Robbofox Posted 16 October 2006 Posted 16 October 2006 I saw him too Yep i knew it put this down as a possibillity in the thread last week. Seemed strange Curbs hadnt taken up the rains again, hes holding out for somthing.
LCFC4LIFE Posted 16 October 2006 Posted 16 October 2006 Anyone remember what happened when a **** called Peter Taylor was let lose with alot of money. What happened to us then?
Foxello Posted 16 October 2006 Posted 16 October 2006 Curbishley waiting on Mandaric take over at Leicester ? Despite a great win yesterday against Southampton, rumours continues about a possible takover from Milan Mandaric. The latest rumour to sirculate is the one about Alan Curbishley. Mandaric would be interested in appointing Alan Curbishley as Leicester City's new manager if he is to take over. We all know what Alan Curbishley used as great moitivation during his days at Charlton. Leicester City and how the club was build during the time Martin O'Neill was at a club has been a motivator for Curbishley. Leicester City could again rise from the ashes and with a bit of money and a cunning boss like Curbishley it doesn't sound too bad. LINKAGE - http://soccervoice.com/n061098.htm Is this real or just a wind up? Mandaric would be good enough but Mandaric and Curbs? He has said he will only join a Prem team but if Milan could persuade him then it would brilliant. Move RK sideways, Curbs in. Premiership here we come!!!!
lcfc_jme Posted 16 October 2006 Posted 16 October 2006 Oh yes, he was third from the left in the Gospel Choir by the Foxlot bus There will be a brand new game of Spot The Mandaric at the Palace game...the first person to text his location to 74477 will win a slap-up nosh at Fusions restaurant to the value of £2.50. *All texts will be charged at £3.00 plus standard network charge* Dial 0890 MANDARIC to enter the greatest game yet dreamed up on FoxesTalk After the expensive message that will appear to never end leave your answer to the following blank: MILAN _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Remember to phone all of your friends first to make sure you don't give an answer that they have already entered otherwise you'll be splitting the top prize of a can of condensed milk with them. Starting next week A Milan-lookylikee talent show competition ~ combining the thrills of X Factor with the downwithit nipple twisting excitement of Stars In Their Eyes. YES! Next week Matthew we are all going to be Serbian multi-millionaires singing Edleweiss. You really are trying hard to keep this thread going and to get people playing a game you invented aren't you Bob?? :laugh:
Fox in a Box Posted 16 October 2006 Posted 16 October 2006 Ok we all know hes now in the county, there has been several sightings according to the Milan thread but I think it was him, im sure it was him he was selling the leicester mercury between the ticket trailer and the ticket office/entrance to the 1884 bar.. If you have seen him let us know... where ......... or call FOXLOT on 0898 212121
Ultra Posted 16 October 2006 Posted 16 October 2006 From the Blue Army (Leicester Mercury) website: By Richard Broadbent."Football hooligans?" said Brian Clough. "There are 92 club chairmen for a start." He may have been exaggerating but you know what he meant. Ask the average fan what he thinks of his board and he will think of dead wood in oak panels. But it seems plenty of Leicester City fans would welcome Milan Mandaric with open arms. Roll out the red carpet for a bloke who almost took Portsmouth into the Coca-Cola Championship via his meddling and never made good on repeated promises to move the club out of its current cattle shed. Now Mandaric did a lot of good too. I am merely pointing out that it is easy to get carried away with hype and a selective view of history. Pompey fans rightly love the Serbian businessman for the way he rescued their club and oversaw the rise into the Premiership, but it was hardly an untroubled reign. Let's rewind. In October 2004, Portsmouth beat Manchester United 2-0 at Fratton Park to go into the top 10 of the top flight. Life was good. Harry Redknapp's side was similar to Martin O'Neill's old Leicester model, tough and gritty and capable of beating anybody on their day. Mandaric's response to this was to bring in Velimir Zajec, a Croat working in Greek football, above his manager's head. Redknapp seethed and could not understand why Mandaric needed an executive director. Neither did anybody else. In fact, nobody knew whether he was an executive director or a director of football. They could not ask him either because he barely spoke English. A few weeks later, Redknapp quit and the upstarts of the Premiership went into decline. Zajec took over as temporary manager, but that was never going to work. "He is here for the foreseeable future," Mandaric said. Zajec won four matches in five months and made way for Alain Perrin, another suspect choice by the chairman. Perrin lasted six months, by which time the decline seemed irreversible. The only solution was to reappoint Redknapp, the man who had branded Mandaric "sad and pathetic" on his departure. "If you thought about what he said seriously, you would end up in a mental home," Redknapp had added. On his return, Redknapp became Mandaric's 10th manager in six years, which does not sound like a blueprint for effective chairmanship. By a minor miracle they survived, thanks largely to the money made available by Alexandre Gaydamak, a French-born Russian. The other thing that is slightly irritating about Mandaric's remark that Leicester are on his radar is the assumption football clubs are now commodities that any old mulit-millionaire can buy. In the old days it used to be that directors would need to have some sort of connection with a club. If Mandaric buys into a club that he has no links with whatsoever, are we seriously meant to believe this is down to his love of the game in the East Midlands? The reason Mandaric did so well at Portsmouth was he had a wheeler-dealer manager who knew the transfer market and could motivate players. But he then risked all that on some whimsical notion that he knew more about football. Last Christmas he showed questionable judgement by sending Rupert Lowe, his Southampton counterpart, a dead duck in a box. You either thought that was funny or childish. Now Mandaric might turn out to be the perfect owner-cum-chairman, but there are two sides to every story, and the last time Leicester had a meddlesome board it almost did for Martin O'Neill. I doubt he is seriously interested in Leicester. Mandaric is well known in journalistic circles as being something of a rent-a-quote and this is probably a source of amusement to him. So before we dust off the welcome mat, let's get our ducks in a row. Including the dead ones Also bear in mind that the hack who wrote the above piece is a Leeds fan. He is therefore well qualified to observe that sugar daddies are NOT necessarily the best thing to happen to a club.
Fox in a Box Posted 16 October 2006 Posted 16 October 2006 Oh yes, he was third from the left in the Gospel Choir by the Foxlot bus There will be a brand new game of Spot The Mandaric at the Palace game...the first person to text his location to 74477 will win a slap-up nosh at Fusions restaurant to the value of £2.50. *All texts will be charged at £3.00 plus standard network charge* *All texts will be charged at £3.00 plus standard network charge* is this any network including virgin and 3? I seen him in the directors box............................... at pompey on telly does this count?
Daggers Posted 16 October 2006 Posted 16 October 2006 You really are trying hard to keep this thread going and to get people playing a game you invented aren't you Bob?? :laugh: For Under-18's: Milan Mandaric Art Competition Come on you youngsters, join in and catch Mandaric-fever too! Send in your work of art and win fantastic prizes: Xbox 360 Bus ticket to Derby 25 minutes with a Foxette are all prizes not available Make it out of anything, just as long as it looks like the man who is never going to take over City. Send your art to: The Foxes Mandaric Art Competition Judge c/o Anthony Blair, 10 Downing Street, London
SystonFox Posted 16 October 2006 Posted 16 October 2006 is the ticket to derbyshite a return or not? this will sway weather i enter or not? also 25 minutes with a foxette is 24 minutes to long for most of us!
bold_fox Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 ******************************************************** I work at Stapleford Park, a swanky spa hotel etc, near melton mowbray. I work on reception and received a booking today from a Mr Mandaric. Read into what you want but i am telling the truth. I dont want to give out the exact date's he's staying If people want to pm me i've got his PA's email address who could forward on emails to him i imagine... I sent one this morning, wish him a nice stay and wishing all the best in his new business venture.... Here's to hoping hey. *********************************************************
Fez of Mahrez Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 Hahaha. I heard Lee Chapman is buying a house in Johan Cruyff.
bald reynard Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 ******************************************************** I work at Stapleford Park, a swanky spa hotel etc, near melton mowbray. I work on reception and received a booking today from a Mr Mandaric. Read into what you want but i am telling the truth. I dont want to give out the exact date's he's staying If people want to pm me i've got his PA's email address who could forward on emails to him i imagine... I sent one this morning, wish him a nice stay and wishing all the best in his new business venture.... Here's to hoping hey. ********************************************************* Mandaric is actually quite a common (Balkan !) name. Why is THIS Mandaric, Milan, of football fame ?!
gatesheadfox Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 ******************************************************** I work at Stapleford Park, a swanky spa hotel etc, near melton mowbray. I work on reception and received a booking today from a Mr Mandaric. Read into what you want but i am telling the truth. I dont want to give out the exact date's he's staying If people want to pm me i've got his PA's email address who could forward on emails to him i imagine... I sent one this morning, wish him a nice stay and wishing all the best in his new business venture.... Here's to hoping hey. ********************************************************* remind him that, while the pies are good he best leave some spare change to buy leicester city
bold_fox Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 Mandaric is actually quite a common (Balkan !) name. Why is THIS Mandaric, Milan, of football fame ?! Totally agree... We'll have to wait and see... i'll keep you all posted.
Fox in a Box Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 Milan's in italy ive just seen it on a map!
gatesheadfox Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 Milan's in italy ive just seen it on a map! i wont believe it without a link, link please?
Finnegan Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 i wont believe it without a link, link please? It isn't on FootballRumours. Don't think it's true.
Unit Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 Milan's in italy ive just seen it on a map! That's not even that funny but it made me spit my coke out and it went up my nose and stuff, thanks
davieG Posted 17 October 2006 Author Posted 17 October 2006 Interesting Article in the Merc Business section: FOXES FIT FOR MILAN More Headlines | Back to home page BY IAN GRIFFIN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT 10:15 - 17 October 2006 Look at the calendar. Major events concerning Leicester City always seem to happen in October. Nine years ago this month saw City's momentous flotation on the London Stock Exchange, while the club plunged into administration four years ago this Saturday. Earlier this month, fans were delighted to hear Serbian-American multi-millionaire Milan Mandaric had been linked with a possible takeover. Then last week, the club announced it made a £1.6 million profit last season, compared to a loss of £3.5 million in 2004/05. The figures highlighted the fact the club had tightened its ship since its collapse in 2002 owing £50 million. Chief executive Tim Davies said: "On the face of it, our balance sheets are relatively healthy." But does this make City an attractive acquisition for Mr Mandaric or anyone else? We asked accountancy firm Vantis, which has experience of looking at the books of sporting clubs, for its view on the Foxes' accounts. Patric Phelan, director of the Vantis office in Leicester, said any would-be buyer would need to make an offer of more than £5 million - the figure the Gary Lineker-led consortium raised to buy the club from the administrators. "The potential for growth and the value of the squad and stadium are the key things," he said. He said the club's fan base, the £4.3 million value of the squad and the fact they have a modern stadium all helped to make the club appealing. "When you look at it, Leicester is an attractive proposition, so the question is what premium do you want to pay for gaining control of the club?" Mr Phelan said. "They have got good management and a good playing squad, which could be enhanced once they are in the Premiership but there are some constraints on buying players, which they need to be able to do to get into the Premiership. "However, if I was a shareholder and I was going to sell to someone, the buyer would need to be generous." Any bid approach would be made to the board in the first place. If they approved the offer, the shareholders would then be asked to vote on it. "If it didn't get board approval, an approach would be made to individual shareholders with a view to building up a holding," said Mr Phelan. Mr Phelan said Mr Mandaric's reputation meant he could be good for City. "From what I understand, Mandaric bought into Portsmouth and sold out at a profit as a result of what he did," he said. "He has a track record of being a football supporter who knows what he's doing on the commercial side." One man who knows Mr Mandaric well is Jordan Cross, football writer at the Portsmouth News newspaper. "He has been fantastic for the club," he said. "He is a shrewd businessman. He came here in 1999 and bought the club out of administration. He took a huge gamble when ITV Digital collapsed in 2002, because a lot of money was being lost in football and he went out and spent £10 million on players. But it was also an opportunity." The business tycoon brought in experienced Premiership stars and Pompey won the First Division championship that season, with City as runners-up. "He's very accountable from a media point of view and very quotable because he wears his heart on his sleeve," said Mr Cross. The Business Agenda survey found 75 per cent of respondents thought having a single owner would be good for City, while 79 per cent said they would sell to Mr Mandaric if they were shareholders. Less than half (44 per cent) said they would invest in the sports club they supported if they had the money. The questions were sent by e-mail to more than 250 business people and we received 22 detailed responses. Steve King, partner at Leicester accountants PKF, who occasionally watches the Foxes, said: "I'd love to see Leicester having some football success because I'd like us to be able to claim we are the sporting capital of Europe again. That can only be achieved by someone taking over with serious money and quality management." Simon Hill, managing director of fleet management firm Total Motion, of Leicester, said: "Leicester needs upwards of £50 million to make it remotely competitive."
Thracian Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 Value of the squad £4.3m. Yes I bet they'd sell em all for that. That's as much a fairy tale as Cinderella. But let's see how that works out: Kisnorbo £2m Stearman £1m Fryatt £1m Hume £750.000 McCarthy free, Sheehan free McAuley free Maybury free Hughes free Williams free Wesolowski free O'Grady free Hammond free Dodds free Gradel free King free Logan free Porter free And are City going to give: Chambers free Odhiambo free Mattock free McKay free etc, etc, etc. Someone's going to have a f.....g good day at £4.3m. I like a deal but it'd be bloody hard to find one as good as that!!!!!!
Louise Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 £50 million?! I'm not sure we're going for the Prem title yet.
Fez of Mahrez Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 It's alright Milan, we don't need you anymore, we've won two games in a row. Toddle off back to Bournemouth.
Daggers Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 Yea, sod off Milan you big cockbadger! You and your stupid money.
canadianfox Posted 17 October 2006 Posted 17 October 2006 Value of the squad £4.3m. Yes I bet they'd sell em all for that. That's as much a fairy tale as Cinderella. But let's see how that works out: Kisnorbo £2m Stearman £1m Fryatt £1m Hume £750.000 McCarthy free, Sheehan free McAuley free Maybury free Hughes free Williams free Wesolowski free O'Grady free Hammond free Dodds free Gradel free King free Logan free Porter free And are City going to give: Chambers free Odhiambo free Mattock free McKay free etc, etc, etc. Someone's going to have a f.....g good day at £4.3m. I like a deal but it'd be bloody hard to find one as good as that!!!!!! has humes value gone up any after the last 2 games?
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