Kevin Carr's Gloves 3187 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Fish 8973 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Â Â you praying for the takeover or Leazes hanging himself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manc-mag 1 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Fingers crossed. And not in anticipation of a new Keegan/Hall-spend-a-maniac era either. Just in the sincere hope that the club will actually be professionally run. Not too much to ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom_NUFC 0 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 I'm not going to say its a good or bad thing. It should be pointed out that Polygon are a hedge fund with a reputation for wanting to make quick money. However, the proposal seems to state that they want to take a back seat and put football people in charge of running the club. If that's the case, then it may well be good news, but who knows? Â All we can do is wait and see. I'm reserving my judgement and right now I don't have strong feelings either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3187 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Â Â you praying for the takeover or Leazes hanging himself? Â The takeover it would be too much fun leazes baiting when we win the league for him to hang himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 0 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 One for the board's financial experts- what are Polygon going to be looking for as a return- surely around 8-10%? On £200m+ that's going to take a lot of work.  The numbers just don't add up for me. Hedge funds don't make many bad decisions so I wonder what it is they know that we don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8973 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 One for the board's financial experts- what are Polygon going to be looking for as a return- surely around 8-10%? On £200m+ that's going to take a lot of work.  The numbers just don't add up for me. Hedge funds don't make many bad decisions so I wonder what it is they know that we don't. Casino? Season Ticket price-Hikes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3187 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 One for the board's financial experts- what are Polygon going to be looking for as a return- surely around 8-10%? On £200m+ that's going to take a lot of work.  The numbers just don't add up for me. Hedge funds don't make many bad decisions so I wonder what it is they know that we don't. Casino? Season Ticket price-Hikes?  Once debt is paid off if planned correctly due to our fan base and possible foreign market inroads we would be classed as a hell of an investment. If we were to actually win something / compete we would be massive again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 0 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 One for the board's financial experts- what are Polygon going to be looking for as a return- surely around 8-10%? On £200m+ that's going to take a lot of work.  The numbers just don't add up for me. Hedge funds don't make many bad decisions so I wonder what it is they know that we don't. Casino? Season Ticket price-Hikes?   I don't know how much the proposed casino would make, but it surely wouldn't justify the outlay for the club. They could probably buy 10 times the land and build a casino the size of Killingworth for that.  As for ST prices, they'll know that supply is currently greater than demand, it will take something special on the pitch to fill the house at higher prices. Either that or they're going to be greeted by a lot of empty seats.  There must be something that makes us worth all the effort.  The big concern is that they can do a Glazer, and put the purchase vehicle's debt onto the acquired company, saddling us best part of a quarter of a billion of debt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17698 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Well if this goes ahead we are literally guaranteed success, so that can't be a bad thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombadil 0 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 The Swiss to the rescue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17698 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 The Swiss to the rescue! Â Unlike in WW2. Or WW1. Or...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombadil 0 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 The Swiss to the rescue! Â Unlike in WW2. Or WW1. Or...... Â You won't be complaining when dodgy Swiss money gets us Ronaldinho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3187 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Apparently rumours payment was to be made in gold bullion with a funny cross like logo on them are untrue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Maul 0 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 I think it's a case of when Freddy fucks off rather than if now. The rumours are getting really strong and there are three groups apparently intrested in taking over (Belgravia, Gillet and Polygon/UBS). Â I wouldn't be suprised if someone at the club leaked the stroy to try and get more cash out of the other two groups. They obviously think there is a mint to be made with the potential casino deal otherwise these huge sums of cash wouldn't be thrown about. Â One intresting thing in the article is that they say Belgravia has backing from the middle east. If that is the case and it's some oil rich Shiek then i'm firmly in their corner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 8973 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 I think it's a case of when Freddy fucks off rather than if now. The rumours are getting really strong and there are three groups apparently intrested in taking over (Belgravia, Gillet and Polygon/UBS).  I wouldn't be suprised if someone at the club leaked the stroy to try and get more cash out of the other two groups. They obviously think there is a mint to be made with the potential casino deal otherwise these huge sums of cash wouldn't be thrown about.  One intresting thing in the article is that they say Belgravia has backing from the middle east. If that is the case and it's some oil rich Shiek then i'm firmly in their corner   thye may have misheard/understood the phrase though...  instead of the Middle East it could be the East Midlands...  some two-bob-chancer from Derby.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizza 105 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ted/6182409.stm  Umm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Maul 0 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/t...ted/6182409.stm  Umm...  Aye, and....? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 34299 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 BBC reporting that UBS have pulled out which scuppers the deal. Sewpa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 19769 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 BBC reporting that UBS have pulled out which scuppers the deal. Sewpa. Â leazesmag will be buzzing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17698 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 BBC reporting that UBS have pulled out which scuppers the deal. Sewpa. Â Threatened by LeazesMag I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isegrim 8870 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Tomorrow's Daily Mail Headline: Â NEWCASTLE TAKEOVER SCUPPERED BY EUROPEAN IMMIGRANT SCUMBAGS EATING THE QUEENS SWANS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17698 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Shame if Shepherd is blocking this, a takeover by the right people would have been a nice Christmas present. I still can't work out how any buyers would make money on us though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombadil 0 Posted December 15, 2006 Share Posted December 15, 2006 Verdammte Kuhschweizer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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