It will be interesting if they go and get relegated again.
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Rumour Bloom preparing to sell club
- Thread starter The Brighton Buzz
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It will be interesting if they go and get relegated again.
Surrey_Albion
New member
I heard a RUMOUR that Wallace, , Baldock, ward and clayton were all about to sign for us............oh wait it was just a RUMOUR wasnt it
I've often wondered if all of the money is his. Does he have private backers behind the scenes?
He may well do, but at the time of the story about him buying into the Albion he was living in Hurstpierpoint.
AlastairWatts
Active member
Cricket at the Amex then??
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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TB is perfectly within his rights to sell the club if/when he finds year-on-year operational losses unacceptable, or if he just gets disillusioned at the negativity from the club's fanbase. Who could blame him really, on either score? Good news for us is, he built it, he can't unbuild it. There will continue to be, for the foreseeable future, a football club for the people of Brighton & Hove, Sussex and beyond. Which is all we ever asked for. We go again!
This has been floated before, but I can't see it. What's in it for them?
Its really a dreadful proposition from a purely business point of view. You can rationalise Bloom throwing his cash at it, becasue of his family history. Why would anyone else?
The rest of the extended family?
I always find it a tough ask to believe one man funded an all but guaranteed loss making venture to the tune of £100+m.
surrey jim
Not in Surrey
And Michael Owen
I did notice that Darren was highly visible at the Fans' Forum and wondered if he might be taking a more active role. Or is he quite active already?
people would have said the same about Chelsea a few years back
Pondicherry
Well-known member
We don't know that.
Why would the 2nd richest man in Oz want to sell to the 3rd richest man in Oz
Australia Top 50 rich list.
1 Gina Rinehart $17.7 B mining Equivalent to £9.59 Billion
2 Anthony Pratt $7 B manufacturing
3 James Packer $6.6 B casinos
4 Ivan Glasenberg $6.3 B mining
5 Andrew Forrest $5 B mining
6 Frank Lowy $4.6 B shopping malls
7 Harry Triguboff $4.3 B property
8 John Gandel $3.2 B shopping malls
9 Paul Ramsay $3.0 B health care
10 Kerr Neilson $2.9 B investment
11 Lindsay Fox $2.2 B transport
12 David Hains $2.1 B finance
13 Leslie Wilson $1.9 B retail
14 Stanley Perron $1.8 B property, retail
15 Michael Hintze $1.7 B investment
16 Kerry Stokes $1.6 B media, mining
17 David Teoh $1.5 B telecommunications
18 Len Ainsworth $1.3 B betting machines
19 Len Buckeridge $1.2 B construction
20 Gerry Harvey $1.18 B retail
21 Langley Walker $1.16 B property
22 Robert Ell $1.1 B property
23 Alan Rydge $1.03 B entertainment
24 Raymond Barro $1.02 B construction
25 Angela Bennett $1.01 B mining
26 Solomon Lew $1 B retail, self-made
27 Paul Salteri $0.99 B industrial services
28 John Van Lieshout $0.97 B real estate
29 Robert Ingham $0.97 B agribusiness
30 Maurice Alter $0.96 B property
31 Morry Fraid $0.9 B retail
32 Richard Smith $0.84 B food distribution
33 Robert Oatley $0.83 B wine
34 John Kahlbetzer $0.76 B agribusiness
35 Bruce Mathieson $0.75 B hotels
36 Graham Turner $0.72 B travel industry
37 Paul Little $0.72 B logistics, property
38 Greg Poche $0.71 B logistics
39 Brett Blundy $0.71 B retail
40 Bruce Gordon $0.7 B media
41 Geoff Harris $0.7 B travel industry
42 Maha Sinnathamby $0.69 B real estate
43 Reg Rowe $0.67 B retail
44 Ralph Sarich $0.66 B real estate
45 Con Makris $0.63 B real estate
46 Terry Snow $0.62 B airports, property
47 Chris Morris $0.59 B software, hospitality
48 Ian Norman $0.58 B retail
49 Lloyd Williams $0.57 B real estate
50 Clive Palmer $0.55 B mining Equivalent to £310 million
Anybody spot Tony Bloom up there for me...........................................Nope still can't see him., funny enough he is not on the UK list either............
No.1 - Lord Bamford and family (£3.3bn)
No.50 - Steve Smith (£40m)
So is he as rich as everybody thinks??
Pondicherry
Well-known member
Possibly (and I have no evidence for this) the club could have been sold for a profit if we had got into the prem within 2 or 3 years of the Amex being built. The longer we are not in the prem, the liklihood of any profit being possible become less likely as you have to factor in the on going losses.
Maybe we are at a point where someone wants out for a small profit or break even figure. All this is just speculation by me.
Mr Putdown
Well-known member
Fyning Hill estate was sold by Kerry Packer to Abramovich for £12m way back in 1999.
He doesn't exactly seek publicity, does he? I can't imagine it would be that hard to stay out of those lists if you wanted to.
The same can be said of lots of other buyers though. What is in it for that mad-man at Leeds for example? I must admit on balance I reckon everything is as we have been led to believe but there is a small part of me which does question where all of the money has come from.
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
Some rich people like to mention how wealthy they are and leave a money trail because they think it makes them important , some rich people like to keep their financial affairs as private as possible.
symyjym
Banned
It's natural to question and we wouldn’t be human if we didn’t.
Yeah that's a faIr comment! However the rich list is drawn up by Forbes who pretty much have a good clue who has earned what.
Besides Lord Bashford isnt exactly a media magnet either and he is top of the list for the uk.
Come to think of it, have you ever heard of Gina Rinehart?
Nope me neither..........but she was the worlds richest women in 2012 but has now dropped to 4th richest. But you already knew that because that list is full of people telling the world about themselves and there wealth.
