[Archived] Rovers Might Have Been Sold?

[Balwer]

OK guys, thought I'd try and discover who this Australian Trio are seeing as we might have to turn to them right now. From Forbes lists of Billionaires here's the list of people the mystery group from down under could include...

Blair Parry Okeden

$5bn

Richest man in Australia, US born Blair is a media mogul and owns 15 TV Stations. Made a lot of his money through advertising which is now dwindling, could Blair see the EPL as an advertising goldmine?

Andrew Forrest

$4.1bn

World's richest Australian, amature boxing shows an interest in sport but was once accused of "misleading shareholders" so do Rovers need another shaky past to deal with?

Frank Lowly

$3.6bn

At 79 Lowly may be considered to old to be thinking about buying a Premier League club, however this billionaire is the President of Football Federation Australia, leading their bid for the 2018 WC and a former shareholder in Sydney FC. Could Emerton have had a word? Also been investigated on financial grounds however...

James Packer

$3.5bn

The 42 year old inherited $5bn but lost a lot in the recession. Involved in media, gambling and retail. Maybe he wants to blow the rest of daddy's cash on an East Lancashire football club?

Harry Triguboff

$3.0bn

Self made billionaire Harry is approaching his 80s and with the real estate market right now it's unlikely he fancies buying a football club in Blighty.

John Gandel

$2.4bn

Sepp Blatter lookalike Gandel is quite old, but he hates debts which would make us an attractive club to buy. Let's just hope if he is involved his ideas aren't a stupid as his dopple-ganger's at FIFA.

Kerr Neilson

$2.2bn

Claims to have $16bn in investments under his control and his bio sounds scarily like Mr Syed's (only more trustworthy).

Gina Rinehart

$2.0bn

A woman buying a football team? Surely not? Well as long as she doesn't do a Delia at half time. The only billionaire with a solif link to another in that she is working with Andrew Forrest (above).

Lindsay Fox

$1.5bn

"BLACKBUWN WOVERS, TALK TO ME!", is that Terry Tibbs? No it's Lyndsay Fox, he may have a girl's name but a working class man if ever I saw one. He loves cars and maybe he feels like splashing out on a bit of Soccer in his old age...

Geralh Harvey

$1.3bn

Harvey is a retail magnate (a super rich Theo Paphitis to the layman) but on the wrong side of 70. Loves horses like a certain Indoan we know...

Michael Mintze

$1.1bn

London based, has $8bn in assests under management and in unlisted funds...someone get down to his apartment and check he's paying the rent and keeping it clean!!!! Oh and better get a primary school maths teacher to analyze his accounts pronto!

Solomon Lew

$1.0bn

So Jewish he wouldn't look out of place in an episode of Curb Your Enthusiam. Retail billionaire Lew is unlikely to want to buy a club in an area with a high Muslim population but you never know...

So the Oz trio could be made up of three, two, one or none of the people above... Interesting to speculate whilst we wait for this agonising Syed silence to be broken..

Blair Parry-Okeden is a woman. Please do a bit more research rather than just copy/pasting off Forbes. She is also American.

As an Australian I can tell you that most of your list have been household names for decades. They are all independently wealthy enough to buy a £45m club without requiring two of their friends and could have done so many times over the years, as they are all far too old to logically want to do so now. I can't guarantee it isn't Mintze or Neilson, but I guarantee Gerry Harvey and Solly Lew aren't planning on buying Rovers and any other Aussie here will back me up.

[rebelmswar]

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[RevidgeBlue]

If the Syed bid falls through, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the other "mystery bidders" disappear into the ether as quickly as they (supposedly) appeared either.

[PAFELL]

What happens to the interest on funds deposited is a subject of the escrow agreement.

No I am not asserting anything of the sort- funds go into escrow when due diligence is complete or so close to completion the buyer already knows the big items are clean and can take a view about the rest.

Ali Syed has an exclusive period expiring sometime on Monday so he has a big interest in securing his advantage over the other parties who are talking to Rothschilds- one way of doing that would be to negotiate something further in his favour using the escrow deposit as a bargaining chip. If nothing else he made it very difficult for the Trust to walk whilst they were listening to 5live Investigates when I am sure their gut reaction was to say goodbye.

From Ali Syed's purposes it also means he is establishing his bona fides beyond all doubt because the money is literally where his mouth is and he can go from agreement of final detail of the sale to execution of sale in literally one phone call/verified fax. It puts more distance between his bid and any other bidders.

Of course all this is predicated on the widespread whispers that funds were placed in escrow a week ago are in fact correct. Whoever wins in what now appears to be a competitive bidding situation will inevitably use some form of escrow as the deal gets close to completion.

I must have missed a few posts. Where is it whispered that funds were placed in escrow a week ago?

[BuckyRover]

Blair Parry-Okeden is a woman. Please do a bit more research rather than just copy/pasting off Forbes. She is also American.

That's a bit harsh, considering he said that he had just pasted it from Forbes.

[BlueMonday]

TALK TO ME!

[HemelRover]

Goldberg has posted this video on his Facebook page, sorry if this has already been posted...

http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/illustration-uk-a2dd9e7f6052c7b6b74ce1fb25a54410.html

For the benefit of those at work with pesky internet filters in place, what does it say(Roughly, not expecting a word for word transcription)?

[RevidgeBlue]

I must have missed a few posts. Where is it whispered that funds were placed in escrow a week ago?

Philip said it just now.

Nothing was rumoured on here about that at the time a week ago.

[Balwer]

That's a bit harsh, considering he said that he had just pasted it from Forbes.

The names are copy/pasted but the comments are his own. He also didn't copy/paste very well as several names are wrong, Mintze is Hintze, Lowly is Lowy, Geralh is Gerald and so on.

Sorry if it seemed a bit harsh but there's also better lists to go from. http://www.theage.com.au/business/australias-10-richest-people-20100304-pl35.html is one.

[niggit]

For the benefit of those at work with pesky internet filters in place, what does it say(Roughly, not expecting a word for word transcription)?

It's ment to be a video of Syed killing Goldberg, and saying that takes care of him, now lets go buy Blackburn.

Minus the bad language

[booth]

Very funny those mini vids.

It does show Goldberg is not being exactly impartial in the matter though.

What made me laugh is that someone replied... "After spending years campaigning against corupt councillors and MPs,I have learnt that if they are attacking you your having an effect.When they are quite about you is the time to worry."

This was a serious reply to Goldberg jokingly posting: "Someone's out to get us!" with the following video... http://www.grapheine.com/bombaytv/illustration-uk-a2dd9e7f6052c7b6b74ce1fb25a54410.html

I politely replied with... "Simon, I doubt very much Mr Syed produced this film."

[RevidgeBlue]

For the benefit of those at work with pesky internet filters in place, what does it say(Roughly, not expecting a word for word transcription)?

Something like: "I've shot that Goldberg b*****d, they won't be bothering us again. Julia ring Blackburn Rovers and tell them the purchase is back on track!"

[vizcaya]

Blair Parry-Okeden is a woman. Please do a bit more research rather than just copy/pasting off Forbes. She is also American.

That might be so, but it does say in the pasted article that she is US born...

[Balwer]

That might be so, but it does say in the pasted article that she is US born...

Yes, she moved to Australia last year and thus took over the title of the richest person in Australia. However I imagine Nicko was referring to the buyers nationalities, rather than their place of residence. Although I live in London I refer to myself as an Australian not an Englishman after all.

[ABBEY]

looking like its going to be released on this board very soon......

[Craigman]

Sam Allardyce - Takeover now doubtful

[booth]

Sam Allardyce - Takeover now doubtful

He's saying he thinks it won't go through, but doesn't know why?

Could someone decipher this Allardyceism?

[Spansterkid]

He's saying he thinks it won't go through, but doesn't know why?

Could someone decipher this Allardyceism?

He means he knows about as much as us.

[BuckyRover]

He probably got his info from Kamy. Like the rest of us

[Iceman]

Sam, is saying what we have been saying. He is as much in the dark, as what we are.

[den]

He has reason to believe it's doubtful. Why think he doesn't know anything?

[DavidMailsTightPerm]

Sam Allardyce - Takeover now doubtful

At least this may flush out a response from the club or Mr Ali (maybe what Sam is after ?)

[Moppy]

At least this may flush out a response from the club or Mr Ali (maybe what Sam is after ?)

I think your bang on there, the line "I'm not privy to that information yet." is quite telling.

[Balwer]

At least this may flush out a response from the club or Mr Ali (maybe what Sam is after ?)

If the BBC expose didn't flush out a response, why would an offhand response from Sam do so?

[ABBEY]

If the BBC expose didn't flush out a response, why would an offhand response from Sam do so?

because he's the expert.