davieG Posted 9 August 2006 Share Posted 9 August 2006 To Help Us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 9 August 2006 Share Posted 9 August 2006 I believe that rich businessmen can normally be found in massage parlors, while their wives think they are entertaining corporate clients. Maybe someone should go to a lot of seedy bordello's as part of the money quest, is that the kind of job you're up for Davie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 9 August 2006 Author Share Posted 9 August 2006 I believe that rich businessmen can normally be found in massage parlors, while their wives think they are entertaining corporate clients. Maybe someone should go to a lot of seedy bordello's as part of the money quest, is that the kind of job you're up for Davie? Yes but only about once a month if I can concentrate on the matter in hand, oo'oer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 I think there should be a raffle type thing with 100 local businessmen or anyone with enough cash. They all by a raffle ticket for a fixed price of say £50,000. So that's basically £5 million. You could lower or raiser the price or try and make it 1000 businessmen. Anyway then what happens is, the raffle takes place and whoever's ticket is picked out then takesover at Leicester with all the money raised to buy out the current set of clowns. What I can't work out is whether it's a good thing winning the raffle or the booby prize. That might make this whole idea un-appealing. But i'm sure there must be alot of rich people out there willing to gamble £50,000 on the chance of then being in charge of a football club. They could then put a consortium together to run the club and have nothing to do with it if they don't want. 1000 x £50,000 = £50 million Job on. Or do a John Q type thing and take some multi billionaire hostage until he agrees and signs to buy out Leicester and pump £150 million in to it. You'd go down for a few years, but it might be worth it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONreborn Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 I think there should be a raffle type thing with 100 local businessmen or anyone with enough cash. They all by a raffle ticket for a fixed price of say £50,000. So that's basically £5 million. You could lower or raiser the price or try and make it 1000 businessmen. Anyway then what happens is, the raffle takes place and whoever's ticket is picked out then takesover at Leicester with all the money raised to buy out the current set of clowns. What I can't work out is whether it's a good thing winning the raffle or the booby prize. That might make this whole idea un-appealing. But i'm sure there must be alot of rich people out there willing to gamble £50,000 on the chance of then being in charge of a football club. They could then put a consortium together to run the club and have nothing to do with it if they don't want. 1000 x £50,000 = £50 million Job on. Or do a John Q type thing and take some multi billionaire hostage until he agrees and signs to buy out Leicester and pump £150 million in to it. You'd go down for a few years, but it might be worth it? Thats a good idea however I'm sure that more would be willing to pay a lower figure off perhaps 35k Off topic but who actually owns the club now? I have not an idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magictv Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 Give me twenty years . if I ever get crazy rich then I'll be back with a very large cheque. Sadly I won't ever make enough money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janx Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 Give me twenty years . if I ever get crazy rich then I'll be back with a very large cheque. Sadly I won't ever make enough money. NOt with that attitude...go and get it sunshine... thats whats so good about this country and the democracy we live in... it allows such actions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thracian Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 I think there should be a raffle type thing with 100 local businessmen or anyone with enough cash. They all by a raffle ticket for a fixed price of say £50,000. So that's basically £5 million. You could lower or raiser the price or try and make it 1000 businessmen. Anyway then what happens is, the raffle takes place and whoever's ticket is picked out then takesover at Leicester with all the money raised to buy out the current set of clowns. What I can't work out is whether it's a good thing winning the raffle or the booby prize. That might make this whole idea un-appealing. But i'm sure there must be alot of rich people out there willing to gamble £50,000 on the chance of then being in charge of a football club. They could then put a consortium together to run the club and have nothing to do with it if they don't want. 1000 x £50,000 = £50 million Job on. Or do a John Q type thing and take some multi billionaire hostage until he agrees and signs to buy out Leicester and pump £150 million in to it. You'd go down for a few years, but it might be worth it? If you ever get such a thing off the ground I might be able to alert about 300 company MD's through a close contact of mine who rather likes his football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manwell Pablo Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 I think there should be a raffle type thing with 100 local businessmen or anyone with enough cash. They all by a raffle ticket for a fixed price of say £50,000. So that's basically £5 million. You could lower or raiser the price or try and make it 1000 businessmen. Anyway then what happens is, the raffle takes place and whoever's ticket is picked out then takesover at Leicester with all the money raised to buy out the current set of clowns. What I can't work out is whether it's a good thing winning the raffle or the booby prize. That might make this whole idea un-appealing. But i'm sure there must be alot of rich people out there willing to gamble £50,000 on the chance of then being in charge of a football club. They could then put a consortium together to run the club and have nothing to do with it if they don't want. 1000 x £50,000 = £50 million Job on. Or do a John Q type thing and take some multi billionaire hostage until he agrees and signs to buy out Leicester and pump £150 million in to it. You'd go down for a few years, but it might be worth it? There's no way any one would pay 50'Gs for a 1 in a 1000 chance of winnning this club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thracian Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 There's no way any one would pay 50'Gs for a 1 in a 1000 chance of winnning this club. I know of a bloke who paid £254,000 for a car number plate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janx Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 I know a bloke who paid £254,000 for a car number plate. Sod the lottery/raffle!...thats the kind of astute financial planning that LCFC love... make him chairman!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thracian Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 Sod the lottery/raffle!...thats the kind of astute financial planning that LCFC love... make him chairman!! He might be a triffle hard to get hold of. But I believe his name was Singh. The car number was 51NGH. And whoever bought K1NGS presumably has a few bob too because that cost £231,000. Or perhaps we could raffle my friend's number F4CUP among football supporters. If there's a marketing genius knocking around who believes it could be done with significant effect on City's future then I'm sure the owner would be interested. Disco Bob says I should do something positive so there you are, the idea's on the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr The Singh Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 He might be a triffle hard to get hold of. But I believe his name was Singh. The car number was 51NGH. Don't look at me folks, those sorts of ideas are from a Singh, far more intelligent then myself!! Not to mention richer!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon the Hat Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 I think there should be a raffle type thing with 100 local businessmen or anyone with enough cash. They all by a raffle ticket for a fixed price of say £50,000. So that's basically £5 million. You could lower or raiser the price or try and make it 1000 businessmen. Anyway then what happens is, the raffle takes place and whoever's ticket is picked out then takesover at Leicester with all the money raised to buy out the current set of clowns. What I can't work out is whether it's a good thing winning the raffle or the booby prize. That might make this whole idea un-appealing. But i'm sure there must be alot of rich people out there willing to gamble £50,000 on the chance of then being in charge of a football club. They could then put a consortium together to run the club and have nothing to do with it if they don't want. 1000 x £50,000 = £50 million Job on. Or do a John Q type thing and take some multi billionaire hostage until he agrees and signs to buy out Leicester and pump £150 million in to it. You'd go down for a few years, but it might be worth it? Only one problem with this... Would we really want anyoe stupid enough to buya £50k raffle tiket in charge of the club The current lot put in more than that, and you don;t like them very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harpendenfox Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 I can't stop thinking about this £50,000 thing now, which is slightly annoying as I should be getting on with my job. Lets say the Club makes a serious attempt to get 1000 people to do this. Presumably £50 million would wipe out the debt and leave a pretty reasonable war chest for getting out of the Championship (front door rather than back) So in return for the £50,000 what could the club give in return? Well it could give each donor a family of four season ticket for life. Four season tickets for 20 years would cost approx £32,000 at today's prices. it could invite me to some exclusive dinner with players/management etc every year. It could also add an investment element to the package. Something along the lines of each season the Club is in the Premiership over the next 20 years, each investor receives a Premiership bonus. This could be on a sliding scale. Clearly the longer we're in the Premiership the richer the Club becomes. So first season back in the Prem each investor gets £1,000. Second season £2,000. Haven't worked it all out, but you get my drift. There is a lot of wealth in this country, and a lot of money in Leicestershire, not to mention Foxiles further afield. This may be a crazy idea, but the Club needs to do something pretty left field (no, I'm not talking about Tiatto) to escape from its current predicament. In the financial world this is called securitisation (loosely) - ie paying money up front against a guaranteed income. In this case we're asking people to pay money up front in return for a number of benefits etc etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 Only one problem with this... Would we really want anyoe stupid enough to buya £50k raffle tiket in charge of the club The current lot put in more than that, and you don;t like them very much. Well we could force them out pretty quickly if they were crap atleast we'd have got a few quid in the meantime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thracian Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 I can't stop thinking about this £50,000 thing now, which is slightly annoying as I should be getting on with my job. Lets say the Club makes a serious attempt to get 1000 people to do this. Presumably £50 million would wipe out the debt and leave a pretty reasonable war chest for getting out of the Championship (front door rather than back) So in return for the £50,000 what could the club give in return? Well it could give each donor a family of four season ticket for life. Four season tickets for 20 years would cost approx £32,000 at today's prices. it could invite me to some exclusive dinner with players/management etc every year. It could also add an investment element to the package. Something along the lines of each season the Club is in the Premiership over the next 20 years, each investor receives a Premiership bonus. This could be on a sliding scale. Clearly the longer we're in the Premiership the richer the Club becomes. So first season back in the Prem each investor gets £1,000. Second season £2,000. Haven't worked it all out, but you get my drift. There is a lot of wealth in this country, and a lot of money in Leicestershire, not to mention Foxiles further afield. This may be a crazy idea, but the Club needs to do something pretty left field (no, I'm not talking about Tiatto) to escape from its current predicament. In the financial world this is called securitisation (loosely) - ie paying money up front against a guaranteed income. In this case we're asking people to pay money up front in return for a number of benefits etc etc. Ideas that are well worth exploring further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cisono Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 Ideas that are well worth exploring further. I am certainly not rich enough yet. Not that that stops many organisations asking for money on a weekly basis, mind you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golden gordon Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 i'm rich enough but intend staying that way the old adage is; the best way to make a milllion pounds in football is to start with 10 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cisono Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 i'm rich enough but intend staying that way the old adage is; the best way to make a milllion pounds in football is to start with 10 million Which begs the question... where can I get those 10 million from (please)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 Which begs the question... where can I get those 10 million from (please)? *licks pencil* Dear Jim, I would like you to fix it for me to have ten million pounds so that I can buy Leicester City FC. If you could fix it for me to do this I promise to send you a new Foxes track suit and a brand new flag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swedging Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 It's difficult. The few rich business-people I know who are local to Leicester are totally disinterested in the football. Partly it's the rugby thing but the one who has the most disposable cash is Asian British and the one thing that is absolutely clear is the club has almost no cultural connection with the asian communities in Leicester. I know the club tries to break this down - rightly so, for if it did and the club support was as multicultural as the city, I would guess that we business-owners like him would be interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manwell Pablo Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 Here ya are Midlands' Richest 100 PeopleThese are the Midland's Richest 100 people. Click on the names below to find out more about them: 1 Sir Anthony Bamford £800m 2 Edmund And Lord Vestey £700m 3 Jorgen-Philip Sorensen £630m 4 John Caudwell £500m 5 David And Ralph Gold £410m 6 Felix Dennis £400m 7 Sir Peter Rigby £352m 8 The Duke Of Devonshire £350m David Sullivan £350m 10 Bob Edmiston £340m 11 Freddie Linnett & The Murphy Family £325m 12 Don & Roy Richardson £300m David Wilson £300m 14 Lord Paul & Family £280m 15 Tony Wilkinson £270m 16 Tony Gallagher £250m 17 John Bloor £235m 18 Grahame Whately £170m 19 David Samworth £160m 20 John Kirkland £155m 21 Sir Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe £150m 22 Sir Jack Hayward £140m 23 David & Richard Darling £130m 24 Sir Michael Bishop £125m 25 Marquess Of Northampton £120m Chris Stamper £120m 27 William Adderley & Family £115m 28 Douglas Graham & Family £112m 29 Duke Of Beaufort £110m Stephen Hitchens & Family £110m David Ross £110m 32 Michael Horton & Family £106m 33 Sir David Mcmurtry £105m 34 Duke Of Rutland £103m 35 Andrew Cohen £100m Charles Yeates £100m 37 Earl Spencer £96m 38 Edelin Davis & Family £90m 39 Chris Wright £88m 40 Ron Jelley £80m June Reynolds-Lacey £80m Earl Of Wemyss £80m 43 Anne Wood £77m 44 Ranjit & Baljinder Boparan £75m Esmond Bulmer £75m Sir Stan Clarke £75m Alan Jackson £75m Amin Tejani £75m Engelbert Humperdinck £75m 50 Leon Litchfield £74m 51 Michael Brinton £65m Abdul Rashid Tayub £65m Tom Wheatcroft £65m 54 Rasham Lally £64m 55 Stuart Balmforth £60m Eric Grove £60m David Johnson £60m Robert Plant £60m Christopher Taylor £60m 60 Keith Bradshaw £58m James Hull £58m 62 Richard & Brenda Smith £57m 63 Denys Shortt £55m 64 Jean Aucott & Family £54m 65 John Deer £52m 66 Michael Bertioli £50m Nick Mason £50m Ozzy Osbourne £50m Joseph Salmon £50m Lady Ashcombe & Family £50m Tony Sullman £50m 72 Ray Chamberlain £45m Derek Coombs £45m John Hales £45m Tony Marmont £45m 76 Edward Speed £41m 77 The Earl Of Aylesford £40m Paul Bassi £40m Nigel Mansell £40m William Greenwood £40m Fred & Clinton Smith £40m Douglas Woolf £40m 83 Jean Broadhurst £35m Peter Gadsby £35m Charan & Shalinder Sohal £35m 86 Charles Clowes £33m Peter Tom £33m 88 Richard Burbidge £32m Karl Parkinson £32m 90 Michael Connors £30m John Cutts £30m Cecil Duckworth £30m Michael Gregory £30m Kevin Lomax £30m Peter Morgan & Family £30m Alan Nuttall £30m Perween & Talib Warsi £30m Robbie Williams £30m 99 Earl Of Bathurst £29m 100 Fred Pritchard Now some sad Twat can trude through em all and find a investor. Click the names to find out more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swedging Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 Here ya are Now some sad Twat can trude through em all and find a investor. Click the names to find out more! Shit list. The Golds and Sullivan are only on it because they own Birmingham while remaining Essex porn barons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swedging Posted 10 August 2006 Share Posted 10 August 2006 Although Engelbert needs to cough up to try and achieve some sort of redemption for his sins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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