I was going to tag this into the previous take over thread but seen it has been closed. According to Paul smith of the mirror we are being lined up by some Russians for possible takeover, weirdly he is saying that it is being headed by the guy we hired to find a buyer!!!! Apparently these Russians are also in the steel industry........ Will this ever end or even be concluded within 6 weeks. I'm going on holiday now for two weeks, no Internet, last time I did that I came back to simon Walton and could not have been more excited, he was going to change us for the better.
Many Rangers fans hope they will launch a takeover but Mittal has no intention of meeting Ecclestone's £100m asking price, more than twice what Venky's paid for Blackburn last year. Instead there are reports of Russian interest with speculation centreing on Alexei Mordashov, owner of Severstal, a steel and mining conglomerate. Severstal sponsors several sports teams in Russia and the 45-year-old Mordashov – worth $18bn according to Forbes – has business connections with Mittal and lived in England a decade ago. Any takeover needs, however, to be swift as the transfer window closes in six weeks and two-thirds of QPR fans, according to a poll on one website, believe the club need at least four to five players to survive. Warnock hailed Rangers' promotion – his seventh in management – as his finest achievement in football. Keeping QPR up would top even that."
This fits in neatly with the current rumours, let's hope there is some serious journalism going on here, not some regurgitation of postings from forums.
I wouldn't care if little green men from Mars took us over, as long as they do the right thing by the club!
Sorry to confuse northorlt, I was intimating that the Russian consortium maybe have mittal like connections
@Smudge1962 Paul Smith And finally on the supposed Russian takeover. Absolute nonsense. I was told there is absolutely no truth in this whatsoever.
That's fair enough, though didn't this Paul Smith also say today that we had no bids from anyone re.Taarabt.... Funny how Adel himself said he was 'close to an agreement' with PSG and our official website said we had received a 'substantial offer' for Tarb. Sounds like another NITK to me
