777 Partners / Whatever the hell you like

[coollino]

Standard Liege, Sevilla, and Vasco da Gama, football clubs owned by 777 Partners, are all in relegation battles this year.

All nice places to visit though

 

[tsubaki]

Can there be visible fan protest against this at Goodison at least, maybe on the road? Banners displaying anti-777 sentiment etc. The club's very future is now at stake. A combination of the fans and Jordan Pickford have preserved the club's top-flight status back to back now, but even more must be done. Hopefully like-minded people can see this is a sh*tstorm and can't possibly happen. The stories at Sevilla, Hertha, Standard Liege and Vasco De Gama are horrific. Asset stripping arseholery of the worst kind.

“We 888 them 777”

 

[coollino]

You've got to admire someone that's so confidently incorrect SO often.

It's incredible as I think he is a self made millionaire and he is just wasting his life looking like an idiot

 

[Neiler]

I'm a fan of him, he's done a lot and has connections so I'm not going to chime in on him (like some have) as it's his informed opinion.

But we'll look like absolute clowns after putting out a statement if things weren't in place and money wasn't there.

While there's some unsavoury history behind them....777 have done more deals and agreed with more leagues/club's than any other owner in the premier league and possibly in the sport.

It's not their first barbecue. They know what they're doing to take us over.

I'd take up a similar position mate.

I wouldn't put it past this failing, i rate Moshiri's competence not a lot and he's a spoofer - was it not last January he gave us an interview saying the club definitely wasn't up "up for sale".

 

[coollino]

“We 888 them 777”

Sadly we're not West ham fans as this is would be a good one

 

[tsubaki]

Sadly we're not West ham fans as this is would be a good one

I’ve been down here for nearly 25 years, sorry

 

[bennyhaha]

All the American owners will team up to dictate the TV rights and want options to televise their own games.

That's where the deal breaker is

Let's hope this isnt the case. Glazers and FSG defintiely want this because it will make them a fortune, and Ciyt / Newcastle will get their state owners to pay massively over the odds for rights in those countries and probably figure out some way to funnel more money through other markets. The bottom half of the Prem will lose out massively. The TV rights current distribution is the only thing keeping the also-rans in anything like touhing distance of the top clubs.

 

[Tony’s Carp]

More details will emerge, my sense would be Paul has been asking in financial circles and he's prob come up with evidence info of the group not raising significant funds - that's me speculating.

It's weird though, I don't know what he thinks he knows but couldn't have evidence they don't have the funding because that would be proving a negative. How could he possibly rule out them having funding he just doesn't know about? Or is he so arrogant he thinks he knows everything all the time?

I go back to Bobble saying that the club and Deloitte who are arranging the deal have seen proof of their funding, to buy and run the club. And Bobble might not be an accounting whizz like Esk but he has solid sources at the club.

 

[Gerbs]

777 have no track record of success at their clubs barring their one minority interest in Sevilla the year before they transfer listed the entire squad.

I don’t care if they are British, American, Qatari, or whatever. Their history shows they are bad owners.

 

[TGW89]

There are some really good bean burgers around today tbh

That's like saying there are 'virtuous' paedos.

 

[MIKE85]

Majority of Americans I've met are sound...bit harsh this.

Yanks are usually sound (closer to our values), but this lot aren't Yanks. These are fecking Dixie capitalists the worst!

 

[Dixieslaces]

“We 888 them 777”

There's a lot at STAKE

 

[kenada_blue]

If it means not having to click through 20 ads to watch a stuttering stream of our 3pm Saturday games I'm all for it.

True. But 20mill viewers paying to watch the RS at a tenner a pop makes a lot more than money that we would.

The TV money is distributed fairly across the league and down into the lower leagues. Allowing a Chelsea to control their own games and gobble up the revenue still creates another unfair advantage

 

[BlueStevie35]

Standard Liege, Sevilla, and Vasco da Gama, football clubs owned by 777 Partners, are all in relegation battles this year.

Standard finished 6th last season, they’re only 5/6 games into this season

Sevilla have won 2 Europa Leagues since the very small percentage 777 bought, they’re only 3 games in

Vasco came up from Brazil’s Serie B under them last season, have 1/2 games in hand on teams above them and 17 games/51 points to play for

 

[HowardsWay]

All the American owners will team up to dictate the TV rights and want options to televise their own games.

That's where the deal breaker is

It is certainly heading that way but I don't see it as a deal breaker. For English football fans, the thought of Americans running our game from a distance is beyond our scope and we will rally against it, but reality is that this is where the money is to be found. The American audience is growing and growing. Compare a nation with over 300 million residents to one with approx 60 million and it is obvious where the growth opportunity is.

Then you look at other countries and the growth potential there as well. China, for example, and it is no wonder that there is investment in the leading league, for now, in the world. Television is the vehicle for taking the product to the consumer and American ownership of our teams will enable them to control and dictate the money flow.

We, the fans, just have to suck it up. We are utterly powerless to stop it. Our only option is to refuse to buy in and that means not doing the thing we love the most, watch our team. If there is a deal breaker, it is when fans of football in England give up on their team completely... and as we know, that rarely happens.