Microsoft Billionaire to buy Southampton F.C.

mrfunktastick · 04-28-2007, 12:00 PM

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Originally posted by antbanach II:
will take a miracle tbh

we are 1 point off the playoffs!

retired_ks reddy · 04-28-2007, 12:02 PM

Can't see money sealing us promotion this year. Wouldn't 'alf help for next season though, and while we're in the CL we must look appetisingly cheap to him. Fingers crossed.

retired_shannon · 04-28-2007, 01:00 PM

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Originally posted by Juni:
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Forbes magazine estimates his fortune at £9bn.

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Not after his divorce...

retired_gilgamesh36 · 04-28-2007, 02:30 PM

Like it matters if he's got more money than RA or not. It's unlikely we will ever see someone put in as much money as he does into one team.

retired_sedickson · 04-28-2007, 02:31 PM

How can you take pride in a team like that, with all those overblown milionairs. **** that id say keep Southhampton English, and use some more talented players. To much money ruines everything i reckon.

mrfunktastick · 04-28-2007, 02:51 PM

according to The Independent we have a back up

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"If his interest in the Saints is not sufficient to wet fan's appetities a City source told The Independent last night that a second unnamed billionaire believed to be from the Far East has also been considering buying the club"

retired_Sherman6842 · 04-28-2007, 03:43 PM

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Originally posted by dennis333:
How can you take pride in a team like that, with all those overblown milionairs. **** that id say keep Southhampton English, and use some more talented players. To much money ruines everything i reckon.

Pele's our midfielder, and we'll have a Pole and a Trinidad and Tobagon upfront this afternoon I expect. Hardly English. COME ONE THIS HAPPENING.

We've definitely been the best side in the Championship of the top outside the top 3 ths seaosn, we just crumble under pressure.

powerhouse283 · 04-28-2007, 04:10 PM

I'm keeping my excitement in check just for the moment tbh.

mrfunktastick · 04-28-2007, 06:13 PM

if Allen was thinking about Leeds i think their fans gave him an answer today

mrfunktastick · 04-29-2007, 03:22 PM

from the Evening Standard

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The answer is that, with Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and now, probably, Arsenal all spoken for, taking a punt on promotion is another way of trying to capitalise on the Premier League's bumper new television contract.

As co-founder of Microsoft, Paul Allen knows a thing or two about building businesses.

And with each Premiership club guaranteed £30 million in TV revenue alone next season, the £70m or so it would take to buy Southampton's shares, wipe out £25m debts and buy new players would, in theory, be covered in two years. Add the vicarious thrill of owning a franchise in the richest league of the world's biggest sport and the opportunities for incestuous marketing with Allen's other sporting interests — American football's Seattle Seahawks and basketball's Portland Trail Blazers — and the reasons for the unlikely marriage become clearer.

With an £18 billion fortune, Allen will survive if it all ends in tears. And we can expect more rich businessmen, from the US and elsewhere, to sink a bit of their fortune into the Championship, Ipswich being abuzz with takeover talk at the moment.

Microsoft Billionaire to buy Southampton F.C.

Grab a beer, sit back and relax.

Microsoft Billionaire to buy Southampton F.C.