Comments on: Own Your Own English Soccer Team: MyFootballClub

By: Stormwater Regulations

Stormwater Regulations — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:41:10 +0000

Fun stuff! Kind of similar to a addicting sim like this: http://www.simyard.com.

By: Dirigir un club de fútbol en modo crowdsourcing » El Blog de Enrique Dans

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:21:57 +0000

[...] vía TechCrunch a este tema curioso: un sitio, MyFootballClub, que propone una inversión de treinta y cinco libras [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:43:18 +0000

There is similar site in US http://www.kingpinclub.com
They try to do the same with US teams, buy I do not think they will mange to register enough members

By: Pros A. Tamos

Pros A. Tamos — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:43:10 +0000

I really like the idea, because it is one step further in the direction of a new business order. Wisdom of the crows!!! The only questionsmark for me is whether the public media will influence the individual decision to dramatically (See Hary Seldon on Psychohistory) and therefore no independent decision making takes places (Also the reason for stock market crashes).
Anyway I will participate.

Pros

By: DARnet

DARnet — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:09:12 +0000

MyFootballClub reaches 50,000 target…

On July 17th I reported that MyFootballClub was close to reaching the target of 50,000 registered interests and today this has been overtaken. This means that email invitations have gone out to join for real and cough up the membership fee. So do yo…

By: Will

Will — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:02:10 +0000

Why would I invest in this “company” when I get nothing in return? Not a penny…

By: techguy

techguy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:15:16 +0000

#12 “This model is gr8. It should also be applied to startups.”

Interestingly there is a startup that is using this co-op/trust model to reward those members of the community that help them do well. It’s called Cambrian House http://www.cambrianhouse.com/

They call the initiative Community Owned http://www.cambrianhouse.com/h.....ity-owned/

By: Sorry Tobias

Sorry Tobias — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:24:31 +0000

Good try Tobias. You’re right, this story has been doing the rounds, in the world’s press. Strange then that you should find the only negative (and factually incorrect) article.

By: Keith Handley

Keith Handley — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:22:32 +0000

For the latest news of this project, please see

http://www.myfootballclub.co.uk/latestnews.php

Hope to see you on the MYFC forum soon, its great fun, or say hello on to me at myspace

http://www.myspace.com/myfcyorks

best wishes

Yorkfox

By: backofthenet

backofthenet — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:53:38 +0000

Join us! Bring football back to the fans!
For the price of one cheap premiership match ticket, you can have
voting rights for a year as a club owner/manager. Pick the team
that will play on saturday afternoon.
It is happening now!
A takeover of a club is imminent!
50,000 people can’t be wrong!!!
http://www.myfootballclub.co.uk
Join Us!

By: tobias

tobias — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:27:22 +0000

this story has been doing the rounds for a while… and the best coverage was in the Guardian

http://football.guardian.co.uk.....10,00.html

definitely worth a read

By: mediauser blog

mediauser blog — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:40:23 +0000

Dein eigener Fußballverein - MyFootballClub…

Foto: myfootballclub.co.uk
Lust auf einen eigenen Fußballverein? Mal bei den Entscheidungen mitreden? Die Website myfootballclub.co.uk will genau das erreichen, einen mitgliederfinanzierten Fußballverein bei dem alle mitreden dürfen. Je…

By: Rebelmc

Rebelmc — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:42:54 +0000

@ #16

Note that the GBP£35 is an ANNUAL subscription, meaning that the club could in theory borrow on the strength of this additional income. Even at a high rate of interest if you have an income of say GBP£1m annually you can quite easily borrow, say, GBP£8m.

In any event the lower division clubs are worth much much less then the millions of pounds you are citing. I am a member of “myfootballclub” and it seems clear that we’ll be able to buy a club for only around GBP£1m.

By: will

will — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:26:25 +0000

i hope my team are not a target of this project- if the peope who have bought shares in the company get to make the decisions about transfers and tactics it cannot be a succesful club on the pitch.

By: A Million Dollar Girl

A Million Dollar Girl — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:14:09 +0000

I’m surpised about this great project, it’s amazing the way entrepreneurs think new ideas to make money.

By: sky

sky — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:54:16 +0000

Another unique way to waste time and money.

By: Michael Vu

Michael Vu — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:43:45 +0000

Although it may not work as planned, it’s a very unique and interesting idea. Thanks for covering this TC.

By: Wes

Wes — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:30:10 +0000

I think the idea is great but running a football is far more complex. All teams want to reach the premiership and they may acquire a team but they will need a lot of money to get the club running and be successful.

I also wonder whether some of the members will still be interested if the club gets relegated or worse still drops into the conference league.

I will be following with great interest to see what happens to this interesting initiative.

By: Footyball news

Footyball news — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:27:03 +0000

Great idea but my initial thoughts were that they’d never raise enough and just launder money for a while. I guess they are proving me wrong with the front page announcement that they are in discussion with 4 clubs.

Good ol’ Accrington Stanley in at #4 in the top clubs too

By: Tradervic

Tradervic — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:29:39 +0000

I am a huge soccer fan, but I believe even a mid-tier english team is going to take “MUCH” more than this site has accumulated thus far. But who knows, this could be a model of things to come.

By: KingJacob

KingJacob — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 05:54:01 +0000

I wanted to do this with the Dynamo but I wasnt planning on giving donators anything more than a piece of paper cause giving them all voting rights would be nightmare.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:39:03 +0000

Although it probably won’t work I do think that it is a great idea. I don’t see how the ‘equal vote’ will work. It might hamper the team if they need to act quickly on a deal and have to wait for people to vote before they can proceed.

I say why stop with a ‘middle-tier’ club. Go all they way to the Premiership, I’m sure that it’s not much more to buy Sunderland.

I’ll donate $69.

http://www.koork.com

By: JeJe

JeJe — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:41:13 +0000

Thanks you, Person. Funniest comment I’ve read on techcrunch since a long time.

By: Cold Warehousing

Cold Warehousing — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:02:08 +0000

How’s L.A. working out for you, Beckham? I see you had 2 assists today.

By: Bioretention

Bioretention — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:01:02 +0000

Neat! I’m not much of a football fan but this is a great idea.