This is utterly pointless (and in some cases bloody stupid) speculation, wait for the accounts to come out and then you can actually argue about what really happened.
No, KLP was used to pay for transfers, despite spending more than that already and us not yet having received all the KLP fee. That was being alleged.
There’s always been subtle xenophobia about foreign capitalists, as if British or American businessmen can’t be crooks either.
The transfers have been registered in July so I think we need to wait another year before we see much in the accounts anyway.
No, I've always said we were spending over and above the KLP fee. That was supposed to be a reply to you saying the loan paid for Transfers. ST was suggesting that KLP had to be sold to fund the transfers as the loan was paid back from Corendon money.
As I recall, it cost something like £12,500 to fill his plane up. Although that was a few months ago, probably closer to £20,000 now.
He’s a journalist who has worked across the world for nearly 40 years, so will have a good understanding of how different cultures operate in business. Someone described him as ‘shady’ earlier in this thread. I was backing that up. But you’re right, what we see as shady may not be viewed that way in other cultures. He also stated that to have got on in business there, you have to be very well in with Erdogan (which I think he has confirmed their friendship?). Ergodan was last year listed as the fourth most corrupt person by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project.
Points to others who can . Do you think Darth Vadar was worried about finance when he got the Death Star if he could not afford it, stick to the dark side Padawan.
I mean, not to say the UK is on par with Turkey in terms of autocracy and corruption, but politics and finance in the UK isn’t squeaky clean. Dodgy PPE contracts, a Track and Trace app that was a dud, Partygates (plural), the former chancellor’s non-dom wife, peerages for donors etc. As far as I’m aware, our new owner hasn’t broken any laws or rules regarding the financing of the club.
