Rumour Bloom preparing to sell club

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Didn't Bloom have a large bet that the Albion would reach the Premier league by 12/13 or 13/14.

Since this hasn't happened, he will have lost a pretty hefty stake, which he may have been counting on to "buy out" his financial backers. Or there may have been some kind of Option deal.

 

[greyseagull]

Good

 

[KZNSeagull]

A quick google search throws up this.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/sport/4387975.How_Bloom_hit_the_jackpot/

One of the companies mentioned in that article was sold for between $75m and $139m.

 

[BensGrandad]

Slightly OT a well known Worthing bookie who I went to school with had to step in and stop people in his betting shop picking on TB as he was so smsll.

 

[Joe Gatting's Dad]

I think it unlikely that American Express would have become involved unless they were happy with where all the funding came from.

 

[chaileyjem]

A thread with so far , no facts, links or anything that adds to the original "rumour". A rumour thats being doing the rounds for years.
No real insight into the size of TB's fortune, any real motivation for him wanting to sell either now, next season or when.
Extremely tenious links with a rich Australian (he and TB both spend some time in Australia and have/had betting businesses! and er, thats it) but beyond that nothing that suggests he has any links with football (he loves Polo), TB, or any motivation or business reason for him to buy a football club now or whenever.

And still this nonsense goes on. and on.
This is the man who only a week ago addressed 500 fans about his plans for the season, probably on his way now on the train to the match tonight, and has links with the club going back 40 years.

I'm not naive and TB won't own the club forever. One day that time will come and i hope there's a proper succession plan.

But the implication running through this thread that he's invested £200m to create a sustainable top level club but wants to sell up and put everything at risk because the motive was financial all along (even if the business reasons for this are never actually stated) is not only unlikely but frankly insulting to every fan on here including Bloom himself.

Can we give it a rest ?

 

[symyjym]

A thread with so far , no facts, links or anything that adds to the original "rumour". A rumour thats being doing the rounds for years.
No real insight into the size of TB's fortune, any real motivation for him wanting to sell either now, next season or when.
Extremely tenious links with a rich Australian (he and TB both spend some time in Australia and have/had betting businesses! and er, thats it) but beyond that nothing that suggests he has any links with football (he loves Polo), TB, or any motivation or business reason for him to buy a football club now or whenever.

And still this nonsense goes on. and on.
This is the man who only a week ago addressed 500 fans about his plans for the season, probably on his way now on the train to the match tonight, and has links with the club going back 40 years.

I'm not naive and TB won't own the club forever. One day that time will come and i hope there's a proper succession plan.

But the implication running through this thread that he's invested £200m to create a sustainable top level club but wants to sell up and put everything at risk because the motive was financial all along (even if the business reasons for this are never actually stated) is not only unlikely but frankly insulting to every fan on here including Bloom himself.

Can we give it a rest ?

I think you are taking this thread far too seriously because it doesn't look like anyone else is. It's just a hypothetical discussion about the future of our club

I think the thread that you want is the "The person above you's avatar" one.

 

[Triggaaar]

What a load of ****ing shit.

 

[chaileyjem]

I think you are taking this thread far too seriously because it doesn't look like anyone else is. It's just a hypothetical discussion about the future of our club

I sadly take far too much of NSC far too seriously but fair play there's an element of this in the 150+ posts.
Too scared to join on the avatar thread. Given that i seem to be the only person with my actual , now a fair bit out of date, photo.

 

[Hometownglory]

A thread with so far , no facts, links or anything that adds to the original "rumour". A rumour thats being doing the rounds for years.
No real insight into the size of TB's fortune, any real motivation for him wanting to sell either now, next season or when.
Extremely tenious links with a rich Australian (he and TB both spend some time in Australia and have/had betting businesses! and er, thats it) but beyond that nothing that suggests he has any links with football (he loves Polo), TB, or any motivation or business reason for him to buy a football club now or whenever.

And still this nonsense goes on. and on.
This is the man who only a week ago addressed 500 fans about his plans for the season, probably on his way now on the train to the match tonight, and has links with the club going back 40 years.

I'm not naive and TB won't own the club forever. One day that time will come and i hope there's a proper succession plan.

But the implication running through this thread that he's invested £200m to create a sustainable top level club but wants to sell up and put everything at risk because the motive was financial all along (even if the business reasons for this are never actually stated) is not only unlikely but frankly insulting to every fan on here including Bloom himself.

Can we give it a rest ?

Dude, chill!

 

[symyjym]

I sadly take far too much of NSC far too seriously but fair play there's an element of this in the 150+ posts.
Too scared to join on the avatar thread. Given that i seem to be the only person with my actual , now a fair bit out of date, photo.

How about the "Anti Cliff Richard chart campaign" room

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Does this mean we will be playing in yellow and green stripes?

Or aluminium boots?

 

[The Maharajah of Sydney]

Australian media have now picked up on this - anything with a Packer involvement gets their juices running.
Sydney radio station, 2UE, have just run the story this morning.

 

[RexCathedra]

Australian media have now picked up on this - anything with a Packer involvement gets their juices running.
Sydney radio station, 2UE, have just run the story this morning.

They must have Google even in the far-flung outposts of empire.....

 

[rcf0712]

Australian media have now picked up on this - anything with a Packer involvement gets their juices running.
Sydney radio station, 2UE, have just run the story this morning.

tell me you are joking, please

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Australian media have now picked up on this - anything with a Packer involvement gets their juices running.
Sydney radio station, 2UE, have just run the story this morning.

Did they add anything of any substance?

 

[chaileyjem]

Australian media have now picked up on this - anything with a Packer involvement gets their juices running.
Sydney radio station, 2UE, have just run the story this morning.

And still it goes on. The Oz media are interested in James Packer at the moment but only because of rumours of an affair with model Miranda Kerr. This is what is being discussed on Sydney radio etc.
Obviously not his affairs with the Albion because there aren't any...
.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Dude, chill!

Pathetic, worthless, sad post

 

[OzMike]

Haven't heard anything here.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

And still it goes on. The Oz media are interested in James Packer at the moment but only because of rumours of an affair with model Miranda Kerr. This is what is being discussed on Sydney radio etc.
Obviously not his affairs with the Albion because there aren't any...
.

Never mind all that [MENTION=24867]chaileyjem[/MENTION] Where's the Leeds cup final BUZZFEED!?