Gareth Bale Takeover Thread

[RichardM]

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Maybe they'l have the business acumen to not make losses. Imagine that.

If that was the case they wouldn't be contemplating buying a football club.

[splott parker]

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Don't you think he raises some valid points though?

This is different from nearly every, if not every, statement of intent re. a UK football club, in that the person making the statement is a football person and a football person actually from the place where the club is located. It’s not some faceless chancer who’s not been heard of that’s making us fans frantically Googling his name, then getting excited by the fact he’s got a few bob or deflated by the fact that he seems a phoney.
Of course there’s many Ts to be crossed and Is to be dotted but in these gloomy times for us it’s a bit of light at the end of the tunnel, light’s that being shone by one of the UK’s or world’s best ever players who has always, in my opinion, acted throughout his career with dignity.
What’s not to get excited about?

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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Google Vincent Tan he he appears as the owner of Cardiff City above all his other interest. Google images and it's 90% Tan in a City shirt. 7000 miles away the fortunes of Cardiff City have little impact on Malaysian media, but his involvement does. I dread writing this, but I don't think Tan has any interest in ever selling - it's doing his ego no end of good. I really hope I'm wrong on this one..

[Mr Ducie]

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This is different from nearly every, if not every, statement of intent re. a UK football club, in that the person making the statement is a football person and a football person actually from the place where the club is located. It’s not some faceless chancer who’s not been heard of that’s making us fans frantically Googling his name, then getting excited by the fact he’s got a few bob or deflated by the fact that he seems a phoney.
Of course there’s many Ts to be crossed and Is to be dotted but in these gloomy times for us it’s a bit of light at the end of the tunnel, light’s that being shone by one of the UK’s or world’s best ever players who has always, in my opinion, acted throughout his career with dignity.
What’s not to get excited about?

Due to commercial confidentiality, the fact that Gareth Bale has publicly announced his intention to purchase, suggests to me that the process is quite far down the line.

The club have has had significant interest from other investors in the past and none have reached this level of media exposure.

[Rock_Flock_of_Five]

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This is different from nearly every, if not every, statement of intent re. a UK football club, in that the person making the statement is a football person and a football person actually from the place where the club is located. It’s not some faceless chancer who’s not been heard of that’s making us fans frantically Googling his name, then getting excited by the fact he’s got a few bob or deflated by the fact that he seems a phoney.
Of course there’s many Ts to be crossed and Is to be dotted but in these gloomy times for us it’s a bit of light at the end of the tunnel, light’s that being shone by one of the UK’s or world’s best ever players who has always, in my opinion, acted throughout his career with dignity.
What’s not to get excited about?

Oh, the thought of a takeover is exciting indeed... IF it falls into the right hands.
We can all accept that Gareth Bale is just the 'face' of the proposed takeover consortium.

However, it's important that we don't get too carried away at this early stage. Neither you, nor I, know anything about the integrity of this consortium, and neither I suspect does Gareth Bale.
At least under Vincent Tan we could never be labelled a 'selling club'.
We got ridiculous money for both Zahore and McGuiness, both great deals at the time. Kieffer Moore had his heart set on a move, it was prudent not to try and stand in his way.
Already the club has announced we don't need to sell any players, unless it's on our terms.
Being a former football great is one thing, being an astute businessman is another.

[splott parker]

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Oh, the thought of a takeover is exciting indeed... IF it falls into the right hands.
We can all accept that Gareth Bale is just the 'face' of the proposed takeover consortium.

However, it's important that we don't get too carried away at this early stage. Neither you, nor I, know anything about the integrity of this consortium, and neither I suspect does Gareth Bale.
At least under Vincent Tan we could never be labelled a 'selling club'.
We got ridiculous money for both Zahore and McGuiness, both great deals at the time. Kieffer Moore had his heart set on a move, it was prudent not to try and stand in his way.
Already the club has announced we don't need to sell any players, unless it's on our terms.
Being a former football great is one thing, being an astute businessman is another.

That’s what I implied, lots of Ts to crossed and Is to be dotted. Yes, Bale is the mouthpiece at the moment but, crucially, not some faceless, unknown mouthpiece. A loyal man to his country whereas other ‘superstars’ picked and chose, a trait which you’d like to think wouldn’t see him involved with a bunch of shady shysters. He’s surely taken advice on when to drop this news and I’d imagine he and his advisors are astute enough to have done his homework on the integrity of proposed investors. He wouldn’t let his mouth go wild like this without research, can’t see any way he’d risk it all collapsing in farce with him looking an absolute dick.

[GL1Blue]

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Google Vincent Tan he he appears as the owner of Cardiff City above all his other interest. Google images and it's 90% Tan in a City shirt. 7000 miles away the fortunes of Cardiff City have little impact on Malaysian media, but his involvement does. I dread writing this, but I don't think Tan has any interest in ever selling - it's doing his ego no end of good. I really hope I'm wrong on this one..

Not everyone will get the same search results, yours will be heavily influenced by browsing history, location, etc.

[goats]

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Google Vincent Tan he he appears as the owner of Cardiff City above all his other interest. Google images and it's 90% Tan in a City shirt. 7000 miles away the fortunes of Cardiff City have little impact on Malaysian media, but his involvement does. I dread writing this, but I don't think Tan has any interest in ever selling - it's doing his ego no end of good. I really hope I'm wrong on this one..

I don’t think he will ever get any of the mythical 100 million he’s blown on bad mgt back unless he lets the club go and retains a small stake, then if the new owners manage to get us up and keep us up, his stake will be worth far more…..I’d have to assume if he he doesn’t let the club go after allegedly losing so much, that he’s full of it and things ain’t so bad after all…..

[fingers]

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I don’t think he will ever get any of the mythical 100 million he’s blown on bad mgt back unless he lets the club go and retains a small stake, then if the new owners manage to get us up and keep us up, his stake will be worth far more…..I’d have to assume if he he doesn’t let the club go after allegedly losing so much, that he’s full of it and things ain’t so bad after all…..

This got me thinking about the outcome of the Sala case. What if a deal was struck that any financial compensation, repayments, costs etc would go to Tan and he'd get his costs back? Is that legally possible if it's CCFC's name on the court documents?

A lot of people on here have said Tan won't sell until the Sala case is settled, and let's be honest even if the case (to be heard in September?) finds in our favour there's potential further cases to be filed against UEFA and possibly Nantes, both of which could drag on for years. Give the whole shebang to Tan, he sells and allows CCFC to draw a line under the whole sorry mess (Sorry, I don't want that to come across as heartless for Sala's family). I guess the money spent on the Sala transfer and subsequent court cases has come directly out of Tan's pocket and not necessarily from the club itself?

[the other bob wilson]

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That’s what I implied, lots of Ts to crossed and Is to be dotted. Yes, Bale is the mouthpiece at the moment but, crucially, not some faceless, unknown mouthpiece. A loyal man to his country whereas other ‘superstars’ picked and chose, a trait which you’d like to think wouldn’t see him involved with a bunch of shady shysters. He’s surely taken advice on when to drop this news and I’d imagine he and his advisors are astute enough to have done his homework on the integrity of proposed investors. He wouldn’t let his mouth go wild like this without research, can’t see any way he’d risk it all collapsing in farce with him looking an absolute dick.

I can't see how Bale's intervention yesterday has done anything but move the likelihood of a takeover forward by several notches - I also feel it will accelerate any buy out, assuming there is one. It seems that there are other interested parties about and what Bale had to say will have concentrated minds and got them asking what do we do know?

You're right to focus on how having someone like Gareth Bale involved makes this takeover bid different from the norm. Everyone else involved, be they the club's current ownership or other potential buyers, are going to know that, despite him turning us down three years ago, most supporters are going to want the Bale consortium to emerge victorious. Our current unpopular owner could do himself a favour in the PR stakes by opting for the Bale led bid, especially, if he can claim that he could have got a higher price from one of the other bidders.

I don't know about the plans of any one looking to buy out Vicent Tan, but I'm almost at the stage where I don't much care any more. I'm done with being careful with what I wish for.

With a lot of luck and a strong following wind, we might just get back to the Championship under Vincent Tan's ownership, but the last five years (not to mention Kortrijk's relegation) have shown that we've no chance of reaching the Premier League again with Tan, Dalman and Choo in charge.

Who knows, supporting Cardiff City might become fun again.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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This got me thinking about the outcome of the Sala case. What if a deal was struck that any financial compensation, repayments, costs etc would go to Tan and he'd get his costs back? Is that legally possible if it's CCFC's name on the court documents?

A lot of people on here have said Tan won't sell until the Sala case is settled, and let's be honest even if the case (to be heard in September?) finds in our favour there's potential further cases to be filed against UEFA and possibly Nantes, both of which could drag on for years. Give the whole shebang to Tan, he sells and allows CCFC to draw a line under the whole sorry mess (Sorry, I don't want that to come across as heartless for Sala's family). I guess the money spent on the Sala transfer and subsequent court cases has come directly out of Tan's pocket and not necessarily from the club itself?

Legal contracts can obviously include contingencies of many descriptions.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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This is different from nearly every, if not every, statement of intent re. a UK football club, in that the person making the statement is a football person and a football person actually from the place where the club is located. It’s not some faceless chancer who’s not been heard of that’s making us fans frantically Googling his name, then getting excited by the fact he’s got a few bob or deflated by the fact that he seems a phoney.
Of course there’s many Ts to be crossed and Is to be dotted but in these gloomy times for us it’s a bit of light at the end of the tunnel, light’s that being shone by one of the UK’s or world’s best ever players who has always, in my opinion, acted throughout his career with dignity.
What’s not to get excited about?

Great post, he's a top bloke, and it looks excellent news :thumbup:

[delmbox]

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I'm struggling to imagine Tan with the size of his ego handing over the club to not just anyone but someone who will be regarded as a hero in the way he I think originally wanted to be. Will take a monster bid that he can't refuse.

God I hope it happens though, would be incredible!!

[splott parker]

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Hasn’t the Sala case been passed on to a ‘sort of’ no win/no fee outfit? Didn’t Tan/the club receive a payment from them with a further pay out to him should the case be won (which you’d imagine the ‘buyers’ of the case would be pretty confident of seeing as they’ve shelled out already). The Bale deal could be a huge face saving, popular deal for Tan, a sort of ‘I’ve left the club in the capable hands of a Welsh hero’.

Putin is rubbing his hands in glee, the Israel/Palestine/Iran/USA situation meaning people are taking their eye off the ball regarding Ukraine and now this Gareth Bale news dominating the world’s media.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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This got me thinking about the outcome of the Sala case. What if a deal was struck that any financial compensation, repayments, costs etc would go to Tan and he'd get his costs back? Is that legally possible if it's CCFC's name on the court documents?

A lot of people on here have said Tan won't sell until the Sala case is settled, and let's be honest even if the case (to be heard in September?) finds in our favour there's potential further cases to be filed against UEFA and possibly Nantes, both of which could drag on for years. Give the whole shebang to Tan, he sells and allows CCFC to draw a line under the whole sorry mess (Sorry, I don't want that to come across as heartless for Sala's family). I guess the money spent on the Sala transfer and subsequent court cases has come directly out of Tan's pocket and not necessarily from the club itself?

I'm sure something like that could be written into any agreement to sell the club. I don't think it's the stumbling block some seem to think it is.