Thames Sports Investment

[Vision]

business as usual at the club i guess, they don`t have a clue there is 173 pages of discussion on HNA.

3 pages of discussion and 170 pages of a pissing contest.

[royalhaven]

Anton has been in Miami since last Tuesday

hmmm, the MLS is looking to put a new franchise in Miami and a deal with Barcelona fell through (true actually), maybe...

[Bring Back The SB]

business as usual at the club i guess, they don`t have a clue there is 173 pages of discussion on HNA.

3 pages of discussion and 170 pages of a pissing contest.

Which you've just added too.

[Vision]

business as usual at the club i guess, they don`t have a clue there is 173 pages of discussion on HNA.

3 pages of discussion and 170 pages of a pissing contest.

Which you've just added too.

Just stating the facts.

I'm all for it tbh. Everyone knows how boring the close season is, I reckon the deal has already been done but they're holding fire on telling us just so they can laugh their Russian nuts off at us on here.

[Cypry]

Everyone knows how boring the close season is, I reckon the deal has already been done but they're holding fire on telling us just so they can laugh their Russian nuts off at us on here.

Possibly - they might even want to tie up a couple of signings first so they can announce a whole heap of good news in one go......who knows?

[Royal Lady]

I've never asked him to reveal his source - certainly not in my comment above - he suddenly seemed to know a bit more about the AZ leaving the country story - so I concluded that he must have just contacted his source to find out what's currently happening. What's wrong with asking whether that is the case?

Friday's Legacy - how do YOU know so much about what goes on at the club, out of interest?

Friday's Legacy - just out of interest, how do YOU know so much about what goes on at the club?

Oh and TBM, I appear to have ruffled Friday's Legacy's feathers by asking him how he knows so much about the club!

I may be wrong here RL, but I presumed that asking these sorts of questions were along the lines of asking him to reveal his source.

Well you are wrong! I haven't asked, nor would I, anyone to reveal their sources! If that happened, there would be no source! I just assumed that FL must have got onto his source in order to find out the latest, after the BBTSB rumour - and, it seems, the source contacted him instead. So the source reads HNA and must be connected with the club in some way. That's all I, or anybody else, needs to know. They might even know my source!

[winchester_royal]

And your source is

[Chaney]

HP

[Vision]

Everyone knows how boring the close season is, I reckon the deal has already been done but they're holding fire on telling us just so they can laugh their Russian nuts off at us on here.

Possibly - they might even want to tie up a couple of signings first so they can announce a whole heap of good news in one go......who knows?

I know of course but my source is so influential at the club that if I said anything it would be obvious who'd leaked it.

I'm with you and your previous post though. It's not affecting our transfer strategy at all so why all hand wringing. We're clearly going after young(ish) talent who are hungry to make the step up and are within a set budget. If/when the deal is offcially confirmed there may be the odd marquee signing added to the mix but overall it appears to be making no difference at this moment in time

[Royal Lady]

So, if the deal doesn't go ahead, you reckon McD will still be with us in 3 years Vision?

[ZacNaloen]

That depends on far too many things that I can't imagine anyone would want to make a guess.

[Vision]

So, if the deal doesn't go ahead, you reckon McD will still be with us in 3 years Vision?

If the deal does go through do you reckon he'll still be with us in 3 years?

He might be a huge success with or without TSI.
He might make an absolute pigs ear of it with or without TSI.

What happens in the next few weeks is unlikely to have much bearing on where McD is managing in 2015. 3 years is a long time in football management.

[Extended-Phenotype]

So we still don't know what is happening?

Someone should ring London fucking Irish.

[TBM]

I'm told this is very complicated due to Chris Samuelson covering real investors.

My source told me there are no other investors - its just Anton and his Dad

[Extended-Phenotype]

So we still don't know what is happening?

Someone should ring London fucking Irish.

The fukking micks would certainly know

Quite. Seems like Anton is chatting to everyone appart from Journo's and RFC.

How about dropping a line to B&Q? I expect Anton has nipped in there to buy some curtain rings and has probably divulged the deals demise with the till staff.

[Vision]

So we still don't know what is happening?

Someone should ring London fucking Irish.

The fukking micks would certainly know

Quite. Seems like Anton is chatting to everyone appart from Journo's and RFC.

How about dropping a line to B&Q? I expect Anton has nipped in there to buy some curtain rings and has probably divulged the deals demise with the till staff.

Thats the real issue. Anton was turned down for a store card as he didn't have two proofs of address. He's fuming!

B&Q Credit Check >>>>>>PL FAPPP.

[Hoop Blah]

Fordham and the Post are far too closely tied in to the club for their jobs and circulation to push to hard or ever be too critical these days. The whole thing nearly went bust not too long ago and so they're not going to ruffle too many feathers are they?

Now we're back in the Premier League the nationals will take a bit more notice and so we might see a bit more attention to this kind of things once they're having a slower news day.

It's not about being critical, it's just about showing some sort of gumption and an investigative nature.

When was the last time Fordham gave us a scoop that we weren't already aware of?

Perhaps critical was the wrong choice of word.

Doing anything that the clubs sees as unwanted attention or going 'off message' so to speak will threaten his relationship with the club. The Post can't risk that and so they'll pretty much tow the clubs line and do as their told.

If they were to break a big scoop about a transfer target when the club wanted to keep it hush hush, further access to players and the management etc might not be so forth coming. The club needs the paper to a certain extent too of course (although much less so than before the internet came along) so they'll keep him sweet with enough access and information as possible, but it's an odd relationship in some ways.

[winchester_royal]

I understand what it is you're saying, and it certainly appears to be the case, however it does mean that the EP is just basically an extension of RFC's marketing team.

But I guess if all the paper wants is to be fed soundbites which are then regurgitated in pretty awful narrative then there's no need to push the boat out.

[DOYLERSAROYALER]

Id like to think that every now and then Fordham would bring an exclusive...but as stated, he just continually brings up old news thats already in the public domain ...on Twitter hes continually plugging to Get Reading for the latest...but his latest is hours/days old ....and im sure he sources most from here ..as a journalist its expected I guess

[PieEater]

The comment made when the deal was first announced was that there would be no more comment on the matter until the deal was decided.

^ this. And there's really nothing else to say until the PL give their approval.