25 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

What I thought too but it makes little sense. Canners is a legend and loves our club deeply but he has zero say who ends up buying the club and even of they did change his mind about them it won't help their bid.

Whoever has the most political clout/bribes likely will.

He does, however, have major clout with the fans making the transition smoother with us wonderful bunch of bastards if he were to given them his backing if they were to buy us. 

In November 2020, the Ricketts family and Raine formed a special purpose acquisition company — a SPAC — seeking $325 million (about £250 million) for a technology-media-telecom acquisition, including possible acquisition of ‘a sports team’ (Times) #CFC

Raine had written to bidders on March 1 informing them not to contact any Chelsea directors during the sale process unless otherwise advised. (Telegraph) #CFC 

One of the bidders for Chelsea who did not make it on to the shortlist told Telegraph Sport: “Maybe it was decided from the start that the Ricketts family should win. Is the whole bidding process a show?” #CFC

Is it starting to look more and more likely that Ricketts will be the new owners?

Bruce Buck’s intervention is said to make rival groups nervous when there is already a strong business relationship between Raine and the Ricketts family (Times) #CFC

4 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Bruce Buck’s intervention is said to make rival groups nervous when there is already a strong business relationship between Raine and the Ricketts family (Times) #CFC

So cronyism wins? 

35 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

He does, however, have major clout with the fans making the transition smoother with us wonderful bunch of bastards if he were to given them his backing if they were to buy us. 

As United fans have shown with the Glazers, as well to an extent Arsenal and Spurs fans with their owners too, it does not matter what the fans think about it. We, like those fans, will still turn up for games, still buy merchandise etc.

All the Ricketts have to do is win, or buy, approve from the Government, Raine, Roman and whoever else in power they need to win.

20 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Is it starting to look more and more likely that Ricketts will be the new owners?

1 minute ago, axman2526 said:

As United fans have shown with the Glazers, as well to an extent Arsenal and Spurs fans with their owners too, it does not matter what the fans think about it. We, like those fans, will still turn up for games, still buy merchandise etc.

All the Ricketts have to do is win, or buy, approve from the Government, Raine, Roman and whoever else in power they need to win.

Yes but it’s a lot easier if the fans are on board…

Apparently this is all from an article in the daily fail which also includes a bit about how the rest are also meeting with buck etc

'I was pleased to meet with Mr Ricketts and expressed my concerns over some of his family's members' public statements. I was reassured by his response.

'I am hoping to meet the other potential buyers in the coming days to have the same honest and frank conversations about their values and their commitment to diversity and community work. 

'It's critical that the club is sold to the right person.'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10665665/Paul-Canoville-reassured-Tom-Ricketts-one-hour-meeting-Chelsea-bidder.html

I still am not sure why I should be against ricketts owning Chelsea. 

3 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

I still am not sure why I should be against ricketts owning Chelsea. 

I guess people like me are worried that we get used and abused for 10 years and everything goes down the pan!

Powers that be seem to want that on the face of it at this point!

Edited March 30, 20224 yr by Kantesmini

1 hour ago, Munkworth said:

Yes but it’s a lot easier if the fans are on board…

By the sounds of Canners quotes he has been reassured. Let's see if that turns public opinion over towards the Ricketts or not.

6 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

I still am not sure why I should be against ricketts owning Chelsea. 

Is it not obvious. They call the sport "Soccer" for goodness sake! 😳 

Whoever gets the bridge could well just fire sell the club off in a year or two, Be interested to know if there's any protection around this kind of scenario..

Could the 10% steak mean Chelsea faithful can stop an owner selling us on and we end up in stalemate for years, Maybe they can at least influence who it goes to etc!

https://trueblues.fans/

I've put my hat in the ring at least!

9 minutes ago, Kantesmini said:

Whoever gets the bridge could well just fire sell the club off in a year or two, Be interested to know if there's any protection around this kind of scenario..

Could the 10% steak mean Chelsea faithful can stop an owner selling us on and we end up in stalemate for years, Maybe they can at least influence who it goes to etc!

https://trueblues.fans/

I've put my hat in the ring at least!

I tend to think the fire-sale option would be a really bad one for any investor simply because Chelsea Pitch Owners own, the pitch and the name Chelsea FC. I might be wrong, my understanding of such things is fairly limited. 

Starting to feel as though the Rickett's will win this.

Having Ken Griffin behind them is a huge bonus for their bid, he's filthy rich and a big football fan, just never invested into it before.

 

Plus, I have to admit, if Griffin is the money man in this potential ownership, funding everything; I do think the Ricketts will have to run us totally different to the Cubs.   So I am not paying a massive amount of attention to their current ownership style, or past comments.   Make no mistake IMO, Griffin is the yes or no man

3 hours ago, JM7 said:

Is it starting to look more and more likely that Ricketts will be the new owners?

yes. Them and Raine are very closely linked.

I'd guess Raine would want them to takeover, and as a result their opinion and recommendation to the club, i fully expect, will be to give Rickett's the club

 

Roman is going to want someone who will invest, and have the funds to keep us where we are among the top clubs, thats what all the media stories tell us... now, which individual in all these bids has the greatest capacity to do that?  Ken Griffin.  Whose bid is he part of? Ricketts.    Rickett's will run the day to day stuff, admin etc, and i think Marina will also stay and Buck... .but the final say will be Griffins.  Which is why, as i posted above, i think the Ricketts/Griffin team would run us completely different to how the Ricketts' run the cubs

53 minutes ago, RickUK said:

yes. Them and Raine are very closely linked.

I'd guess Raine would want them to takeover, and as a result their opinion and recommendation to the club, i fully expect, will be to give Rickett's the club

 

Roman is going to want someone who will invest, and have the funds to keep us where we are among the top clubs, thats what all the media stories tell us... now, which individual in all these bids has the greatest capacity to do that?  Ken Griffin.  Whose bid is he part of? Ricketts.    Rickett's will run the day to day stuff, admin etc, and i think Marina will also stay and Buck... .but the final say will be Griffins.  Which is why, as i posted above, i think the Ricketts/Griffin team would run us completely different to how the Ricketts' run the cubs

Almost makes it sound like Griffin recruited the Ricketts so his employees to run things for him like Roman did with Marina, Petr, Bruce etc.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12578403/chelsea-takeover-john-terrys-true-blues-consortium-holds-positive-talks-with-leading-bidders-over-stake-in-the-club

Apparently the "True Blue" consortium has held positive talks with 2 of the final 4 bidders, having talked to 3 of them. Does not name which one they did not approach yet or which one the did not have positive talks with after approaching them. 

I would guess that BWG and Sir Martins groups would be the positive ones, since they already have fans on board and have mentioned fan involvement.

Could be either of the other 2 that did not go so well.

If true blue came out and said something like "We approached all 4 bidders, BWG and Sir Martin are on board and will allow us to buy 10% share in the club but the other two told us flat out no" would be a huge black eye for the other bidders imo.

Article also mentions the preferential treatment the Ricketts have supposedly had, and that Raine have been very clear they don't want a public slanging match going on.

If the Ricketts do win out I expect a lot of sh*t talk from the other groups after.

Hearing that the Ricketts are leading the race is disappointing. Also I dont buy that his views are different than his father's. His brother also has similar far right views and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

2 hours ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

Hearing that the Ricketts are leading the race is disappointing. Also I dont buy that his views are different than his father's. His brother also has similar far right views and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Some say they are, others say BWG remain out in front:

"Along those lines, the Boehly-Wyss bid, who still appear to be the odds-on favorites to emerge on top, have already started talking with architects and developers to potentially begin that process, including the director of the project that was shelved by Chelsea a couple years ago. "

https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2022/3/30/23003298/ricketts-griffin-backlash-grows-as-chelsea-bid-process-gears-up-for-next-round

Article also mentions Bruce Buck and the Ricketts may well be in trouble as a complaint against them has been made by other bidders as the final 4 are not meant to be in contact with the current Chelsea higher ups yet.

 

More than the money, the 2 most important things is that the club isn’t bought using leveraged debt and that it is well run and money is spent wisely. It’s easy to say “I want this owner because they will spend loads on transfers” - but the Glazers have shown how easy it is to waste £1b on transfers and managers. 

I would love an owner (or a consortium of them) to be a massive fan of the game and love winning. If that happens everything we want will follow. I think the DNA of this club is on more sound basis than MU and the Glazers. The more I see the likes of Scholes, Keane, Rio and Neville speak the more I feel their heritage is holding the team back from evolving from 2004 football ideology to this date. Which for me is great. I love it. Hold on to it MU as long as you live. 

Matt Law spoke on why Tuchel is thriving at Chelsea and loving the club. He said at Chelsea it is all about football and winning. That is Tuchels domain. He has no directions from Petr or anyone to play like we did back in xxxx. At MU you feel everyone is whispering to the manager "Ferguson" "the treble" "Rooney" "Scholes" "crossing" "the way we used to play" "the good ol days" and so on. At Chelsea there are no whispers of that. Tuchel has the first team in his hands with a message "Just win, we don't care how".

Glazers have backed all their failing managers with much more than at Chelsea our managers have had. I am not against American owner per say. Todd Boehly seems like the person we would want from the tiny amount of info we get. The part about him I don't like is the philanthropy part. It is a word that makes me uncomfortable. The skeletons in the closet always seem to be bigger when you are compensating it with being an open about the philantropy. 😀

8 hours ago, axman2526 said:

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12578403/chelsea-takeover-john-terrys-true-blues-consortium-holds-positive-talks-with-leading-bidders-over-stake-in-the-club

Apparently the "True Blue" consortium has held positive talks with 2 of the final 4 bidders, having talked to 3 of them. Does not name which one they did not approach yet or which one the did not have positive talks with after approaching them. 

I would guess that BWG and Sir Martins groups would be the positive ones, since they already have fans on board and have mentioned fan involvement.

Could be either of the other 2 that did not go so well.

If true blue came out and said something like "We approached all 4 bidders, BWG and Sir Martin are on board and will allow us to buy 10% share in the club but the other two told us flat out no" would be a huge black eye for the other bidders imo.

Article also mentions the preferential treatment the Ricketts have supposedly had, and that Raine have been very clear they don't want a public slanging match going on.

If the Ricketts do win out I expect a lot of sh*t talk from the other groups after.

 

10% stake owned by the fans would be revolutionary for Premier League. Even more so for us with the CPO. 

47 minutes ago, TokyoBlue said:

 

10% stake owned by the fans would be revolutionary for Premier League. Even more so for us with the CPO. 

https://trueblues.fans/

Here's the site, Loads of info on there

I encourage people to express interest, More the merrier