The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[mr underhill]

or Chelsea

[TheMalandro]

Who exactly is a 'football man' in these kind of positions. He (hopefully) is coming in to maximise incoming finance for the club and to make sure that behind the scenes everything is running smoothly. An excellent, proven, addition to the team.

The sort of man who can look at a teamsheet and say "He's cup-tied."

And the sort of man who would never, for example utter the word 'footy' in a sentence.

Nor baps or bazzongers I imagine

[pauliewalnuts]

I just noticed this thread had sunk to halfway down page two.

Sad times.

Looking at TBAR they are still posting about when the takeover will be announced - people talking about how Monday might be relevant. On here, not a word for over a week.

I think the only conclusion to be drawn from this state of affairs is that nobody has one tenth of one single clue what is going on.

I bet a few people get excited when they see this thread back at the top of page 1, mind

[thick_mike]

I did!

[ozzjim]

TBAR have announced the club as sold 6 times during the summer, and will have decided that the new owner did not want to be known until the window shuts.

If we spend 30 million between now and Monday night I will be suspicious, but Randy isn't going anywhere I don't reckon.

[Louzie0]

I did!

Caught me, as well!

[edgysatsuma89]

Ooo the takeover thread is back ... Paulie you wan...

Monday will be exciting, i get to use my nan's new stair lift. Apparently i will experience extreme G's.

Some people dow arf talk shit.

[tomd2103]

I just noticed this thread had sunk to halfway down page two.

Sad times.

Looking at TBAR they are still posting about when the takeover will be announced - people talking about how Monday might be relevant. On here, not a word for over a week.

I think the only conclusion to be drawn from this state of affairs is that nobody has one tenth of one single clue what is going on.

I bet a few people get excited when they see this thread back at the top of page 1, mind

Now the season has started, I've very much adopted a "what will be, will be" attitude to it all. 

[PeterWithe]

Quite a few pages back someone posted the billionaire map of America   and on the map 4 or 5 states had billionaires called Walton. Someone joked that it would be good to be taken over by The Waltons.
Well since Tom Fox popped up I've been doing a bit of lateral Googling.
I started off by looking at Arsenal's owner Stan Kroenke, because he would have to sanction Fox coming to us. Then I started thinking about who Kroenke could be helping to takeover a football club.
He has a son Josh who is a non exec director at Arsenal and also has ownership of a couple of American sports franchises.
I've ruled him out because of his Arsenal connections and possible conflicts of interest, but then I noticed that his mothers name is Ann Walton Kroenke. She's a member of the Walton family, the richest family in the world who own Wal-Mart     who in turn own Asda.
I haven't checked if they have any sporting business interests, but as the name hasn't been put out there I thought I'd throw the Waltons into the mix.
You heard it here first The Waltons are coming.
And if any of you pooh pooh me I'll go to TBAR with it, they'll take me seriously.

Either that or we've just won Dusty Bin.

[brian green]

If I were a bookie I would go Evens Randy stays 5/4 an American owner or consortium of owners, 5/2 Asian owners, 7/2 Russian owners, 10/1 European owners (excluding Russia) 33/1 British (born) owners - by this time next year.

[brian green]

Middle East counts as Asia.

[nigel]

Was told today, by two different sources, that the deal has been done, but the new owner doesn't want it announced until after the window is shut so as not to have clubs inflate their transfers.
The players coming in are being funded by the new owner.

Might be BS, but worth posting. We'll see at midnight tomorrow 

[OCD]

If it was true, it would be more interesting to see who would come in tomorrow which it will be anyway.

[john e]

I bet Randy won't have us up for sale when we win the league
He'll be having Champions 2014/15 tatooed on his leg and basking in reflected glory with his Yankee Doodle mates rather than bunking up with his shumanite women friends

Only a matter of time

[Richard E]

Middle East counts as Asia.

What about Turkey?