[Archived] Rovers Might Have Been Sold?

[donis1410]

keef would make a great poster boy for the galaxy with his pointing skills

[den]

Is Was Beckham better than Diouf? Yes.

Is Was Beckham better than Emerton? Yes.

Will Beckham make the club Beckham @#/? loads of money? Yes.

Will Beckham want sheds of money off rovers? Yes.

Would we already have shed loads of money without signing a fading footballer? Yes.

Would we need Beckham to provide us with money? No.

Would Shankley ever have signed a fading footballer come film star? No.

Forget him and move on to better pastures.

Lennon and Bale eh ;-0

Even after the world cup, you still haven't figured out that Lennon has no product?

[S15]

To be fair Den, if we did sign Beckham it'd be the biggest shock at Rovers since the Baggio that turned up didn't have a rat's tail.

[Majiball]

Forget him and move on to better pastures.

Ah but only a seasoned farmer can lay the best pastures.

[67splitscreen]

Ah but only a seasoned farmer can lay the best pastures.

Cultivate.

[MeanGreenMachine]

Forget Beckham and sign keisuke honda. Marketing tool in the far east and a fantastic footballer at the right age with bags of ability.

[deryck guyler's spoon]

Keith Andrews was playing international football for one of the best managers in the world only a few weeks ago.

With respect to the Irish lads on here I doubt that many people would compare the ROI with AC Milan.

Leaving aside the publicity I'd reckon our forwards(who ever they might end up being) would welcome a steady stream of acurate crosses and free kicks.

[rog of the rovers]

Forget Beckham and sign keisuke honda. Marketing tool in the far east and a fantastic footballer at the right age with bags of ability.

Honda looked class in the World Cup.

[PAFELL]

How about this for a long term plan?

1. Sayed Ali builds houses and schools for the poorest in the city slums with his construction firm.

2. Blackburn Rovers and football is heavily promoted within the schools and social projects (e.g. Citing players as athletes to try to emulate in PE), and by visits from players etc.

3. Once the schools are up and running, set up academies that train coaches as well as players, and get our academy teams and a 'Blackburn XI' to play friendly matches. The most gifted of the Indian academy players are then offered a chance at Brockhall.

This would make a lot of people much better off, and promote 'Blackburn Rovers owner Sayed Ali' as someone who wants to help the poor through Blackburn Rovers, football etc. and thus we will be seen as humanitarian good guys. It isn't as instantly glamourous as trying to woo Shilpa Shetty into modeling the new away kit, but it will be brilliant PR, and help establish a lasting mark on the subcontinent. To put it bluntly, millions of people could owe the fact they can read and don't have dysentry due to Sayed Ali and Blackburn Rovers.

Cue posts rubbishing this.........

I do not see any reason why somebody on here should rubbish your post. To be honest I agree with what you have written. Somebody should bring something like this up when they go to the fans forum.

Something does need to be done with the local schools from the club. Even if it is a school football competition, at all ages, with the final at ewood park. It is a way of spotting young talent at an early age and engaging the local folk.

I also think if any owner could do anything to enhance the area where the club is, even none football people would apprieciate it. Especially when they read things in newspapers about players wages etc. I also think that players, for the wages they get should do a lot more to help the area the club is in.

Taking Rovers for instance. It is common knowledge about the congestion leaving the ground after a match. If something was done by the club or club owner to help reduce that, for example a train station at ewood. I am sure the locals would apprieciate that. Even if Mill Hill was up graded would be better than nothing.

It's on the BBC too and contray to nicko's glee over Sam's comments I think they re-enforce the notion this is going to happen. If Sam thought it wasn't pretty much nailed on he wouldn't have spoken about the subject at all but you could tell he was excited by the prospect.

On the delay, I'm not sure when it will go through but the "might to happen til the end of september" thing is a bit of a smokescreen IMO to prevent current negociations from stalling where the seller hold out for us to becoem richer when they can ask more money.

Let's say hypothetically the board and Sam knew Syed could get it done before the window, it would be madness to admit it was a possibilty as the clubs we're talking to right now would just say "Ok we'll wait til you're mega-rich and up our demands".

Popov for example, if the takeover wnet through tomorrow I still think we'd buy him because he fits the strategy of building slowly, with youth that Sam dn Syed have both alluded to. The difference though would be his current club would probably demand more money from knowing full well we can afford it.

I'm not suprised one bit that Sam is saying it's "almost impossible" for it to be done in time (notice he said almost).

I do not recall any post where Nicko has said the takeover will never happen. If I am wrong please show me where.

If he were to come back to the Prem he would be signalling that he is being serious about his last 18 months or so playing. He would be superior to anything we have in midfield at present as a footballer but would also give the club the credibility with other potential signings we might just need to get them into the club.

He wouldn't do anything to the wage structure as he would be in a category of one- Beckham.

Outside of the playing arena, if Syed is serious about a global football brand, signing Beckham is a no brainer.

Sorry I cannot agree. It would show that Rovers are desperate to promote the club. As it would just be seen as a publicity stunt. A very expensive stunt at that. Rovers do not need Beckham nor his price tag. The fact that as things stand today, Rovers are one of 4 clubs to have won the premiership title. That is what should be mentioned more, as that is decent true publicity. Something the football world need reminding of from time to time. Something nobody can take from Rovers.

[Billy Castell]

If this takeover goes through, feel free to mention my building plan at the next Fans Forum as your own idea .

[Paul]

Shankley would never have signed fading film stars.

Beautiful. Great one liner Den.

[LeChuck]

Beautiful. Great one liner Den.

It is, just a shame it has no relevance.

[Iceman]

2 of India's best football players

could at least be worth a trial

[Paul]

From "The End of Manc Dominance" thread:

The points I am making are:

Now some £300m has gone on interest payments, not transfers or anything else useful.

Nobody has a clue as to how the debt will actually get paid off as opposed to rolled over.

The PIK loans over and above the £500m in bonds are still there and are now seriously acceleratng in cost.

Anyway Hughesy, you have got a load of ideas about how Syed can make money at Rovers- why haven't the Glazers done them already?

Philip this leaves me very confused, and I don't want to divert this Rovers thread on to Manchester United, while I would agree with much of what you have to say in relation to Utd and the comments in the link you posted - Beautiful game, ugly investment I have to ask why you are so enthusiastic about Syed's bid for Rovers? Given the remarks in the link, comments you have made over many months / years and that nobody has a clue about how Rovers will be funded why is the proposed Syed buy out such good news?

I appreciate I'm getting slated for expressing concerns over the bid, I am in favour of Rovers having more money, a better team etc. but have questions on the "how," and don't really want to start this again. What I don't understand is how you can be so much in favour of the Syed bid yet post criticism of Utd, Liverpool etc. when it is quite possible Rovers accounts will show significant loans in the future and almost certainly show a revenue to wages ratio which could be extremely worrying.

Surely there should be real concern over the "how" of Rovers funding given the path the majority of clubs / owners have chosen to follow?

[Gav]

Philip posts that much on the site he must lose track somewhere along the line

Get yourself over to St Julian’s bay Philip, have a wonder in the sun, take a break pal

[Wolverine]

Just a quickie on Beckham. Capello has dropped him, which is guarantee he is a good player.

[rebelmswar]

Sorry I cannot agree. It would show that Rovers are desperate to promote the club. As it would just be seen as a publicity stunt. A very expensive stunt at that. Rovers do not need Beckham nor his price tag. The fact that as things stand today, Rovers are one of 4 clubs to have won the premiership title. That is what should be mentioned more, as that is decent true publicity. Something the football world need reminding of from time to time. Something nobody can take from Rovers.

Rubbish. There is a certain Italian team that needs no publicity and wanted to keep him.

Signing such a player would show that the entire mentality of Rovers has turned around.

That being said there is more likelihood of Roberts scoring a hattrick and Dunn playing a whole season than of signing him.

[den]

It is, just a shame it has no relevance.

It's got every relevance. Shankley only signed players for what they were on the field, not what they bring off the field

I understand the attraction of having Beckham around the club LeChuck. If I were the manager though and had the cash available that's being talked about, I wouldn't want Beckham and all the distractions that would follow. Move on, he's yesterdays man.

[T4E]

It's got every relevance. Shankley only signed players for what they were on the field, not what they bring off the field

Bill Shankley's methods and practices have absolutely no relevance to the modern day Premier League.

[den]

Bill Shankley's methods and practices have absolutely no relevance to the modern day Premier League.

If you say so.

[47er]

When owners, who don't even own the club yet, come out with names of players they hope to buy, it usually spells trouble, unless you're running for president of Real or Barca.

Lets hope I’m wrong, but I very rarely am

This is PR Gav. He's dropped the name in, its made the tabloids and everybody's talking about it. And that's as far as it will go.

Makes it very difficult for the takeover to fail though!

[Manchester Blue]

Forget him and move on to better pastures.

Even after the world cup, you still haven't figured out that Lennon has no product?

Even after last season you haven't realised that he has improved all aspects of his game in leaps and bounds and continues to do so. Players can and do continue to improve.

[Gav]

This is PR Gav. He's dropped the name in, its made the tabloids and everybody's talking about it. And that's as far as it will go.

Makes it very difficult for the takeover to fail though!

The fact he's already in all the papers before mentioning Beckhams name seems to have been lost on you 47er

Anyway, he's probably been misquoted as a few have already said.

[MarkBRFC71]

Bill Shankley's methods and practices have absolutely no relevance to the modern day Premier League.

And, in Shankly's era there was no such thing as marketing, shirt sales, sponsorship etc. All just as important (for better or worse) as what happens on this pitch when running a football club these days.

[67splitscreen]

We have had a lot of coverage of late, without the Beckham story would we have been hitting the news today though.

As 47er says it's keeping us in the limelight if nothing else.

Alas as pointed out it's a miss quote, probably.