Milan Mandaric has targeted leicester!

[davieG]

Out of interest assuming the dream comes true and Uncle Milan comes in, quickly followed by Curbishley (pretty much the best manager out there at the moment) and we have a decent transfer budget (say a couple of million) who would we stand to bring into the team, and coaching staff and how might we improve? I'd take it that the big priority would be some creative midfield players might be an idea but who? And who would we keep hold of?

...piontless speculation but it's fun all the same.

Sounds like that should be a new topic

[Mort]

Sounds like that should be a new topic

Will do...

[Manwell Pablo]

Out of interest assuming the dream comes true and Uncle Milan comes in, quickly followed by Curbishley (pretty much the best manager out there at the moment) and we have a decent transfer budget (say a couple of million) who would we stand to bring into the team, and coaching staff and how might we improve? I'd take it that the big priority would be some creative midfield players might be an idea but who? And who would we keep hold of?

...piontless speculation but it's fun all the same.

For the last time.

Curbs is on holiday till the end of October, he then wants a top job.... THIS IS NOT A TOP JOB!

[mellowyellow]

Why does everyone assume that Milan Mandaric would be good for the club ? He went through managers:-

Tony Pulis, Steve Claridge, Graham Rix, before he got it right with Redknapp and then almost blew it. Thats without the ridiculous Director of Football, Alain Perrin and some really stupid,stupid buys.

I think he was in the deep gooey stuff until his saviour rode in and gave Redknapp mark 2 a big cheque to bail him out.

Think you may like to read this article . Here

<h3 class="entry-header">Who own your club?</h3> Long ago, every club was owned by one or a few local businessmen.

Martin Edwards’ dad Louis who had a meat business in Newton Heath bought most of Man Utd. for about £30,000 in the 60’s. His son was a very lucky boy missing out on Michael Knighton entirely by luck not judgement, and then bagging loads when the club went public.

Similar story for Doug Ellis. He had been in and out of Villa’s board, dabbled in Stoke City and Wolves and then bought the current European Champions for £400,000 in 1982. That’s akin to Liverpool being bought today for less than the price of a Harry Kewell.

The Edwards’ and Ellis’ have now left football patronage (thank god) and we’re now being infiltrated by international moguls who’ve made zillions by Credit Cards, Caravan Parks or raping an international superpower’s mineral assets,

Yet is this any worse than the football club getting-listed-on-the-stock-exchange-scam which mugged countless football fans while making the board and Chief Exec.millionaires?

Today, the real skulduggery is still lower down the leagues away from the glare of national headlines. So,how much do you need to buy a club? Not a lot !

Robert Maxwell famously bought Derby County after threatening NatWest Bank that “no-one in Derby would bank with them†unless they wrote off the club’s £750,000 overdraft and avoided his bully-boy media assault. When they knocked it down to £150,000 he told them to put it on “the slate†– well, he did owe them £100 million at the time.

There’s a particular :eague club chairman of the moment who did a five year beauty tour of the lower leagues before striking it lucky. The trail of devastation he left behind nearly broke a couple of clubs desperately hoping for a cash injection and willing to play fool to his pipedreams.

Slowly but surely people with the heart of the club are being squeezed out by chancers on mortgaged money.The Glazers are by no means the only ones.

Football fans come into two main categories. The ones who think any change is good and are easily seduced by the throwaway dream of the Champons League in 5 years and instant glamorous signings Then there’s the minority who want to know backgrounds and motives and why some overseas entrepreneur wants to buy little old Walloptown United.

Most clubs are bought because of one of three things :- hidden or off balance sheet assets (such as real estate , potential planning permission, access to cash flow or as a simple laundering exercise. The laundry might be ill-gotten gains, or, trading on players. Its simply amazing how many fans have bought the “I’ve got contacts with world superstars†ticket thinking it was going to come true. Get real .Its all about MONEY ! The chances are, yours !

The goverment for once did the right thing and yet most football trusts have been met with apathy and even resentment. So the very safeguard that would protect a club from "adventurers", keep ticket prices sensible and let fans have a voice is killed at birth at the very clubs that need it.

As football clubs regularly go to the brink and then miraculously boomerang back the fans think it will never happen to their club.I've got news for them. it WILL happen and it won't be just one club. When commercial confidence goes the banks will call in gang panic in quick succession.

One of the questions I’d like answered is how the likes of Ellis, Knighton, Maxwell, Ken Bates and Uncle Tom Cobley can suddenly fall in love with your club and your atttraction is instant if they come bearing lorryloads of cash. The ultimate prostitution of your club begins with you.

So now, Milan Mandaric is apparently looking for a new plaything and quite a few Championship clubs fans would welcome him with legs akimbo saying "take me".

Not forgetting that Milan was staring at a big black Portsmouth hole before the man on the white charger arrived and the Ken Bates revolution at Elland Road is currently stuck in reverse gear. Why do we want to risk all on a miracle “living the dream†as Peter Risdale so eloquently puts it ?

In football normal is quite often good .

[Leicester Lass]

How can we want him out when he's probably not even going to be in??

[Babylon]

For the last time.

Curbs is on holiday till the end of October, he then wants a top job.... THIS IS NOT A TOP JOB!

It is if we have a wedge of cash to spend!!!

[davieG]

I get the feeling that MM does have us in mind, we may not be the only ones but otherwise there was no reason at all why he should have accepted the interview on this day of all days unless he was sounding out the 'local' situation. He could just have easily said no. He also responded to John Barber with " I'm sure we'll talk again"

[Manwell Pablo]

It is if we have a wedge of cash to spend!!!

No it really isn't. Top job is Premier league.

[davieG]

No it really isn't. Top job is Premier league.

Not that i disagree with your sentiments but he was quoted as saying he would consider a Championship Club, not that I'd want him anyway.

[Manwell Pablo]

Not that i disagree with your sentiments but he was quoted as saying he would consider a Championship Club, not that I'd want him anyway.

Well West Brom and Leeds are both looking for managers and even with Mandaric backing us we are on par with them at best. It would take a brave man to risk the reputation he's got on a club like this stuck with the current playing staff untill January 1st.

Curbs has never really tickled my fish, he did alright with Charlton but never excelled.

[Mort]

Well West Brom and Leeds are both looking for managers and even with Mandaric backing us we are on par with them at best. It would take a brave man to risk the reputation he's got on a club like this stuck with the current playing staff untill January 1st.

Curbs has never really tickled my fish, he did alright with Charlton but never excelled.

Might not Newell be tempted if he was offered the resources that Mandaric could provide?

[Daggers]

For the last time.

Curbs is on holiday till the end of October, he then wants a top job.... THIS IS NOT A TOP JOB!

Stop trying to put him off so you can get the job, it's not fooling anyone you know MP

[l444ry]

Might not Newell be tempted if he was offered the resources that Mandaric could provide?

Let's hope that if Mandaric did come, he would be able to attract better options than Newell, Penney, Holloway and all those other average managers linked with the club last time.

[Ultra]

Why does everyone assume that Milan Mandaric would be good for the club ? He went through managers:-

Tony Pulis, Steve Claridge, Graham Rix, before he got it right with Redknapp and then almost blew it. Thats without the ridiculous Director of Football, Alain Perrin and some really stupid,stupid buys.

I think he was in the deep gooey stuff until his saviour rode in and gave Redknapp mark 2 a big cheque to bail him out.

Think you may like to read this article . Here

<h3 class="entry-header">Who own your club?</h3> Long ago, every club was owned by one or a few local businessmen.

Martin Edwards’ dad Louis who had a meat business in Newton Heath bought most of Man Utd. for about £30,000 in the 60’s. His son was a very lucky boy missing out on Michael Knighton entirely by luck not judgement, and then bagging loads when the club went public.

Similar story for Doug Ellis. He had been in and out of Villa’s board, dabbled in Stoke City and Wolves and then bought the current European Champions for £400,000 in 1982. That’s akin to Liverpool being bought today for less than the price of a Harry Kewell.

The Edwards’ and Ellis’ have now left football patronage (thank god) and we’re now being infiltrated by international moguls who’ve made zillions by Credit Cards, Caravan Parks or raping an international superpower’s mineral assets,

Yet is this any worse than the football club getting-listed-on-the-stock-exchange-scam which mugged countless football fans while making the board and Chief Exec.millionaires?

Today, the real skulduggery is still lower down the leagues away from the glare of national headlines. So,how much do you need to buy a club? Not a lot !

Robert Maxwell famously bought Derby County after threatening NatWest Bank that “no-one in Derby would bank with them†unless they wrote off the club’s £750,000 overdraft and avoided his bully-boy media assault. When they knocked it down to £150,000 he told them to put it on “the slate†– well, he did owe them £100 million at the time.

There’s a particular :eague club chairman of the moment who did a five year beauty tour of the lower leagues before striking it lucky. The trail of devastation he left behind nearly broke a couple of clubs desperately hoping for a cash injection and willing to play fool to his pipedreams.

Slowly but surely people with the heart of the club are being squeezed out by chancers on mortgaged money.The Glazers are by no means the only ones.

Football fans come into two main categories. The ones who think any change is good and are easily seduced by the throwaway dream of the Champions League in 5 years and instant glamorous signings Then there’s the minority who want to know backgrounds and motives and why some overseas entrepreneur wants to buy little old Walloptown United.

Most clubs are bought because of one of three things :- hidden or off balance sheet assets (such as real estate , potential planning permission, access to cash flow or as a simple laundering exercise. The laundry might be ill-gotten gains, or, trading on players. It's simply amazing how many fans have bought the “I’ve got contacts with world superstars†ticket thinking it was going to come true. Get real. It's all about MONEY ! The chances are, yours!

The goverment for once did the right thing and yet most football trusts have been met with apathy and even resentment. So the very safeguard that would protect a club from "adventurers", keep ticket prices sensible and let fans have a voice is killed at birth at the very clubs that need it.

As football clubs regularly go to the brink and then miraculously boomerang back the fans think it will never happen to their club.I've got news for them. it WILL happen and it won't be just one club. When commercial confidence goes the banks will call in gang panic in quick succession.

One of the questions I’d like answered is how the likes of Ellis, Knighton, Maxwell, Ken Bates and Uncle Tom Cobley can suddenly fall in love with your club and your atttraction is instant if they come bearing lorryloads of cash. The ultimate prostitution of your club begins with you

So now, Milan Mandaric is apparently looking for a new plaything and quite a few Championship clubs fans would welcome him with legs akimbo saying "take me".

Not forgetting that Milan was staring at a big black Portsmouth hole before the man on the white charger arrived and the Ken Bates revolution at Elland Road is currently stuck in reverse gear. Why do we want to risk all on a miracle “living the dream†as Peter Risdale so eloquently puts it ?

In football normal is quite often good .

An excellent post!

Way beyond the attention span of most folk on here though...

[Ultra]

Let's hope that if Mandaric did come, he would be able to attract better options than Newell, Penney, Holloway and all those other average managers linked with the club last time.

FFS get real.

We'd probably end up with one of his cohorts from Bulgaria or somewhere equally remote.

Apart from Redknapp, EVERY one of his managerial appointments (including Rix the paedo) has been a failure!

[Babylon]

No it really isn't. Top job is Premier league.

So you would class Watford as a top job?

Leicester is a bigger club or on par with Portsmouth, Reading, Bolton, Blackburn, Fulham, Wigan, Watford, charlton and Sheff Utd. With money to spend it is a top job that LOTS of managers would be willing to take on and would class a top job.

It's down to your own definition of "a top job", so no one is wrong.

[l444ry]

Why does everyone assume that Milan Mandaric would be good for the club ? He went through managers:-

Tony Pulis, Steve Claridge, Graham Rix, before he got it right with Redknapp and then almost blew it. Thats without the ridiculous Director of Football, Alain Perrin and some really stupid,stupid buys.

I think he was in the deep gooey stuff until his saviour rode in and gave Redknapp mark 2 a big cheque to bail him out.

Think you may like to read this article . Here

<h3 class="entry-header">Who own your club?</h3> Long ago, every club was owned by one or a few local businessmen.

Martin Edwards’ dad Louis who had a meat business in Newton Heath bought most of Man Utd. for about £30,000 in the 60’s. His son was a very lucky boy missing out on Michael Knighton entirely by luck not judgement, and then bagging loads when the club went public.

Similar story for Doug Ellis. He had been in and out of Villa’s board, dabbled in Stoke City and Wolves and then bought the current European Champions for £400,000 in 1982. That’s akin to Liverpool being bought today for less than the price of a Harry Kewell.

The Edwards’ and Ellis’ have now left football patronage (thank god) and we’re now being infiltrated by international moguls who’ve made zillions by Credit Cards, Caravan Parks or raping an international superpower’s mineral assets,

Yet is this any worse than the football club getting-listed-on-the-stock-exchange-scam which mugged countless football fans while making the board and Chief Exec.millionaires?

Today, the real skulduggery is still lower down the leagues away from the glare of national headlines. So,how much do you need to buy a club? Not a lot !

Robert Maxwell famously bought Derby County after threatening NatWest Bank that “no-one in Derby would bank with them†unless they wrote off the club’s £750,000 overdraft and avoided his bully-boy media assault. When they knocked it down to £150,000 he told them to put it on “the slate†– well, he did owe them £100 million at the time.

There’s a particular :eague club chairman of the moment who did a five year beauty tour of the lower leagues before striking it lucky. The trail of devastation he left behind nearly broke a couple of clubs desperately hoping for a cash injection and willing to play fool to his pipedreams.

Slowly but surely people with the heart of the club are being squeezed out by chancers on mortgaged money.The Glazers are by no means the only ones.

Football fans come into two main categories. The ones who think any change is good and are easily seduced by the throwaway dream of the Champons League in 5 years and instant glamorous signings Then there’s the minority who want to know backgrounds and motives and why some overseas entrepreneur wants to buy little old Walloptown United.

Most clubs are bought because of one of three things :- hidden or off balance sheet assets (such as real estate , potential planning permission, access to cash flow or as a simple laundering exercise. The laundry might be ill-gotten gains, or, trading on players. Its simply amazing how many fans have bought the “I’ve got contacts with world superstars†ticket thinking it was going to come true. Get real .Its all about MONEY ! The chances are, yours !

The goverment for once did the right thing and yet most football trusts have been met with apathy and even resentment. So the very safeguard that would protect a club from "adventurers", keep ticket prices sensible and let fans have a voice is killed at birth at the very clubs that need it.

As football clubs regularly go to the brink and then miraculously boomerang back the fans think it will never happen to their club.I've got news for them. it WILL happen and it won't be just one club. When commercial confidence goes the banks will call in gang panic in quick succession.

One of the questions I’d like answered is how the likes of Ellis, Knighton, Maxwell, Ken Bates and Uncle Tom Cobley can suddenly fall in love with your club and your atttraction is instant if they come bearing lorryloads of cash. The ultimate prostitution of your club begins with you.

So now, Milan Mandaric is apparently looking for a new plaything and quite a few Championship clubs fans would welcome him with legs akimbo saying "take me".

Not forgetting that Milan was staring at a big black Portsmouth hole before the man on the white charger arrived and the Ken Bates revolution at Elland Road is currently stuck in reverse gear. Why do we want to risk all on a miracle “living the dream†as Peter Risdale so eloquently puts it ?

In football normal is quite often good .

That's all very well but what sort of argument is it to compare Milan Mandaric with Robert Maxwell? I suggest the best judges of him are the Pompey fans and they pretty much worship him. Anyway, the league is littered with financial failures who had anything but "international moguls" at the helm.

[Manwell Pablo]

An excellent post!

Way beyond the attention span of most folk on here though...

Haha your agreeing with Chandler.....when are you going to relise how low you've sunk.

[Floating Fox]

Dear God,

Please let Mandaric buy Leicester, coz it seems like it's that or relegation as things stand at the moment.

Amen.

...Mandraic buys the club some time over the next few months , Curbishley gets apionted manager round Christmas and is given a half decent (not huge though) transfer budget :w00t: while a competant board of directors starts to get the debts paid off with cash from uncle Milan :thumbsup: ... an impressive end of season run see us challenging for the play-offs.

... well I can dream

Maybe you should be on the board, you seem to have a better plan than the current one

[Manwell Pablo]

FFS get real.

We'd probably end up with one of his cohorts from Bulgaria or somewhere equally remote.

Apart from Redknapp, EVERY one of his managerial appointments (including Rix the paedo) has been a failure!

Again your talking shit, he appointed the right managers at Niece and at Standerd Liege. It doesn't matter how long it takes to get it right as long as he gets it right eventully. I've told you already you haven't got a clue what your on about so don't even bother.

[Floating Fox]

FFS get real.

We'd probably end up with one of his cohorts from Bulgaria or somewhere equally remote.

Apart from Redknapp, EVERY one of his managerial appointments (including Rix the paedo) has been a failure!

What would you prefer, A shite board and a shite bunch of fans that always moaning (Some for good reasons, some for poor) and lower table/relegation dog-fight's for the next 5 years

Or at Worst

He brings in a load of foreigners that dont really care about Leicester but they put money in and even if it still doesnt work they are going to stop us from being in this position

At least they can afford to buy SOMEONE

[MC Prussian]

FFS get real.

We'd probably end up with one of his cohorts from Bulgaria or somewhere equally remote.

Apart from Redknapp, EVERY one of his managerial appointments (including Rix the paedo) has been a failure!

And how many of our own management's coaching choices have been a whopping failure ever since Martin O'Neill left the club?

As it is always the case with management decisions in football, it's either a hit or a miss. That's the human factor of it all. Sure, money can buy you great things. It could even move us out of this sportive misery that we're in for a couple of years now. Again, that's not granted. But how certain is a successful campaign with a clueless board like the one we have right now? With only a few people really wanting to turn the wheel around? With the same little everyday short-term changes? Appointing a new replacement coach every 6 months? Buying or testing shit players that hardly ever display the form they had before? There's no more pride working and playing football for this club, partially because the so-called "dedicated" football heroes rather prefer holding out somewhere else where they can earn some more dough per month. The only time you really see them play up to their standards is when it comes to avoid relegation in the last few games of the season, and I believe it'll be a déjà-vu next spring, just like it was the case during the last campaign.

Personally speaking, I'm torn between being disappointed and feeling angry. Because I know they could perform way better.

The board members are hoping to stay put, block progress, overlook fan criticism, just to rot in their poopie chairs for years to come with the steady high income that they got. Because their motto is: "Hey! We're management!". And the fans do their part in the play by either staying away from the ground, by killing the atmosphere (the Walkers is no ground to fear for away teams) or by bickering amongst themselves.

That's how tragic the whole situation is at the moment. LCFC would need a clear cut or a clear sportive or financial threat to all involved in order to get out of this slump.

[l444ry]

FFS get real.

We'd probably end up with one of his cohorts from Bulgaria or somewhere equally remote.

Apart from Redknapp, EVERY one of his managerial appointments (including Rix the paedo) has been a failure!

You are an expert at shooting yourself in the foot Ultra. Are Portsmouth in a better state now than when he joined or not? Has he left them raped and skint....yes or no? I think it's you who needs to "get real".

[Chrysalis]

Why does everyone assume that Milan Mandaric would be good for the club ? He went through managers:-

Tony Pulis, Steve Claridge, Graham Rix, before he got it right with Redknapp and then almost blew it. Thats without the ridiculous Director of Football, Alain Perrin and some really stupid,stupid buys.

I think he was in the deep gooey stuff until his saviour rode in and gave Redknapp mark 2 a big cheque to bail him out.

Think you may like to read this article . Here

<h3 class="entry-header">Who own your club?</h3> Long ago, every club was owned by one or a few local businessmen.

Martin Edwards’ dad Louis who had a meat business in Newton Heath bought most of Man Utd. for about £30,000 in the 60’s. His son was a very lucky boy missing out on Michael Knighton entirely by luck not judgement, and then bagging loads when the club went public.

Similar story for Doug Ellis. He had been in and out of Villa’s board, dabbled in Stoke City and Wolves and then bought the current European Champions for £400,000 in 1982. That’s akin to Liverpool being bought today for less than the price of a Harry Kewell.

The Edwards’ and Ellis’ have now left football patronage (thank god) and we’re now being infiltrated by international moguls who’ve made zillions by Credit Cards, Caravan Parks or raping an international superpower’s mineral assets,

Yet is this any worse than the football club getting-listed-on-the-stock-exchange-scam which mugged countless football fans while making the board and Chief Exec.millionaires?

Today, the real skulduggery is still lower down the leagues away from the glare of national headlines. So,how much do you need to buy a club? Not a lot !

Robert Maxwell famously bought Derby County after threatening NatWest Bank that “no-one in Derby would bank with them” unless they wrote off the club’s £750,000 overdraft and avoided his bully-boy media assault. When they knocked it down to £150,000 he told them to put it on “the slate” – well, he did owe them £100 million at the time.

There’s a particular :eague club chairman of the moment who did a five year beauty tour of the lower leagues before striking it lucky. The trail of devastation he left behind nearly broke a couple of clubs desperately hoping for a cash injection and willing to play fool to his pipedreams.

Slowly but surely people with the heart of the club are being squeezed out by chancers on mortgaged money.The Glazers are by no means the only ones.

Football fans come into two main categories. The ones who think any change is good and are easily seduced by the throwaway dream of the Champons League in 5 years and instant glamorous signings Then there’s the minority who want to know backgrounds and motives and why some overseas entrepreneur wants to buy little old Walloptown United.

Most clubs are bought because of one of three things :- hidden or off balance sheet assets (such as real estate , potential planning permission, access to cash flow or as a simple laundering exercise. The laundry might be ill-gotten gains, or, trading on players. Its simply amazing how many fans have bought the “I’ve got contacts with world superstars” ticket thinking it was going to come true. Get real .Its all about MONEY ! The chances are, yours !

The goverment for once did the right thing and yet most football trusts have been met with apathy and even resentment. So the very safeguard that would protect a club from "adventurers", keep ticket prices sensible and let fans have a voice is killed at birth at the very clubs that need it.

As football clubs regularly go to the brink and then miraculously boomerang back the fans think it will never happen to their club.I've got news for them. it WILL happen and it won't be just one club. When commercial confidence goes the banks will call in gang panic in quick succession.

One of the questions I’d like answered is how the likes of Ellis, Knighton, Maxwell, Ken Bates and Uncle Tom Cobley can suddenly fall in love with your club and your atttraction is instant if they come bearing lorryloads of cash. The ultimate prostitution of your club begins with you.

So now, Milan Mandaric is apparently looking for a new plaything and quite a few Championship clubs fans would welcome him with legs akimbo saying "take me".

Not forgetting that Milan was staring at a big black Portsmouth hole before the man on the white charger arrived and the Ken Bates revolution at Elland Road is currently stuck in reverse gear. Why do we want to risk all on a miracle “living the dream” as Peter Risdale so eloquently puts it ?

In football normal is quite often good .

Manderic isnt just some rich geezer he has a good track record.

Bates has done wonders with leeds their debt is almost gone and after next summer expect them to have a healthy trabsfer budget, also he had the guts to act quickly on blackwells weak start.

[Babylon]

Those who say no to a takeover, are as foolish as those who say yes. Until we know the facts how people can pass judgement is beyond me.