I personally think the whole Aussie thing was a load of bollocks. I heard their plans first hand and it was a lot of mush.
See their website is still up so I'm guessing they are going to court some other poor 'down on its arse' club. After all they do appear to be a 'rent-a-consortium' that come to the aid of mad owners looking to generate some interest in their lead balloons.
They'll be flying cars before this shower manage to get their hands on a British football club.
I personally think the whole Aussie thing was a load of bollocks. I heard their plans first hand and it was a lot of mush.
See their website is still up so I'm guessing they are going to court some other poor 'down on its arse' club. After all they do appear to be a 'rent-a-consortium' that come to the aid of mad owners looking to generate some interest in their lead balloons.
They'll be flying cars before this shower manage to get their hands on a British football club.
Will the Aussies be dragging Roly through the courts? JS used to bang on about how much they had spent money and time wise in the pursuit and citing that as the reason for them not walking.
If a house sale falls through can you sue the owner for costs of surveys? I doubt it.
Especially if you tried to pull an offer at the last moment and lowball the seller.
If you exchange contracts on a house sale and the owner changes terms, you have every right to pursue him or her for damages, through the courts if necessary.
I don't suppose @carly burn was being literal in his post, but, unless we knew all the details of all the negotiations between RD and the Aussies, we can't conclude that he doesn't have a case to answer.
@JamesSeed just a quick point of clarification. Are you saying that, and I recognise it’s to the best of your knowledge, the Australians are now out completely or just the potential US investment?
@JamesSeed have you had it confirmed from GM they've dropped out? Feel like you said it was from a non-Aussie source. Guess I've foolishly still got a glimmer of hope until it's from the horses mouth
The Aussies are out, and I’ve just heard the yanks are too. Apparently Roland is impossible to deal with, although @eaststandmike thinks he isn’t, which is interesting?
Sorry @Addicktion can’t comment on sources at the moment. I will tell you in person, but it’ll cost you a pint.
I did not say RD was not difficult to deal with, I was merely indicating if the Aussies or the Yanks were as keen to buy us as alluded too on here the hurdles would have been got over.
Millions of deals around the world take place every day from playgrounds to board rooms. The seller wants as much as he can get and the buyer wants to pay as little as possible. If the buyer wants the item badly enough a deal will be reached.
I would love to be proved wrong but I think the Aussies were on a "fishing" trip and never had the funds to barter with, as for the Yanks I have no idea but the silence was and is golden.
@JamesSeed just a quick point of clarification. Are you saying that, and I recognise it’s to the best of your knowledge, the Australians are now out completely or just the potential US investment?
@JamesSeed have you had it confirmed from GM they've dropped out? Feel like you said it was from a non-Aussie source. Guess I've foolishly still got a glimmer of hope until it's from the horses mouth
The Aussies are out, and I’ve just heard the yanks are too. Apparently Roland is impossible to deal with, although @eaststandmike thinks he isn’t, which is interesting?
Sorry @Addicktion can’t comment on sources at the moment. I will tell you in person, but it’ll cost you a pint.
I did not say RD was not difficult to deal with, I was merely indicating if the Aussies or the Yanks were as keen to buy us as alluded too on here the hurdles would have been got over.
Millions of deals around the world take place every day from playgrounds to board rooms. The seller wants as much as he can get and the buyer wants to pay as little as possible. If the buyer wants the item badly enough a deal will be reached.
I would love to be proved wrong but I think the Aussies were on a "fishing" trip and never had the funds to barter with, as for the Yanks I have no idea but the silence was and is golden.
Likewise if the owner wants to sell badly enough, a deal can be reached.
Drain on our servers, the productivity of our users and society in general. You should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself.
What a f‘ing insult on all the creativity that’s kept this thread top of the pops. And the pain and tears that’s ebbed and flowed since the infamous word of “imminent” fell into the CL lexicon of life as we once knew it. Who can ever forget the house analogy in calculating the sale of the club. I’m sure in years to come some dirty neck Student will write a thesis on this very subject to earn a top degree and then end up running the Bank of England. And what about the education on the many types of fish in our oceans? i could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on but I won’t. This thread is a font of all knowledge and worth every Gigabyte on your servers.
@JamesSeed just a quick point of clarification. Are you saying that, and I recognise it’s to the best of your knowledge, the Australians are now out completely or just the potential US investment?
@JamesSeed have you had it confirmed from GM they've dropped out? Feel like you said it was from a non-Aussie source. Guess I've foolishly still got a glimmer of hope until it's from the horses mouth
The Aussies are out, and I’ve just heard the yanks are too. Apparently Roland is impossible to deal with, although @eaststandmike thinks he isn’t, which is interesting?
Sorry @Addicktion can’t comment on sources at the moment. I will tell you in person, but it’ll cost you a pint.
I did not say RD was not difficult to deal with, I was merely indicating if the Aussies or the Yanks were as keen to buy us as alluded too on here the hurdles would have been got over.
Millions of deals around the world take place every day from playgrounds to board rooms. The seller wants as much as he can get and the buyer wants to pay as little as possible. If the buyer wants the item badly enough a deal will be reached.
I would love to be proved wrong but I think the Aussies were on a "fishing" trip and never had the funds to barter with, as for the Yanks I have no idea but the silence was and is golden.
Likewise if the owner wants to sell badly enough, a deal can be reached.
I think the seller is selling very badly. Certainly badly enough.
I think it’s fair to say RD was always sceptical about the Aussies - he made that clear - but even if they might have been useful to him, the idea that he or people working for him planted the stories about them is laughable. Apart from anything else Gerard Murphy spoke directly to journalists on multiple occasions to my knowledge, so did Keith Harris. There were numerous process leaks that didn’t come from The Valley or anyone with an interest in putting out lines for RD.
The fact they never went away - and indeed appeared to get close to a deal - was down to GM, who was fronting a shifting consortium of investors. Andrew Muir was his credible constant.
Whether GM would have delivered a stable ownership is an open question, but the fact RD has alienated a string of substantial potential buyers really removes it as an issue of interest. Ultimately none of the people who have wanted to buy the club have been able to get RD to co-operate with a deal.
Sooner or later he will probably find himself surveying the wreckage of what Bowyer has created and telling anyone who will listen that the latest failure is down to disloyalty, supporters, the EFL or possibly Brexit. In fact, it will be all his own work.
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I personally think the whole Aussie thing was a load of bollocks. I heard their plans first hand and it was a lot of mush.
See their website is still up so I'm guessing they are going to court some other poor 'down on its arse' club. After all they do appear to be a 'rent-a-consortium' that come to the aid of mad owners looking to generate some interest in their lead balloons.
They'll be flying cars before this shower manage to get their hands on a British football club.
I don't suppose @carly burn was being literal in his post, but, unless we knew all the details of all the negotiations between RD and the Aussies, we can't conclude that he doesn't have a case to answer.
Millions of deals around the world take place every day from playgrounds to board rooms. The seller wants as much as he can get and the buyer wants to pay as little as possible. If the buyer wants the item badly enough a deal will be reached.
I would love to be proved wrong but I think the Aussies were on a "fishing" trip and never had the funds to barter with, as for the Yanks I have no idea but the silence was and is golden.
Did they all not have the money?
Were they all on a fishing trip?
Or is it that Duchatelet is the problem, not the buyers?
And glasses for @Davo55
Certainly badly enough.
The fact they never went away - and indeed appeared to get close to a deal - was down to GM, who was fronting a shifting consortium of investors. Andrew Muir was his credible constant.
Whether GM would have delivered a stable ownership is an open question, but the fact RD has alienated a string of substantial potential buyers really removes it as an issue of interest. Ultimately none of the people who have wanted to buy the club have been able to get RD to co-operate with a deal.
Sooner or later he will probably find himself surveying the wreckage of what Bowyer has created and telling anyone who will listen that the latest failure is down to disloyalty, supporters, the EFL or possibly Brexit. In fact, it will be all his own work.