Saints sold to Sport Republic

This would be so funny if we bought a new player who scored the winner against Newcastle.

 

Mitrovic.

 

Newspaper headlines;

Dragan breaths new fire into Saints

 

Hmm

 

TheSecretScout on Twitter has said to expect a statement signing, as had heard we were looking at a certain statement signing a few days ago?
He did break the news on Thierry Small, Livramento and Broja, so here’s hoping

 

Southampton are set to be taken over by a company backed by Serbian media mogul Dragan Solak, BBC Sport understands.

The company called Sport Republic is buying Chinese businessman Gao Jisheng's 80% stake in the club.

Gao took over the club in August 2017, with Katharina Liebherr, who inherited Saints from her late father Markus in 2010 when they were in League One, retaining 20%.

Saints are 14th in the Premier League and were promoted in 2012.

Solak is chairman and founder of the United Group media company.

 

It has also been claimed, by talkSPORT, that the deal will see Southampton become part of a multi-club group, similar to the Red Bull family with the likes of RB Leipzig and New York Red Bulls among others.

 

@Libby will be delighted

 

I was hoping Dieter ( Red bull owner ) would take us over .

 

And Man City with New York FC, an Aussie team and another team who are all owned by the same group. Obviously that's on a larger scale.

 

Imagine it will be us, Sholing and Shamrock Rovers

 

Us
St. Johnstone
Saint Etienne
St. Pauli

 

**** Libby (no offence) I'm excited!

 

Good marketing from Saints to put tweets out, after this news broke, trying to sell Brentford tickets

 

Seems to be some smoke too about a "statement signing" broja was named.. Here's hoping hey!

 

Extremely unlikely that there will be a new "statement signing". It takes days to sign a player, so we would have needed to tell the agent/player and likely selling club that we are due to be taken over shortly and that the deal will only go through if the takeover is successful. I doubt we would risk the takeover leaking as we obviously wanted it done quietly.

It would be very difficult logistically and to keep it all so quiet would be so hard.

 

Vlahovic incoming...

 

Aren’t loans supposed to be quick ? Maybe a statement loan to buy? Which doesn’t quite have the same ring to it

 

We are not in an awful position whereby we need a statement player asap, or even statement player at all tbf. Sure it can be exciting initially, but I swear those sorts of signings never work out for us. I'd be excited for us to continue heading in the direction we were heading, trying to be the Premier League version of Dortmund, with young top tier talent choosing us as their stepping stone into first team football. If we could still have that, but with a bit of money on key signings too that would be ideal imo.