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Thaksin Shinawatra and Crystal Palace

Bangkokaddick
Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
in Other Football and Sports
Lots of talk in the Thai press and on TV that Thaksin is preparing a bid for Crystal Palace.


He may be wanted on several corruption charges in Thailand and he's been sentenced to jail in absentia but he'll never spend any time in a Thai jail or even Thai Courts and he is still seriously loaded and needs a hobby.

Whether he will pass the fit and proper test for the EPL I don't know but I reckon it's quite likely that he will, given the nature of some of the owners.

Shame he's chosen the wrong South London team to take an interest in. Despite the above, and remember he is basically an enemy of the Military and the Elite in Thailand, I'd welcome him as Charlton's owner if the current deal doesn't go through. I'm sure he'd spend more than 2% of his time on the club and as he spends much of his time in the UK he'd actually watch some games.


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  • Halix
    Halix Posts: 2,237
    That Kim fella, with the dodgy haircut, in North Korea has a few quid, I'm also not too bothered about his past history as long as hes loaded, perhaps he fancies a nice club near central london, with plenty of room in the car park for a few missiles.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    Brilliant , he’ll sell palace on to the next sheikh Mansour and palace will then win prem and champions league forever...
    whilst we can tug ourselves off claiming it’s real football cos we’ve won a 3rd tier play off with Donny with honest Roland’s backing and not some crooked oil backed owner 

    as long as it’s not the scum having any success , that team from the black hole of surrey is too far away from SE7 to worry about, repeat ad infinitum 🙁


  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    One things for sure, he'll do it hith way
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 35,994
    Sven Goran Eriksson said of Shinawatra "he didn't understand football – he hadn't a clue."
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    And Roland does?
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,273
    Shinawatra.  No thanks.  Palace are welcome to him.  Hopefully he buys them and then has all of his accounts frozen by the SFO and they collapse into administration.  As soft as the suitable owners test is I would be amazed if corruption charges, still outstanding i assume as he did a runner, do not stop this.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    Athletico Charlton said:
    Shinawatra.  No thanks.  Palace are welcome to him.  Hopefully he buys them and then has all of his accounts frozen by the SFO and they collapse into administration.  As soft as the suitable owners test is I would be amazed if corruption charges, still outstanding i assume as he did a runner, do not stop this.
    Be serious, this is Palace - those bastards always worm their way out of Administration etc.!!
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    a total wrong un .. so probably just the type to pass the 'fit n proper' test

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