Vhero wrote:I think he bought it to sell off at a nice profit or that was his original intention anyways but it all backfired horribly taking a lot longer than he thought to take it over and costing him a lot in the process.
Slim wrote:Vhero wrote:I think he bought it to sell off at a nice profit or that was his original intention anyways but it all backfired horribly taking a lot longer than he thought to take it over and costing him a lot in the process.
Well that's just not true. He took over to try and show up the ADU group, proving he could do better than we could without him. I would be surprised if his money didn't dry up because you don't fuck around with Sheikh Mansour in his own sandbox.
Some good points in there mate.ant london wrote:Agree with that Slim......a bit similar to the Sheikh bankrolling our signing of Robinho prior to actually having completed the purchase from Thaksin
It has been a terrible shitshow of an affair for the last 12 months for Pompey.....ever since they won the FA Cup things have been on a seemingly terminal downward spiral.
One thing I think should hopefully come as a lesson from this is that the PL give some serious thought to the approval processes for new owners. I don't know quite how you could do it but there should be some requirement to prove funds available for the purchase as well as some approval of the business plan and funding available post acquisition to prevent new owners either coming in who don't have sufficient funds or who plan to excessively hock the assets they acquire (ie. doing the kind of aggressive financing we have seen used with Liverpool and Man U***d....but on other clubs who cannot realistically service serious debt and have enough cash to continue to operate/invest (....ie Portsmouth currently have massive debts incurred by Gaydamak's regime that were not cleared as part of Al Fahim's takeover)).
The one positive to come for City is that Sulamain should now more frequently be referred to in the context of this Portsmouth fiasco rather than his involvement in the Sheikh's deal to buy City
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