BadgerBadger Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 I wouldn't call NC an inspiration (why do you think that?). Really pleased that Markus bought us though. I hope he gets what he wants. I think his appointment of NC is an inspiration oppossed to NC being an inspiration (yet), reason being; he could have appointed a Chairman type person to manage his investment in the 'compamy', instead he took the risk of appointing his closest confident in his overall investment (his wealth), strange move considering the small size of investment relative to his wealth. He saw a need to put in place someone who will not just tick the boxes of a normal Chairman but someone who was willing to aggressivley move the club forward which alway puts some peoples noses out of joint, hence the slight negative NC posts of late, these posts being misguided and short sighted IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 I think his appointment of NC is an inspiration oppossed to NC being an inspiration (yet), reason being; he could have appointed a Chairman type person to manage his investment in the 'compamy', instead he took the risk of appointing his closest confident in his overall investment (his wealth), strange move considering the small size of investment relative to his wealth. He saw a need to put in place someone who will not just tick the boxes of a normal Chairman but someone who was willing to aggressivley move the club forward which alway puts some peoples noses out of joint, hence the slight negative NC posts of late, these posts being misguided and short sighted IMO I reckon it could be that NC saw an opportunity and asked Markus for the money to help start it. IMO this is more about NC than ML. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Hmmm touche Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gigersaint Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 (edited) ....anyway Thank you Markus and Nicola, Thanks for a great year, a great season, and looking forward to a future of further success. Edited 8 July, 2010 by Gigersaint Name spelling corrected! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 ....anyway Thank you Marcus and Nicola, Thanks for a great year, a great season, and looking forward to a future of further success. It's Markus. And yes can I echo that first comment. Thanks Markus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadgerBadger Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 I reckon it could be that NC saw an opportunity and asked Markus for the money to help start it. IMO this is more about NC than ML. you maybe right but NC wasn't appointed Chairman immediately, he only seemed to be a facilitator in the very beginning and it took a month or so for him to be appointed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shroppie Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Anyway, Happy 1st Anniversary, Markus, and THANK YOU!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 8 July, 2010 Author Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Don't put that one up....it make me cry! Soppy old git (me, not you!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supergoose Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Big thanks to Markus and NC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint lard Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Ta muchly,Markus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SO16_Saint Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Will he / we celebrate with another top signing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 yea, thanks for investing in SFC, you know in was a fantastic deal and the return will be tremendous (if things work out on the football side as you are hoping), a club worth maybe 3 or 4 times the 12 million you invested. I take nothing from the takeover, i will enjoy the ride and be thankful that we have been taken over by a proper businessman, but these posts above seem to suggest that ML was some sort of guardian angel sent by God to rescue us. ML will enjoy the ride too, look at him at Wembley, i am not suggesting he does not care, but its all abou the deal and the return for him, nothing more, nothing less, and i suspect it might be good one, so you got to ask yourself one question: Who should be thanking who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 8 July, 2010 Author Share Posted 8 July, 2010 yea, thanks for investing in SFC, you know in was a fantastic deal and the return will be tremendous (if things work out on the football side as you are hoping), a club worth maybe 3 or 4 times the 12 million you invested. I take nothing from the takeover, i will enjoy the ride and be thankful that we have been taken over by a proper businessman, but these posts above seem to suggest that ML was some sort of guardian angel sent by God to rescue us. ML will enjoy the ride too, look at him at Wembley, i am not suggesting he does not care, but its all abou the deal and the return for him, nothing more, nothing less, and i suspect it might be good one, so you got to ask yourself one question: Who should be thanking who? My mum gets pleasure out of buying me a birthday present but I quite often thank her for doing so..,.maybe she should be thanking me for being alive? HTH ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge_B Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Thank you for not letting the club I love go to the wall, and for setting us off in a new direction. Markus Liebherr, thank you very much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewisr49 Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Thank you Markus for saving The Saints. Last season was good but the future is going to be great in red and white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 yea, thanks for investing in SFC, you know in was a fantastic deal and the return will be tremendous (if things work out on the football side as you are hoping), a club worth maybe 3 or 4 times the 12 million you invested. I take nothing from the takeover, i will enjoy the ride and be thankful that we have been taken over by a proper businessman, but these posts above seem to suggest that ML was some sort of guardian angel sent by God to rescue us. ML will enjoy the ride too, look at him at Wembley, i am not suggesting he does not care, but its all abou the deal and the return for him, nothing more, nothing less, and i suspect it might be good one, so you got to ask yourself one question: Who should be thanking who? If you can't be magnanimous about it, perhaps better not to have bothered contributing. Your reaction is akin to a kid being given an ice cream and complaining that there is no chocolate Flake. Whatever the ins and outs about it, just take a moment to ponder what might have been had he not come in to take us over. There wasn't exactly a long queue of people falling over themselves to take up this marvellous investment opportunity, so have the good grace to be thankful that ML was prepared to step forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West End Saint Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Thank you Marcus we know how lucky we are to have you nice 1 centurian. When you look at the mess the cod snoggers down the road are in without Marcus that could have easily been us we are very fotunate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 If you can't be magnanimous about it, perhaps better not to have bothered contributing. Your reaction is akin to a kid being given an ice cream and complaining that there is no chocolate Flake. Whatever the ins and outs about it, just take a moment to ponder what might have been had he not come in to take us over. There wasn't exactly a long queue of people falling over themselves to take up this marvellous investment opportunity, so have the good grace to be thankful that ML was prepared to step forward. sorry, didn't realise I wasn't allowed to contribute because I have a different viewpoint. I understand that some people can't read or understand English, if you can perhaps you can point out to where i was complaining? On the same point, I used the word thankful in my post, so that sort of makes your post factually incorrect, perhaps you need to read it again. What might have been if ML had not come along? We'd have been taken over by someone else, probabaly not as wealthy as ML, who knows, we certainly wouldn't have gone bust, anyone who believes that hasn't noticed what has happened in football the last 20 years, all this debt and one club going 'pop'. If you are going to reply to a post, have the decency and ability to make it relevant to the original, otherwise please don't contribute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John B Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 If you can't be magnanimous about it, perhaps better not to have bothered contributing. Your reaction is akin to a kid being given an ice cream and complaining that there is no chocolate Flake. Whatever the ins and outs about it, just take a moment to ponder what might have been had he not come in to take us over. There wasn't exactly a long queue of people falling over themselves to take up this marvellous investment opportunity, so have the good grace to be thankful that ML was prepared to step forward. Noodles does make a reasonable point ML/NC may have saved the club in your eyes and others but all they did was buy a Premiership Club at a knock down price but I am quite happy they did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 8 July, 2010 Author Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Noodles does make a reasonable point ML/NC may have saved the club in your eyes and others but all they did was buy a Premiership Club at a knock down price but I am quite happy they did Didn't really want this thread to turn into a debate per se but hey ho....my reply to that would be: "if it was such an obvious bargain why was Mr Liebherr (aparently) the only serious 'investor' on the scene this time last year?" Doesn't add up to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doggface Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Thanks so much Markus, success or failiure ahead - You will always be remembered historically for saving this great club. I remember a year ago today well - fantastic feeling Special mention too to Nicola Cortese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pancake Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Thank you NC for finding some proper funding for the club and saving us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyb1 Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Secret Site Agent Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Cheers Marcus. many thanks for all you have done And cheers to Nicola, who has made all this possible And finally cheers to the moaning minnies, who without we couldn't realise how lucky we are. Lots of Love SSA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Didn't really want this thread to turn into a debate per se but hey ho....my reply to that would be: "if it was such an obvious bargain why was Mr Liebherr (aparently) the only serious 'investor' on the scene this time last year?" Doesn't add up to me. Thats why he is such a great businessman perhaps, because he (or NC probabaly) spotted it. Did Paul Allen not spot it previously? Is he not worthy of a decent businessman accolade? Most people, Peter Jones etc wouldn't go near a footy club, but i bet if i (or any other Saints fan) sat down with him and explained the potential, what you'd get for your monbey, stadia, farm, training ground, well i reckon even he might have looked into it, but generally they stay away from football because unless you are going to invest even more (millions) then you probabaly aren't going to get a decent return. And maybe thats good for us, as fans we have an owner that obvuiously sees that as essential to his overall invetsment, thats why we bought RL and Fonte etc And don't forget, there aren't loads of business people out there with literally millions to spend on a footy club, lucky for us we were spotted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 sorry, didn't realise I wasn't allowed to contribute because I have a different viewpoint. I understand that some people can't read or understand English, if you can perhaps you can point out to where i was complaining? On the same point, I used the word thankful in my post, so that sort of makes your post factually incorrect, perhaps you need to read it again. What might have been if ML had not come along? We'd have been taken over by someone else, probabaly not as wealthy as ML, who knows, we certainly wouldn't have gone bust, anyone who believes that hasn't noticed what has happened in football the last 20 years, all this debt and one club going 'pop'. If you are going to reply to a post, have the decency and ability to make it relevant to the original, otherwise please don't contribute. It appears to be you who has a poor grasp of the English language judging by your punctuation and grammar. If you were also capable of better comprehension, you would realise that I only chided you for lack of good grace and the tone of your comments. Where did I say that you had complained about anything? Neither did I infer that nobody else would have taken us over, but at least by acknowledging that it was unlikely that anybody else would have been as wealthy as ML, you presumably are somehow grateful that it was him, even if grudgingly for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minsk Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 A big thank you to Markus, and to Nicola!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 If you can't be magnanimous about it, perhaps better not to have bothered contributing. Your reaction is akin to a kid being given an ice cream and complaining that there is no chocolate Flake. Whatever the ins and outs about it, just take a moment to ponder what might have been had he not come in to take us over. There wasn't exactly a long queue of people falling over themselves to take up this marvellous investment opportunity, so have the good grace to be thankful that ML was prepared to step forward. er, there mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 It appears to be you who has a poor grasp of the English language judging by your punctuation and grammar. If you were also capable of better comprehension, you would realise that I only chided you for lack of good grace and the tone of your comments. Where did I say that you had complained about anything? Neither did I infer that nobody else would have taken us over, but at least by acknowledging that it was unlikely that anybody else would have been as wealthy as ML, you presumably are somehow grateful that it was him, even if grudgingly for some reason. and my grammer etc, yes in this respect is poor, as i sit doing my proper job it is a quick few lines etc, as you can see i contribute seldomly unlike these people who clearly have the time to write thousands upon thousands of posts etc. I am not grudguingly grtaeful, I am grateful that it is him and not some dodgy Russion geezer etc, we have a decent bloke but lets not kid ourselves he is here because he fell in love with Saints and didn't want to see them go pop! Please, have a sense of reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mancsaint Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Thank you Markus Liebherr, hope to see yoiu at the game on Tuesday. Come and say hello to the fans, of course that includes you Nicola as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 and my grammer etc, yes in this respect is poor, as i sit doing my proper job it is a quick few lines etc, as you can see i contribute seldomly unlike these people who clearly have the time to write thousands upon thousands of posts etc. I am not grudguingly grtaeful, I am grateful that it is him and not some dodgy Russion geezer etc, we have a decent bloke but lets not kid ourselves he is here because he fell in love with Saints and didn't want to see them go pop! Please, have a sense of reality. Yes exactly. I am pleased and I hope that ultimately we both get what we want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damers Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Thankyou Markus, Thankyou Nicola .................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Watching Saints' drop through the leagues and go into administration was terrible. You saved us and made us good. The Premiership is no longr a pipedream, but a reality, and we thank you for that. Never leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Your reaction is akin to a kid being given an ice cream and complaining that there is no chocolate Flake. er, there mate Akin - like, similar to. It was a simile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodles34 Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Akin - like, similar to. It was a simile. yes, a simile to complaining Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsacar saint Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 The club could not be in better hands.Thank you Markus and Nicola. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRichmond Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 But what has he done for us...... MORE than the Romans did ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRichmond Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Noodles does make a reasonable point ML/NC may have saved the club in your eyes and others but all they did was buy a Premiership Club at a knock down price but I am quite happy they did WRONG WRONG WRONG They bought Saints, in DIVISION ONE, who WERE a Premiership Club ..........We have to EARN the right to be one again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorpe-le-Saint Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 I remember seeing the reports a year ago and could not stop smiling for the rest of the day, it was great news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andoverian Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 yea, thanks for investing in SFC, you know in was a fantastic deal and the return will be tremendous (if things work out on the football side as you are hoping), a club worth maybe 3 or 4 times the 12 million you invested. I take nothing from the takeover, i will enjoy the ride and be thankful that we have been taken over by a proper businessman, but these posts above seem to suggest that ML was some sort of guardian angel sent by God to rescue us. ML will enjoy the ride too, look at him at Wembley, i am not suggesting he does not care, but its all abou the deal and the return for him, nothing more, nothing less, and i suspect it might be good one, so you got to ask yourself one question: Who should be thanking who?In stead of a lot of sycophantic nonsense at last a post which is realistic and probably right on the button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 WRONG WRONG WRONG They bought Saints, in DIVISION ONE, who WERE a Premiership Club ..........We have to EARN the right to be one again But SaintRichmond, it was a simile for a Premiership club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 WRONG WRONG WRONG They bought Saints, in DIVISION ONE, who WERE a Premiership Club ..........We have to EARN the right to be one again Absolutely right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes Tender Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 In stead of a lot of sycophantic nonsense at last a post which is realistic and probably right on the button. I don't see much sycophantic nonsense on this thread. Mostly I see people expressing gratitude to our owner for buying us when we were in dire straits and some sober reflection of what might have been had he not bought us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shroppie Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 I don't see much sycophantic nonsense on this thread. Mostly I see people expressing gratitude to our owner for buying us when we were in dire straits and some sober reflection of what might have been had he not bought us. Agreed. I don't think many are naïve enough to think that Markus bought us just as an altruistic gesture. He is a businessman and obviously is setting out to revive Saints as a successful business as well as a successful football club. But I also believe he gets genuine pleasure from Saints' footballing success - remember him taking his own photos at Wembley, and with a smile so wide that AP almost fell in. I also would like to think that he derives some pleasure from seeing that he has made Saints fans happy, and that he is appreciated, so I have no hesitation in offering genuine unsycophantic thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islander Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Thank you NC & ML for giving us our club back. I know some people have had short memories but I never lose sight of the fact that my club nearly died. Not only have we got this club back but it is moving forward in a way we have really never known before. I have supported Saints for 40 years and never felt as disinterested and saddened as I did 1 year and a day ago. Since then I have started loving football again and even enjoying a bonus day out at Wembley. For the first time in several years I can't wait until August. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibden Purlieu Saint Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 (edited) I like you so much I bought a Liebherr fridge the other day. I know it's your family and not you, but I have no need for railway construction. I do need to keep my foodstuffs cold though. Edited 8 July, 2010 by Dibden Purlieu Saint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windmill Arm 2 Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Fook marcus, its windmills birthday !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint1977 Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 I'm delighted that he bought us and I enjoyed last season a lot, culminating in Wembley. From watching the worst season in the club's history in 2008/9 with a bunch of kids that with two or three exceptions are now either free agents, have dropped lower or out of the game altogether, we get to enjoy watching Harding, Fonte, Puncheon, Hammond, Lambert, Connolly and Barnard. Davis, Lallana and Morgan would have been gone that summer as well. So thank you ML and NC and hopefully we can keep on moving forward as a club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djharvey Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Thanks to Marcus & Nicola for all they have done/are doing for the club. Also thanks to the fans who are supporting them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benjii Posted 8 July, 2010 Share Posted 8 July, 2010 Noodles does make a reasonable point ML/NC may have saved the club in your eyes and others but all they did was buy a Premiership Club at a knock down price but I am quite happy they did Hardly, although I get your point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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