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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #15 on: May 07, 2015, 01:42:02 PM »
2015's Ray Ranson, with added bonkers.

Actually that is unfair, as Ranson was a proven businessman.

Maybe this years Michael Neville.
« Last Edit: May 07, 2015, 01:44:37 PM by aev »

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #16 on: May 07, 2015, 01:42:57 PM »
Nice troll! What's next, Robbie Savage as DOF? Paul Tait as PR man? Ally Brown as tackling coach?

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #17 on: May 07, 2015, 01:43:18 PM »
I'd imagine in the future this will be spoken about in various pubs 'Remember when Tony Adams was rumoured to take over the Villa?'

Sounds a shit idea and I doubt there's any legs in it.

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #18 on: May 07, 2015, 01:45:43 PM »
Nice troll! What's next, Robbie Savage as DOF? Paul Tait as PR man? Ally Brown as tackling coach?

Steve Hodge as Fan Liason Manager.

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #19 on: May 07, 2015, 01:51:04 PM »
Ex con ain't he? He'd fail the Fit 'n' Proper Person test

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #21 on: May 07, 2015, 01:53:55 PM »
The former Arsenal and England footballer Tony Adams has approached City investors about backing a £150m takeover of Aston Villa, the struggling Premier League club.

Sky News has learnt that Mr Adams has been working with Paul Smith, a former executive at Chelsea FC and IMG, the sports rights agency, on a possible bid.

They have approached a number of private equity and other investment firms in recent weeks in an effort to raise approximately £75m in new equity to finance an offer for Aston Villa.

The remainder of the funding for a takeover would probably be in the form of new debt, with a unit of Goldman Sachs understood to have been sounded out about providing the additional capital.

Mr Adams and Mr Smith are said to have formed a new company called Halo which they intend to use as a vehicle to acquire Aston Villa and minority stakes in other leading football clubs.

One City source said on Thursday that Portugal's Sporting Lisbon and Italy's Internazionale were among the other clubs in which Halo was likely to express an interest.

Brazil and Belgium are also among the national leagues that the vehicle was assessing, with Mr Adams and Mr Smith interested in establishing an international network that would create "a long supply chain of playing talent", a source said.

It is unclear whether they have yet secured financial backing for their plans.

Aston Villa has effectively been up for sale for more than a year, with Randy Lerner, the American tycoon who bought it for just over £60m in 2006, keen to offload it.

Mr Lerner has ploughed tens of millions of pounds into the West Midlands club, with some initial success in the form of several top six Premier League finishes.

However, recent seasons have seen Aston Villa reverting to a persistent battle against relegation.

Last year, Mr Lerner appointed Bank of America Merrill Lynch, to handle an auction of Aston Villa, and dozens of parties are since said to have lodged an interest.

Halo has been given access to a data room holding information on Aston Villa's finances, although its bid is not understood to be the current frontrunner of those remaining in the process, sources indicated on Thursday.

Mr Lerner's advisers will wait until Aston Villa's Premier League fate is resolved before holding further serious talks with any of the remaining potential buyers, who also include at least one US-based consortium, according to insiders.

The club currently stand 14th in the table but are only two points clear of the relegation zone with three games left.

Relegation from English football's top flight could have a profound impact on the value of Aston Villa, partly because a new £5bn-plus television rights deal (partly funded by Sky plc, the owner of Sky News) is due to begin in the 2016-17 season.

Regarded as one of Arsenal's best-ever players, Mr Adams has since had an indifferent stint in football management, initially with Wycombe Wanderers and more recently in Azerbaijan.

Coincidentally, Arsenal and Aston Villa will meet later this month in the FA Cup Final at Wembley.

Neither Mr Adams nor Mr Smith could be reached for comment, while BAML declined to comment.

Aston Villa is not the only Premier League club expected to change hands in the next few months.

Crystal Palace has been discussing a capital injection led by a group of wealthy Wall Street financiers, while Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers have also been linked with potential takeovers

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #22 on: May 07, 2015, 01:56:25 PM »
Sounds exactly what we need, a consortium that can't even raise the asking price.

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They have approached a number of private equity and other investment firms in recent weeks in an effort to raise approximately £75m in new equity to finance an offer for Aston Villa.

The remainder of the funding for a takeover would probably be in the form of new debt, with a unit of Goldman Sachs understood to have been sounded out about providing the additional capital.

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #23 on: May 07, 2015, 01:58:55 PM »
Inter Milan and Sporting Lisbon too, eh?

Tony Adams has a very vivid imagination.

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #24 on: May 07, 2015, 02:00:28 PM »
Remember that time he pretended to he could play the piano and liked poetry and reading books ?

Caprice feel for it, so fair play to him.

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #25 on: May 07, 2015, 02:03:00 PM »
Who would fund the transfers if they can't even raise the initial fee?

This is ludicrous.

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #26 on: May 07, 2015, 02:04:54 PM »
He reminds me a bit of Russell Brand and Paul Elliott in that whenever he speaks he insists on using long complicated words, and everything is so incredibly convoluted.

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #27 on: May 07, 2015, 02:06:02 PM »
Buy us, and whack us straight into £75m debt. What a fantastic business plan.

My first thought was, Mr Arsenal trying to unsettle the club a few weeks before the final. Then I remembered it's Tony Adams and he isn't smart enough to think of that.

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #28 on: May 07, 2015, 02:06:05 PM »
Sounds exactly what we need, a consortium that can't even raise the asking price.

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They have approached a number of private equity and other investment firms in recent weeks in an effort to raise approximately £75m in new equity to finance an offer for Aston Villa.

The remainder of the funding for a takeover would probably be in the form of new debt, with a unit of Goldman Sachs understood to have been sounded out about providing the additional capital.

That'd be supremely unlucky.

1. Tony Adams is an absolute bell-end. No need even for the usual "I'll see what he does here first before I make a judgment" thing, he's a grade A twat.

2. Him running us would be bad enough, but doing it via loading the club with debt would be the supreme kick in the bollocks.

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Re: Tony Adams Fronted Takeover
« Reply #29 on: May 07, 2015, 02:07:09 PM »
He reminds me a bit of Russell Brand and Paul Elliott in that whenever he speaks he insists on using long complicated words, and everything is so incredibly convoluted.

"Well, in that case, Mr Adams, I hope you will not object if I also offer you my most enthusiastic contrafibularities."

 


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