Club Sale | It’s done!

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UnitedSofa said:
Ben Jacobs didn’t say what I wanted him to say therefore he should be banned!!!

WAH WAH WAH :(:(:(
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How very childish.

The guy contradicts himself constantly! Today's Tweets just compound the issue.

I'm also sick of seeing his smug face every time something positive comes out about us. It's like he can't wait to shoot it down.

He can sit comfortably on the banned list with the rest of the chancers.
 
What have AP said on the matter? Reuters may be tier 1 for bizniz but until the AP have spoken out, it's all meaningless.
 
Acquire Me said:
Raine is getting the boot
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That will be just what the Glazers get after debt has been paid. So 5.235bn - £535bn = £4.7bn or $6.05bn just to the Glazers for selling their 69% class B shares plus their legacy premium payment for relinquishing future merchandising and Broadcasting deals. If the A shares are then sold at fair price at $30 you have an additional $1.5bn that will be paid before Xmas 2024.

Therefore total cost to buy 100% is £6.3bn or $8bn to own 100% including paying off the debt with an additional $1bn to be invested WoW

I might be wrong and the £4.7bn might be before the debt is paid but this is a $7.3-8bn deal to buy 100% of the club, no wonder it took so long and if SJR can get near that I’d be amazed!
 
Turnbl said:
I'm hearing there's a late breaking offer from Kendall and Roman.

Tom Wambsgans to become CEO. Connor as World Club Ambassador.

Shiv on transfers. Cousin Greg gets the Youth Team.
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Doesn't roman already own hearts, his dad's favourite team? :lol:
 
Sultan said:
Why do we subconsciously assume that just because City and the WC was won through unethical means should we be generalising every deal Arabs make? Boahly has gone bonkers with the purchase of players and I see no one accusing him of cheating (apologies if I'm missing something obvious). Let's wait and see how the club is run. It may well be grown organically and legitimately.

Qatar or Sir Jim
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I'm getting 'people like that' vibes today unfortunately. If not outright racism it's borderline.
 
quadrant said:
Suppose the for sake of argument that city continue to dominate by pumping in money through the back door, then Newcastle start do the same. Our Qatari owners do not, and as a result, we are stuck in perpetual third place. Do you think the owners will settle for third place? Or use their resources to get ahead the same way City and Newcastle did?

I'm not even that fussed by the financial doping argument, that horse has pretty much bolted as far as I'm concerned. But to believe that Qatari owners wouldn't do it when our rivals do feels very naive.
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Apart from the Neymar and Mbappe madness, havent PSG been pretty constrained in the face of yearly failures?
 
711 said:
I'm getting 'people like that' vibes today unfortunately. If not outright racism it's borderline.
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Yeah it's probably not totally racist, but it is incredibly lazy. "These guys will be similar owners to these other guys becusse they're from the same region"
 
Rams said:
Reading reports that the Glazers are negotiating with the Qatari bid about entering exclusivity (yes these things are that complicated). I suspect we’ll have new owners within a couple of weeks.
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do you have a link
 
Turnbl said:
I'm hearing there's a late breaking offer from Kendall and Roman.

Tom Wambsgans to become CEO. Connor as World Club Ambassador.

Shiv on transfers. Cousin Greg gets the Youth Team.
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Worse than the actual Roman* getting involved, though no doubt some would welcome him with open arms.

*Reigns
 
quadrant said:
Suppose the for sake of argument that city continue to dominate by pumping in money through the back door, then Newcastle start do the same. Our Qatari owners do not, and as a result, we are stuck in perpetual third place. Do you think the owners will settle for third place? Or use their resources to get ahead the same way City and Newcastle did?

I'm not even that fussed by the financial doping argument, that horse has pretty much bolted as far as I'm concerned. But to believe that Qatari owners wouldn't do it when our rivals do feels very naive.
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The argument is with the debt cleared and no dividends to pay, we can likely spend 200m or so every year, maybe more, each team can only play 11 players at once
 
jm99 said:
It feels like there's too much smoke just now all from what you'd expect to be reputable places. Reuters, Rio and the companies House stuff
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Yeah the fact they are all coming from very different sources is definitely giving confidence
 
SecondFig said:
We were hated in the 90s because we were the best club in the country by a mile. That's very different to being hated because you're a sportwashing project for a nation state with appalling human rights records
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I don't really have the energy to start answering and derail the thread.
 
Football journalists who primarily have agents, players and coaching staff as their main sources of information are simply not as likely to have the inside track on these things compared to financial journalists.


Same as Reuters wouldn't be your go-to if source for finding out if the centre-half is likely to be fit in time for Tuesday.

The Glazers aren't having indiscreet conversations with the ground staff or talking to Luke Shaw's agent about this
 
Turnbl said:
I'm hearing there's a late breaking offer from Kendall and Roman.

Tom Wambsgans to become CEO. Connor as World Club Ambassador.

Shiv on transfers. Cousin Greg gets the Youth Team.
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Good job Mo's no longer with us.
 
jm99 said:
So how did Chelsea spend 600m last season?
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"Every summer". Was last season every season? That whole thing about how selling an academy product for £20m allows spending £100m is true, but only if you spend nothing the next 4 seasons. For Chelsea, make that the next 7 seasons.

That £100 spend is only a £20m spend on the books this seasons, but it's also £20m the next season, and the next, and the next, and the next. If you continue to frontload your spending you will run out of steam. Chelsea took a huge risk this season, and that risk will cost them until the 29/30 season.
 
cyberman said:
Apart from the Neymar and Mbappe madness, havent PSG been pretty constrained in the face of yearly failures?
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Their wage bill is €700m.

‘Constrained’ is the last word to describe them, they’ve just spunked a lot of money inefficiently, kind of like, you know, a certain Northern English club
 
Sports journalists have played the whole "Rumours say this, but the opposite could also be true" from the very start because it's one of those stories on their "patch" they have nothing really to offer on.
 
How much does it cost to get Raine to do negotiations for me if I want to sell my flat?
 
NotThatSoph said:
"Every summer". Was last season every season? That whole thing about how selling an academy product for £20m allows spending £100m is true, but only if you spend nothing the next 4 seasons. For Chelsea, make that the next 7 seasons.

That £100 spend is only a £20m spend on the books this seasons, but it's also £20m the next season, and the next, and the next, and the next. If you continue to frontload your spending you will run out of steam. Chelsea took a huge risk this season, and that risk will cost them until the 29/30 season.
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I didn't say it would be every summer, I said that we could do it this summer, hopefully by next year we'd have had some success to show but just for laughs here's chelsea's last 5 years spending from transfer market

22/23: 611m
21/22: 113m
20/21: 245m
19/20: 45m
18/19: 208m

So over a billion in 5 years, it hardly seems like they have to reign themselves in
 
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