Takeover bid by Peter Kenyon

[chrismpw]

If this isn't clickbait . .. I'd rather chew my own head off than have us get involved with any US big business. They have track records of ONLY doing well for themselves. Greed, litigation, tricks and showmanship as they flog you snake oil. If its anything like the rs they'll buy us success using asthma inhalers and finding any other nefarious cheating way to the top- and that isn't sport in my eyes

Its a no from me, despite having given up giving a damn.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Is the article wrong or have I missed something? People saying these fellas are paupers, but the article seems to imply that one of these guys is worth 31 billion.

Its wrong.

 

[CielosGrises]

You don't have to asset-strip to leverage debt against something.

Ie. the club ends up paying off interest against the large loans to buy it.

For all the anti-Moshiri stuff, he paid out of his own pocket as far as I know.

 

[Brett Angell Delight]

Has a football club (in recent years) ever been taken over by someone who doesn’t at least associate with horrendous people? I’d be surprised.

The only people in the world, individually or collectively, with PL club-buying-money are some degree of contemptuous villain.

Of course, we’ll use our famed Everton radar, that’s brought us so much transfer success, to weed out the buyers with the most potential to obliterate us from existence.

 

[davek]

Chelsea fans mobilised to see off the Ricketts takeover.

 

[Daytripper]

Potentially it could be as bad the Fartgas Moshiri brigade

 

[Connor]

Has a football club (in recent years) ever been taken over by someone who doesn’t at least associate with horrendous people? I’d be surprised.

Big business is dirty, I get that, and we’re in a sport where actual nations are sportwashing freely but I’d rather not get in bed with these likes

 

[tommye]

Just saw headlines of this on social media, could not get behind the paywall in the Torygraph by Matt Law.

Anything to it?

Yes

 

[CielosGrises]

Is the article wrong or have I missed something? People saying these fellas are paupers, but the article seems to imply that one of these guys is worth 31 billion.

I think he was chairman of a 31 billion company, which is something different.

 

[Noisy noise annoys]

Let’s do a Burnley

 

[Encoder]

NO to american owners.

 

[everton1953]

Keep on with the tripe if it amuses you. We have an owner who is loaded. Who wants someone else's fantasy?

 

[davek]

You don't have to asset-strip to leverage debt against something.

Ie. the club ends up paying off interest against the large loans to buy it.

For all the anti-Moshiri stuff, he paid out of his own pocket as far as I know.

Maybe. But anyone thinking that when he would have sold up post stadium build this club wouldn't be in massive debt is having a laugh.

These Yanks are scary too, of course.

We're now hoping that this lot - if they buy the club - then sell up post stadium build to a sovereign wealth fund.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

It'll be true.

They tried for Newcastle didn't they?

It's whether Moshiri is receptive, which it sounds like he is.

Perhaps the outcome of Usmanov's sanctions appeal could be a factor.

 

[BirkenheadBlue]

Big business is dirty, I get that, and we’re in a sport where actual nations are sportwashing freely but I’d rather not get in bed with these likes

I agree, but then with hindsight i’d’ve rather not gotten in bed with a Russian oligarch and his incompetent mate, but everyone was massively excited about that one when it happened