I was told from a very reliable source, the Aussies had upped their bid to 40.5m, this was matched by the Saudis soon after. I'm not saying this is 100% correct, but i would be surprised if this was off the mark.
I was told from a very reliable source, the Aussies had upped their bid to 40.5m, this was matched by the Saudis soon after. I'm not saying this is 100% correct, but i would be surprised if this was off the mark.
A house analogy anyone ?
A bidder for my ma in law's house told the agent, he would continue to increase his bid, until he was the highest bidder and he had removed the opposition. He then quite candidly said he would reduce his offer.
I was told from a very reliable source, the Aussies had upped their bid to 40.5m, this was matched by the Saudis soon after. I'm not saying this is 100% correct, but i would be surprised if this was off the mark.
A house analogy anyone ?
A bidder for my ma in law's house told the agent, he would continue to increase his bid, until he was the highest bidder and he had removed the opposition. He then quite candidly said he would reduce his offer.
I told the agent to tell him to do one.
Understandable.......if your MIL lived in Belgravia.
I was told from a very reliable source, the Aussies had upped their bid to 40.5m, this was matched by the Saudis soon after. I'm not saying this is 100% correct, but i would be surprised if this was off the mark.
A house analogy anyone ?
A bidder for my ma in law's house told the agent, he would continue to increase his bid, until he was the highest bidder and he had removed the opposition. He then quite candidly said he would reduce his offer.
I told the agent to tell him to do one.
Understandable.......if your MIL lived in Belgravia.
I was told from a very reliable source, the Aussies had upped their bid to 40.5m, this was matched by the Saudis soon after. I'm not saying this is 100% correct, but i would be surprised if this was off the mark.
I was told from a very reliable source, the Aussies had upped their bid to 40.5m, this was matched by the Saudis soon after. I'm not saying this is 100% correct, but i would be surprised if this was off the mark.
I was told from a very reliable source, the Aussies had upped their bid to 40.5m, this was matched by the Saudis soon after. I'm not saying this is 100% correct, but i would be surprised if this was off the mark.
I was told from a very reliable source, the Aussies had upped their bid to 40.5m, this was matched by the Saudis soon after. I'm not saying this is 100% correct, but i would be surprised if this was off the mark.
I was told from a very reliable source, the Aussies had upped their bid to 40.5m, this was matched by the Saudis soon after. I'm not saying this is 100% correct, but i would be surprised if this was off the mark.
A house analogy anyone ?
A bidder for my ma in law's house told the agent, he would continue to increase his bid, until he was the highest bidder and he had removed the opposition. He then quite candidly said he would reduce his offer.
I told the agent to tell him to do one.
Which is, apparently, exactly what the aussies did.
God knows what other lunatics in his business community he needs to save face with. I picture a bunch of weird old men with bad teeth and duck taped suits all chanting ‘rythmn is a dancer’ in Flemish at a discotheque
I was told from a very reliable source, the Aussies had upped their bid to 40.5m, this was matched by the Saudis soon after. I'm not saying this is 100% correct, but i would be surprised if this was off the mark.
Was that figure sterling or AUS$?
If AUS$, then that would make it about £22m
I think we’ve just found the root of the problem. 😀
I’m finding this all very confusing. One moment we hear that a price has been agreed (£40m) but now they [aussies] are saying we won’t buy unless the price is reduced to £25m? The £7m owed to the ex-directors has to be the stumbling block, which we could raise the sales to around £32m+? My brain is haemorrhaging now and it’s better that I stand real clear.
I was told from a very reliable source, the Aussies had upped their bid to 40.5m, this was matched by the Saudis soon after. I'm not saying this is 100% correct, but i would be surprised if this was off the mark.
There is no way that rational businessmen, as the Aussies are, could possibly value CAFC at £40m. It is a ridiculous figure. As I have many times written there is no business rationale for such a figure. Even @NapaAddick has not come out and justified such a figure. I don't know about 'the Saudis'. Who or what are they? Of course there are people in the Gulf states with more money than sense but they usually have an ulterior motive when buying a club (global PR for the country in the case of Man City and PSG, property in the more modest case of Ebbsfleet) To be honest I am not sure that I believe these Saudis are for real. Where have they gone? Why have they not waved their £40m at any of the 12 plus Championship clubs that are for sale?
Its entirely possible the Aussies aren't going to admit to low balling RD after the consortium collapsed or cynically removing them from the bidding, having originally outbid the Saudis, which is how it looks from the outside
we also don't know for sure if the original bid, or the £25m bid is net of the former Director loans.
At what point will RD have lost more by clinging on than accepting a lower bid? 15 months down the line from when he first turned his nose up at the Aussie lower bid? Because until that point I can see him believing that he's still doing the right thing to keep valuing the club so highly (especially if there was once upon a time an offer or £40m)
What I've never understood is that if Roland was asking for say £40m last January, and the 2 parties seemed to have agreed a price, that suggests that they were in the same ballpark back then.
If the Aussies had offered £25m back then, then presumably Roland would have told them to go away. Indeed if all the interested parties had rejected his figure back then, presumably he would have had to reduce the price.
Similarly if the Aussies had offered £40m back then, what's happened subsequently?
Can’t all of the interested parties chip in a contribution and set up management based upon an anarcho-syndicalist commune. They can take it in turns to act as sort of executive officer for the week
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A bidder for my ma in law's house told the agent, he would continue to increase his bid, until he was the highest bidder and he had removed the opposition. He then quite candidly said he would reduce his offer.
I told the agent to tell him to do one.
Not Thamesmead ffs!
If AUS$, then that would make it about £22m
My brain is haemorrhaging now and it’s better that I stand real clear.
Its entirely possible the Aussies aren't going to admit to low balling RD after the consortium collapsed or cynically removing them from the bidding, having originally outbid the Saudis, which is how it looks from the outside
we also don't know for sure if the original bid, or the £25m bid is net of the former Director loans.
If the Aussies had offered £25m back then, then presumably Roland would have told them to go away. Indeed if all the interested parties had rejected his figure back then, presumably he would have had to reduce the price.
Similarly if the Aussies had offered £40m back then, what's happened subsequently?