benjii Posted 10 August, 2019 Share Posted 10 August, 2019 It's because it's in Chinese and Google translate is not great. It's a website with .uk suffix about an English football team. The least the ****s could do is bother with a decent English version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 10 August, 2019 Share Posted 10 August, 2019 Has anyone established what the company actually does yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon3737 Posted 10 August, 2019 Share Posted 10 August, 2019 Has anyone established what the company actually does yet? Designs logos for football shirts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delmary Posted 27 June, 2020 Share Posted 27 June, 2020 (edited) http://ldsports.uk/about So are Saints actually owned by Lander Sports China? It does seem all too coincidental. As discussed previously, this all looks rather dodgy. Then there is the Chinese state ownership of Lander Sports China. Edited 27 June, 2020 by Delmary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 27 June, 2020 Share Posted 27 June, 2020 39 minutes ago, Delmary said: http://ldsports.uk/about So are Saints actually owned by Lander Sports China? It does seem all too coincidental. As discussed previously, this all looks rather dodgy. Then there is the Chinese state ownership of Lander Sports China. So from this link: Quote LDsports is a sports enterprise headquartered in Southampton, UK. Really ? Anyone know where this HQ is, or just a storage cupboard at St Mary's ? Quote In addition to Southampton headquarters,LDsports has opened a number of football training schools in the UK. Not one to my knowledge near Bristol, or Gloucestershire. Any other exiles around the country heard of any ? Quote In 2016, LDportsalso established branches in other European countries. In the process of development, some famous clubs, such as Southampton, Spaniard, Dortmund, Valencia, Frankfurt and so on, have established cooperative relations with Dsports. Wonder if anyone has told the good people of Dortmund, Frankfurt or Valencia about this. Seems as suspect as the Max Clifford Training Schools, but at least we knew they actually existed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint1977 Posted 27 June, 2020 Share Posted 27 June, 2020 34 minutes ago, Badger said: So from this link: Really ? Anyone know where this HQ is, or just a storage cupboard at St Mary's ? Not one to my knowledge near Bristol, or Gloucestershire. Any other exiles around the country heard of any ? Wonder if anyone has told the good people of Dortmund, Frankfurt or Valencia about this. Seems as suspect as the Max Clifford Training Schools, but at least we knew they actually existed. Saints SW have a training centre in Newton Abbot, and heard there is one in W Dorset, but pretty sure those were active and well advertised pre LD Sports. Whole thing bizarre but then Gao ownership has been very random and opaque. Who knows who actually owns it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 (edited) Any news on the legal action that the club took against LD Sports last year....? https://saintsmarching.com/2020/09/04/southampton-saints-chief-speaks-clubs-legal-action-ld-sports/ Speaking to the Athletic, Semmens said: “It’s important for our fans to know that we will pursue them to the end of the Earth until we get our money back but for this season, it was important that we found the right sponsor so we can move forward. “(Legal action is) not being considered. It’s already taken. It’s something we have to do. They have a contract with us. We have commitments, they have commitments, and everybody else around us has followed through on their commitments. We expected them to do the same.” All seems to have gone a tad quiet... it's almost as if LD Sports were never a real entity.... p.s. you'd have thought they would have updated their website by now... http://ldsports.uk/about p.p.s. no squirrel news either Edited 9 June, 2021 by trousers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wurzel Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 I'm intrigued by "“It’s important for our fans to know that we will pursue them to the end of the Earth until we get our money back" Get it back? Surely we weren't taken in so easily we gave them some? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Convict Colony Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 Dont think Semmens understands all contracts with chinese companies arent worth the paper they are written on. Look at the broadcast deal they flounced out of, look at the myriad of chinese firms taken public in the US for millions and its a bloke in a shed. All contractual, legal and criminal proceedings have a hard stop at the chinese border. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suhari Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 Have we had any squirrel updates? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roo1976 Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 the woman 2nd from left has since got an appointment with smile direct.........ill get me coat........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 1 hour ago, Convict Colony said: Dont think Semmens understands all contracts with chinese companies arent worth the paper they are written on. That's not always the case but it happens often enough. LD Sports always looked like a textbook sham company. This surely must have been obvious to the club. No one's really got to the bottom of why it was formed in the first place - but if it was to take money out of the club then maybe it's no longer a mystery. But how did they do this? And there's still another question about the links, if any, between LD Sorts and Gao. One thing's likely though - the club isn't going to see its money again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRM Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 It took some of our fans minutes to highlight concerns on this "multi million record breaking sponsorship deal" , deep down the club must have realised this wasn't going to end well. Perhaps Gao told them to sign the contract as he was in on it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 59 minutes ago, JRM said: It took some of our fans minutes to highlight concerns on this "multi million record breaking sponsorship deal" , deep down the club must have realised this wasn't going to end well. Perhaps Gao told them to sign the contract as he was in on it. Indeed, the whole thing stinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErwinK1961 Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 1 hour ago, JRM said: It took some of our fans minutes to highlight concerns on this "multi million record breaking sponsorship deal" , deep down the club must have realised this wasn't going to end well. Perhaps Gao told them to sign the contract as he was in on it. I can’t believe someone with the nous of Semmens would have been duped by this very obvious fake entity. Clearly something stank from the outset and I think you’re probably right, Gao forced this onto them and the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinSFC Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 This has to be hands down, the one thing that told me, as if I didn't know it already, was that something seriously stunk with Gao. Nothing will ever convince me this whole thing wasn't a load of shit from the start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 (edited) 3 minutes ago, JustinSFC said: This has to be hands down, the one thing that told me, as if I didn't know it already, was that something seriously stunk with Gao. Nothing will ever convince me this whole thing wasn't a load of shit from the start. I know there wasn't ever any evidence to link LD Sports with Gao, but it doesn't take a genius. I don't know what happened as Martin is a pretty switched on guy, could have been an attempt to create a cash vehicle to get money across...but it didn't work? No idea, but it will always be a very dirty bit of business we were involved in there. I refuse to believe that Gao had nothing to do with it. Edited 9 June, 2021 by S-Clarke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinSFC Posted 9 June, 2021 Share Posted 9 June, 2021 4 minutes ago, S-Clarke said: I know there wasn't ever any evidence to link LD Sports with Gao, but it doesn't take a genius. I don't know what happened as Martin is a pretty switched on guy, could have been an attempt to create a cash vehicle to get money across...but it didn't work? No idea, but it will always be a very dirty bit of business we were involved in there. I refuse to believe that Gao had nothing to do with it. If it was a vehicle and that's what I always thought aswell, then why didn't they just come out and say that? From what I can see, there's nothing inherently wrong with one of the owners companies sponsoring the club in some form. Ashley does it with SportsDirect. If they had said just said it, I'd have been ok with that. But the absolute bollocks they were coming out with, denying Gao had anything to do with it, with the LD in it, the rank amateur website and the club trying to pass that off to the fans, was contemptuous at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Far que Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 the clown show continues on and off field,no surprise really Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Give it to Ron Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 3 hours ago, Far que said: the clown show continues on and off field,no surprise really Close and Whatmough going you are a shambles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 1 hour ago, Give it to Ron said: Close and Whatmough going you are a shambles Losing their best players to league one rivals, not good for them but funny for us, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted 10 June, 2021 Share Posted 10 June, 2021 (edited) 13 hours ago, JustinSFC said: If it was a vehicle and that's what I always thought aswell, then why didn't they just come out and say that? From what I can see, there's nothing inherently wrong with one of the owners companies sponsoring the club in some form. Ashley does it with SportsDirect. If they had said just said it, I'd have been ok with that. But the absolute bollocks they were coming out with, denying Gao had anything to do with it, with the LD in it, the rank amateur website and the club trying to pass that off to the fans, was contemptuous at best. Probably in fear of it being noticed by the authorities in China, which Ashley doesn't have to worry about. Assuming of course it was connected to Gao. Edited 10 June, 2021 by Badger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusic Posted 27 November, 2022 Share Posted 27 November, 2022 Anyone know the status of the legal action? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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