Gareth Rodgers to leave Southampton FC

I wonder if they fancy being our sleeve sponsors too

 

Is this a guess or do you know something we dont?

 

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Have heard an offer of £225m has been offered and talks/meetings are advanced.

 

Interesting... certainly seem a better bet than Lander imo.

 

There was 4 companies involved 3 Chinese 1 American.

 

Four separate bids or this is a consortium?

Thanks

 

4 separate interested parties.

 

I notice CITIC are based in Hong Kong. Rightly or wrongly that makes me feel a little more comfortable.
It's still very much Chinese money behind the investment firm. I guess we'll find out over time the personalities behind the bid

http://www.citics.com.hk/Default.aspx

 

Will Claude still keep his job?

 

There were 5 interested parties. I just couldn't raise enough money*


*any money

 

You should have said, I could have lent you a fiver!

Edit: old, paper fiver...

 

Has that posh woman signed it?

 

It's not quite dry yet...

 

Somerset Press?

 

More like Ashton Press (local cider!)

 

I'm assuming that is still an 80-85% stake and not a complete buyout. That mythical total value of around £250M that some of us read in some obscure piece of news [I certainly can't remember where I read it] in the past year seems to be holding up well.

 

Talking about cider, and getting it round to my latest... ok, it's a faux pas, I removed a goose from the freezer about 3 days ago, in order to roast tomorrow. I had intended to leave it until Christmas, but on a whim I took it out to thaw. Since then I've eaten an absolute mountain of chicken, and I'm thinking it wasn't my wisest move ever. This goose is rather large and I should do it justice by having quite a few trimmings. I was thinking of a cider based gravy for starters.

There's my tenuous connection achieved.

 

See...if you hadn't thrown away all that money doing up your garden, you could have bought Saints!

 

I was tempted to retort that you cooked your goose there, but that's probably too obvious a metaphor!