Are Rovers being sold?

[philipl]

The Leeds link has been around for a few days- their owner has said no but this has just been posted:

https://www.teamtalk.com/news/french-journalist-provides-huge-update-on-leeds-investment-talks

If you want to link Qatar and Rovers:

https://www.arabianbusiness.com/blackburn-rovers-deny-deal-talks-with-qatari-royals-430269.html

https://punemirror.indiatimes.com/sports/cricket/blackburn-rovers-fc-up-for-sale/articleshow/31975419.cms

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/qatari-gives-up-owning-manchester-3313474

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/9361246.blackburn-rovers-set-for-fresh-takeover-attempt/

https://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896/premier-league/2011/11/15/2758862/blackburn-rovers-owners-dismiss-reports-linking-club-with-qatari-

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/15722809

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/venkys-denies-intent-to-sell-blackburn-rovers-g6kwfkbj9rf

All those stories are completely for real. I have explained this on another recent thread somewhere on the MB.

There is a particular reason why this particular Qatari being in the market would stimulate some lazy journalists to think Blackburn Rovers.

This thread should be entitled "Potential Buyer for Rovers"

Rovers are emphatically not being sold.

 

[AAK]

34 minutes ago, Bigdoggsteel said:

They what? 

Training camps for kids.

[AAK]

33 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Soccer Schools in Whalley, so near enough.

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/business/east_lancashire_chamber_of_commerce/16061903.psg-academy-england-easter-camp-at-oakhill-school/

There also doing it at a school in blackburn as well now pal. https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/17687891.on-the-hunt-for-the-next-neymar-school-boys-get-world-class-footy-training/?fbclid=IwAR2-38rOjxhU3cY_vH40kIdEsa80C4yCiM5ehWh-xFOQCJ2ZB6KVfLSPDC4

Edited June 6, 2019 by AAK

[roverandout]

I smell ??

[Bigdoggsteel]

4 minutes ago, AAK said:

Training camps for kids.

I see. That's interesting. 

[tomphil]

3 club rule

It's not happening, well not for us anyway.

[Maji]

I don't care if it is only a 1% chance, this made me smile ?☺️

 

[AllRoverAsia]

Just now, Dr X said:

I don't care if it is only a 1% chance, this made me smile ?☺️

 

Yes, indeed, we can but dream.

Watching the Cricket helps too.

[Paul Mellelieu]

Rather not have owners from a despotic ruling family thank you.

[Maji]

21 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Yes, indeed, we can but dream.

Watching the Cricket helps too.

One day it will happen ™️?

 

[bluebruce]

Obviously we have plenty of cause to celebrate the day Venkys sell the club. That said...(tin hat on)

Would this even benefit us all that much at this point? FFP nonsense means we can't spend any more than we seem to be planning on spending over the next couple of years without suffering points deductions etc. Unless they would be more willing to find creative ways around it, of course. What the club needs to progress is, therefore, smarter and more sensible owners. Not a big ask, but are Sheikhs whose approach to success has been to chuck inordinate amounts of money at problems going to help or hinder? It might simply shatter the stability we finally seem to be finding. Or see us overspend, fail to be promoted, and get smacked with punishments. (Yes I know the alternative outcome would be huge spending and promotion)

On the other hand, this completely-not-happening story gave me a semi.

[AllRoverAsia]

1 hour ago, Dr X said:

One day it will happen ™️?

 

I'm 67 now and without wanting to tempt fate that's a decent age in my Family history. I hope I'm around to see it, almost a decade down the drain already and all due to an Indian family. RUNTS.

Edited June 6, 2019 by AllRoverAsia

[JHRover]

6 minutes ago, bluebruce said:

Obviously we have plenty of cause to celebrate the day Venkys sell the club. That said...(tin hat on)

Would this even benefit us all that much at this point? FFP nonsense means we can't spend any more than we seem to be planning on spending over the next couple of years without suffering points deductions etc. Unless they would be more willing to find creative ways around it, of course. What the club needs to progress is, therefore, smarter and more sensible owners. Not a big ask, but are Sheikhs whose approach to success has been to chuck inordinate amounts of money at problems going to help or hinder? It might simply shatter the stability we finally seem to be finding. Or see us overspend, fail to be promoted, and get smacked with punishments. (Yes I know the alternative outcome would be huge spending and promotion)

On the other hand, this completely-not-happening story gave me a semi.

For all that see Wolves. They got lucky with good rich owners and did what they needed to. Obey the Ffp laws to the letter and you'll likely go nowhere. The clued up owners work around them, ours hide behind them.

[Maji]

30 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

I'm 57 now and without wanting to tempt fate that's a decent age in my Family history. I hope I'm around to see it, almost a decade down the drain already and all due to an Indian family. RUNTS.

You'll see them leave and get to join in the celebrations with us all! 

 

[AllRoverAsia]

Just now, Dr X said:

You'll see them leave and get to join in the celebrations with us all! 

 

Hope so, my post had a typo in it, now corrected 

[Vinjay]

2 hours ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

Rather not have owners from a despotic ruling family thank you.

Raos haven't left. 

 

[Husky]

8 hours ago, AAK said:

Takeover bid? http://sportsrecents.com/psg-president-nasser-al-khelaifi-wants-to-takeover-blackburn-rovers/

I was half expecting to find a link to a Ronaldo Rovers link on there.

[Paul Mellelieu]

1 hour ago, Vinjay17 said:

Raos haven't left. 

 

India is the biggest democracy in the world.

[Stuart]

3 hours ago, bluebruce said:

Obviously we have plenty of cause to celebrate the day Venkys sell the club. That said...(tin hat on)

Would this even benefit us all that much at this point? FFP nonsense means we can't spend any more than we seem to be planning on spending over the next couple of years without suffering points deductions etc. Unless they would be more willing to find creative ways around it, of course. What the club needs to progress is, therefore, smarter and more sensible owners. Not a big ask, but are Sheikhs whose approach to success has been to chuck inordinate amounts of money at problems going to help or hinder? It might simply shatter the stability we finally seem to be finding. Or see us overspend, fail to be promoted, and get smacked with punishments. (Yes I know the alternative outcome would be huge spending and promotion)

On the other hand, this completely-not-happening story gave me a semi.

You can’t have “stability” with £180m+ of debt.

You just have absolutely dependency on a drug that is slowly killing you.

[bluebruce]

4 hours ago, JHRover said:

For all that see Wolves. They got lucky with good rich owners and did what they needed to. Obey the Ffp laws to the letter and you'll likely go nowhere. The clued up owners work around them, ours hide behind them.

I did pretty much cover that though. I accepted it can also go very right if you're lucky (more clubs fail at it than succeed though) and that there are ways around it (those are finally being challenged though). If rich owners could come in with the will and nous to pump money in without coming a cropper, and manage the club sensibly within those resources, obviously that'd be ideal. I'd just hate after all this suffering, to think we were free and then it be out of the frying pan into the fire.

1 hour ago, Stuart said:

You can’t have “stability” with £180m+ of debt.

You just have absolutely dependency on a drug that is slowly killing you.

You can if they literally never call it in. They keep suggesting that's the case. 'No expectation of repayment' shows up in every accounts publication. Obviously I'm not fool enough to assume that's true, but it's like anything else with those mad fucks - maybe, maybe not. Agree it often feels like we have dependency on a drug that's killing us though. It's crazy that we've become reliant on cash injections from the people who ruined us.

Even crazier that they've always rejected overtures to buy us out of hand.

[old darwen blue]

The venkys would have to convince the silent partners to sell first. 

?

[davulsukur]

10 hours ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Hope so, my post had a typo in it, now corrected 

Nope, the last word in the post is still incorrect by 1 letter.

[AllRoverAsia]

8 hours ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

India is the biggest democracy in the world.

ROFL

[Paul Mellelieu]

With a population of over 1.3 billion people – and growing – India is the world’s largest democracy, and the second largest country on the planet after China. With a score of 7.81 on the democracy index, India is also classed as a flawed democracy. At the 2014 general election – the largest in the world, Narendra Modi’s BJP won the most seats and went on to form a government. The country is due to go back to the polls in 2019.

[old darwen blue]

32 minutes ago, Paul Mellelieu said:

With a population of over 1.3 billion people – and growing – India is the world’s largest democracy, and the second largest country on the planet after China. With a score of 7.81 on the democracy index, India is also classed as a flawed democracy. At the 2014 general election – the largest in the world, Narendra Modi’s BJP won the most seats and went on to form a government. The country is due to go back to the polls in 2019.

What does that mean and where does India’s caste system fit into a democracy?