Can't you both take up gambling rather than late night cock jousting?
Some people may be can't tell talk from mutter.
That'll test age and memory of adverts. ...
Can't you both take up gambling rather than late night cock jousting?
That's a joke in poor taste, OLM - no different to Allam's off the cuff remark.Maybe it's a requirement for owning Hull City?
Not a chance. But let me ask you one simple question. Was Benteke an asset ? Did he sell him ( essentially asset strip) ? An investment decision, reducing the debt he was carrying (or reducing his personal outlay) ? The fact that he spent more thereafter on other players was the bad investment decision, but he sold their prize asset.
That's what drives many corporate takeovers in many US businesses. Assuming efficiency gains can be made through the final configuration (after the selling of certain assets) of the restructured company. Lerner ****ed up, Villa were relegated, he asset stripped.
The whole point of my initial, somewhat facetious post about Vikings & US consortiums.
Lerner & Villa are a good example of what I was driving at.
Feel free to come back with your usual "I don't want to get into a stupid argument with you". Concentrate on your pod-cast.
That's a joke in poor taste, OLM - no different to Allam's off the cuff remark.
Randy Lerner just stopped putting money in. When your expenses are more than your income you reduce your overheads and live within your means. That was all Randy Lerner did he sold his expensive players and replaced them with ones that didn't cost as much. I wouldn't call it asset stripping.
If Goldman Sachs are advising the potential owners then they will be looking at getting as much government money to expand the stadium and build income generating assets (restaurants, hotels, sports facilities etc) as possible. They would be looking at expanding the ground and with it the number of corporate boxes, expensive seats, etc. Brady said a couple of years ago government money would be available.
In fact they will be looking to do a variant of what Assem Allam suggested with the sports village. As Brady has said they are already in discussions in the Americans and the Council will be bending over backwards to help, as they would have done with Assem Allam.
On the question of freehold. The SMC pays so little money to rent the KC from the Council and yet Hull City paid £4 million rent. West Ham will pay £2 million to rent the Olympic Stadium and get the policing costs thrown in. Just as there's an argument for acquiring the freehold there's a better argument for giving it back to the Council and paying an annual rent. With Brady so eager to please the rent will be a lot less than we are paying now.
I suppose Man U selling Cantona was asset stripping? Or Chelsea when they sold Mata?
I suggest you look at the definition of asset stripping.
Man Utd didn't sell Cantona.

American buyers look to grow clubs and run them has a business and not throw money at it.
Oh don't be a tease!Interesting developments in Italy today that i have a sneaky suspicion could impact on us...
Inter owner Eric Tohir was reportedly looking to sell 20% of the clubs shares to a Chinese billionaire consortium. This was because he couldnt make Inter stack up with FFP, a fact exacerbated by Inter failing to qualify for the UCL. He was also widely reported several months ago to want to get in on the Premier League gravy train. Now, in a shock development, after months of negotiation it has been announced the Chinese consortium will buy 100% of Inter. There is no way Tohir will walk away from football and if he does sell Inter it is 99% certain he will want a Premier League club. Now which clubs are presently ripe for buying...?
http://www.football-italia.net/85218/suning-set-all-inter
Yes I'm making massive leaps here but they're logical and if he was interested he'd be a superb owner. He's in it for the prestige of winning but will always honour the club and fans. He's a traditionalist and fantastic at image and brand perception, he hired former Man Utd CEO Michael Bolingbroke for precisely his experience of this on a global scale.
The fenway group are a investment company they end goal is to make liverpool into a man utd or a arsenal. They are not a chelsea or Man city type ownersLiverpool's owners are building an expensive new stand and have stated that Klopp, this summer, will have the biggest transfer budget in their history.
(1) He just ran Villa into the ground and most likely made a profit
(2) No, they erected a statue of Michael Jackson outside Craven Cottage, and ran them into the ground. Neither were they American.