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| |  Posted 22/02/2007 09:08:01 | |
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| if that is the case then they should wait until after the appeal by MPS who are still backing Blackpools claim for the Casino
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| | | Posted 22/02/2007 09:13:48 | |
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| Cloudy O'Reyna (22/02/2007)
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From what I can make out off GMR, the Yanks who had initially shown interest backed out, but then heard about the £30 million or so that we'll be getting from Sky and came back in. I don't think the decision next week will be final or anything.Because the interest was announced at the AGM it is law (apparently) that another 'revealing' takes place a set time afterward, so that everyone is in the know. Between then and now, the interested parties had backed out but come back in. Next week they will announce something, but I don't expect it to be significantly different from what we already know.
Well I hope they are better at running a club than they are doing research and running a business!
How did they not know about the TV money, that's been known by fans for over a year, never mind potential investors!
I think the casino may have something to do with it maybe?
From Cooders post he says that it's the TV money from SKY (And Setanta don't forget!), so that's why I'm a little more than sceptical about the info he has.
I don't think the Casino will have any major influence until the deal is signed and sealed, but it's a good start. The only problem then is that we might become just another investment, although I guess an investor wants to make money and the only way to do that with a football club is to be successful. Hopefully that's anyone's first priority with us! |
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| | | Posted 22/02/2007 09:59:26 | |
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| However it comes about the fact is we need new investment. Wardle and Makin have done as much as they can do and we're at risk of being left behind. I appreciate why there's a lot of scepticism about all this but as with Liverpool, we have a chairman and two major shareholders in Makin and Bowler who are City fans through and through, they wouldn't put the club at risk IMO.
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| | | Posted 22/02/2007 10:20:42 | |
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| East Stand Massive (22/02/2007)
However it comes about the fact is we need new investment. Wardle and Makin have done as much as they can do and we're at risk of being left behind. I appreciate why there's a lot of scepticism about all this but as with Liverpool, we have a chairman and two major shareholders in Makin and Bowler who are City fans through and through, they wouldn't put the club at risk IMO.I think you're right about Wardle and Makin ESM, but Bowler's is held in trust after he died isn't it? The bottom line is that this is the way football is going right now and we seem to be joining the trend. I suppose if we don't then it means we end up suffering on the pitch. My problem is this: Football has been fundamentally changed by the money injected over the last 20 years especially. Footballers are earning (if that's the right word) obscene sums of money and seem to have little respect for the clubs they play for never mind the fans. One day the game will wake up and find we've all gradually drifted away. It happened before in the 70's when they didn't get a grip on the hooligan problem so it can happen again. Football's finances may come from tv deals and merchandising but without fans in the grounds the whole thing falls apart.
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| | | Posted 22/02/2007 11:19:47 | |
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| | Ok, this would be the perfect scenario - the new guys buy the club and take up the debt - which apparently is in good nick with the increased sky money as well - the ticket prices are frozen again for next year and then reduced to bring in more crowds Pearce is given money to bring in the three or four quality players that we badly need and we push for a top 6 place The alternative is to be left behind financially
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| | | Posted 22/02/2007 11:23:09 | |
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| The Sky Blue Pimpernel (22/02/2007)
Ok, this would be the perfect scenario - the new guys buy the club and take up the debt - which apparently is in good nick with the increased sky money as well - the ticket prices are frozen again for next year and then reduced to bring in more crowds Pearce is given money to bring in the three or four quality players that we badly need and we push for a top 6 place The alternative is to be left behind financially In fairness to City I think the freezing of prices for adults and, especially, the reductions for kids for next season is a very positive move for the long term.
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| | | Posted 22/02/2007 11:27:17 | |
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| | although you see Bolton nicking our idea and calling it their own twats
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| | | Posted 22/02/2007 12:14:19 | |
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| | http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_city/6384039.stm Philip Anschutz, owner of Millennium Dome and five football teams in America, was said to be among the bidders http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Anschutz Philip Frederick Anschutz (born 28 December 1939 in Russell, Kansas) is an American businessman. With an estimated current net worth of around $7.8 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 31-richest person in America. Anschutz Entertainment Group, which has stakes in three U.S. soccer teams, including the MLS's Los Angeles Galaxy, Chicago Fire, and Houston Dynamo; the NHL's Los Angeles Kings; the AHL's Manchester Monarchs; the ECHL's Reading Royals; the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers; STAPLES Center; Home Depot Center; the Swedish soccer team Hammarby IF; the German hockey teams Hamburg Freezers and Eisbären Berlin; and the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles; In the UK they own the Manchester Evening News Arena, the London Arena, and the Millennium Dome which is being redeveloped as a multi-purpose arena, and re-launched under the name "The O2". So City to be remaned Beckham FC then? 
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| | | Posted 22/02/2007 12:19:28 | |
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| The Lakers?  Still, if we get just a fraction of the success they've had....
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| | | Posted 22/02/2007 12:26:34 | |
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| with deals like this you are not buying success anymore, you are buying the right to compete. we need investment to move forward quickly. So there is one good thing to come from it if it does happen...we don't have to read gio moaning about pearce every other day.
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