Despatches:- How to buy a Football Club.

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Did anyone else watch this last night? Channel 4's Despatches dressed up as a consortium wanting to buy two football clubs under a vehicle. Very worrying as Bryan Robson was the face of the company willing to do it with the knowledge that the possible owners were only in it for the money.

Theres a lot more to it with Sir Alex Ferguson making a few appearances. Seems that he's corrupt.
 
Always admired Bryan Robson, after watching this he's gone right down in my estimations.

It was all very dodgy, but unfortunately football fans don't seem to be overly surprised by this sort of behaviour.

One simple thing they could do, stop all this nonsense of companies in Jersey/Bermuda/other tax havens from owning clubs. If you want to own a club, the company must be based in the UK, along with all the legal stuff that entails.
 
reefoid said:
One simple thing they could do, stop all this nonsense of companies in Jersey/Bermuda/other tax havens from owning clubs. If you want to own a club, the company must be based in the UK, along with all the legal stuff that entails.
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Not as easy as that though when potential owners already own a team of a different sport.
Our owners are based in Boston, the 'company' which owns us is registered there.
Dont see the problem... dodgy deals should be fairly obvious.
 
DanH84 said:
Yeah after watching that I don't think there's any possible way that he couldn't be...
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Like I mentioned in the banter thread, the best part was Sim revealing that Taggart likes to party in Bangkok and that nobody is allowed their phone or camera on them as of Taggart partying are worth a fortune :D
 
every sport is corrupt and the more money involved within the sport the more corrupt it is.

formula one and horse racing are also both extremely corrupt.

so no surprise here really, some people live in bubbles it seems.
 
"Sim was also recorded saying that he was involved in the acquisition of up to three football clubs. He claimed that one of his associates was the Singapore businessman Peter Lim who tried to buy Liverpool last year."

Wow.
 
Thought any of us can buy a football club these days , and you dont even need any money .
If iv got the time this afternoon ill apply for very big loan , but its allright ill have the security ie the club .
So If I borrow 100 million , buy barcelona . sell messi and inesta then default and let bank take it back after half a season keeping all the transfer cash . Lovely jubbeley !
 
rossiboy001 said:
Thought any of us can buy a football club these days , and you dont even need any money .
If iv got the time this afternoon ill apply for very big loan , but its allright ill have the security ie the club .
So If I borrow 100 million , buy barcelona . sell messi and inesta then default and let bank take it back after half a season keeping all the transfer cash . Lovely jubbeley !
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People need to stop reading The Sun sport's 'writers'. Buying an asset and using the asset as security against the loan is common practice. Selling asset's from a club and using the money for other proposes would probably break the loan contract- if it doesn't then that bank won't be in business very long- and it is also illegal in most countries.
 
watched it yeah, and Bryan Robson is right that Football these days is a business with Sky profiting and Club owners buying cheap, getting promotion etc and reselling.

Even so, didnt like the way they were doing it
 
Who cares?

Its pretty obvious to anyone that money rules football.

With all the foreign owners of PL clubs you would have thought the penny would have dropped by now.

Everything in business is "slimey" behind the scenes. Its life.

Just look at the Etiad "sponsorship" of Man City... LOL
 
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