Re Southampton takeover from Sky Transfer centre..

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  1. Tarntyke

    Tarntyke Well-Known Member

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    Just read this and the last paragraph in particular caught my eye. Didn’t someone post fairly recently about Paul Conway being part of a new ‘ group’ doing a similar thing?
    Southampton takeover plans not something seen in PL before'
    Sky Sports News' Kaveh Solhekol on The Transfer Show:

    "I don't think there will be lots of incomings, but this is fantastic news for Southampton supporters - it's a late Christmas present.

    "Usually when someone buys a Premier League club, you think 'this is just a billionaire who wants to buy a club for vanity sake, or he wants to show off to his friends'.

    "But this investment company is very interesting when you look into it. The main investor in the company is a Serbian billionaire called Dragan Solak, who has made a lot of money in south eastern Europe. He's got a telecommunications and media companies, so that's where a bulk of the money is coming from.

    "But the really interesting person involved in all of this is someone called Rasmus Ankersen, who was on this show in the summer.

    "He was the co-director of football for six years at Brentford and was instrumental in their promotion to the Premier League, their business model and how much they rely on data and finding the kind of players who are value for money in the transfer market that some other clubs haven't seen.

    "What they're saying is they're not just going to buy Southampton to try and make them successful, they're setting up a new kind of company and there are going to be lots of other clubs - Southampton are just one of the clubs they're going to own - and also they're going to be buying and investing in technology companies who specialise in sports and data.

    "It's quite exciting, it's something we've seen before in the Premier League."
     
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    Yes it’s the same model as the Pacific group , they’ve got the stats guy from Brentford and the monies coming from a bloke called Dragan , so it’s Waitrose to our Lidl
     
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    Could have sworn Man City were in PL and part of a multi group football company.
     
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    It's code for we've been taken over by money grabbers who class on field success as secondary as they have enough money not to care which division they're in. If I was a Southampton supporter I'd be preparing for League 1.
     
  5. Tarntyke

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    Isn’t the ‘new business’ Paul Conway’s getting involved in separate from PMG?
     
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    Not sure but the Southampton take over groups model as described on SSN seemed almost identical to Chiens business model
     
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    I get the impression the writer of the report for SSN is more excited than the fans will be.
     
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