Nobody is Going to come in anytime soon. It will be left until the club is on its knees and someone will pick it up for a song.
Being vindictive doesn't make good business sense, pocketting the parachute payments does as long as you secure a sale fairly quickly following the last payment. The Allams will be trying to have their cake and eat it - but the window of opportunity isn't very long and league position plus other factors will dictate just how attractive the club will be to a potential buyer. We do know however that their way of dealing with interested parties is slapdash to put it mildly - it won't inspire confidence as word will have got round by now that if you approach these jokers you're going to get fannied around.
Of course you will be able to get home enob. Just cross that big river and keep going.we will all be waiting for you.we are planning a big party.bye son and good luck.
That lad Jarvis has popped up again, this time as part of the deal to sell Blackpool... please log in to view this image
No idea, we generally only hear about the ones that actually go through, which so far is Barnsley and Peterborough.
Yes, in the New York Times, he was really pissed off about it apparently and is doing his best to prove them wrong. Still comes across as a bit of a twat though.
LONDON — As a spigot from China gushed staggering amounts of money into Western soccer properties in recent years, fueling billions of dollars in sales, a 26-year-old business executive from Britain seemed to have a seat at many deal tables. The executive, Alexander Jarvis, apparently had contacts with some wealthy investors throughout China. He eagerly facilitated meetings for them with sports officials in Britain and beyond. His social-media profile captured a globe-trotting life that played out on private jets and intimate meetings with influential businessmen. Some of those businessmen, however, are now wondering what, exactly, Jarvis was bringing to the table. Paul Duffen, the former chairman of the Premier League team Hull City, was tasked with selling the club in 2016. During that sales process, Duffen said he spoke with Jarvis numerous times over several months. Jarvis told him he had connections with several potential investors from China. Duffen said it soon became clear to him that Jarvis “had not done a football transaction before, or more likely, any transaction.” He said none of Jarvis’ Chinese contacts ever materialized. In a series of interviews and emails, Jarvis said his contacts with China and throughout international soccer are well known. But a close look at Jarvis’ career indicates all may not be what it seems. Company records and interviews with people who have dealt with Jarvis indicate that Jarvis may have overstated his connections with some of the top figures in the sport and exaggerated his partnerships and associations with top clubs and companies — some of which have asked him to stop trading on their names. None of that stopped him from becoming a go-to source for journalists who have been trying to make sense of a Chinese soccer spending spree that has sent cash westward after President Xi Jinping announced in 2015 he wanted to turn the country into a soccer powerhouse. Jarvis has been quoted as an expert throughout international news media reports, which has helped open doors for him and get executives to take his calls in a world where everyone is always searching for the next deal. Nothing indicates that Jarvis has acted illegally. However his rise shows how someone with apparently little in the way of experience or a track record of success can forge a reputation with relative ease, especially in the largely unregulated realms of international soccer. “In the football space I’ve got unlucky on a few big things, been screwed over on some things. But I’ve not lied,” said Jarvis, whose company, Blackbridge Cross Borders, recently posted debts of more than $60,000, according to public filings. “Everything that’s on the credentials and background is all real.” An annual accounts filing published by Britain’s companies’ register in February showed Blackbridge had just over 1,000 pounds ($1,378) in cash. Jarvis appears to be the only shareholder in the company. Jarvis registered a small victory recently, playing a supporting role in a deal consummated last week. Darragh MacAnthony, the chairman of the third-division club Peterborough United, said Jarvis had introduced him to the Canadians Jason Neale and Stewart Thompson, who bought 50 percent of the club. In 2016, the most recent year for which figures are available, the club lost nearly $3 million on revenues of about $8.6 million. David Taylor, the former chairman of Woking F.C., a semiprofessional soccer team based near London, said Jarvis had been brokering a bid to buy the club involving undisclosed property developers. The process has gone on for months, but Taylor said he was grateful Jarvis had devoted as much time as he had “to our little club” given his stature in the business world. Not everyone shares Taylor’s high opinion of Jarvis. Barnsley, a second-division club based in northern England, was looking for new investors last year. Jarvis had established a relationship with Chien Lee, a Chinese-American businessman who owns the French club Nice and is now part of the ownership group at Barnsley. Jarvis introduced the businessman to several soccer teams in Britain. Jarvis said he also acted on behalf of the Barnsley seller Patrick Cryne, who was terminally ill at the time and died earlier this year. The relationship grew fractious, and people close to the Cryne family accuse Jarvis of leaking information about the deal to the news media in order to boost his company’s profile. Jarvis denies this, describing Cryne as a “bitter man” who was “high on drugs” at the time. A lawyer for the Cryne family declined to comment. Paul Conway, a former investment banker and Lee’s business partner in the Nice and Barnsley investments, said he had “cut off all communication” with Jarvis. Jarvis’s explanation for his unexpected rise involves a chance meeting aboard the iconic ocean liner the Queen Mary 2 when he was 20 years old. Jarvis said he left school at 16, and before he turned 20 he switched from brokering painting and decorating contracts in his native Liverpool to advising on international real-estate and mining deals. Then, according to Jarvis, he met the co-founder of one of the world’s largest private equity firms — a billionaire — in the first-class lounge of the famous ocean liner. This person, whose identity he said he preferred not to reveal “in case of blowback,” took a shine to him and offered the opportunity to travel to China, where he could assist the firm’s operations. “I was always in the room when they were negotiating contracts over dinners,” he said. Jarvis said he learned the trade and made friends with the sons and daughters of China’s emerging plutocrats. Then he decided to strike out on his own. He registered Blackbridge on May 23, 2014, according to corporate documents, and soon claimed operations in more than a dozen cities across China and partner firms across the globe, from Moscow to Switzerland to the British Virgin Islands.
One day and I wont hold my breath. A post on here will have some good news about the imminent sale and eventual sale of our club. Now that will be a day worth celebrating. **** off Allams FFS **** off. Leave us in peace you tedious twats. Rant over. Don't feel any better though. Just to lighten the mood a little NOT! And in the beginning it all started so well. And this.
Met this Tool, and I was amazed how he would ever manage to impress any decent business mind. He has a business acumen of sourcing business egos a la Allam and Oyston and massaging the already needing egos. Hats off to him he's a successful chancer and blagger
I like this bit, “ But I’ve not lied,” said Jarvis, whose company, Blackbridge Cross Borders, recently posted debts of more than $60,000, according to public filings. “Everything that’s on the credentials and background is all real.” An annual accounts filing published by Britain’s companies’ register in February showed Blackbridge had just over 1,000 pounds ($1,378) in cash. Jarvis appears to be the only shareholder in the company. Hardly enough to by a ticket to China.
