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Seriously doubt it. His (alleged) buddy Thaksin is more interested in going home these days. Sultan Bin Trump probably has other worries these days with the property market still in a mess with (many) frozen projects still No the LinkedIn was funnier than that (and no doubt entrely accidentally coincidental) And no I won't post it simply because it is a co-incidence and not fair on all involved

Someone really should ping a link to page 941 to that chick at Arsenal (and David Conn) If nothing else it would give them a great ROFL

Oh keep up, we did that one 3 takeovers ago

Obviously it hurts to lose your own kids. But then we have to add back in that as we have progressed up L1 & now the nPc and hopefully beyond, we will be doing exactly the same to smaller clubs (as we did with Walcott) and hopefully with Jack Stephens. (And it could be argued now with Jack Cork) Hopefully this time around in the PL we will be "stealing" some great young players of our own to play at the top level. Doesn't make it right of course

Hope it has state of the art sonar systems. So it won't crash into poopey's new underwater stadium on the way in and out of it's home port

ADFD is a serious operation. If Khalifa is on the Exec Board then he will be an important part of that machine. I'll be meeting some guys from "another SWF" when I go down to the golf in 2 weeks time and will do some digging (if this is still afloat by then) However they would be extremely unlikely to look at investments outside their primary remit. Also as they are linked directly to the Government as a Sovereign Wealth Fund, they will be linked with the Rulers Office which then leads to potential conflicts of interest with teh Manchester City & Etihad Marketing Investment. THAT deal is entirely about building the Abu Dhabi BRAND. I simply cannot see any benefit to them to start a rebuild and they certainly have VERY close links to football and would know all they need to know about our fishy friends and the value of their brand. The guys in SWF's (ooh there is a co-incidence) will be very much more Compliant than the "Property nutters" like Hydra were. Can see these guys backing Hotel & Resort Projects but cannot see them going outside their remit. In which case it would be an independent down there linked to someone. Mind you - you can just see the few turning up to watch from the cheap terraces at their new stadium - wearing Scuba gear - they'll feel right at home down with the fishes.

His Abu Dhabi links are to an investment fund in Hotels and resorts. Oh and that is PRICELESS.. Linkedin shows linked people that you know who have links to the people who have links to... And all I can say is :lol: Oh Dude, not again, really, the last one was funny enough

And here he is http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=10755556&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=SY-f&locale=en_US&srchid=2680186f-24cc-4010-bca9-58c325b34897-0&srchindex=1&srchtotal=12&goback=%2Efps_PBCK_*1_Joseph_Cala_*1_*1_*1_*1_*2_*1_Y_*1_*1_*1_false_1_R_*1_*51_*1_*51_true_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2&pvs=ps&trk=pp_profile_name_link

Hey. It's all their own fault. They messed with that whole damned Voodoo sh1t by burying a shirt under SMS. Always comes back to bite you in the bum

Oh and another sweet one... Abu Dhabi backing.... Let's see, Abu Dhabi and CASINO? in the same breath Dubai was going to have an underwater hotel as well. That project sunk without a trace So am I Trousers

Meanwhile, 44 posts later, still no answer to THE most important question... Where does he play in MF? PLEASE don't let him be CM or AM in the hole - that would mean we are likely to stick with the 3 CM formation and that means another 4 months of listening to DM whine about width.....

Just in time to get whacked by a nutter in a speedboat with an RPG in the Straits of Hormuz

Weekly Par 3 Golf Society night out this evening. Puntucated by THE most STUNNING Full Moon rising in an awesome Deep Crimson Red Colour. A portent of Doom some say, think we are hearing rumours of where the Doom may be. Apparently these Red Moons are pretty rare, once a year or so. Yet we had one with the Eclipse around 8th December and I recall New York had one last year as well. yep, it was a reflection of all the Toasters warming up Oh and Comical Andy PLEASE, you're getting more predictable than Old Wives Tales. Of COURSE you need a sucker with 11mil to keep the club running (please note everybody that to have kept Saints running with the side & operations we entered admin with required ONLY 6mil a year) He has of course innocently forgotten that Mr Chinny is a Secured Creditor for HOW MUCH? Oh yes about 17 mil.... Now what was that about the parachute money and the CVA?

Equally Maybe the entire backroom staff at Saints believe that lee is BETTER than Sharp or Rhodes

Yeah - let's face it, they KNOW they will be in the sh1t if they miss salaries. They make a big deal about only having enough for maybe this month. So IF they had put that cash aside for the rainy day, then surely not paying wages is the rainy day (hell they close if they don't) I think in the maths we have also forgotten Chinny's other loans made to the likes of Al Mirage in the time up until they went into admin. Did that document with his charge over nottarf krap that so upset Ho last time actually give a figure?

This HAS to be THE most annoying thread EVER. I mean now I have like wow - almost 10 followers - I really have to start dreaming up MORE inane drivel to type.. Ho hum. Will see what one can do

An interesting point about money.... So the research into possible Parachute payments paid in advance and football creditors seems to show that potentially poopey received 9 mil into their operation THIS year. So THIS is REALLY good news for those of you who like Toast. Suddenly the maths becomes much more fun.... 10.8mil from the poor starving Lithuanian Pensioners 9 mil from Parachute payments And yet STILL AA is "not convinced" that they can pay the wages at the end of this month... So they are actually burning ALMOST double what we imagined would make an investor run away..... Of course this analysis is based only on conjecture on this last page but........... ROFL if that is the case

Some may say that we've been doing our own memorial for the past month leading up to this... As our promotion push has sunk without a trace. But seriously, back on topic this is a little different from All Saints Day as it is a part of the history of the City, rather than ASD which celebrates the lives of those close to or who loved the Club who left us during the past year. So perhaps the Club should at least lay a wreath somewhere, if not a formal "Remembrance Moment"?

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/sport/football/blackpool-fc/pool_in_puncheon_bid_1_4122942 Seems we have TURNED DOWN a bid of 650k for him.

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/sport/football/blackpool-fc/pool_in_puncheon_bid_1_4122942 So maybe selling Puncheon adds some cash to the kitty? Just cut & pasting Twitter feeds that's all folks

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/fa-cup/8998367/Chelsea-v-Portsmouth-FA-Cup-rematch-a-chance-for-Pompey-chimes-to-ring-again.html Ooh how did we miss this article 4 days ago thx to one of my tweeter stalkers for posting the link WARNING it contains a small interview with & picture of TCWTB BUT it also puts into print about broken pledges etc

hmmm

Finally, the chance of a French Politician talking sense

Yeah, if it wasn't for the effective ISP monopoly, the hacking of anyone who tries to use a proxy buster IP hiding software... There IS the alternative of using a Satellite system, we're looking into that for work, but wow it is expensive. Oh and besides the locals we also have the deep joy of the Yanks (allegedly) cutting our sub-sea cables every month or three - about two years back they cut 3 in different locations and all within a couple of minutes of each other. Meanwhile back on track. Clarkson (about 17 years ago) once featured a set of wheels as "the coolest car you could have in Dubai" it was co-incidentally parked in a car park where he was summarising one of his trips down here. It was my 1st wheels here - a beaten up old LR SW Defender (pile of krap it was too, always breaking down and an a/c that pushed out air you could boil an egg in) That was back in the day the Beeb made him sit in cattle class - that was a fun & boozy flight

Hahahahahahahahaha Oh that REALLY is the funniest post ever. Classic. I applied for Fibre Optic service 3 years ago. It will take 7-10 days they said.... Everytime I chase them up. Hell the fibre would SAVE me 20 quid a month for 500Mps compared to around 6 at the moment OK so I have no limit on downloads, but then one movie takes 3 days to torrent. Mate just landed in Uk for work and collapsed in shock at the things he can now do on his Iphone, Dude, this place simply doesn't do technology like you lot get