trousers

Hmmmm.... "Rome - Negotiations for the sale of Serie A club Roma were on hold Wednesday after a prospective buyer failed to deposit a guarantee at an Italian investment bank. News reports said that the Rome club is now likely to be auctioned as the investment bank Mediobanca didn't receive an expected guarantee worth 200 million euros (282 million dollars) from Vinicio Fioranelli, a Swiss entrepreneur and football agent. Fioranelli leads a group of investors who appeared keen on acquiring the majority of the club's shares. " http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/274595,roma-auction-likely-after-potential-buyer-fails-to-make-deposit.html .....all sounds a tad familiar. Probably not them then.....

"Come here....there's more...." http://www.wikio.co.uk/news/Vinicio+Fioranelli

Vinicio Fioranell's Swiss consortium lost out on Roma recently....how many Swiss consortiums are out there looking for a football team? Can't be many can there? http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLO34150520090624

And Rod Stewart....

http://www.goal.com/en/news/10/italy/2009/05/22/1280338/vinicio-fioranelli-confident-of-buying-roma Any connection....?

Little old lady

Thanks for the insight

FFS

Did it have the letter 'V' in it....?

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The future? Right now I think we should follow in Marty McFly's footsteps and head straight back to 1985....

Something else

I concur....I just can't believe there is a law that prohibits a consumer from saying "ok, I know the risk and accept that I may lose this cash, but I want to buy one anyway". Surely consumer law is there to protect the consumer in a situation where they had no warning that a company was about to go tits up. If everything is transparent then surely the consumer has every right to waive his protection rights if he or she so chooses. This ***** labour government has created a nanny state beyond belief.

So my human rights to (potentially) throw my cash down the toilet are being infringed...isn't there an EU law that overrides such self-defeating laws? Fair point. You've got to admit though that Woolworths were bloody great for Batman outfits and Val Doonican albums.

Yacht spotter heaven

Trouble is, he was drinking this last week....

Any idea how he was giving 'hints' about Red Bull....? Was it like a game of charades where he stood up and put his fingers to his head, scuffed his right foot whilst making deep mooing noises and slowly going red in the face.....or was it less subtle than that? cheers (p.s. there's actually a serious question in there somewhere!)

Too bloody right I am. Absolutely livid.

How is SFC trading solvently? Erm....by selling assets to pay wages per chance....? I accept that when said assets run out that SFC Ltd will no longer be solvent but I was highlighting our present situation rather than the potential future situation. Sure, if our assets run out on Friday then I can understand a statement about SFC Ltd being wound up on Friday, but my understanding is that we still have a few assets left.... Alternatively, it could just be me being (nice but) dim. I would never rule that one out TBH as I've been pretty dim once or twice before now when it comes to this takeover malarkey.

Hi - any chance of an update? (thought I'd ask as you were logged on 17 minutes ago) cheers

No (according to my rant!)

Indeed....and there's never been a satisfactory statement from Jones or Tointon as to WHY the club has not sold season tickets. People go on about not being able to sell a commodity that you might not be able to fullfil. Didn't stop Woolworths selling me a f***ing dud barbeque a day before they went tits up, did it? No it flippin' well didn't With a little imagination (e.g. including a consumer rights waiver in the season ticket terms and conditions or selling a 'voucher' to be redeemed later) season tickets could have been sold (IMHO). Where is the actual wording of the law that prevented us selling season tickets? The actual wording....? Rant over. Thanks

Taking my boy to his first game a few years ago and seeing the wonder in his eyes. Sadly, never got to take him to a Premier League game....