Window Cleaner

we have no proof of her personal wealth, none whatsoever. The Mali group has been reduced to virtually nothing, all sold and liquidated. Cortese ran it all of late anyway.

No-one would want to actually buy any of those anyway, best we can hope for there is some very long loan periods, say 2 years or so. Anyway players not being loaned out isn't covered anywhere in the statement.

Well for journalists who can presumably grasp the English language quite well you'd have to wonder how they've converted "no plans to sell players" into pledging not to sell players. They are not one and the same thing. No plans just means no active schemes to sell players it doesn't mean they won't. Then again as we're dealing with a Swiss national perhaps they don't realise that. What she needs to say is No player that the manager seeks to retain will be sold in this transfer window, now that's a statement of intent not a wishy washy no plans etc.

No, they'll be granted extra tickets I expect. They've had a bit over 3000 but I believe they're officially entitled to 15% unless we find some excuse to refuse them on safety grounds.

probably in case they farted during the game.

I think we can safely assume that everyone who wants to buy a ticket for this game be they Yeovil supporters or Saints supporters will find the offer meets the demand. No-one will be turned away.

So then who decides, Mauricio was clear about it yesterday, only with his consent and he won't be giving that for anyone he wants to keep. All that the Chairperson's statement says to me is "don't come round waving beer-mats and bottle tops looking for bargains"

but if you had the right offer !!!!!!!!!!!!

Well you could if you want to argue semantics, "The club has no plans to sell any players during the January window" doesn't actually say no player will be sold if the right offer came along. It's only Mauricio who says that no player he wants to stay will leave.

well they won't will they, their contracts were with the club as would be any non-disclosure clauses. The fact that one bloke leaves just changes nothing in that respect.

Isn't that just a wholly owned subsidary of DMSWL 613 Ltd (or whatever it is) ?

like any University social life should be, if you can remember it well you probably weren't there. (sorry about the misquote Paul)

so what does a non-executive chairman actually decide then, compared to an executive chairman? Forgive my ignorance if you please you city lads and lasses.

He didn't even sell his stake AFAIK he gave it away to his brothers,sisters, cousins and what have you. He went out on his own with Mali and it's 5 constituent parts. AFAIK everything has been liquidated apart from a sort of consultancy affair that has had it's HG moved from the Friburg canton (where the family resides) to Zurich.Up until not long back Cortese still ran everything with 1 other director, bloke called Werner or Hehli .

Cortese resigned...there's a starting point surely, then again it depends which version of "the truth" you're inclined to believe.

you could use his Australian road trip as base material I think.

Which is all well and good unless you actually believe that all the current owner wants to do is sell the club to the highest bidder. There's nothing to be gained by spending money now in that case.

what other family members ? there are just the 2 girls as far as I know and one seems to be a horsey type with no interest in business whatsoever. I think the fact that Cortese was still running everythng for over 3 years after Markus's death tells another story. You need to comprehend that the rest of the Liebherr family have nothing to do with this branch...nothing whatsoever.

That's how I see it as well.

Yes but some argued it was to gain some tax advantage or other. Personally I have no idea, I'm just quoting a figure that I saw in one of the many threads started yesterday.

I thought it was quite clear...no-one in, no-one out. It's what's been said all along and I guess now we know why. We aren't going to go down, the European football dream has evaporated so there's no need to strengthen as of yet. That will no doubt be left to whoever buys the club from it's current owner.

didn't we make about 900K profit last season...or was that just a figure someone made up to support some hypothesis or other? If we spent 30 million last season and still made 900K then I can't see us making any less this season as we'll get more Sky money.

And they will find plenty of people with "inside knowledge" to fuel their arguments whichever way they want to lean. It's all just a gabfest, few know anything, many claim to know much. Personally I'm just looking forward to tomorrow to see how the players are taking it but as I'm convinced that they knew as much as there is to know for a while now I can't see much difference being apparent.

Mourinho doesn't play wonder boys, he likes seasoned pros, players with status and standing. We really need to get away from this myth that Chelsea are going to give us loads of money for Shaw. If Mourinho had wanted to sign a left back he'd be going for Coentrao and maybe he still is. Coentrao was one of Mourinho's go to players at Real, if he's available he'd be his first choice and will cost far less than all of these speculative amounts for Shaw.

I don't really understand where the 50K comes from, I can only see a sort of "if we had some eggs we could have bacon and eggs if we had some bacon" arguement. Might have misunderstood though, the club didn't want to sell the book for whatever reason or other so they didn't sell any but nothing was lost and nothing was gained so I don't see how 50K was "spunked" anywhere. Now the club stores have plenty of merchandise to sell so perhaps the sale of a book would take away sales from another article where the profit potential is higher...I've no idea.