The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

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There are a lot of fans of a Saudi team where their chairman is fairly loaded (£600 million) and has dipped his hand in his pocket to buy players, while also being backed by one of the Saudi princes, talking about him being interested in an English club 12 months ago and now the talk amongst them is that it's the Villa. They've spent something likely half a billion in 8 years apparently, but I'm too lazy to look on Twitter for the name of the team or the blokes involved.

If it was a Saudi, then their sense of being top dogs amongst the Arabs would compel them to spend and beat the Man City upstarts into submission. which would be nice. And insane.

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If he has £600m, I doubt has has enough to buy us and player spend compete. Unless you are expecting him to put his entire fortune into Villa?

[Jarpie]

The Mirror reckons Randy is willing to drop the price to £150m for a quick sale and there are arabs interested.

Does Nursey have ITK information or just speculative guessing?

Guessing I'd say, I don't think any journalist, and I use that term very loosely when it comes to english tabloids, has any actual info about the takeover as I don't think even people in Villa knows anything except people at the very top.

If that saudi is buying Villa, it's been said that he's part of the consortium and that he is fronting very rich saudi prince.

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If he has £600m, I doubt has has enough to buy us and player spend compete. Unless you are expecting him to put his entire fortune into Villa?

That is the chairman's own personal wealth. The owners are Saudi Royals or some such malarkay.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Dan Jones - the fella from Deloitte who does their football report - was on Radio 4 this morning talking about Villa and Everton. He described them both as "perenial premiership clubs" and both with great tradition. He also said that whilst both clubs are up for sale, Kenwright seems determined to ensure that Everton go to the most suitable new owners, suggesting that Villa will be available to the highest bidder.

He's guessing, I'm sure, but the fact that 2 of England's finest teams are struggling to find a buyer is pretty worrying. At some point both owners will probably be glad to to offload their money pits to the first person who shows any interest. Scary thought.

[RussellC]

I know I'm biased, but I'm sure Villa's a much more attractive proposition to a potential buyer than Everton.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I know I'm biased, but I'm sure Villa's a much more attractive proposition to a potential buyer than Everton.

I agree. But to an unbiased buyer who looks at the current squad and management setup.....

[RussellC]

I know I'm biased, but I'm sure Villa's a much more attractive proposition to a potential buyer than Everton.

I agree. But to an unbiased buyer who looks at the current squad and management setup.....

True, but then you'd hope that they'd also look at the infrastructure of the club, the stadium, training ground, fact that we're the biggest club in our catchment area, etc. I can't really see any areas that would make Everton a more attractive proposition than us.

[LeeB]

I know I'm biased, but I'm sure Villa's a much more attractive proposition to a potential buyer than Everton.

I agree. But to an unbiased buyer who looks at the current squad and management setup.....

True, but then you'd hope that they'd also look at the infrastructure of the club, the stadium, training ground, fact that we're the biggest club in our catchment area, etc. I can't really see any areas that would make Everton a more attractive proposition than us.

It's also going to take a huge amount to make them better than they are now, which is patently not the case with us.

[Chris Smith]

Dan Jones - the fella from Deloitte who does their football report - was on Radio 4 this morning talking about Villa and Everton. He described them both as "perenial premiership clubs" and both with great tradition. He also said that whilst both clubs are up for sale, Kenwright seems determined to ensure that Everton go to the most suitable new owners, suggesting that Villa will be available to the highest bidder.

He's guessing, I'm sure, but the fact that 2 of England's finest teams are struggling to find a buyer is pretty worrying. At some point both owners will probably be glad to to offload their money pits to the first person who shows any interest. Scary thought.

I said this to a friend the other day, that although Lerner might start off with the right intentions the longer it goes without a sale the more temptation there will be to sell to anyone who meets the asking price.

Everton's problem is the lack of potential to expand the ground meaning to grow they will have to move, and that means big upfront costs to anyone looking to take them up a level.

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Everton are and will always be in Liverpool's shadow. We darken the sky for our neighbours.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Everton are and will always be in Liverpool's shadow.

We'd have probably said the same of Man City's relationship with United until the petro-dollars arrived a few years ago....

[DB]

Everton are and will always be in Liverpool's shadow. We darken the sky for our neighbours.

Man City were in the same position a few years ago. However, as someone stated, we are a more attractive buy than Everton.

[Dante Lavelli]

Everton are and will always be in Liverpool's shadow. We darken the sky for our neighbours.

Man City were in the same position a few years ago. However, as someone stated, we are a more attractive buy than Everton.

I read a rumour on here that they initially tried to buy Man U but their approaches were (rudely) rejected by the head honchos (probably Sir Booby).  As a result they bough Man City out of spite rather than them thinking they were necessarily 'the' team they needed to buy.

[Malandro]

can we use the orange dot for the takeover? All concentrate on it and we may get one of those self-important announcements on the OS