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VectisSaint

VectisSaint

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Monaco...That be, the boy done good Hamilton, then....F1 around St Marys in Robin Reliants....Rodneeee you plonker.

Lewis lives in switzerland. More likely JB, DC and JB's new mate Mr Branson :)

Hoddle is based in Spain these days.

Window Cleaner

Window Cleaner

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Lewis lives in switzerland. More likely JB, DC and JB's new mate Mr Branson :)

Hoddle is based in Spain these days.

 

Paula Radcliffe lives in Monaco, bet she can run faster than any of our players.

Might see her next week, I'll ask her if she's interested in buying SLH.

CB Fry

CB Fry

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Surely this article is wrong, after all the club is going to be saved by a load of anorakers shaking buckets about.

 

Bring on the businessmen, and bring em on quick.

Crab Lungs

Crab Lungs

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Surely this article is wrong, after all the club is going to be saved by a load of anorakers shaking buckets about.

 

Bring on the businessmen, and bring em on quick.

 

LOL so true.

hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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Surely this article is wrong, after all the club is going to be saved by a load of anorakers shaking buckets about.

 

Bring on the businessmen, and bring em on quick.

 

Bit unfair CB. You're normally a pretty fair chap who I agree with but supposing that no one comes into buy us, won't it be better to get the fans in than cease to exist?

Window Cleaner

Window Cleaner

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Bit unfair CB. You're normally a pretty fair chap who I agree with but supposing that no one comes into buy us, won't it be better to get the fans in than cease to exist?

 

We won't get anywhere near enough money. We owe tens of millions, doubt if we'd get enough to pay the Electricity bill to be honest, let alone the tax bill, or the rates, or the players.

I see 75K or something like that on the pledgeola, peanuts, great effort but in the larger plan of things, peanuts.

saint_ed

saint_ed

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Bit unfair CB. You're normally a pretty fair chap who I agree with but supposing that no one comes into buy us, won't it be better to get the fans in than cease to exist?

 

I can guarantee that if the fans get control of the club we will be in administration again by this time next year. We have seen it all before at Bournemouth, and the fans getting involved there was one of the worst things that could have happened to them.

Viking Warrior

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The Guardian article better late then never.

 

Southampton line up 31 potential buyers

 

• Saints' parent company to produce shortlist of four or five bidders

• Club hopeful of sale before summer

 

Southampton 's parent

company has attracted as many as 31 different parties interested in buying

it out of administration, a source familiar with the situation has said. A

shortlist of about four or five bidders for Southampton Leisure Holdings

will be selected after a process of due diligence, the source said.

 

Parties mostly include wealthy British individuals, sometimes based abroad

in locations such as Monaco, who are interested in football but who see the

game mostly as a business, the source said, adding that no hedge funds or

private equity firms – who often showed interest in football clubs at the

peak of the credit cycle – have submitted an offer for the Championship

club.

 

Parties involved aim to strike a deal as soon as possible, for the summer

tends to play against the finances of football clubs – they still have to

pay players' salaries yet they receive no income as the season is off.

 

Southampton fell into administration earlier this month after its falling

gate receipts were not enough to maintain high player salaries and costs

related to about £28m of debt. Restructuring specialists Begbies Traynor are

acting as administrators.

 

The club was relegated from the Premier League in 2005; they are now second

from bottom of the Championship and, with two games of the season remaining,

three points adrift of safety.

dubai_phil

dubai_phil

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Prince Albert anyone?

 

The only thing that the "local" inhabitants of Monaco are interested in is which designer coat to wear when they take their designer dog for the mandatory evening walk down the street with all the designer shops in it

trousers

trousers

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Monaco's richest Brits

The top 10 British tycoons who helped to swell the ranks of Monaco's elite

 

1 Sir Philip Green/Retail

Green made his name as a discount retailer in the 1980s. Now boss of the Arcadia Group and worth about £5 billion, he and his wife, Lady Tina, fly in at weekends.

 

2 Lord Laidlaw/Event organising

Made his fortune from organising conferences. He owns two yachts, a jet and six vintage cars, including a 1937 Maserati that he races around Monte Carlo.

 

3 John Hargreaves/Retail

Matalan founder and chairman, John Hargreaves, took control again of his discount retailing empire before Christmas last year. A former market trader, he keeps a low profile.

 

4 Dr Leonard Polonsky/Insurance

Born in New York, Dr Leonard Polonsky is now a British citizen based in Monaco. He attended New York University, Oxford, the Sorbonne, and the Jung Institute in Zurich before making his fortune in insurance.

 

5 Jonathan Green/Banking

Green was a co-founder of the GLG hedge fund group, leaving in 2003. A former merchant banker, he is also a donor to the Tories. Now worth about £200m.

 

6 Alan Murphy/Property

A property magnate who’s fanatical about Liverpool Football Club. His company, Nikal, is fast expanding in the north. He is worth about £200m.

 

7 Kevin Heaney/Property

A London property developer, he moved to Cornwall in 2001. His Cornish property and European assets are valued at £24m. He commutes to Monaco.

 

8 Gordon Crawford/Technology

One of 12 tycoons who famously lent money to the Labour party. In his case it was a £500,000 loan. Crawford made £76m from the sale of the quoted London Bridge Software operation.

 

9 Jeremy Agace/Property

Agace made his money from the merger of his Mann & Co estate agency. He keeps a low profile in Monaco but enjoys racing classic Ferraris. As a tax exile, his wealth and other assets will have grown to perhaps £70m.

 

10 Richard Farleigh/Finance

A former interest-rate and currency trader, he now backs new ventures in Britain, such as the Home House club.

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2061015.ece

dubai_phil

dubai_phil

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Monaco's richest Brits

 

 

 

7 Kevin Heaney/Property

A London property developer, he moved to Cornwall in 2001. His Cornish property and European assets are valued at £24m. He commutes to Monaco.

 

 

Hmm you may be on to something there...

 

Kevin Heaney, Neil Heaney.... family link?

 

Go check some earlobes and give us a report in the morning

trousers

trousers

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Hmm you may be on to something there...

 

Kevin Heaney, Neil Heaney.... family link?

 

Go check some earlobes and give us a report in the morning

 

Too late...he's already acounted for....why would he leave the mighty Truro FC for Saints?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truro_City_FC

 

Oh, and his property development company went bust last year...

 

http://www.businesscornwall.co.uk/tag/cornish-homes

 

But, apart from that....

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trousers

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Hmm you may be on to something there...

 

Kevin Heaney, Neil Heaney.... family link?

 

Go check some earlobes and give us a report in the morning

 

Earlobe as requested, Sir.

 

Kevin%20Heaney.jpg

dubai_phil

dubai_phil

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Earlobe as requested, Sir.

 

Kevin%20Heaney.jpg

 

Trousers, your effort tonight has been almost as remarkable as the Liverpool v Arsenal game........

 

although I think only one of those two efforts will be remembered for years to come.

 

And with that I bid you a goodnight

trousers

trousers

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Article says that No 20, Jodie Schekter made most of his cash selling Buffalo milk??? from his 2,500 acre Hampshire farm.

 

 

Laverstoke Park, near Basingstoke.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/jan/27/foodanddrink.features10

 

Perhaps this is the "chap in Basingstoke" that Jonah keeps refering to....the one that sold £450 worth of shares on 31st March to bring the SLH to its knees....

 

Get behind the "It's Jodie Schekter's Bullocks" takeover rumour....FFS

northam soul

northam soul

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But whoever takes it on will receive a massive summer income which would not normally be there ( Season ticket sales ) They will be a large initial boost to the clubs coffers for whoever takes over as that money would normally of been spent by now.

SOTONS EAST SIDE

SOTONS EAST SIDE

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The only thing that the "local" inhabitants of Monaco are interested in is which designer coat to wear when they take their designer dog for the mandatory evening walk down the street with all the designer shops in it
Too true, they have so much money, their stupid enough to pay £5 for a can of coke in monaco!

And they say businessmen know how to look after money!!! ;)

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