[Archived] Rovers Might Have Been Sold?

[Iceman]

im absolutely 100% sure, that Syed knows that football is hardly going to be a profitable business.

[AggyBlue]

Report next on SSN:tu:

[Clitherover]

Arrivals and shots of takeover team coming into SSN...tune in, be on soon!

On in the next 2 mins, after the adverts...

[tony gale's mic]

I think if this all comes together, investing in youth should be our mantra. £100 million invested correctly could quite easily be recycled and then some with the model we've adopted over the years.

However, I think our first action should be to buy one or two more experienced/established players, right now we've got more young prospects than at any time since our promotion winning team but we're badly lacking some experience and class in midfield and up front.

[Madon]

On Sky Sports News next for anybody interested..

[Balwer]

im absolutely 100% sure, that Syed knows that football is hardly going to be a profitable business.

Profitable on a year to year basis? Probably. At the very least breakeven might be the goal.

Reselling the club for substantially more than the £45m that it's reported to be? That might be where he sees the return, several years down the line.

[greggyk]

Don't expect anything new from SSN, just a few shots and fan voxes

[tony gale's mic]

Profitable on a year to year basis? Probably. At the very least breakeven might be the goal.

Reselling the club for substantially more than the £45m that it's reported to be? That might be where he sees the return, several years down the line.

True though he'll need to sell it for around £350m if he's going to invest £300m.

At the end of the day though our club will only become more valuable if it goes from strength to strength on the pitch and that's what we're most concerned about as fans.

[Balwer]

True though he'll need to sell it for around £350m if he's going to invest £300m.

At the end of the day though our club will only become more valuable if it goes from strength to strength on the pitch and that's what we're most concerned about as fans.

Of course, but we as fans need to be aware that his motivations aren't always going to mirror our own.

[Derbyshire Blue]

Sky Sports News taking their time reporting on the possible take over... even gone onto Golf now.... Sounded like we were going to be a leading news when coming up to the commercials at the top of the hour..

[RevidgeBlue]

It all sounds a bit sinister if you ask me. I mean, Black cars? Suitcases full of money? Moving fast? Do we really need this? I mean we are joint top of the league after all.

How it possibly all looked, earlier, maybe, outside the Club Shop.

Class Bob Class.

Errr....... how did you know that that was exactly how it was going to look judging by the LT photo?

[pancini]

Will Syeds people now be based at Ewood for the next few weeks whilst they go through everything or will be a case of there today to sign documents and then they can take them away

[Ozz]

How it possibly all looked, earlier, maybe, outside the Club Shop.

Mr Orange (Tim Roth)-"Where are the Rovers mittens? They said there'd be mittens!"

[Derbyshire Blue]

Sky Sports News taking their time reporting on the possible take over... even gone onto Golf now.... Sounded like we were going to be a leading news when coming up to the commercials at the top of the hour..

Looks like their not bothering... obviously they think it not as big of a news story than a Blackpool kid shouting GOAL! and Arsenal tickets for Blackpool fans the hottest tickets in town

[AggyBlue]

Looks like their not bothering... obviously they think it not as big of a news story than a Blackpool kid shouting GOAL! and Arsenal tickets for Blackpool fans the hottest tickets in town

Probably because no statements have been given to the press yet.

[RevidgeBlue]

So despite Mr. Plunkett getting us all in a lather with what turned out to be a a non story about Shah it seems that Mr. Syed's team arrived bang on the nose as expected to commence the process this morning and they do in fact have exclusivity as indeed the LT originally reported on Friday.

Phew.

Meanwhile Shah has seemingly confirmed his apparent standing as a tyrekicker.

[Hughesy]

Omer Khan CV - The main money man who arrived today

Kind of confirms the process is about to either start, or already has!

[jonv]

SSN in denial that football is in fact, coming home to Blackburn

[47er]

I agree, in a footballing sense we are doing well. However your initial response was disputing that Blackburn is a distressed asset. From a financial standpoint it's quite close to qualifying.

Also--mightn't he be talking comparatively? We can say "we're 10th we're doing OK" but if he's comparing us to 1995 then aren't we "distressed'? He did say he wants to return the club to challenging for the Title.

[Ozz]

This is a link to the best quality image at the LT of them arriving at Ewood.

Click this.

[den]

This is a link to the best quality image at the LT of them arriving at Ewood.

Click this.

Now there's an image asking for captions

[Craigman]

Interview with CNBC by the man himself

Very interesting including possibly increasing capacity of Ewood Park in time.

[67splitscreen]

This is a link to the best quality image at the LT of them arriving at Ewood.

Click this.

Spot the Frenchman.

[The Rover of Finland]

This is like 4 weeks to Christmas.

[BuckyRover]

In the past we encouraged people to come and work in the textile industry. Now we can encourage them to come over to support a football team. How things change?