The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[Clark W Griswold]

I suppose the time to worry is if he comes out on the pitch in his kit kicking the ball about on the pitch. Sure I've seen that somewhere before.

[DeKuip]

To be honest I've not heard of that guy before yesterday. What was his involvement at Reading?

http://www.gudavadze.com/court.news.christopher-samuelson-denies-money-laundering-allegations.html

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This guy actually has a company that does something. He may well be dodgy, Man City's slave owning human rights abusers are dodgy. Abramovich is dodgy. Rich people, unless they're nerdy virgins from Silicon Valley, tend to be a bit dodgy.

That's said, if he ever does appear in Court, I doubt he'll be telling the trial Judge that he made his wealth cutting hair and being a bit lucky at the tables.

If his firm has been involved in the mass urbanisation programme, then you'd expect them to have made some money and broken up a few lives as well in the process.

[ClaretAndBlueBlood]

if there is anything dodgy going on, we can trust the football league to block the takeover, cant we? :-)

[UK Redsox]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-england-avl-sale-recon-idUKKCN0YA0W5

The Chinese magnate who has agreed to buy English football club Aston Villa has said the final purchase price for the club would range between 75 million pounds and more than 100 million pounds, depending on how the club performs next season.

Recon Group chairman Xia Jiantong told Reuters that he will pay at the upper end of the price range if the club immediately returns to the English Premier League next season. A failure to gain promotion could see the purchase price as low as 75 million pounds, he said.

[Jimbo]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-england-avl-sale-recon-idUKKCN0YA0W5

The Chinese magnate who has agreed to buy English football club Aston Villa has said the final purchase price for the club would range between 75 million pounds and more than 100 million pounds, depending on how the club performs next season.

Recon Group chairman Xia Jiantong told Reuters that he will pay at the upper end of the price range if the club immediately returns to the English Premier League next season. A failure to gain promotion could see the purchase price as low as 75 million pounds, he said.

Also...

"Xia said he will spend between 30 and 40 million pounds on new players for the upcoming season, and will announce a new club manager in the next two to three weeks."

[DaveD]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-england-avl-sale-recon-idUKKCN0YA0W5

The Chinese magnate who has agreed to buy English football club Aston Villa has said the final purchase price for the club would range between 75 million pounds and more than 100 million pounds, depending on how the club performs next season.

Recon Group chairman Xia Jiantong told Reuters that he will pay at the upper end of the price range if the club immediately returns to the English Premier League next season. A failure to gain promotion could see the purchase price as low as 75 million pounds, he said.

Also...

"Xia said he will spend between 30 and 40 million pounds on new players for the upcoming season, and will announce a new club manager in the next two to three weeks."

Well let's hope we spend it more wisely than last summer.

[Villa in Denmark]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-england-avl-sale-recon-idUKKCN0YA0W5

The Chinese magnate who has agreed to buy English football club Aston Villa has said the final purchase price for the club would range between 75 million pounds and more than 100 million pounds, depending on how the club performs next season.

Recon Group chairman Xia Jiantong told Reuters that he will pay at the upper end of the price range if the club immediately returns to the English Premier League next season. A failure to gain promotion could see the purchase price as low as 75 million pounds, he said.

Also...

"Xia said he will spend between 30 and 40 million pounds on new players for the upcoming season, and will announce a new club manager in the next two to three weeks."

The splashing around how much he's going to spend doesn't bode well.

Has anyone ever made one of the statements and actually done it.  Apart from which the first rule of negotiating is don't let the other side know your budget.  Might be over reacting, but it doesn't feel like the actions of some master businessman.

In fact it sounds very reminiscent of a certain hairdresser a few years ago.

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Says he also wants to buy other clubs in Spain, China etc.

Looks to be currying favour with the government.

[Duncan Shaw]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-england-avl-sale-recon-idUKKCN0YA0W5

The Chinese magnate who has agreed to buy English football club Aston Villa has said the final purchase price for the club would range between 75 million pounds and more than 100 million pounds, depending on how the club performs next season.

Recon Group chairman Xia Jiantong told Reuters that he will pay at the upper end of the price range if the club immediately returns to the English Premier League next season. A failure to gain promotion could see the purchase price as low as 75 million pounds, he said.

Also...

"Xia said he will spend between 30 and 40 million pounds on new players for the upcoming season, and will announce a new club manager in the next two to three weeks."

The splashing around how much he's going to spend doesn't bode well.

Has anyone ever made one of the statements and actually done it.  Apart from which the first rule of negotiating is don't let the other side know your budget.  Might be over reacting, but it doesn't feel like the actions of some master businessman.

In fact it sounds very reminiscent of a certain hairdresser a few years ago.

And it's an article with no direct quotes or credit to from the original interview "in Beijing"

[OzVilla]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-england-avl-sale-recon-idUKKCN0YA0W5

The Chinese magnate who has agreed to buy English football club Aston Villa has said the final purchase price for the club would range between 75 million pounds and more than 100 million pounds, depending on how the club performs next season.

Recon Group chairman Xia Jiantong told Reuters that he will pay at the upper end of the price range if the club immediately returns to the English Premier League next season. A failure to gain promotion could see the purchase price as low as 75 million pounds, he said.

Also...

"Xia said he will spend between 30 and 40 million pounds on new players for the upcoming season, and will announce a new club manager in the next two to three weeks."

Sorry but that's almost word for word what Carson Yeung said when he bought Blose.

[pbavfckuwait]

Money Laundering, well as long as they launder enough for us to get Messi, I will be able to forgive them.

[maigrait]

Taylor on sky sports about it. Just his opinion...

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/10287670/taylor-positive-on-villa-takeover

Although have the say the bloke is a legend - loves the villa... hope he stays involved in some way in the club.

[lordmcgrath5]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-england-avl-sale-recon-idUKKCN0YA0W5

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Also...

"Xia said he will spend between 30 and 40 million pounds on new players for the upcoming season, and will announce a new club manager in the next two to three weeks."

Sorry but that's almost word for word what Carson Yeung said when he bought Blose.

Yep, that's how I remember their takeover as well. Not sure at all about this, very much hope to be proved wrong.

[PaulWinch again]

Thing is ultimately we don't know do we. It won't be until we start seeing some action that we'll be able to draw some proper conclusions. It's all speculation at the moment.