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Saints in takeover talks with Chinese group

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by - Doing The Lambert Walk, Nov 2, 2016.

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  1. Beef

    Beef Well-Known Member

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    Also some good owners out there, no need to panic etc until we know who is buying us. Agree about Coventry though.
     
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  2. Missing Lambo

    Missing Lambo Well-Known Member

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    I thought you rustic types used baling twine to keep your trousers up.
     
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  3. Missing Lambo

    Missing Lambo Well-Known Member

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    They don't talk about sending people to Coventry for no reason, you know.

    I've always liked their fans. They were big rivals of ours for promotion from the old Div 2 in the 60's and the buggers just squeezed past us the season before we finally made it. Met up with a bunch of their fans when criss-crossing the country recently. The phrase "lucky escape" is commonly used in discussions. They so envy our situation, and who can blame them? Thinking that all owners are going to be good for the club is madness, as you acknowledge.

    However, I can't see the need for panic. I can meltdown with the best of them, but I'm quite calm about this.:emoticon-0141-whew:
     
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  4. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    As did Lady Godiva.....
     
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  5. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    She was a racing car passing by as there's no stopping me [emoji6]
     
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  6. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    Don't start me now.....



    * some people are going to wake up pissed with us!
     
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  7. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    Surely it is Don't stop me now...

    Lol they will see 100 posts and no news :)


    Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time
    I feel alive and the world I'll turn it inside out - yeah
     
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  8. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    Really no.7?????? You tired? <laugh>
     
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  9. thereisonlyoneno7

    thereisonlyoneno7 Well-Known Member

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    Lol not me

    I'm floating around in ecstasy
    So don't stop me now don't stop me
    'Cause I'm having a good time....
     
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  10. Missing Lambo

    Missing Lambo Well-Known Member

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    Bloody hell. Come on here for news and find a pair of old Queens handbagging each other. Wait 'til Godders sees this!
     
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  11. St. Luigi Scrosoppi

    St. Luigi Scrosoppi Well-Known Member

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    He has seen it and has been singing along to it.
     
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  12. Beddy

    Beddy Plays the percentage

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    Good heavens to murgatroyd we've been taken over by Fans ............<laugh>
     
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  13. - Doing The Lambert Walk

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  14. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    - Doing The Lambert Walk Well-Known Member

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    They were the guys with more of a reputation and some serious money behind them, from what I remember. Name flashed up a couple of months ago.

    CITIC, that is ^
     
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    Good...they seemed a rather flaky outfit.

    Regarding the rival bid, that came out at the beginning of last month:

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-england-sou-china-idUKKBN1691Z4

    Amer International is a massive, vertically-integrated mining company/producer of bits that involve copper. They're a private company, rather than a state-owned corp. CITIC is the biggest corporate entity in China, is state-directed, and CITIC Securities is the investment bank under that umbrella.

    Involving CITIC would probably make it far easier to get approval from the Chinese government than if it was a sole venture.
     
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  17. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Hmm, so probably we should wish Lander Sports to have a nice day, but don't come back, because there are bigger fish in the lake to land. [Jeez, that was so bad, but I'm going to keep it].
     
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  18. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Crikey, DTLW, you liked that.? Even I didn't like it and I wrote it.
     
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    The underlying impression is that China is going to stop acquisition of overseas football teams by its companies - this news could be deeply troubling in the long run for us as we need a new source of investment and whilst its easy to speculate; the options become more limited.
     
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  20. Schad

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    China's primary interest right now is in keeping their companies from leveraged purchases, because they have a major corporate debt problem and have been trying to wean companies off the belief that the government will help them meet their obligations. This is less likely to impact purchases that do not take on substantial debt, though there is the concern that sports teams would generate such.
     
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