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benali-shorts

benali-shorts

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Disproportionate amount of reaction for a throwaway comment by Simon Jordan on Talksport relating to a rumour about which he didn’t claim to have any knowledge; and about which there is zero other credible substance (the usual opportunists claiming retrospective knowledge last week aside). 

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stevegrant

stevegrant

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2 minutes ago, benali-shorts said:

Disproportionate amount of reaction for a throwaway comment by Simon Jordan on Talksport relating to a rumour about which he didn’t claim to have any knowledge; and about which there is zero other credible substance (the usual opportunists claiming retrospective knowledge last week aside). 

And a number plucked from thin air which would probably undervalue the club even as a Championship one. Ultimately every club is for sale if the price is right, it doesn't need the owner to be engaging M&A specialists to find buyers to prompt a sale when there are seemingly loads of willing buyers looking for a football club to invest in.

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Master Bates

Master Bates

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2 hours ago, Farmer Saint said:

There was a lot of talk earlier this season that Fulthorpe was interested but couldn't agree a sale before the Summer.

I can confirm.

 

I spoke to Fulthorpe on many occasions between Christmas 2023 and last summer. There was 100% interested and I hinted that on here on many ocassions whilst telling others in PMs.

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goodymatt

goodymatt

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Just now, Master Bates said:

I can confirm.

 

I spoke to Fulthorpe on many occasions between Christmas 2023 and last summer. There was 100% interested and hinted on here many ocassions whilst telling others in PMs.

What/who is Fulthorpe? 

franniesTache

franniesTache

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13 minutes ago, goodymatt said:

What/who is Fulthorpe? 

Jonathan Fulthrope, he's a lawyer who was interested in the club back in 2008, not the person i've heard named as interested but doesn't mean not involved

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Farmer Saint

Farmer Saint

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1 hour ago, OldNick said:

I can confirm, but nothing came of it of course

 

24 minutes ago, Master Bates said:

I can confirm.

 

I spoke to Fulthorpe on many occasions between Christmas 2023 and last summer. There was 100% interested and I hinted that on here on many ocassions whilst telling others in PMs.

Thanks for confirming guys - perhaps I'll get at least some credit now going forward (although I doubt it)...

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Dman

Dman

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If the validaton 

1 hour ago, stevegrant said:

And a number plucked from thin air which would probably undervalue the club even as a Championship one.

If, a big if, the valution is correct - surely its Solak looking for an additional investor rather than selling the club. Afterall, he would have lost Kraft 

stevegrant

stevegrant

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15 minutes ago, Dman said:

If the validaton 

If, a big if, the valution is correct - surely its Solak looking for an additional investor rather than selling the club. Afterall, he would have lost Kraft 

Happy to be corrected but I didn't think Kraft had put any money in?

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tdmickey3

tdmickey3

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30 minutes ago, Farmer Saint said:

 

Thanks for confirming guys - perhaps I'll get at least some credit now going forward (although I doubt it)...

Attention seeking ?

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Master Bates

Master Bates

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47 minutes ago, franniesTache said:

Jonathan Fulthrope, he's a lawyer who was interested in the club back in 2008, not the person i've heard named as interested but doesn't mean not involved

What about Mark?

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Midfield_General

Midfield_General

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A new takeover thread, hooray!

Let's dust off the Saints takeover bingo card so we can all play over the summer. To kick things off: 

- Yacht spotted in Ocean Village

- Barry the Briefcase

- Earlobe identification (hopefully the advance of AI will make this process more efficient)

- Posts that start with "I can't post it on here but I have it on good authority", people using each other's real first names to demonstrate they are on the inside and saying "I've PM'ed you Brian"

- One or two people who actually know a few things drowned out by loads of absolute fantasists making stuff up and pretending to be important

- Micky Fialka mounting a late bid from his bedroom in his mum's house

What have I missed? 

 

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Miltonaggro

Miltonaggro

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2 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

A new takeover thread, hooray!

Let's dust off the Saints takeover bingo card so we can all play over the summer. To kick things off: 

- Yacht spotted in Ocean Village

- Barry the Briefcase

- Earlobe identification (hopefully the advance of AI will make this process more efficient)

- Posts that start with "I can't post it on here but I have it on good authority", people using each other's real first names to demonstrate they are on the inside and saying "I've PM'ed you Brian"

- One or two people who actually know a few things drowned out by loads of absolute fantasists making stuff up and pretending to be important

- Micky Fialka mounting a late bid from his bedroom in his mum's house

What have I missed? 

 

Unfortunately, fuck all!

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Master Bates

Master Bates

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1 hour ago, franniesTache said:

Jonathan Fulthrope, he's a lawyer who was interested in the club back in 2008, not the person i've heard named as interested but doesn't mean not involved

Does the surname begin with W?

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CB Fry

CB Fry

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18 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

A new takeover thread, hooray!

Let's dust off the Saints takeover bingo card so we can all play over the summer. To kick things off: 

- Yacht spotted in Ocean Village

- Barry the Briefcase

- Earlobe identification (hopefully the advance of AI will make this process more efficient)

- Posts that start with "I can't post it on here but I have it on good authority", people using each other's real first names to demonstrate they are on the inside and saying "I've PM'ed you Brian"

- One or two people who actually know a few things drowned out by loads of absolute fantasists making stuff up and pretending to be important

- Micky Fialka mounting a late bid from his bedroom in his mum's house

What have I missed? 

 

Thanks for the PM mate, some eye opening info. Don’t worry I won’t tell anyone else 👍

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trousers

trousers

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4 hours ago, Smirking_Saint said:

These rumours were doing the rounds from mid week last week, coming out of financial circles in London

What activity triggered the rumour in the first place? I'm assuming people in "financial circles" react to stuff rather than make stuff up?

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Midfield_General

Midfield_General

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2 minutes ago, CB Fry said:

Thanks for the PM mate, some eye opening info. Don’t worry I won’t tell anyone else 👍

Joking aside Chris, I was surprised that that name was in the frame, although it does tally with what Mike said after the Sholing meeting in February. I should hear more later - I'll keep you posted, keep an eye on your PM's. 

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trousers

trousers

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4 hours ago, Farmer Saint said:

There was a lot of talk earlier this season that Fulthorpe was interested but couldn't agree a sale before the Summer.

A lot of talk between whom?

trousers

trousers

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37 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

A new takeover thread, hooray!

Let's dust off the Saints takeover bingo card so we can all play over the summer. To kick things off: 

- Yacht spotted in Ocean Village

- Barry the Briefcase

- Earlobe identification (hopefully the advance of AI will make this process more efficient)

- Posts that start with "I can't post it on here but I have it on good authority", people using each other's real first names to demonstrate they are on the inside and saying "I've PM'ed you Brian"

- One or two people who actually know a few things drowned out by loads of absolute fantasists making stuff up and pretending to be important

- Micky Fialka mounting a late bid from his bedroom in his mum's house

What have I missed? 

 

Help Me Rhonda

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Master Bates

Master Bates

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58 minutes ago, ApprenticeBillionaire said:

These "insiders" "confirming" what they've heard now it's already out there.

Absolute fucking  tools.

First heard Christmas 2023, been hinting ever since.

 

Here's one from November last year 

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Smirking_Saint

Smirking_Saint

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20 minutes ago, trousers said:

What activity triggered the rumour in the first place? I'm assuming people in "financial circles" react to stuff rather than make stuff up?

No idea mate

I know a few people from some of the biv investment banks, a mate knows In a Saints fan, probably due to walking around in a state of broken misery

He just said there was a rumour we were up for sale and weirdly the price was 125m

I asked those I know close to the club, and was told it was just noise… then it broke yesterday at the same figure… it could obviously be a rumour thats taken legs, or even bullshit thats taken legs but thats honestly all i know

Guy at the club I know, who would know, says its unlikely 

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IFHP

IFHP

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I wonder if there is a thread on Pompeyweb ( or whatever their message board is called) titled Scum takeover saga - and if it will last as long as the old Pompey one on here .? 

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OldNick

OldNick

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Rishis family are billionaires and got great contacts in Asia. He is at least a true Saints fan (take away the politics) and he would be running it for the right reasons. 

Too intelligent to buy a football club I suspect, as apart from a little bit of prestige it only will lose a fortune, something his family are not looking to do

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trousers

trousers

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23 minutes ago, Smirking_Saint said:

No idea mate

I know a few people from some of the biv investment banks, a mate knows In a Saints fan, probably due to walking around in a state of broken misery

He just said there was a rumour we were up for sale and weirdly the price was 125m

I asked those I know close to the club, and was told it was just noise… then it broke yesterday at the same figure… it could obviously be a rumour thats taken legs, or even bullshit thats taken legs but thats honestly all i know

Guy at the club I know, who would know, says its unlikely 

Cheers SS 👍

Willo of Whiteley

Willo of Whiteley

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I’ve said it before Sports Republic have tried to run before they can walk. 
You can’t fault the investment from Dragan Solak and the ambition of having a football group, but you have to do it baby steps at a time.

Build you first club, then branch out, other clubs, franchises, whatever.

You don’t scatter gun buy clubs too early.

The error has been the lack of footballing personnel in place to oversee these changes and make these decisions.

sadoldgit

sadoldgit

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38 minutes ago, Smirking_Saint said:

No idea mate

I know a few people from some of the biv investment banks, a mate knows In a Saints fan, probably due to walking around in a state of broken misery

He just said there was a rumour we were up for sale and weirdly the price was 125m

I asked those I know close to the club, and was told it was just noise… then it broke yesterday at the same figure… it could obviously be a rumour thats taken legs, or even bullshit thats taken legs but thats honestly all i know

Guy at the club I know, who would know, says its unlikely 

I’ve read elsewhere that AI has valued the club at around £250m. Could well be bs but if it is remotely close it would seem that the original price mentioned is nonsense.

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Willo of Whiteley

Willo of Whiteley

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39 minutes ago, IFHP said:

I wonder if there is a thread on Pompeyweb ( or whatever their message board is called) titled Scum takeover saga - and if it will last as long as the old Pompey one on here .? 

That was a phenomenal thread. Some amazing moments on there. 🤣

Saint Fan CaM

Saint Fan CaM

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2 hours ago, franniesTache said:

Jonathan Fulthrope, he's a lawyer who was interested in the club back in 2008, not the person i've heard named as interested but doesn't mean not involved

Just because someone is interested doesn’t mean they are alone in that interest - a consortium might be involved, with Fulthrope just the figurehead. In fact the real/big money is likely to not even reside with him. Not dissimilar to Cortese getting Markus involved in Saints perhaps.

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leesaint88

leesaint88

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30 minutes ago, OldNick said:

Rishis family are billionaires and got great contacts in Asia. He is at least a true Saints fan (take away the politics) and he would be running it for the right reasons. 

Too intelligent to buy a football club I suspect, as apart from a little bit of prestige it only will lose a fortune, something his family are not looking to do

He's been quoted before saying he'd love to run the club (see link) but he won't throwaway his own money....

 

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Midfield_General

Midfield_General

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4 hours ago, SaintsLoyal said:

Ask le tissier on twitter about Solak wanting out as he played golf with him a month or so back.

Well that’s me convinced, I certainly can’t think of a more reliable source than the things that Matt Le Tissier says on Twitter 

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Smirking_Saint

Smirking_Saint

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20 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

I’ve read elsewhere that AI has valued the club at around £250m. Could well be bs but if it is remotely close it would seem that the original price mentioned is nonsense.

No idea around pricing honestly 

He bought at 100m or so right ? Not sure how the loan works either, or how devalued we are now we’re effectively a championship club

My honest thoughts are, if the same price is being bandied around its, in my eyes, more likely to be a regurgitation of the same rumour, so potentially bullshit

Midfield_General

Midfield_General

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4 hours ago, sadoldgit said:

I’ve read elsewhere that AI has valued the club at around £250m. Could well be bs but if it is remotely close it would seem that the original price mentioned is nonsense.

AI as in Artificial Intelligence? 

If so, that’s another cracking source, and certainly the way I’d imagine football clubs are valued in the City to prepare them for acquisition. Just type it into Google, see what Gemini reckons, there’s your price. 

EDIT: My mistake, it seems it was ChatGPT not Gemini:

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/ai-predicts-the-value-of-southampton-fc-as-simon-jordan-drops-sale-claim/

Keep it coming lads, this is gold 

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Holmes_and_Watson

Holmes_and_Watson

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7 minutes ago, Midfield_General said:

Well that’s me convinced, I certainly can’t think of a more reliable source than the things that Matt Le Tissier says on Twitter 

C'mon. The aliens wouldn't have beamed it to his anal implant, if it wasn't true. 🙂

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tdmickey3

tdmickey3

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2 hours ago, miserableoldgit said:

So ANY new owner is obviously going to be better? How many clubs have owners that they moan about?

Cant be any worse can it?

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Nolan

Nolan

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14 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Cant be any worse can it?

How lovely it must be to go through life unaware of Reading or Sheffield Wednesdays owners.

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tdmickey3

tdmickey3

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3 minutes ago, Nolan said:

How lovely it must be to go through life unaware of Reading or Sheffield Wednesdays owners.

True but just because they are terrible as well  doesn't make SR any better does it?

Shit at different levels...

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Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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2 hours ago, tdmickey3 said:

Cant be any worse can it?

Only thing they've really done wrong is recruitment of managers and players. That is fixable. At least Sport Republic appear to have club's interest at heart and have been investing money into the club.

As far as things to be unhappy with owners for we do not have it too bad. Sure, recruitment has been a shambles, but they have tried to fix it this summer.

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trousers

trousers

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3 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Only thing they've really done wrong is recruitment of managers and players.

Yeah, nothing significant... ;)

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Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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Just now, trousers said:

Yeah, nothing significant... ;)

It is frustrating of course, but fixable. At least SR appear to care for the club and invest money into it.

Very different to having owners that don't care and do not invest. Or even take money out of the club.

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trousers

trousers

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11 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

Only thing they've really done wrong is recruitment of managers and players.

 

8 minutes ago, trousers said:

Yeah, nothing significant... ;)

 

5 minutes ago, Matthew Le God said:

It is frustrating of course, but fixable.

 

Yes, it is fixable, but it's just as likely that they could continue to cock things up. In other words, there are risks in sticking and risks in twisting. Time will tell. Are you saying we should have faith in them being able to fix things...? ;)

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Matthew Le God

Matthew Le God

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1 minute ago, trousers said:

Yes, it is fixable, but it's just as likely that they could continue to cock things up. In other words, there are risks in sticking and risks in twisting. Time will tell.

Countless player/staff recruitment disasters, but now new person in charge of that and he shouldn't be tainted with mistakes of others. They invest money into the club and heart appears to be in the right place. If recruitment is finally sorted out then there are no real other issues. Other clubs have much bigger issues with owners than something fixable like recruitment. 

 

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