Yep I said on the transfer thread the guy I know hasn't seen her yet. But had a meeting the other day with higher up people.
Wouldn't be Merse with out saying something stupid........Tiss was quite astounded, but didn't get his reply in.
I don't know much about him but I didn't find too much to grumble about in that piece. It's not exactly generous to Cortese, but it's mostly factual and a good balance to all the puff pieces that are around. The average of all the opinions is probably pretty close to the reality.
How do we know Cortese is using the press? Is it the press job to get views or sells of their paper? If every paper or article was the same and painted Cortese as a dick people would stop reading. Also if Cortese is saying stuff to the press what is stopping KL doing the same? This could just be a pr battle between themselves. Wanting to paint each other in bad light. I'm not judging any thing by some crappy article I will wait for a statement or interview by that person. Or a person I see as credible says as something.
Good cartoon in The Mirror. Lambert says: 'I hate it here. I want to go absolutely anywhere.' Other player: 'West Ham are in for you.' Lambert: 'Or I could stay here.'
I don't know where I last saw the question of Liebherr's wealth so I suppose this is the next best place to post about it. I was looking for "Liebherr Wifag" to see if there was any more information other than the one sided account in an english newspaper and I saw this, which somehow eluded me until now. If accurate, those revenue figures (around £13m by today's exchange rate) don't indicate a concern worth billions. It would seem likely either his gains from the liebherr group were invested outside of MALI or he was a great deal less wealthy than expected. nothing conclusive but just an oddity.
granted, but there was little to indicate that the group had been dismantled profitably (i say little, I mean nothing). without any information on the rest it could be perhaps falsely assumed none of it ended well. If the revenues were so low, the sale of MALI's assets were unlikely to make a great difference to us in the premier league in the best case scenario.
I'm afraid that I don't quite understand what you're suggesting. Mali is a holding company, a very large one, that owns a bunch of different companies across a range of industries. The company with those small revenues was not the Mali Group holding company, it was a subsidiary thereof. Mali is much, much larger.
Markus was quite the genius engineer and Mali Group was/is a bit of a hobby of his made into a state of the art business. His developments of common-rail diesel engines and engine transmissions are as good as it gets. When you're as rich as he undoubtedly was, and Katherina now is [around £5B] you can do major things for fun. As Cortese used to say about Saints, in terms of the importance of making the finances work.., this has never been about money. Although, he did utilise first class business and financial practices to steer things the right way.
All I know about MALI is my father works on the railway and he asked a fitter about MALI and he said they did some of the best quality parts going. ...and more often than not, Network Rail prefer not to go for them!
Markus was apparently worth 3bn. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Katharina already had 2bn to her name. As said above there are several comanies in the Mali setup. They all have differing pre or postfixes like Mali International, Mali this, Mali that. You have found just one of those.
It was the amount that was being bandied around at the time of the Saints buyout. I see no reason why it should have changed. The Liebherrs are quite prudent billionaires.
