The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[Louzie0]

Or shellsea

[Villatillidie1982]

One of my neighbours came home all excited about a JP McManus bid for the club. Apparently he was responsible for getting Roy Keane in. Will Sir Alex be taking over as manager? Do we want anyone from Man Utd running our club? Keane might shake things up a bit.

[Louzie0]

One of my neighbours came home all excited about a JP McManus bid for the club. Apparently he was responsible for getting Roy Keane in. Will Sir Alex be taking over as manager? Do we want anyone from Man Utd running our club? Keane might shake things up a bit.

Gosh, yes he might but then again, he might not.

[LeeB]

So does bidding for the club give you recruitment rights? I might chuck a bid in and demand Ads is restored immediately, if only to fuck up his honeymoon.

[Dante Lavelli]

This quote from Joe Cole is odd/interesting.  With our media people presumably telling the players what the 'message' it seems out of synch with the silence we're hearing elsewhere as it suggests some sort of clarity exists on what the future holds.  If taken on face value, exactly how do you imagine the conversation about the future went?  Why dwell on the future when the reality seems there is next to zero certainty about what is going on.

“This is a massive club and there’s a massive opportunity for the club to push on. That was the main factor.
 
"I spoke to the gaffer and we have similar views on football. He didn’t need to sell the club but he explained what the view is for the future and, like I said, that was the main thing. When I spoke to the manager I knew I’d be signing.”

[ozzjim]

Got to say I found that comment extremely weird.

[Dante Lavelli]

Got to say I found that comment extremely weird.

I don't know the format of these unveilings, but If it was an actual conversation with journalists then you'd expect the journalists to politely encourage Joe Cole to dig a hole for himself.  Alternatively if it's a written press release then surely they could have come up with something equally fluffy which did not imply some certainty about our future.   ...Unless takeovers are the way of selling season tickets.

[MyDadIsBiggerThanYourDad]

Joe Cole has the potential to easily be the most talented & exciting English Premier league player. That latent potential will always remain provided he is given the right environment to prosper. PL has obviously told Joe that he will be deployed as our attacking Central Midfielder for next season so hopefully for our benefits Joe will finally show us all what he can do.

Welcome to VP Joe & I hope your super skills can get the Holte End rocking.

Who knows? Villa Park might just be your perfect fit.

[LeeB]

You've not sold me on the potential of the lad.

[Chris Jameson]

Joe Cole has the potential to easily be the most talented & exciting English Premier league player.

Has?

[pauliewalnuts]

This quote from Joe Cole is odd/interesting.  With our media people presumably telling the players what the 'message' it seems out of synch with the silence we're hearing elsewhere as it suggests some sort of clarity exists on what the future holds.  If taken on face value, exactly how do you imagine the conversation about the future went?  Why dwell on the future when the reality seems there is next to zero certainty about what is going on.

“This is a massive club and there’s a massive opportunity for the club to push on. That was the main factor.

The massive opportunity to push on thing really could just mean we were so shit last season, anyone of 14 places higher up the league would mean pushing on?

[sirlordbaltimore]

Joe Cole has the potential to easily be the most talented & exciting English Premier league player.

Has?

I was just thinking exactly the same thing. Has ?

Had, possibly. MANY moons ago

[brian green]

I also find that statement disturbingly meaningless.   It's either that the club has a policy of propagandizing everything which comes out of the club to generate a business as usual image to potential buyers or alternatively nobody at the club, including the owner, knows what is going on and they are making it up as they go.   It reminds me of a Mike Leigh play.   The principals have their roles but can say what they like.

[mr underhill]

yes its Mike's new play called Randy's Party, but without any of the comedy of Abigail's Party, leaving just the satire of an insanely inept American  boldly leaving the Shunamites to ape the manners, aspirations and social mores of the truly mega wealthy by buying an English football club whose proud tradition, pomp and circumstance acts as a metaphor for the decline of the British Empire,  with a strident punk soundtrack of existentialist angst replacing the benign smoothness of Demi Roussos.

[bertlambshank]

Beckham has been knocked back with his Miami stadium plans.
How much is he worth again?