The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[johnny from donny]

what is Tbar?

It's where us Yorkshire folk to get served with our beer when we're at t'pub

[silhillvilla]

Lads, lads



Laaaads !

[clash city rocker]

I am so depressed that I am going to dust off 'welcome to the pleasure dome ' get out a bottle of Rioja and remember that balmy night in rotterdam.

[olaftab]

Can I just ask: how much time do some people have on their hands?!?

I don't have time on my hands. I have lines and some early signs of wrinkles.

[Percy McCarthy]

If it's Bob Rich, will TBAR be giving credit to ADMIN for getting the first name right?

[dave.woodhall]

If it's Bob Rich, will TBAR be giving credit to ADMIN for getting the first name right?

Or if it's Ray Ranson.

[adrenachrome]

From an an article in the Birmingham Mail which I have posted in the PL thread:

Despite rumours to the contrary, Lambert insists Lerner only put the club on the market last week when he made an announcement revealing his intentions.

And the 44-year-old Glaswegian admits there is no prospect of an imminent sale, nor is there a timeframe on how long it will take to find a buyer.

“Now people understand the situation,” said Lambert.

“There’s nothing imminent there. If there was something imminent there then it’s a bit different, but there’s nothing there.

“How long it takes to sell a football club, I don’t know.

“It’s only been up for sale a week or so since the statement came out.

“It’s not as if you’re selling a car or a house. You’re selling something that’s incredible really.

“I don’t know how quick these things happen. My job is to make this club the best it can be while I’m here in a division where you need to spend one hell of a lot of money to stand still.”

[pauliewalnuts]

If that was true, that it really has only been a week, then why on earth make a song and dance of announcing it, and making yourself look desperate to sell?

He's spent eight years not saying things to the fans, why would he stop being that way now?

[Jimbo]

He couldn't put the club up for sale until last week, as he was so engrossed in making a pig's ear of running it. And credit where it's due, he's done that job almost faultlessly. Looks like there's a bit more to come, too.

[pauliewalnuts]

Indeed

Just when you think you've seen a man at the absolute top of his game (his game being stupidity), he goes and exceeds himself.

At this point I'd take someone who didn't even have that much money or a willingness to fritter it away on us, just so long as they were grown ups and knew what they were doing.

[adrenachrome]

At a stretch, it could be that RL let it be known that he was open to offers a year ago but only went public and engaged the legals and banksters last week.   

[tomd2103]

Liar, liar pants on fire. That is all.

Unless it's a nose or a bitter on a wind up, you have to wonder what people get out of posting stuff like that.   

[OzVilla]

If that was true, that it really has only been a week, then why on earth make a song and dance of announcing it, and making yourself look desperate to sell?

He's spent eight years not saying things to the fans, why would he stop being that way now?

If that's true we are finding ourselves in potentially a nightmare situation. 

I know Randy has made some mistakes but I did give him some credibility that the clubs sale was at the very least being advanced behind closed doors well prior to such an announcement and it was in effect purely a prelude to a sale.

If he literally put the statement out and then picked up the phone to his corporate broker then we could be in deep, deep shit if we want to see any action this Summer in the transfer market.

Strangely, unbelievable and quite believable at the same time with this mob.

[Malandro]

Liar, liar pants on fire. That is all.

Unless it's a nose or a bitter on a wind up, you have to wonder what people get out of posting stuff like that.   

[Matt Collins]

I might take a year off football to be honest

After the World Cup of course