Wow!!!!!!! Never been itk til now !! Just had a 15 min conversation with Keith Harris in my cab. As open as he could be. Main points were;
RD very difficult man to deal with. Obstinate and refusing to put any more money in
Price agreed but structure of payment (Gomez / Lookman sell ons etc)
Aussies still include Andrew Muir as main consortium member
Aussies will be good for us if they can get it over the line
No other bidders as far as he’s aware
LdT is a nice guy but is RDs man and is working on his behalf hence the comment re the Aussies having some explaining to do when it’s all over is bollox. All down to RD and his stubbornness
(dont shoot the messenger) he said it’s very close. He even hinted at the dreaded “2 weeks”
Aussies not worried about timing of purchase I.e. they wouldn’t wait til end of season just cos transfer window closed
Everything seems in line with as per @JamesSeed has reported. He now tops my itk list of credibility
I don't buy this sell on clause stuff tbh, normally a sell on is on profit, not transfer fee.
Cousins zero sell on fee, let alone profit.
Lookman may go soon for about 20 million, so £10 million profit, even at 10% that's only £1 million. Or he might stay at Everton for the duration of his contact and walk.
Pope all the time he is 3rd choice at Burnley maybe 10 at a push, more likely to walk on a bosman at the end of his contract.
JBG see Pope
Gomes will either stay at Liverpool or go to city, barca or Madrid, they won't sell him to United, for 100 plus million, then again could see out his contract and walk on a free. Even if its a 20% sell on RD has lost nearly all that amount since the take over was first rumoured.
If it was all about sell ons RD would have sorted that out ages ago, cash up front discounted as we did with Bent.
I think you may be confusing two things. You can borrow against future payments, so for example if the Darren Bent fee was payable in instalments the club could get someone to lend against the guaranteed future income to support current cash flow.
Add-ons are by definition unpredictable and sell-ons are the least reliable of all. It may be possible to buy them out, but it would be at a significant discount.
So Harris said price is agreed, just structure of payments (Gomez, Lookman sell ons etc), to be agreed. Cut through it all and that simply says to me that price is still not agreed.
So Harris said price is agreed, just structure of payments (Gomez, Lookman sell ons etc), to be agreed. Cut through it all and that simply says to me that price is still not agreed.
That’s what I was thinking. It’s the total amount of dosh that goes into Roland’s pocket that still hasn’t been agreed, it looks like.
Wow!!!!!!! Never been itk til now !! Just had a 15 min conversation with Keith Harris in my cab. As open as he could be. Main points were;
RD very difficult man to deal with. Obstinate and refusing to put any more money in
Price agreed but structure of payment (Gomez / Lookman sell ons etc)
Aussies still include Andrew Muir as main consortium member
Aussies will be good for us if they can get it over the line
No other bidders as far as he’s aware
LdT is a nice guy but is RDs man and is working on his behalf hence the comment re the Aussies having some explaining to do when it’s all over is bollox. All down to RD and his stubbornness
(dont shoot the messenger) he said it’s very close. He even hinted at the dreaded “2 weeks”
Aussies not worried about timing of purchase I.e. they wouldn’t wait til end of season just cos transfer window closed
Everything seems in line with as per @JamesSeed has reported. He now tops my itk list of credibility
So Harris said price is agreed, just structure of payments (Gomez, Lookman sell ons etc), to be agreed. Cut through it all and that simply says to me that price is still not agreed.
Did we not change the "sell on/add on" deal for Gomez & got another payment.....or was that for another player (Jenkinson ?). I'm sure I remember Richard Murray telling us at a Bromley Addicks meeting....
I am sure I read Toffees turned down £30m for Lookman. Gomez must be £60m+, JBG and Pope £15m each plus minor players. 25% of £120m+ almost pays for RD's cock-ups.
25%? Really hope it’s nowhere near that much. @Airman Brown ?
Wow!!!!!!! Never been itk til now !! Just had a 15 min conversation with Keith Harris in my cab. As open as he could be. Main points were;
RD very difficult man to deal with. Obstinate and refusing to put any more money in
Price agreed but structure of payment (Gomez / Lookman sell ons etc)
Aussies still include Andrew Muir as main consortium member
Aussies will be good for us if they can get it over the line
No other bidders as far as he’s aware
LdT is a nice guy but is RDs man and is working on his behalf hence the comment re the Aussies having some explaining to do when it’s all over is bollox. All down to RD and his stubbornness
(dont shoot the messenger) he said it’s very close. He even hinted at the dreaded “2 weeks”
Aussies not worried about timing of purchase I.e. they wouldn’t wait til end of season just cos transfer window closed
Everything seems in line with as per @JamesSeed has reported. He now tops my itk list of credibility
This is the true RD the stubborn mean vindictive spiteful cold heartless bastd that made him a billionaire
NLA, well that's two of us who think he is getting perverse pleasure out of the situation. Other CL members don't. TBF they are intelligent fans(in some cases !) who go home and away. Why didn't he get rid otherwise when his muse left for 25 to 30 million which was apparently on the table with some small negotiations on monies owed to ex directors which must happen at other football club as well when they are being sold.
Duchatelet couldn't have got where he is today (net worth 500 million) if he didn't know when to buy and sell and cut your losses when need be and move on.
I smell a Rat.
Have either of you two met him? I don't believe he gets real pleasure out of anything. He just doesn't want to be seen to have failed.
Then why is restoring us to The Championship, where we were when he purchased, not a priority?
Keith Harris ventriloquist died in 2015 RIP, isn't it time to cut out the jokes.
Too soon?
I’m getting nostalgic for the days of innocent fish puns and pot noodle references. Those were the dace!
Some people felt your tales of chats with Gerald Mackerel were full of Red herrings, but I trawled back over your posts and knew that you should be let off the hook. We have become minnows under Roach Ducatfishelet and I have no bone to pick with you. Our net worth is low, and we are now rodderless, how we will fill it when we are stuck between a rock and a hard plaice is off the scale. The longer we flounder, us the fins are becoming eel and losing our sole. I'm Dory to sink so low and please cod let it end but what these 1520 pages sum up for me is.
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
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Add-ons are by definition unpredictable and sell-ons are the least reliable of all. It may be possible to buy them out, but it would be at a significant discount.
Only kidding @Taxi_Lad obv.
@Airman Brown ?
Those were the dace!
We have become minnows under Roach Ducatfishelet and I have no bone to pick with you.
Our net worth is low, and we are now rodderless, how we will fill it when we are stuck between a rock and a hard plaice is off the scale.
The longer we flounder, us the fins are becoming eel and losing our sole.
I'm Dory to sink so low and please cod let it end but what these 1520 pages sum up for me is.
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
"It'll go through once Roland's hero Alan Turing wins greatest person of the 20th century"
Fits with Taxi_Lad's guarantee that it'll be done within 2 weeks.