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Saints in takeover talks with Chinese group

Discussion in 'Southampton' started by - Doing The Lambert Walk, Nov 2, 2016.

  1. Beef

    Beef Well-Known Member

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    Why do people keep saying they don't want to be sold? and good if it doesn't happen?

    We are going to be sold. Kat wants to move on, if it isn't this time it will happen.
     
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  2. SAINTDON13

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  3. Fly

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    I think people are comfortable with our current owners.

    Think most people understand we will be sold eventually but I hope it isn't this Chinese group. Some thing about them doesn't fill me with confidence, they don't have much of a sporting background having only recently moving the direction of the company. They don't seem the richest ( I may be wrong) and I haven't been impressed with other clubs Chinese owners.

    So yeah I hope it's not these lot, maybe the next though .
     
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  4. Beef

    Beef Well-Known Member

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    Nope it's new news.
     
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  5. Schad

    Schad Well-Known Member

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    Not eventually: soon. KL does not want to own a football club anymore. The club's value has skyrocketed, and thus it's a good time for her to find a buyer. And if not to this group, it will be to a group that looks much like this: a foreign conglomerate that none of us have heard of, and probably Chinese.
     
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  6. ElliotMP

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    Sauce?
     
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    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    We won't be sold to any skates.
     
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  8. steve79

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    Keep seeing on here poster saying kat no longer wants to own a football club. That is just guesswork no ? Posters keep stating it as fact
     
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  9. Schad

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    Because it has been evident for some time that she would sell (I've lost count of how many people with connections at the club were saying that she was going to sell up 6-12 months before this news broke), and she's currently in the advanced stages of a sale? That's a pretty clear indication of an individual who thinks that the time is right to divest themselves of an asset.
     
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  10. St. Luigi Scrosoppi

    St. Luigi Scrosoppi Well-Known Member

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    Her decision to sell was triggered by the idiots who voted for Brexit. GB is now marginalised and a risky investment so she is right to sell up.
     
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  11. Beef

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    Kat will either be gone or just a minor share holder. This isn't a in the distant future, this is with in a year.
     
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  12. Ronnie Hotdog (MLsfc)

    Ronnie Hotdog (MLsfc) Well-Known Member

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    Not old news. This is a further months suspension on trading. Their company statement was only released on Wednesday i.e today.
     
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  14. Saints Fan4Life

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    It's not the fact we're being sold (though disapointing it is), it's WHO it's too - I have a bad feeling about the Chinese, and it just doesn't fill me with confidence. Nothing I've seen so far has particularly inspired me that this is going to be a good move.
     
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    I am a little nervous, but that is just because of our history. I won't tar all Chinese companies the same.
     
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  16. RedandWhiteManofKent

    RedandWhiteManofKent Well-Known Member

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    Sweet & Sour
     
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  17. ihatemyselfandwanttodie

    ihatemyselfandwanttodie Well-Known Member

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    Did ML have a rich, sporting background?
     
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  18. OddRiverOakWizards

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    Not a lot we can do about, like most things happening in the world. One foreign owner or another makes no difference IF we are run in a sensible way and continue to act as a collective so that if one person leaves there is a good alternative. If it becomes some kind of centralised dictate then we are more susceptible and vulnerable to problems.

    Interesting article and perspective in The Times last week by the Norwich City owners: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/s...adly-the-government-need-to-step-in-fn9xvl7c0
     
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  19. Beddy

    Beddy Plays the percentage

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    Yeah that's why google are investing a billion in the country.............
     
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  20. Fly

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    No, but the man who was running the club for him did, if I remember correctly.
     
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