3 hours ago, axman2526 said:

London-based luxury property developer Nick Candy now has the funds in place to make a bid for Chelsea this week.

 

Candy, a Chelsea fan, has been working to put together a consortium to buy the club and he has held talks with former Liverpool and British Airways chairman Sir Martin Broughton, another lifelong Blues fan, about such such a deal.

 

 

 

3 hours ago, TokyoBlue said:

Would be nice to have a successful bid from buyers that are Chelsea fans. 

However, I just read Sir Martin Broughton's net worth is $200,000!!!  Could be that valuation is way off the mark, but something don't add up - literally.

https://networthpost.org/net-worth/martin-broughton-net-worth/

 

One source, i forget which but theyre on twitter - a media outlet in London - claim Nick Candy is being backed by Citadel LLC.  Owned by Ken Griffin, worth roughly 30bn

 

Believe they are an American Hedge Fund.    Providing him with the finance, so will no doubt have a stake in the club should he win

 

 

49 minutes ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

 

He was at the game. Maybe wanted to see if they would stick around of he can buy the club.

23 minutes ago, RickUK said:

 

One source, i forget which but theyre on twitter - a media outlet in London - claim Nick Candy is being backed by Citadel LLC.  Owned by Ken Griffin, worth roughly 30bn

 

Believe they are an American Hedge Fund.    Providing him with the finance, so will no doubt have a stake in the club should he win

 

 

Cannot find anything on Citadel LLC and Nick Candy being linked.

Candy did an interview on Monday saying he had the funds in place and they were working on the final structure of the bid. Also that he would not be the one to write write largest cheque in his consortium. 

My gut tells me he, Sir Martin and their consortium would be best overall for us, though I have 0 evidence as to why.

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Cannot find anything on Citadel LLC and Nick Candy being linked.

Candy did an interview on Monday saying he had the funds in place and they were working on the final structure of the bid. Also that he would not be the one to write write largest cheque in his consortium. 

My gut tells me he, Sir Martin and their consortium would be best overall for us, though I have 0 evidence as to why.

MiddleEastEye, based in London, a legit source claimed it.  It's citadel LLC

 

 

9 hours ago, BluesPower said:

I really hope we end up with the Turk

So Friday is the deadline. Pretty interesting to see who has the best bid. If we manage to get a Chelsea fan and a British owner like Candy is it would be perfect. I am just not a fan of his whole consortium model. Every decision is mulled over.

Just read the Carragher bullsh*t. He’s just doing what comes naturally to a scouser, making himself the victim. Why is anyone surprised?

Im not usually one to go with the "everyone hates us" argument but when you see sh*t like this its hard to argue against it. After all the sh*t we've gone through in the past week some clubs think we have an advantage, you can't make this up.

One of the most naive contributions in this debate has come from Caragher.

I don’t need to look any further than Liverpool to see a club that has operated in  the exact same way.

Destabilising another club well Mr C let’s talk about Kloop and Van Dyke! Who about Middlesbrough and Ziegler?

As for poaching other clubs academy anyone remember   Sterling arriving at Liverpool or what Harvey Elliott? Or how about the ban after the mistreatment of the Stoke lad.

Mr C as most have pointed out is hardly a paragon of virtue who just got luckily because he happened to be a footballer but unlike Gary Neville who I think at least has a brain Mr C just can’t see what a hypocrite his comments show him up as being.

 

13 minutes ago, terraloon said:

One of the most naive contributions in this debate has come from Caragher.

I don’t need to look any further than Liverpool to see a club that has operated in  the exact same way.

Destabilising another club well Mr C let’s talk about Kloop and Van Dyke! Who about Middlesbrough and Ziegler?

As for poaching other clubs academy anyone remember   Sterling arriving at Liverpool or what Harvey Elliott? Or how about the ban after the mistreatment of the Stoke lad.

Mr C as most have pointed out is hardly a paragon of virtue who just got luckily because he happened to be a footballer but unlike Gary Neville who I think at least has a brain Mr C just can’t see what a hypocrite his comments show him up as being.

 

Even closer to home, they pinched Dominic Solanke off us !!!

I'm surprised that Carragher is making suggestions to improve Liverpool's main historical rivals Manchester United. I'm sure that will go down well back home in Liverpool :-)  Thick cnut

1 hour ago, Munkworth said:

Just read the Carragher bullsh*t. He’s just doing what comes naturally to a scouser, making himself the victim. Why is anyone surprised?

Hes crying because we tried to take his bestest fwend from him 20 years ago, all that pent up anger finally has a release for the obnoxious spitty c**t.

 

On us poaching academy players and tapping up, maybe someone should mention this to him, with regards to hypocrisy...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/apr/05/liverpool-banned-signing-academy-players-fined-stoke#:~:text=Liverpool banned from signing academy players and fined £100%2C000,-This article is&text=Liverpool have been fined £,a schoolboy from Stoke City.

 

Oh and there was obviously the whole Van Dijk debacle, where they were caught red handed but let off because they apologised

Edited March 15, 20224 yr by dkw

Spitty Carragher: “I’m a big fan of the traditional elite, Liverpool, Man U and Arsenal.”

Says it all really. How dare we burst their shiny red bubble.

Edited March 15, 20224 yr by Upsetter

It is rapidly becoming a three-way battle to buy Chelsea FC between US consortiums involving Todd Boehly's consortium, the Ricketts family who own the Chicago Cubs and New York Jets owner Woody Johnson.

- @johncrossmirror

Industry brochure given to prospective #Chelsea bidders:

🔹 Told increasing Stamford Bridge from 45,000 to 62,500 will increase match-day revenue from £70M to £200M
🔹 Naming rights of Stamford Bridge potential future money-spinner

🔹 Significant improvements can be made to club's commercial model - more in line with US franchises
🔹 Potential resurrection of Super League - possible route for more revenue

🔹 Squad fourth most valuable team in the world 
🔹 Christian Pulisic mentioned - commercial value in America

[via @MailSport]

6 minutes ago, JM7 said:

It is rapidly becoming a three-way battle to buy Chelsea FC between US consortiums involving Todd Boehly's consortium, the Ricketts family who own the Chicago Cubs and New York Jets owner Woody Johnson.

- @johncrossmirror

Who the hell listens to John Cross?

Football finance expert was saying that some of the bids/interest especially those who have gone public is simply a PR thing in order to increase their branding/status/future interest. Be interesting to see who does eventually get it. 

If The club is sold for more than about 1,8 bn it’s been a profitable investment. Abramovitch funds the annual losses and net investment in players. The total of that funding is about 1.5bn representing the loans he is owed. To that you can add the original 180 m puchase price  So in total for him to break even he needs about 1,8 bn. Actually if I was doing the sums properly I’d have to allow for the accumulated interest on the loans but you get the idea.

I looked up the Dallas cowboys, they are worth about US$6.5 bn but they also make a profit one their stadium contributes quite a bit of that. 
in my opinion this shows two things. 
1. It’s worth investing in top players because then you win comps and your value goes up and;

2. You need the right stadium to maximize that value and Stamford Bridge is not that stadium. 

I hope it is not related to Saudi Arabia, as the UTD chap said a few pages back about the violent death of Kashoggi and I recall a few years ago a US political push to review 9/11 redacted material on Saudi Arabia  from political intelligence reports. It never came to anything as was blocked politically yet if someone in power decides Saudi Arabia is no longer a friend might find ourselves back in the frying pan.

If Chelsea are in a major final again with another club owned by a Saudi group are we comfortable that this was would stay a clean match or would it be subject to power channels in Saudi Arabia?

2 hours ago, Upsetter said:

Spitty Carragher: “I’m a big fan of the traditional elite, Liverpool, Man U and Arsenal.”

Says it all really. How dare we burst their shiny red bubble.

Exactly, it's just a selfish pov. Sky only hire ex-liverpool, arsenal and Utd pundits. Are we really surprised by this? The bias has been there for years. 

51 minutes ago, ozboy said:

If The club is sold for more than about 1,8 bn it’s been a profitable investment. Abramovitch funds the annual losses and net investment in players. The total of that funding is about 1.5bn representing the loans he is owed. To that you can add the original 180 m puchase price  So in total for him to break even he needs about 1,8 bn. Actually if I was doing the sums properly I’d have to allow for the accumulated interest on the loans but you get the idea.

I looked up the Dallas cowboys, they are worth about US$6.5 bn but they also make a profit one their stadium contributes quite a bit of that. 
in my opinion this shows two things. 
1. It’s worth investing in top players because then you win comps and your value goes up and;

2. You need the right stadium to maximize that value and Stamford Bridge is not that stadium. 

Wont be profitable at all if Roman is forced to give it all away....

3 hours ago, JM7 said:

It is rapidly becoming a three-way battle to buy Chelsea FC between US consortiums involving Todd Boehly's consortium, the Ricketts family who own the Chicago Cubs and New York Jets owner Woody Johnson.

- @johncrossmirror

Marvelous....

Same Ricketts family who sold off the Cubs best players and, according to their fans, tell them they are broke yet now can bid for us.

Same Mr. Johnson who has kept the Jets a laughing stock and only there to make money and make up the numbers.

Same Todd consortium that has one person (Wyss) who is said to hate everything Roman has done and another (JG) who is an avid Spurs fan. 

Edited March 15, 20224 yr by axman2526

Latest is we are not allowed to buy tickets for the Boro cup match on Saturday, so home fans only unless you purchased one before last Thursday.

What's next giving Boro a 2 goal head start?

1 hour ago, enigma said:

Exactly, it's just a selfish pov. Sky only hire ex-liverpool, arsenal and Utd pundits. 

This isn't exactly true.

Just because Neville and Carragher are full time pundit workers in Sky doesn't mean Sky only hires Pool, Arse and Utd pundits.

The reason why we rarely see any Chelsea pundit is because our legends are doing something else and don't want to do full time punditry. For example, JT and Lampard are currently coaches. In fact, when Lamps was out of the job he made pundit appearances.

Micah Richards for City joined the team recently. Joe and Ashley Cole made appearances there and there.

For Arsenal? They only have Keown? 

Edited March 15, 20224 yr by Mana

2 minutes ago, 2211 said:

Latest is we are not allowed to buy tickets for the Boro cup match on Saturday, so home fans only unless you purchased one before last Thursday.

What's next giving Boro a 2 goal head start?

Given the money goes to Boro I wonder why.

5 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Given the money goes to Boro I wonder why.

I read that we have asked for it to be played behind closed doors