Latest Takeover Rumour. The Moores / Noell one

[WA Toffee]

I would rather be City than Arsenal.

I would rather be Everton

 

[ijjysmith]

I would rather be City than Arsenal.

Same here.

 

[WA Toffee]

How much would the girl of 30 years cost you....

For the same price you could have a different hooker every week...

I think a better example would have been getting one trophy under Kenwright is the equivilent of becoming a self made businessman rather than inheriting a business from family...

5 trophies rather then one would be brilliant but a much better feeling to earn one rather than do a man city and buying 5.

My wife earns more than me, so I am costing her
Does that mean I am the hooker and she is Man city?

 

[Goat]

I would rather be Everton

Nar, Everton are the 1s that go home alone every night and watch xhamster.

 

[WA Toffee]

Nar, Everton are the 1s that go home alone every night and watch xhamster.

Can't argue with that lol

 

[mlyons]

We could easily get 200m if we sold every player in the squad.

Lukaku, Stones, Barkley could potentially recoup 150m alone.

And if we sold every player in the squad, we'd plummet down out of the leagues and the owner would be left with a club that would be impossible to sell and generated no revenue. It doesn't seem to be a terribly profitable scheme.

 

[4737carlin]

And if we sold every player in the squad, we'd plummet down out of the leagues and the owner would be left with a club that would be impossible to sell and generated no revenue. It doesn't seem to be a terribly profitable scheme.

It doesn't but look at Ashley, is happy to be anything higher than 17th and sell sell sell, some of these types look as making money as success and staying in the top division can do that for them, while we the fans want trophies they just want coin.

 

[Goat]

And if we sold every player in the squad, we'd plummet down out of the leagues and the owner would be left with a club that would be impossible to sell and generated no revenue. It doesn't seem to be a terribly profitable scheme.

Sell the whole squad for 300m, bang 100m profit already, get the club relegated, another 100m prize money, take the parachute payments 65m, theres 265m profit already, sell the League One club for 50p and a packet of quavers.

 

[mlyons]

Well perhaps "asset stripping" is the wrong term but its late here...

Other than Lerner i think every US owner i can think of has actually loaned the clubs money for high interest and also borrowed against future revenues and paid themselves from it.....Lerner is the only one who has put his own money in and written off loans.

Think you get the gist of my point...

An Asian owner could go one way or the other based on what ive seen....some of the unknown chaps in China for example have huge amounts of money but are relatively unknown....someone like that who had a passion for football would be ideal as would an Arab who wanted to boost his image etc etc

Americans are businessmen....thats fine but theres a risk that they will want to take a profit no matter the long term implications for the fans...

If they bought for £200mil...sold off Lukaku / Stones /Barkley for £200mil for example and replaced with Aston Villa type dross they could still put the club up for £50-100mil and make a profit.

Simplistic examples but they could easily sell players and sell the club at a profit.

I assume you're talking about United and the RS (as if they're the only Americans to own football clubs besides Lerner). The thing is, though, even if they've taken profits out of those clubs, the clubs are still pouring as much or more money into their squads and infrastructure than they were under the previous owners. That's the opposite of asset stripping.

Other American owners -- Kroenke at Arsenal: the club certainly hasn't suffered financially from his ownership
Shahid Khan at Fulham: weirdo, and not terribly successful, but certainly hasn't pulled money out of the club
Short at Sunderland: they haven't exactly suffered from his ownership
DiBenedetto at AS Roma: invested a lot of money in the transfer market

If you can find me an example of an American owner buying a club and reducing it to poverty (the way Venky's did with Blackburn or the rotating parade of owners did with Pompey), I'd be very interested to hear about it.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Nar, Everton are the 1s that go home alone every night and watch xhamster.

And I Wouldn't have it any other way

 

[mlyons]

Sell the whole squad for 300m, bang 100m profit already, get the club relegated, another 100m prize money, take the parachute payments 65m, theres 265m profit already, sell the League One club for 50p and a packet of quavers.

There's no possible way we could get £300 million or even £200 million from player sales, though, so I'm not sure what you're on about there.

 

[mlyons]

It doesn't but look at Ashley, is happy to be anything higher than 17th and sell sell sell, some of these types look as making money as success and staying in the top division can do that for them, while we the fans want trophies they just want coin.

Sell, sell, sell? Newcastle have spent more money than we have since they came back up from the Championship.

 

[Moomin]

It doesn't but look at Ashley, is happy to be anything higher than 17th and sell sell sell, some of these types look as making money as success and staying in the top division can do that for them, while we the fans want trophies they just want coin.

Ashley has paid off it's debt of 80 million in an interest free loan saving 8 million a year on interest payments. He has for a change this summer spent money.

He is a vicious but very savvy business man.

 

[BoysInBlue]

Whoosh ????

Not really, because some people genuinely think like that.

So no 'whoosh' at all.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Not quite mate. Any buyer would ideally want a minimum of 90% (this allows them to sweep up any dissenting shareholders). If that's not possible then the next threshold is 75%. If you have over 75% willing to sell to you, you can apply to the High Court to acquire the remaining shares.

No-one will buy just 68% because although you have a majority, most major corporate actions require 75% shareholder approval.

How long have you been sweeping up small allotments of shares under various names to get near 12%