Serious takeover talk

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Kittenmittons said:
Or they can just do what almost every investor does, and release a press release that clarifies the nature of the investment? And then yes, I will let it go.
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Why the f*CK should they. It's private business between the owners and investors.
It's nowt to do with you or your agenda against the owners.
Now piss off back to the naughty chair and go and stare at a nail
 
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ShaolinKungFu said:
After a few days of the initial thread that was started on this I’ve taken no notice. Didn’t wanna get my expectations up and couldn’t read the **** Reiver and a few others were getting for having the audacity to try feed a bit info to us that they’d heard.

these fellas are pumping some cash in now with a view to investing more when/if we get out of this league aye? You’re all probably sick of explaining so I do apologise, like I said first time ever I’ve purposely ignored Sunderland info.

it’ll be amazing if these stick around and start to invest large chunks of cash, I don’t care if it’s done slowly and purposely. Just hep make is sustainable.
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There's no way this is a bad thing, I believe they'll be involved for many years.

It's pointless, and impossie, throwing big money at a L1 club but I think we'll buy in January.

If we go up I think they'll invest again and so on until they take control.
 
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Smug in Boots said:
There's no way this is a bad thing, I believe they'll be involved for many years.

It's pointless, and impossie, throwing big money at a L1 club but I think we'll buy in January.

If we go up I think they'll invest again and so on until they take control.
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I don’t like to assume things, but reading a little about these fellas I see no point at all in them even looking at us if they weren’t looking long term. I mean, why would you? Has to be more coming than the figures mentioned, that’s change they’ve found down the back of the sofa.

I’m quite optimistic about all of this. We will get promoted this season and hopefully it’s the catalyst for a nice upward curve back to the pl without the club being in danger financially.

Anyway cheers.
 
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Sid said:
Think he's repeated it a few times. Another trait is that he'll at times be quite disparaging of another poster and their posts but takes huge offence if anyone is remotely similar to him.
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Who is he owwa there ?

Edit, saw your reply to someone.
I'm still none the wiser :D
 
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Nig said:
Who is he owwa there ?

Edit, saw your reply to someone.
I'm still none the wiser :D
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It's probably been a while since he posted on rtg and he had at least a couple usernames. Count yourself lucky that you missed him first time around:D
 
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Mr 55p said:
Can I sup a few pints for you?
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Yes mate crack on <cheers>

Hopefully by end of the day I'll find out if got a new long contract so will be having some myself... Although I might not as trying not to drink on weekdays and get training more <laugh>
 
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I did, Moll, thanks . . . . I played football in the morning, then spent about an hour on being 'a second pair of eyes' before helping to prepare 'birthday tea' as is usual for birthdays in our family, and drinking a fair bit of red wine (my favourite and quite inexpensive - McGuigan Black Label Merlot) later whilst watching the Grand Prix :emoticon-0105-wink:
 
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Robref62 said:
I'm no financial clever clogs but what benefit would billionaires get from a £10m loan? They're unlikely to be charging Wonga interest rates.
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Spot on. This is exactly why I'm not worrying about it or wanting clarification from the club or anything. The Americans have obviously decided, for now, not to do a takeover. They are, however, getting involved. There are 2 options here, either this is a first step and depending on what happens they might or might not become shareholders later, or they've randomly decided to become a bank and fancied loaning money to a third division football side just to make less than £1m profit between 3 or 4 of them. Option 2 just wouldn't happen, why on earth would they do it?

So we can be fairly safe in assuming that 3 (or 4) multi billionaires are now invested in the club. They have earmarked money to be spent on medium - long term ground work which would help any future owners. We've all moaned (rightly) about the academy and recruitment, and this even just on it's own is going to help us with that.

Maybe it's guaranteed that they convert the loan to shares later (so if we can't get up that £10m gets them most of the club, if we do it gets them a bit less but with less risk and more profit for Donald, giving him what he wants in terms of getting to stay on and hoping to maximise his return). Maybe it's a decision that they'll take later and they'll only get shares if we're in the Championship. Either way all we can do is get behind the lads and hope that we do well. I just can't see how this can be anything other than a major positive, so I'm not too interested in pressing to be given the minute details that they simply won't provide. Hell the debt isn't even against SAFC, let them crack on and see where we are at the end of the season
 
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