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Manchester City are expected to release a statement to the Stock Exchange this morning amid reports Ray Ranson has made a £90m offer to buy the club. Ex-City full-back Ranson, who failed in a bid for Aston Villa, was thought to have made the offer on Monday. But BBC Radio Five Live understands a bid has yet to be lodged. City chairman John Wardle earlier this month admitted the club were in talks with potential investors and is thought to be keen to sell. Reports on Monday claimed former Thailand prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who failed in a bid for Liverpool in 2004, was interested in buying City with partners from China and the Middle East. And the club has also been linked with a buy-out from American investors. Ranson's reported bid was said to cover the club's shares, loans of about £24m to major shareholders John Wardle and David Makin and debts to other creditors. He is thought to have the backing of other businessmen and prepared to provide a transfer kitty of around £20m for new players. Ranson, who also played for Birmingham, Newcastle and Reading, made over 200 appearances for City, where he started his career. The 46-year-old multi-millionaire made his fortune from insurance and from football finance and has also invested in football analysis company Prozone. He made two bids for Villa before the Midlands club were bought by American billionaire Randy Lerner. If City were to change hands they would become the fifth Premiership club to be sold in the last year - but the first to stay under British control. Portsmouth, Villa, West Ham and Liverpool have all been taken over by foreign investors since last summer.

2 weeks in egypt, hope to do a spot of diving

wtf

glad to see the bloody back of him. LEGEND

order one with carr 2 on will ya!

'bout fookin time

whats viginia uni and the antartic got in common ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . both minus 22 today

same happened to me at hexham course years ago, smashed my drive into the tree which came back at me and landed in the stream beside me , gutted!

i blame souness tbh

the blackburn fans down here are all moaning about the price ffs its 30 mins from my door to old trafford and about a fiver on the train, daft buggers, it would be funny if we all bought the remander of the tickets and had a 16k neutral section

yeah but if its their cock up then shirly if tough titty?

wor lass quit her job at the end of jan, the company paid her 1 months wage in error!! no-one told payroll she had left anyway can they try and claim the money back, we got a letter today saying they will take it further unless we pay it back, way i see it is its their bloody fault for doing it, anyhooo can someone help cheers

souness's fault tbh

depends on the price of the flights!!

not what you are thinking ya doorty buggers, does anyone have any ideas for cheap holidays, looking for something all inc and daaaaamn hot cheers

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or switch ya foolin lights off

by far the best one ever, and like the doc said above, that bit about the usa sleeping at night was very very true, and as for alabama!! JESUS!!!

anyone seen hannibal rising? saw it yesterday and was not too impressed

i fancy a move to oz or nz, sick of this shitehole of a country

ditto mate, i'm in blackburn and miss the toon like hell

http://www.phones4u.co.uk/shop/shop_contra...PItemKey=161382 i got that stop the clock on mine, talk for an hour off peak and only use 3 mins!!!!

i got n73 off vodaphone, cracking camera, good phone

just got this yesterday