know there are other credible buyers out there, who could in all likelihood have completed a sale by now, but he has chosen to engage with people who have wasted everyone’s time and then claims that his hands are tied. I can only assume that he’s done this because these people have made ridiculous offers to him and he is either too greedy or too heavily in debt to see sense.

I just don’t think he gets it. He doesn’t get that the club isn’t an ‘asset’ like the ones he’s used to dealing with. He seems to think that he deserves a pat on the back for putting money into the club when that is the bare minimum expected and required of him as a football club owner and if he can’t do it reliably then he has a moral obligation to pass the club to someone else, immediately, who can.

Abusing his family is wrong, yes, but he has brought this all on himself and I’m not even sure I believe this ‘abuse’ of his family has happened. The part where he dismissed the non payment of wages as irrelevant because “they were only 3 days late” was beyond the pale.

Nobody will ever like or respect him but he could have at least regained a tiny bit of honour if he had - at any point in the interview - just said sorry for what he’s done to the club. He didn’t and that says it all.

[Billy bodger]

Firstly Jason said the price he is selling at if this deal goes through is less than when he first put the Club up for sale. I think there maybe some regret in that he didn’t sell while we were in league 1, after the first season in League 1 when we managed to stay up, he must be selling at a much lower price than at that time.

My opinion rightly or wrongly, he was greedy and probably being to smart for his own good, instead of selling to one of the initial potential investors, he chose a complete waste of space, all the bids at that time must have been more than what he is going to get now.

Secondly he’s hoping the sale will go through to Panjab Warriors/the Momi and associates bid, is finally rectified by the EFL before the end of the season. If he doesn’t, he will be getting less yet again, if Morecambe lose league status.



Otherwise it was the same answers as the talk sport interview.

Thirdly let’s hope Panjab Warriors are the real deal, I think we missed out on a few better owners through Jason’s intransigence. What would have Derek done with the influx of funds say Carlisle owners have put into that Club.

Problem is that the new proposed owner is connected to Jason's Bond Group who he wants to have at least 2 Bond Group people on our BoDs. Suggests to me that although Jason will not be the owner he will still be around hovering in the background.....PLEASE TELL ME I'M WRONG..

I can’t, no one can!! They are to secretive.

I just hope Momi and his associates do not continue to be like that if the purchase goes through. The other thing I hope they do is cut all ties from Jason and the Bond Group. Not hopeful but it is what it is, crap.

[Billy bodger]

Absolutely no chance of him apologising to Morecambe FC any more than he did with Worcester Warriors. I am afraid the saga has a bit to run yet, I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t carry much hope.

I am also still worried about the team and I hope the new players gel quickly and turn things around, I am still hopeful of that.

[Keith]

Good interview by BBC Radio Lancashire, and an admission that they have been chasing Whittingham for a long time. There was an admission (but no apology) that a relatively small investment in the January, we would probably have retained our League One status, although, equally, he appears to be saying that he is better off owning/funding a League Two club than a League One side.

Still don't believe anything he says, but worth a listen.

If the new bid is rejected by the EFL, then there doesn't appear to be a 'Plan B'. It's a shame Andy didn't ask if he's entered into another exclusivity deal with Panjab Warriors?

[redrobo]

Finally listened a couple of times to the interview.

What concerns me is that it suddenly ends as though there is a wee bit more in relation to DA being still in the market for further players to come in before Monday's closure of the window.

Hopefully DA can bring in a speed merchant on the wing as he had already agreed AND if money is now available why not over a week ago when all this nonsense could have been avoided....

[black morse]

Finally listened a couple of times to the interview.

What concerns me is that it suddenly ends as though there is a wee bit more in relation to DA being still in the market for further players to come in before Monday's closure of the window.

Hopefully DA can bring in a speed merchant on the wing as he had already agreed AND if money is now available why not over a week ago when all this nonsense could have been avoided....

Jason has had to 'borrow' the money from somewhere.

[BerlinWaller]

Horrible interview for Jason. Andy Bayes didn't let him off the hook which made Jason expose himself for the prick that he is. He came over like a stroppy teenager when Andy was going at him. They said that they will do it again in a month or two but after that, I don't think Whittingham will fancy it.

Don't believe a word he said and don't fall for his sob story.