What was Cortese's motivation...

[Singapore Saint]

The Echo published a large article in which they interviewed Nicola Cortese about the takeover and how he convinced ML to do the deal etc, but does anyone know why or how Nicola Cortese got interested himself? What pushed his buttons? What (or who) motivated him to get involved and to embark on the aforementioned task of engaging ML?

 

In his interview he said "When this opportunity to acquire Southampton came along to me I immediately thought about Markus". How did the opportunity come to a Director of Banque Heritage in Geneva?

 

Maybe he is just a student of all things football and saw it in the press - or maybe he has links with somebody currently or previously involved with SFC? Was Andy Oldknow perhaps?

 

Any clues welcome.

 

Maybe he thought it would be a good way to get to know Lucy Pinder.

[kpturner]

Maybe he thought it would be a good way to get to know Lucy Pinder.

 

At last! A feasible explanation. I would, but I doubt she would. Shame she has a deeper voice than Frank Bruno

[St_Tel49]

Makus states that he is not a football expert but a fan, basically the attraction was the professional set up , Ground , Training facilities and excellent youth development system. The fact that he had been linked in the past to other club the purchase of but obviously did not have the infa-structure of SFC and that the price was correct , a modest investment with potential , and if I am right in translating in another newspaper he has been aware of SFc for long time , or it could be it has taken long time , without actually listening to his actual conversation it is difficult to get the gist of his meaning

So not everything Lowe did was bad ;-)