CONFRIMED: Latest rumours Confrimed as Unconfrimed

[WestYorksRoyal]

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/02/08/2826130/0/en/Marc-Bircham-Joins-Sports-com-as-Director-and-Head-of-Business-Development-With-a-Focus-on-Opportunities-in-Association-Football.html Marc Bircham was at the derby game

Sports.com fits with the Saudi/American angle that came up earlier in the week.

The president of the company set up the LIV Golf Tour.

Ant Middleton is involved with them. Hope the boys are ready for a gruelling pre season

[SouthDownsRoyal]

I told all of you Wycombe weren't the bad guys here and you didn't want to believe me.

Shame on you all and a plague on all your houses.

Did you know Lionel Richie supports Wycombe? Well he was once on TV singing there and he called it Y-COM-BEE

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Anyone know where Brogue is? I thought he’d be all over this thread when it reached 100 pages.

He was a fraud and us now in hiding

[NathStPaul]

I told all of you Wycombe weren't the bad guys here and you didn't want to believe me.

Shame on you all and a plague on all your houses.

Did you know Lionel Richie supports Wycombe? Well he was once on TV singing there and he called it Y-COM-BEE

I heard he spent all night long trying to learn how to say the name.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Lots of Reading fans embarrassing themselves and doubling down on the abuse of Wycombe. I'm not saying they've done this out of the goodness of their heart to save Reading, but it does appear they've struck a mutually beneficial deal.

Embarrassing p, Reading fans turning on Wycombe

[SouthDownsRoyal]

I told all of you Wycombe weren't the bad guys here and you didn't want to believe me.

Shame on you all and a plague on all your houses.

Did you know Lionel Richie supports Wycombe? Well he was once on TV singing there and he called it Y-COM-BEE

I heard he spent all night long trying to learn how to say the name.

He was dancing on the ceiling when he knew how to properly pronounce Wycombe

[Webster750]

If new ownership does occur, can we please not only remove Dai Yongge but also discard the notion that new developments don't warrant new threads?

Currently, discussions on the potential ownership change are scattered across three threads, perhaps even more, because people are hesitant to create a dedicated thread for today (and any day’s) news.

This isn't beneficial for anyone, and it would be better to consolidate discussions for clarity and efficiency. One of my biggest gripes with HNA, TBH.

[NathStPaul]

[72 bus]

Did anyone see SJM’s interview on Meridian TV yesterday? A mate thought he was pretty chilled about Bearwood being sold.

No one else particularly cared about Bearwood before this news broke. SJM may be more concerned about the ground. Without which ........

Let's be honest Bearwood doesn't pay its way, if you look at outgoings from the academy since Bearwood we give away more than we sell.
Bearwood is a vanity project that a L1 club realistically cannot afford, there are probably more prospective buyers out there that would like to buy the club but can't get the sums to add up when you factor in the purchase price of Bearwood vs it's potential as a revenue generator.
Look at Transfermarket.com at our out going transfers from the academy since Bearwood and contrast that with the signings from lower placed teams before we had the academy, and then think about what was our most successful period.

[ROYALJOE]

Honestly Mr Madejski should have a statue outside the stadium. oxf*rd legend!!

[Wisconsin Royal]

Apologies, but I am going to LOL a bit if we are bought by some lunatic American/Saudi's

From another lunatic American: Mega Millions was up over $700M last week, and I likely would have put my hat in the ring if I won. Alas...

[Wisconsin Royal]

The sceptic in me says someone could have leaked this to take the heat off of the Bearwood debacle. bloody hope there`s some truth in it though.

Or, this was always the plan and Matt Slater's scoop ruined everyone's comms strategy. Eddie was rumouring these guys on Tuesday, so perhaps if they didn't want the training ground, it was always intended to do it simultaneously.

Slater probably had a contact with the party who missed out and only saw 1 side of the story.

There was a small discussion on here that selling the hugely expensive white elephant of a training ground could make the sale easier. Just no one trusts Dai for it to have been done with that intention

Other galaxy brain things I was thinking (hoping?)... could leaking the sale of a training ground alone actually encourage a buyer who wanted the training ground included to raise their bid or hurry up to close out a deal?

[loyalroyal4life]

To confirm, has the ground been sold off or in talks to be alongside the takeover talks?

[loyalroyal4life]

Lots of Reading fans embarrassing themselves and doubling down on the abuse of Wycombe. I'm not saying they've done this out of the goodness of their heart to save Reading, but it does appear they've struck a mutually beneficial deal.

I thought the embarrassment came with 100 fans standing outside the Wycombe ground further enhanced by it being plastered all over SSN

[From Despair To Where?]

To confirm, has the ground been sold off or in talks to be alongside the takeover talks?

The rumour is that this consortium is looking to buy the club and the ground, but that's all it is at the moment, a rumour.

[Sutekh]

Reading are in advanced talks with a North American group to buy the club, Sky Sports News understands.

The prospective deal would see the club change hands and their ground – Select Car Leasing Stadium – would also be sold.

Just goes to show what an utter disgrace Dai is, if a deal to buy the club was indeed this close why sell the training ground to another club?

[WestYorksRoyal]

What on earth do the past 3 days mean for the £1m shortfall?

[WestYorksRoyal]

To confirm, has the ground been sold off or in talks to be alongside the takeover talks?

The rumour is that this consortium is looking to buy the club and the ground, but that's all it is at the moment, a rumour.

Rumour from a very reliable source though.

[Norfolk Royal]

Interesting piece here about the guy who heads up sports.com.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sports-c ... 00045.html

Wider reading about the company it comes across as being acquisitive initially.

But there are grounds for optimism there if they end up owning our club.

The guy has actually played football at a certain level and was until recently on the board at Newcastle. There is also some evidence that he has access or contacts relating to the Saudi PIF.

Food for thought I would say.

[Snowball]

Reading are in advanced talks with a North American group to buy the club, Sky Sports News understands.

The prospective deal would see the club change hands and their ground – Select Car Leasing Stadium – would also be sold.

Just goes to show what an utter disgrace Dai is, if a deal to buy the club was indeed this close why sell the training ground to another club?

Umm, maybe the main buyers didn't WANT Bearwood?