If I won the European Millions could I buy the Club

I don't know about anybody else but I would allow you a maximum 49% stake. Suspect most people would stop at 1%.

I would love you to.the fan owned thing isnt for me.I fear for us without some serious wonga ,or a real go at promotion.

The fans own thing may, not be for you, but it is equally preferable, to having no club or have you forgotten the struggles, we went through?
And yes SirFred you can invest, but you cant own it.
And why would you want to? Except to satisfy your own personally vanity and ego?

I wouldn't let YOU anywhere near the club no matter how much money you might hypertheticly win.

You're a clueless moron

As I said before on here, relegation spots in every division every season are filled with privately owned clubs.

Private ownership is no silver bullet

Unfortunately it is  a fact  that "spurious" ownership so very nearly deprived you and diehard fans of following Chester at all, had it not been for the fan owned ideals you clearly don't buy into.

No thanks - I don't want a chairman who has no patience and who would burn money by changing managers and sacking players every other week.

Good subject for a thread.
I've mixed feelings about this, yes we need a cash injection but I'm saying no to single ownership.
There has been a lot of hard work put in by a lot of volunteers to get where we are. Some are still with the club and some have moved on.
Some of those volunteers were in a position to invest money and it was felt that they were trying to manipulate the clubs situation and their position to gain control. I.e. A suggested hidden agenda which included appointment of a manager who was an "old friend". This created a bad feeling amongst the membership which also resulted in the departure of some hard working volunteer members of the youth coaching staff.

By all means donate your cash when renewing your CFU membership.
If you want a seat on the board, you are welcome to stand for election.
Personally, I would invest my millions as recommended by a financial advisor and make annual donations to the club as required to ensure that the club was never in danger off the field.
Annual donations of £1M taken from interest earned on my investments would be more beneficial than a lump sum of £6M.

It'd have to go down to a vote. And I hope in such a case a supermajority, rather than just a majority would be required.

We've been down the road of private owners, and look what happened.

Even if
somebody won the lottery (improbable), that funding is only finite.

Fan ownership is the only way to go, not only for the sustainability of this football club, but football in general.

Just watch the number of clubs that go bust in the next 20-30 years unless the authorities take action.

This logic isn't hard, really. Come on.

Fan ownership is the only way forward for this football club.

Have we made the most out of that status in the area in the past? I think our chairman would admit that things did slip in the past but that they are all working as hard as possible to make that right. What the board and our club needs is more man/woman power as in board members and volunteers to help get see a lot of what they are working on come good.

I truly believe in our fan owned model, anyone who was there at the Guildhall 7 years ago can remember the hope we had when we left that night. What we need is to try and find a way to rejuvenate our fans to get that passion back.

But what we must do first and foremost is talk to our supporters and listen to their feedback. What I want is for the CFU Membership Survey to be released to all supporters and ask for their feedback. That way we can get a real sense for how people want to see the club move forward off the field and develop our strategy around that feedback.

We need to listen to our supporters and actively engage with them using every means possible.

And no, there wouldn't be a question about blowing every spare penny we have on a marquee signing Fred.

No need for that .

He's entitled to ask any question he likes without the personal insults.

This generous benefactor issue has been raised, time and time, again. They don't exist and should be filed away with the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.
Chairman usually get involved in football clubs to make money, where there is a ground to sell and re-develop for a profit. (see Barnes and Gutterman)) or in our case to hide drug money.(Vaughan). Then you have the ego manic-incompetents. (Smith). Fans ownership is equally preferable to any of the above. Some people must have very short memories. The only chairman, who were decent were Ray Croft and Reg Rowlands and under him we had as many bad seasons, as good.
Fortunately as a fans owned club we don't have anything to sell or develop, as the ground is leased. This is the major reason, we were able to get back, to where we are so quickly
.We are no different to Torquay, Aldershot, Macclesfield, Wrexham etc, in that unless financial fair play rules are introduced, all these and other ex-football league clubs, will struggle to get back into the football league.
And money doesn't always buy success, ask York City if they would like to swap league positions with us?
The way forward is to develop our own academy players(Hughes etc) and to use the profit, to bridge the gap to the play offs. (maybe with a little more firepower, we wouldn't have been that far off, this season?) Sign on and develop players from the lower leagues (Astles, Lynch), as well as signing academy players and developing them. (Alabi, Dawson).
This maybe too slow a progression for some supporters to handle, but it is sustainable and doesn't put the future of the club, at risk for future generation.

You should do it sirfred. Just think of all the benefits you'd get for your 6 million. You could be slagged off on this forum for all sorts of things - the beer's too warm, the pies too cold, the coffee's too strong, the defence too weak. It'l all be your fault. If last home game gate was down by 3 you'd be to blame for no publicity. There's not enough flags - your fault. And all the while nwas will be saying that'll you'll pull the plug and walk away and we'll be doomed. Go on, buy the ticket - you know it makes sense.

I'm fairly sure that any benefactor to the club would be voted on happily by the owners, as happened previously with Tony Durkin following his QHP company putting money in.

The replies above give me hope for this club moving forward. It was egotistical money men who cost us our club, never again for me.