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Drew said:
I mean they agreed to sell to the Reading owners and the PL stopped it… so yes?
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This has come up several times before but I think it's much less clear cut than the version that has become accepted. The PL didn't like something about the consortium, but that didn't necessarily mean the whole thing was off. Neither the PL or FA ever even announced that they'd failed the test. Assem Allam announced himself that the takeover was off because of it and that became the accepted truth, but he was always an unreliable source of information. I think the reality is more that it could've been sorted if all parties wanted it to be, but Assem was spooked by the findings of the test and pulled the plug with the Dai family as a result. Perhaps that and a combination of the other factors that made him and Ehab reluctant to sell at various times. Assem was obsessively paranoid about being ripped off.

In a way it was a bullet dodged, although the following 6 years for us were pretty miserable anyway.
 
PLT said:
This has come up several times before but I think it's much less clear cut than the version that has become accepted. The PL didn't like something about the consortium, but that didn't necessarily mean the whole thing was off. Neither the PL or FA ever even announced that they'd failed the test. Assem Allam announced himself that the takeover was off because of it and that became the accepted truth, but he was always an unreliable source of information. I think the reality is more that it could've been sorted if all parties wanted it to be, but Assem was spooked by the findings of the test and pulled the plug with the Dai family as a result. Perhaps that and a combination of the other factors that made him and Ehab reluctant to sell at various times. Assem was obsessively paranoid about being ripped off.

In a way it was a bullet dodged, although the following 6 years for us were pretty miserable anyway.
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From memory there was one member of the 'consortium' who couldn't be traced so the PL couldn't check where the money was coming from and the deal was pulled.
 
Kalman II said:
For all their faults, the Allams did actually leave the club in a healthy financial position. Unpopular, spiteful and frugal towards the end but they weren’t dodgy.

The current owner, I’m not so sure.
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They left it in a decent position as they refused to invest in a decent playing squad and were happy to sell off our assets.
 
willyfog said:
They left it in a decent position as they refused to invest in a decent playing squad and were happy to sell off our assets.
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How many times did we break our transfer record under their ownership? Also I don't remember us paying £10m for a forward too many times under other ownerships?
As for 'selling off our assets' Is it fifty or sixty million pound we have received for players sold since Acun took over?
 
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PLT said:
This has come up several times before but I think it's much less clear cut than the version that has become accepted. The PL didn't like something about the consortium, but that didn't necessarily mean the whole thing was off. Neither the PL or FA ever even announced that they'd failed the test. Assem Allam announced himself that the takeover was off because of it and that became the accepted truth, but he was always an unreliable source of information. I think the reality is more that it could've been sorted if all parties wanted it to be, but Assem was spooked by the findings of the test and pulled the plug with the Dai family as a result. Perhaps that and a combination of the other factors that made him and Ehab reluctant to sell at various times. Assem was obsessively paranoid about being ripped off.

In a way it was a bullet dodged, although the following 6 years for us were pretty miserable anyway.
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Is it folklore, ope did we get a £6 million deposit off them...
 
Trumpton Tiger. said:
How many times did we break our transfer record under their ownership? Also I don't remember us paying £10m for a forward too many times under other ownerships?
As for 'selling off our assets' Is it fifty or sixty million pound we have received for players sold since Acun took over?
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There's only KLP we've got a significant fee for, from the players Acun inherited and that allegedly went to the Allams anyway.
 
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