[cite]Posted By: SE7 Expat[/cite]For me its just a smokescreen to get fans to renew their ticket.
How? Have the club even said ONE word about any possible takeover?
They have retained a dignified silence IMHO and they cannot control what lazy journalists or bored fans on a message board choose to make up during the slower close season.
No-one knows if there is/was anything going on in the background but to infer RM himself and/or the club could think of hoodwinking the fans is certainly not the case - FACT.
[cite]Posted By: Covered End[/cite]Zabeel pulled out on the day of the deal. They pulled out due to the economic climate not because of CAFC.
i always find that reason ridiculous , due to the fact the economic climate didn't change overnight during due diligence , there really must've been another reason............................... probably the disgracefully inept performaces they saw on the pitch IMO
Perhaps this is a bit more "meat on the bones" as to what happened in Dubai and why Zabeel pulled out at the last minute for anyone that wasn't aware.
"GREEDY Britons are being blamed for triggering a disastrous property crash in the once booming desert kingdom of Dubai.
The buy-to-let Brits are at the forefront of a foreign legion of debt-ridden expatriate investors now leading a charge for one-way tickets home.
Prices have plunged 40 per cent in just six months, placing Dubai, along with tiny Latvia, at the top of a world league of property sob stories.
Britons, including sports stars such as Michael Owen and Andrew Flintoff, who scrambled to make quick profits in what most could see was a bubble ready to burst, are a major cause of the downturn, say property experts.
Hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, most of them construction labourers from the Indian sub-continent, are believed to have fled as Dubai’s desert dream appears, for the moment at least, to have been little more than a mirage.
Last week temperatures hit a record-breaking 50C (122F) but did not hide the dark clouds over the oil-rich state.
‘This crisis is killing the city’
Crashing property values and the global credit crunch have combined to suck Dubai to the brink of bankruptcy, forcing it into a humiliating plea for a multi-billion dollar loan from Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates."
I seem to remember a lot of scare stories in the press at that time with Blatter and Plattini laying into the premier league and british football in general about foreign ownership. The big 4 dominated media jumped on the bandwagon and there was a lot of adverse reaction about the Man City deal that might have contributed to Zabeel pulling out.
If a takeover is in the offing and as Bing suggests season ticket sales increasing may lead to a beneficial outcome then the best thing they could do now is sack Parky. That'll trigger four renewals that I know of.
And apologies to those of you in the know who can't say anything now but come the takeover announcement will be saying 'I told you so'. Not being in such a priviledged position I am tending to be a tad sceptical.
[cite]Posted By: LargeAddick[/cite]If a takeover is in the offing and as Bing suggests season ticket sales increasing may lead to a beneficial outcome then the best thing they could do now is sack Parky. That'll trigger four renewals that I know of.
And apologies to those of you in the know who can't say anything now but come the takeover announcement will be saying 'I told you so'. Not being in such a priviledged position I am tending to be a tad sceptical.
But if they sack Parky and the takeover falls through we'll have no manager and no money ! That's why everything is on hold !
I just don't think season ticket sales can be an issue as to whether the deal goes through or not. They know from history that we can draw decent gates if the standard of football is decent. All they have to do is get the club back on track and the fans will return, and i think they know that.
[cite]Posted By: mart77[/cite]I just don't think season ticket sales can be an issue as to whether the deal goes through or not. They know from history that we can draw decent gates if the standard of football is decent. All they have to do is get the club back on track and the fans will return, and i think they know that.
I don't think that will happen with Parky in charge.
To be honest i don't think Parky will have any future at the club if a takeover does go through. I do actually feel a bit sorry for Parky as i think he's suffering the backlash of a few years of mismanagement by others, both on and off the field, and i think there were signs that the team were starting to play more like a team towards the end of the season.
I personally have a lot of sympathy with this view but I do think that should new investment arrive it is essential that a sweeping change is made. It almost like we need to put these disasterous three years behind us and cast away any reminders so that the club can once more unite behind whoever because certainly at present we are fractured from top to bottom.
As regards season ticket sales you might argue that with low sales, the purchaser may be in the box seat for driving down the offer price. On the other hand that may frighten off the major shareholders.
I just think that from everyones perspective, seller and buyer, its the classic "bird in the hand" issue and the greater the sales, the more confidence is generated.
Could the hold up in the "takeover" be that the consotrium are offering a low amount and rightly so in my opinion, the board feel if they hold another year and we go up surely they would get more money for their shares?
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Good common sense post, Ben.
Welcome to the board mate.
Perhaps this is a bit more "meat on the bones" as to what happened in Dubai and why Zabeel pulled out at the last minute for anyone that wasn't aware.
"GREEDY Britons are being blamed for triggering a disastrous property crash in the once booming desert kingdom of Dubai.
The buy-to-let Brits are at the forefront of a foreign legion of debt-ridden expatriate investors now leading a charge for one-way tickets home.
Prices have plunged 40 per cent in just six months, placing Dubai, along with tiny Latvia, at the top of a world league of property sob stories.
Britons, including sports stars such as Michael Owen and Andrew Flintoff, who scrambled to make quick profits in what most could see was a bubble ready to burst, are a major cause of the downturn, say property experts.
Hundreds of thousands of foreign workers, most of them construction labourers from the Indian sub-continent, are believed to have fled as Dubai’s desert dream appears, for the moment at least, to have been little more than a mirage.
Last week temperatures hit a record-breaking 50C (122F) but did not hide the dark clouds over the oil-rich state.
‘This crisis is killing the city’
Crashing property values and the global credit crunch have combined to suck Dubai to the brink of bankruptcy, forcing it into a humiliating plea for a multi-billion dollar loan from Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates."
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And apologies to those of you in the know who can't say anything now but come the takeover announcement will be saying 'I told you so'. Not being in such a priviledged position I am tending to be a tad sceptical.
But if they sack Parky and the takeover falls through we'll have no manager and no money ! That's why everything is on hold !
I don't think that will happen with Parky in charge.
I just think that from everyones perspective, seller and buyer, its the classic "bird in the hand" issue and the greater the sales, the more confidence is generated.