The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[mr underhill]

Barchester Towers

[Damo70]

I like it when rumoured new owners come with a rumoured new manager in one neat package.

[Olneythelonely]

The greatest trick the Inner Clique ever pulled was convincing the world it didn't exist. And like that, poof.

Graham Norton's in?

Really?

[not3bad]

This week MOMS (My Old Man Said) has heard on the grapevine that a) the buyers may be present at the Hull City game, and b) a journalist claims to be in touch with the actual buyer.

[Monty]

This week MOMS (My Old Man Said) has heard on the grapevine that a) the buyers may be present at the Hull City game, and b) a journalist claims to be in touch with the actual buyer.

Yes but which 'journalist'? That's what I want to know.

[Ads]

Does anybody else get that 1970/80's "Charlie says..." safety advert in their head when they read anything to do with My Old Man Said?

[silhillvilla]

This week MOMS (My Old Man Said) has heard on the grapevine that a) the buyers may be present at the Hull City game, and b) a journalist claims to be in touch with the actual buyer.

Yes but which 'journalist'? That's what I want to know.

Roger Melly

[damon loves JT]

Marje Proops

[Monty]

'Hello, good evening and bollocks.'

[Ads]

Its all nothing more than wishful thinking.

We're going to be in a right jam come next season with Lambert still in charge and Lerner even less interested than he was before, having made known he wants out, with nobody wanting in.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Shit! Anybody seen Ads pills?

[Richard E]

This week MOMS (My Old Man Said) has heard on the grapevine that a) the buyers may be present at the Hull City game, and b) a journalist claims to be in touch with the actual buyer.

Yes but which 'journalist'? That's what I want to know.

Just think how much more straightforward it would make things if the answer to that question was "Damon Green" (being the journalist, not the new owner.)

[damon loves JT]

I have to say, if his big announcement is that he is instructing such-and-such a firm of consultants to seek investors, I will be massively underwhelmed

[paul_e]

How many times have we had mysterious buyers just waiting to instil Klinsmann or someone of his ilk as manager?

I'm pretty sure Klinsmann was linked pre-MON too. From what I see and read he seems to enjoy the California air and lifestyle in the US. Plus aside from his name as a player, I don't know what he's capable of as a club manager. That and a lot of the achievements of that WC run for Germany have been credited to Low's tactical nous moreso than Klinsmann.

He has indeed showed no desire to swap the sunny climes of SoCal for admittedly drizzlier B6.

I also agree completely on the latter point. He likes all the right things - passing football, bringing through young players - and was a brilliant figurehead for the home World Cup, but actual tactical implementation was really Loew's area, and he's continued to show this. Not that Klinsmann's necessarily useless, but he's not as good as Loew.

I disagree in so much as what Klinnsmann did well was have the right attitude to the game and the players he wanted to work with and then know that he needed help to make the best of that vision.

[Dante Lavelli]

I have to say, if his big announcement is that he is instructing such-and-such a firm of consultants to seek investors, I will be massively underwhelmed

Yeah, but imagine how many extra season tickets where shifted on the back of his vague statement.  He never asked for the speculation so it's hard to grummble too much if that was his motivation.