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All great business if you ask me...

Number 7.....

Cracking news. Best we have had in ages. Lets hope it convinces Stevie and Nando that their futures are with us. Well in Roy!

Doesn't bode well if thats the case.

Taye Taiwo or Maynor Figueroa

Deal agreed. £12.5m. Flying in for medical tomorrow. £7.5m upfront.

I wonder who we have been 'linked' with that he hasn't heard of? That Korean at Monaco maybe? Bet he's heard of Paul Scharner and James Beattie though...

Pack Albert off to Galatasaray in a player plus cash swap for Arda Turan, who looks like he is deperate to play for us. looking forward to seeing what Shelvey is like....

Makes you wonder what happened at United, he was garbage there. Garbage to best player in the World Cup in about 5 years.

He said that the club was on the verge of 'meltdown' and we could be well looking at a Leeds if not worse. He asked how was it realistic that we were going to be sold by the end of August if there are no bids on the table? And that SG and FT were sick of broken promises and lies from senior management.

FFS the Larry Ellison thing was some posting on Transfer Rumours. I want us rid of Yanks period.

I'm not so sure. I've read that Broughton was great friends with father and attended his funeral, don't know if this has any bearing on things.

I have asked myself. An excellent business reputation forged over 40 hard years working for some of the worlds biggest companies and chairing some prestigious consortiums? Do you reckon he wants to go down as Hick's bitch, because I don't?

I don't get the constant 'Broughton is lying' thing. Cecil, yes! The bloke doesn't need this job, he took it because he well respected and will be expected to deliver. High profile executives don't want to be associated with lies, deceit and failure. It sullies their reputation and these guys have got massive ego's too you know. This mans credentials are there for all to see. Ex chairman of the Confederation of British Industry FFS and a well respected one at that. Ex chair of the British Horse Racing Federation - shouldn't this give you some clues as to who we might be targetting as a potential suitor? If I am wrong at the end of this I will take the rap, but I do think there is a tendency to over-analyse stuff in the press and stuff on forums and come to a conclusion which is sometimes way off beam. I'm staying positive - good luck Roy!

I genuinely think he thinks its a great honour and it is. The man wasn't born yesterday, we will have had some say in his terms of employment.

We have a timetable for sale:- June - memorandums of information Mid July - first round of bidding - 'beauty parade' if you like End of August - hoped to complete a sale, but no guarantees No offers have yet been tendered, so nothing has been turned down as widely reported. The owners cannot block a sale. There is no price that has to be realised. All on the record. And all points to me that its very much under the control of the banks, which would figure as I believe (unlike many) that RBS want this potentially toxic and unprotected debt off their books. Once upon a time they would have happily taken the interest payments, but not in the new world order where they are accountable to the taxpayer for £56bn of equity. Broughton and the board can now be held to account. Hick's as I thought is a bluffer who is in shit street.

I reckon he might try and bring Big Peter back, Brede Hangeland and Clint Dempsey from Fulham. The challenge will be trying to do this with Cecil's budget will start magicly shrinking from the minute he signs on the dotted line! "£1.5m did you say Cecil,?: I could have sworn you said we had enough for one more major signing'.............:|

It will be announced as a 'brave new era' tomorrow to coincide with the commencement of the Standard Chartered deal. Bet those poor fuckers wonder what they got themselves into! EDit: Sorry Talktome - missed your post!

Thats them off then.

Roy's making a big move leaving a safe job at Fulham with a supportive owner and board and where he is revered by the fans and moving to a hornets nest engulfed by debt problem and ownership uncertainty, a disingenuous snake of an MD and fans bitterly divided by his appointment (and there own take on the motives as to why he was appointed). The very least he deserves IMHO is an 'open mind' from fans. So he's getting one from me. I just hope he has recognised Cecil for what he is in coming to his decision.

Never thought Maddock was any good. Now he's just Cecil's media whore.

What a fucking tragic mess we have become. I don't know whether to get behind the fucker, pity the fucker or hate everything he is coming to represent. To think not so long ago, all we had to get het up about was squad rotation! Halcyon fucking days!

Woy & Way FFS!

A fat, Texan SPACker I think you will find! I see Citi Group and Deutsche Bank are underwriting. Didn't Cecil carve out his career at these two??

Who on earth would sink cash into one of the c*nts SPAC's. Hicks desperate for cash. Hicks Tries Second SPAC as Market Wanes Posted on: June 28th, 2010 Greenhill & Co. Hicks Holdings Tom Hicks Tom Hicks is taking his second bite at the blank check apple. The Dallas-based private equity icon recently filed for his second special purpose acquisition vehicle (SPAC), with plans to raise $200 million. He’ll have 21 months from the IPO until transaction completion, or else he’ll be required to return proceeds to investors. Hicks, in a June 28 regulatory filing, didn’t identify what sectors he would be targeting but he has typically invested in consumer goods and media companies. Citi and Deutsche Bank Securities are underwriting the deal. Hicks’ first SPAC went public in September 2007 and tried the following year to buy Graham Packaging from The Blackstone Group. That deal failed, so in 2009 Hicks bought Resolute Energy and took it public via a reverse merger. So why a SPAC now? Hicks has had many troubled investments and blank check vehicles are the only way he can raise money, sources said. For example, he’s in the process of selling the Texas Rangers baseball team after defaulting on more than $525 million in loans last year. “A SPAC may be his only route as institutions are not going to invest in his poor record,” a buyout executive explains. In general, SPACs have lost some of their cool of late. In 2008, 27 SPACs filed to go public with an aggregate value of roughly $3.5 billion. This dropped to one in 2009 and only two have filed so far this year. Of that pair 57th Gen Acquisition Corp. raised $54.6 million in May. SPACs are simply vehicles for raising cash. An investor, typically a private equity or hedge fund, will back a “blank check company” with the only purpose to effect a merger or business combination within a certain time period. SPACs have been considered very speculative investments but became popular during the credit boom of earlier this decided. While many have failed, a few have done well. GHL Acquisition Corp., backed by Greenhill & Co., raised $400 million in February 2008. Later that year, GHL merged with Iridium Holdings, a mobile satellite services company. “They are correctly perceived as the avenue of last resort for raising money,” one private equity executive said. “Very few get invested and of those few many have been crappy investments,” said another.