who loses

[azz]

a. When the members of a rock group don't get along, who loses is their fans.
b. When the members of a rock group don't get along, who loses is the audience.
c. When the members of a rock group don't get along, who loses is people like you and me.

Are the above sentences grammatically correct?

"Who" here is supposed to mean "the people who". It seems to me that in informal speech the sentences would pass, but they are not correct in formal English. "Who" could mean "whoever", but not "the people who". That's just my impression...

Many thanks.

 

[DonnyB]

No: I would say "who" is wrong there, even informally.

You could do it as either "those who lose are..." or "the losers are...".

 

[Franco-filly]

I would add the preposition "out" i.e. "those who lose out are" or "it's the fans/people like us who lose out"; It's the audience that loses out."