purpleronnie Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 Please be true, Please be true, Please be true, Please be true , Please be true x 10000000 Why?
MPH Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 Hope this doesn't mean we get any clearly not ready for 2nd division indonesian internationals that MUST play for us to boost our reputation over there.......
body102 Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 Few things on Pini Zaahavi from wiki Pinhas "Pini" Zahavi (Hebrew: פיני זהבי; born August 24, 1943 in Ness Ziona, Israel)[1][2] is a football agent who has been involved in some of the most expensive (and controversial) transfer episodes of the last decade. Zahavi is often described as a "football transfer super agent" or a "transfer svengali". He is registered with FIFA from his offices in Tel Aviv.[3] His sports career began when he was a writer for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth; the contacts he made in that position helped him to establish himself, after making a career change, as a football agent. Today he lives in Tel Aviv and Marble Arch, London.[2] He is the great uncle of Alex Zahavi, a Sporting CP and Portugal youth team player who was born in Los Angeles, USA. Business deals He helped facilitate the takeover of two English Premier League clubs by fellow associates, Chelsea Football Club by Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, and Portsmouth Football Club by French businessman Alexandre Gaydamak and later helping Ali Al-Faraj take over Portsmouth Football Club. Transfers he has brokered include: Rio Ferdinand to Manchester United, July 2002, £30m Juan Sebastián Verón to Manchester United, July 2001, £28m Yakubu Aiyegbeni to Middlesbrough, July 2005, £7.5m The Yakubu deal is reported to have earned Zahavi a potential £3m fee, the largest ever disclosed in English football.[citation needed] Clients he represents include: Rio Ferdinand Eyal Berkovic Yakubu Aiyegbeni Kevin Campbell Idan Tal Giovani dos Santos Adrien Silva Bruno Pereirinha João Moutinho Marcelo Mattos Miguel Vítor Fernando Belluschi Panagiotis Tachtsidis Zahavi is co-owner of Charlton, a media company which holds the TV rights to many sporting events in Israel. He is also part of a syndicate of owners which include Sir Alex Ferguson and bookmaker Victor Chandler, who are responsible for the Peter Chapple-Hyam trained Fireside, last in the 2008 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket. [1] [edit] Controversy After a takeover of Chelsea, former owner Ken Bates described Zahavi with pejorative abuse. Zahavi responded by saying: This revolting character is not worthy of a response. If I was in his shoes I would wake up every morning praying to God and thanking him that Pini Zahavi saved him from bankruptcy and put £19million in his pocket. He is history as far as English football is concerned. —Pini Zahavi In 2005 the English Football Association recommended that Zahavi be investigated for his part in the Ashley Cole 'tapping-up' affair. He was also present when then-England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson met with Chelsea owner Abramovich; Eriksson later issued a statement denying his meeting was for business reasons. Following the Lord Stevens 'bung enquiry', Zahavi was reported to be involved in "making illicit payments" on a deal involving Fabio Rochemback and fellow agent Barry Silkman. "Agent Pinhas Zahavi has failed to co-operate fully with the inquiry . There was an initial failure to disclose his involvement in a number of transfers but, more seriously, he has failed to provide the inquiry with complete bank statements due to the confidential nature of them. There has also been a lack of responsiveness by Zahavi. There remains questions relating to his relationship with, and payments to, licensed agent Barry Silkman, and with Silkman's failure to initially disclose his involvement in all the transactions in which he has received fees."[4]
Guest Bilo Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 Pini Zahavi? Oh good. Worryingly, Miguel Vitor is one of his clients so we already have a link to him, albeit a tenuous one.
richie8oy Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 Few things on Pini Zaahavi from wiki Pinhas "Pini" Zahavi (Hebrew: פיני זהבי; born August 24, 1943 in Ness Ziona, Israel)[1][2] is a football agent who has been involved in some of the most expensive (and controversial) transfer episodes of the last decade. Zahavi is often described as a "football transfer super agent" or a "transfer svengali". He is registered with FIFA from his offices in Tel Aviv.[3] His sports career began when he was a writer for the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth; the contacts he made in that position helped him to establish himself, after making a career change, as a football agent. Today he lives in Tel Aviv and Marble Arch, London.[2] He is the great uncle of Alex Zahavi, a Sporting CP and Portugal youth team player who was born in Los Angeles, USA. Business deals He helped facilitate the takeover of two English Premier League clubs by fellow associates, Chelsea Football Club by Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, and Portsmouth Football Club by French businessman Alexandre Gaydamak and later helping Ali Al-Faraj take over Portsmouth Football Club. Transfers he has brokered include: Rio Ferdinand to Manchester United, July 2002, £30m Juan Sebastián Verón to Manchester United, July 2001, £28m Yakubu Aiyegbeni to Middlesbrough, July 2005, £7.5m The Yakubu deal is reported to have earned Zahavi a potential £3m fee, the largest ever disclosed in English football.[citation needed] Clients he represents include: Rio Ferdinand Eyal Berkovic Yakubu Aiyegbeni Kevin Campbell Idan Tal Giovani dos Santos Adrien Silva Bruno Pereirinha João Moutinho Marcelo Mattos Miguel Vítor Fernando Belluschi Panagiotis Tachtsidis Zahavi is co-owner of Charlton, a media company which holds the TV rights to many sporting events in Israel. He is also part of a syndicate of owners which include Sir Alex Ferguson and bookmaker Victor Chandler, who are responsible for the Peter Chapple-Hyam trained Fireside, last in the 2008 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket. [1] [edit] Controversy After a takeover of Chelsea, former owner Ken Bates described Zahavi with pejorative abuse. Zahavi responded by saying: This revolting character is not worthy of a response. If I was in his shoes I would wake up every morning praying to God and thanking him that Pini Zahavi saved him from bankruptcy and put £19million in his pocket. He is history as far as English football is concerned. —Pini Zahavi In 2005 the English Football Association recommended that Zahavi be investigated for his part in the Ashley Cole 'tapping-up' affair. He was also present when then-England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson met with Chelsea owner Abramovich; Eriksson later issued a statement denying his meeting was for business reasons. Following the Lord Stevens 'bung enquiry', Zahavi was reported to be involved in "making illicit payments" on a deal involving Fabio Rochemback and fellow agent Barry Silkman. "Agent Pinhas Zahavi has failed to co-operate fully with the inquiry . There was an initial failure to disclose his involvement in a number of transfers but, more seriously, he has failed to provide the inquiry with complete bank statements due to the confidential nature of them. There has also been a lack of responsiveness by Zahavi. There remains questions relating to his relationship with, and payments to, licensed agent Barry Silkman, and with Silkman's failure to initially disclose his involvement in all the transactions in which he has received fees."[4] and look where that got them.....bad times if this happens!!!
body102 Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 and look where that got them.....bad times if this happens!!! The problems I see with takeovers such as say man city / chelsea , what happens when they get bored could leave clubs in a right mess and in threat of extinction
richie8oy Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 we've tried to buy success before under the likes of taylor paying mediocre players extortionate amounts of money on ridculous contracts and it got us no-where, our success over the last few years has been build on solid foundations with young players paid what they are currently worth. this whole thing just stinks of Milan getting bored with it all and wanting a quick route out. he's invested little in the club since he's been here, no arguing he took us from the verge of administration a few years back, but his wallet has hardly backed what garbage has come out of his mouth in the last few years, the man is just a media whore!!
Unabomber Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 we've tried to buy success before under the likes of taylor paying mediocre players extortionate amounts of money on ridculous contracts and it got us no-where, our success over the last few years has been build on solid foundations with young players paid what they are currently worth. this whole thing just stinks of Milan getting bored with it all and wanting a quick route out. he's invested little in the club since he's been here, no arguing he took us from the verge of administration a few years back, but his wallet has hardly backed what garbage has come out of his mouth in the last few years, the man is just a media whore!! Don't agree with this at all, although a lot of the players have not justified their fees, he still spent big money on the likes of Howard, Oakley, DJ, Gallagher, Wellens amongst others.
purpleronnie Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 Don't agree with this at all, although a lot of the players have not justified their fees, he still spent big money on the likes of Howard, Oakley, DJ, Gallagher, Wellens amongst others. How much did gallagher cost??
DeclanMC Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 How much did gallagher cost?? either 900k or 1.1 million apparently. In terms of the consortium, I say bring it on!
Heart-Shaped Fox Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 For it to be over this week, that would be very quick?!
Unabomber Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 How much did gallagher cost?? Between £750,000 and £1m as far as I know.
richardsfoxes Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 Very interesting, lets see how much money they have first.
body102 Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 This agent Pini Zahavi was the one who had got the Polish interested in Leicester , but they first had a look at Swansea . Not sure what can be read into this but seems a bit of a coincidence now we have Sousa
davieG Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 I'm no Mandaric sycophant but this strikes me as out of the frying pan into the fire. Virtually all these takeovers just seem to land clubs with bigger and bigger debts with no guarantee of sustained progress as a club or business. But as fans I guess we just have to cross our fingers and hope they don't inflict any mortal wounds.
Guest Bilo Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 I'm no Mandaric sycophant but this strikes me as out of the frying pan into the fire. Virtually all these takeovers just seem to land clubs with bigger and bigger debts with no guarantee of sustained progress as a club or business. But as fans I guess we just have to cross our fingers and hope they don't inflict any mortal wounds. Exactly, just hope against hope that these guys are more Lerner than Briatore, or worse, Munto Finance.
Narborough_fox Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 I'd rather keep Manadaric until we get an owner we know that will keep us financially secure.
davieG Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 I'd rather keep Manadaric until we get an owner we know that will keep us financially secure. The problem is as fans we don't and wont know who will do that, in fact we don't even know how secure we are with Mandaric What football needs is a good dose of transparency, but we seem to have more chance of winning the Champions League than we have of those running the game making that happen.
Guest DavidJCW Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 Aren't there any English, Leicester supporting billionaires willing to buy us?
Edmund Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 And a deal to sell to the South Asian group, whose main players come from Indonesia, could be completed this week. They regard Leicester the city, with its large Indian population, as the ideal place to fulfil their dream of building a club. Leicester are relatively clear of debt and the recently-built 32,000-seater Walkers Stadium, as well as the successful youth academy, are already of Premier League standard. Do they even realise Indonesia and India are two completely different places
davieG Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 Aren't there any English, Leicester supporting billionaires willing to buy us? My money stays were it is! With the Government.
Mack Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 Given the recent happenings at Portsmouth and Notts County I would rather catch crabs from Jo Brand than have a bunch of dodgy kitchen sinks piggy backing the club for their own gain.
smallpauldj Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 Given the recent happenings at Portsmouth and Notts County I would rather catch crabs from Jo Brand than have a bunch of dodgy kitchen sinks piggy backing the club for their own gain. i was thinking the same thing along the lines of what happened to Portsmouth. at the end of the day it always us the fans that suffer when it all goes wrong and if we vanish there is no way in a million month of sundays ill support forest, derby or cov as a alternative. the only good thing that might happen for Leicestershire is Hinckley might need a bigger stadium to fit in the extra support. Altho i agree with the comment i dont want to buy our way to the top like Chelski (SCUM) id give anything to see Leicester win the chams league.
BlueBloodDave Posted 11 July 2010 Posted 11 July 2010 Just hop Milan stays on to oversee the football side as we don't want to end up like Pompey!!!
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