Thames Sports Investment

[Ups and Downs]

So, U&Ds knows a Director but doesn't know how many there are when it's two. He's well know for a wee piss take every now and then.

I don't know him, my old fella does through non football related business connections. Also, I have zero interest in the number of directors at the club.

And I've never taken the piss on the team board. I know how much it makes people's bums squeak.

[Ian Royal]

So, U&Ds knows a Director but doesn't know how many there are when it's two. He's well know for a wee piss take every now and then. Rouge then jumps on the bandwagon, who is also known to take the piss occasionally. RL and her sources say there's a problem, but please excuse me if I question her judgment and the reliability of her sources for a takeover bid. Although at least she definitely does have sources considering how much she bangs on about Mr Senior.Then we have FL who's got a good record with breaking news recently and everything coming out of the club. Oh, and SJM's personality which is totally inconsistent with backing out of a deal once it's agreed in principle or increasing his cash demands late on.

I think I'll consider getting marginally nervous about the takeover if nothing's happened by 20 April and we still don't really know any more than we do now. And I'll continue to roll my eyes at the suspicion, rumours of problems and general gnashing of teeth from certain quarters.

I don't "bang on" about him for a start. My sources are credible and have never ever fed me duff info before. I would point out that there are more people involved in this takeover than just directors at the club and the syndicate comprising TSI. Like I said earlier, if this all comes off, we'll have to wait and see whether it's the best thing for the club - but don't come crying to me if it all goes pear shaped at some point.

Why on earth would I go crying to anyone? You're a bit mental sometimes.

[Ian Royal]

Incorrect. My comments were genuine.

Don't care, they don't seem very accurate, or at least anything remotely worth worrying about, whether they were a weak wind up or from someone you think is in the know.

To be fair your record suggests you don't care if you are incorrect.

If your suggesting I don't admit when I'm wrong, that's bollocks. But you're quite correct if you mean I won't be especially upset if the deal goes south, because I was quite content with how we were run and how we were doing before this deal showed up.

Maybe some twunt (or twunts) has told you and the others there are problems - but I see no reason to believe its true, or care until things fall through openly.

[Royal Lady]

So, U&Ds knows a Director but doesn't know how many there are when it's two. He's well know for a wee piss take every now and then. Rouge then jumps on the bandwagon, who is also known to take the piss occasionally. RL and her sources say there's a problem, but please excuse me if I question her judgment and the reliability of her sources for a takeover bid. Although at least she definitely does have sources considering how much she bangs on about Mr Senior.Then we have FL who's got a good record with breaking news recently and everything coming out of the club. Oh, and SJM's personality which is totally inconsistent with backing out of a deal once it's agreed in principle or increasing his cash demands late on.

I think I'll consider getting marginally nervous about the takeover if nothing's happened by 20 April and we still don't really know any more than we do now. And I'll continue to roll my eyes at the suspicion, rumours of problems and general gnashing of teeth from certain quarters.

I don't "bang on" about him for a start. My sources are credible and have never ever fed me duff info before. I would point out that there are more people involved in this takeover than just directors at the club and the syndicate comprising TSI. Like I said earlier, if this all comes off, we'll have to wait and see whether it's the best thing for the club - but don't come crying to me if it all goes pear shaped at some point.

Why on earth would I go crying to anyone? You're a bit mental sometimes.

Did you REALLY go to Uni Ian? Do you always take everything literally? Have you never heard the saying "don't come crying to me" about something?

[Ian Royal]

Yes I did. Clearly you're a bit stupid, I wasn't taking it literally - I was in fact taking it in exactly the sense it was meant. Just check my post to Rouge for my feelings if it goes south.

Christ sometimes I wonder if you can count to 10 without your hands infront of your face.

[The Rouge]

To be fair your record suggests you don't care if you are incorrect.

If your suggesting I don't admit when I'm wrong, that's bollocks.

No, I am clearly suggesting you are wrong a lot.

[jazz]

Children, please. The amount of sense displayed here on this topic is for the most part not worth a bucket of warm piss, as some US worthy once said.

[The Rouge]

You have to admire Ian Royal for being wrong so many times

Just agreeing.

[Mike Hunt]

Yes I did. Clearly you're a bit stupid, I wasn't taking it literally - I was in fact taking it in exactly the sense it was meant. Just check my post to Rouge for my feelings if it goes south.

Christ sometimes I wonder if you can count to 10 without your hands infront of your face.

[Muguire]

I can only go by my source, and he told me Mullins and the young Arsenal player were coming before the news went public. In the past he has been spot on about Sidwell, Halford, N.Hunt and McAnuff coming here also. He has said that all the checks etc have gone well and the club are close to making an announcement. I asked today about these rumours and he told me it is all nonsense.

"John Madejski entered into a gentleman's agreement in January to sell 51% of his shares in the club. He knew at that time TSI would then invest upfront in the hope the club could make a late push for the Play-offs. The fact that Reading have managed to compete beyond that makes no difference to the fee agreed for these shares. John Madejski knew there was a chance promotion could be achieved and he took that into account when agreeing the deal. As far as I'm aware nothing has changed."

I will put my faith in him over anyone else as he is yet to let me down.

Just want to quote for emphasis!

FL spot on again.

The Rouge and other WUM's can shuffle on.

CLOLassic BS from AE's weakest WUM's

LOL @ RL 'knowing' from two, yes two sources, weeks ago that the deal was in jeopardy but somehow she kept her blabbering mouth shut until yesterday when amazingy several of HNA?'s finest all come up with the same news at the same time, but from various sources.....

The only one to come out of this with any credit again is Friday's_Legacy

You can always work out the fakes by the fact they go out of their way to convince you they're telling the tROFLuth...... Rouge...TBM...Ups & Downs...

Mugs x

[CayeneMatt]

Don't care, they don't seem very accurate, or at least anything remotely worth worrying about, whether they were a weak wind up or from someone you think is in the know.

To be fair your record suggests you don't care if you are incorrect.

If your suggesting I don't admit when I'm wrong, that's bollocks. But you're quite correct if you mean I won't be especially upset if the deal goes south, because I was quite content with how we were run and how we were doing before this deal showed up.

Maybe some twunt (or twunts) has told you and the others there are problems - but I see no reason to believe its true, or care until things fall through openly.

Ahem ...... ooops, sorry, wrong thread.

[Emmer Green Royal]

[quote="jazz"]Children, please. The amount of sense displayed here on this topic is for the most part not worth a bucket of warm piss, as some US worthy once said.[/quote]

+1,000,000

[adamh4608]

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... e-still-on

[Barry the bird boggler]

Still some talking and papers to be signed is there before completing the deal. Still some i's to be dotted and t's crossed are there? Still some negotiation and tactical leaking being done to try and maximise the best deal you can for yourselves. Wow, now there's a real first

[Royal Lady]

With respect, I may not have blabbed all over HNA, but there are people outside of Hob Nob who I told and some of them also read this board. We'll just have to wait and see won't we. But I do feel that it's a bit rich Ian Royal belittling me yet again.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Can everyone just calm down and stop arguing, you're upsetting Snowball.

[HoneyRoastHoax]

I was so excited when this possible takeover was announced. Then I got slightly worried at what it may do to our club. Then I got excited again about what it might do for our club. Then nothing happened for ages and I got somehow used to new players coming into the club from Antons money. Now I just want it to be a signed deal. What a season we're having to bring in our new owner, its got to excite him. Imagine if we'd hit a bad run just as it was all emerging. That could of been embarrasing.

Although Sir Jon is saying there will not be any massive money transfers part of me thinks that when Anton is majority owner he can do what the feck he likes. If he wants to splash some cash he can do.

[Gordons Cumming]

With respect, I may not have blabbed all over HNA, but there are people outside of Hob Nob who I told and some of them also read this board. We'll just have to wait and see won't we. But I do feel that it's a bit rich Ian Royal belittling me yet again.

I know..............

Cheeky little wippersnapper called me a fool.

How dare he?

[RoyalBlue]

Then we have FL who's got a good record with breaking news recently and everything coming out of the club. Oh, and SJM's personality which is totally inconsistent with backing out of a deal once it's agreed in principle

See my previous question re Murty and York.

Nor do RFC have a great moral record on living up to the spirit of contracts offering extensions after x games.

That aside, I still believe the deal will go through, not least because it is extremely difficult for a seller to try to significantly move the goalposts at this stage. Furthermore, as others have pointed out, it wouldn't seem to be in JM's and the club's best interests for the deal to fall through.

[Dare to Dr£am]

So, U&Ds knows a Director but doesn't know how many there are when it's two. He's well know for a wee piss take every now and then. Rouge then jumps on the bandwagon, who is also known to take the piss occasionally. RL and her sources say there's a problem, but please excuse me if I question her judgment and the reliability of her sources for a takeover bid. Although at least she definitely does have sources considering how much she bangs on about Mr Senior.

Then we have FL who's got a good record with breaking news recently and everything coming out of the club. Oh, and SJM's personality which is totally inconsistent with backing out of a deal once it's agreed in principle or increasing his cash demands late on.

I think I'll consider getting marginally nervous about the takeover if nothing's happened by 20 April and we still don't really know any more than we do now. And I'll continue to roll my eyes at the suspicion, rumours of problems and general gnashing of teeth from certain quarters.

Spot on old son. Looking through this thread it's clear there's only one person who actually has a reliable source and that is Friday's Legacy. You summed the rest up perfectly. gazzaloyalroyal (is that right?) is always very reliable as well but I haven't seen much of him on here, or at all.

It'll go through when it goes through. SJM needs this takeover, and so does the club.

With it we will be a Premier League club again, either at the end of the season or soon. Further investment could see us become a regular fixture in the PL, and then we will see the stadium increased to 38,000 which will be amazing to see. I suppose I'm still a kid deep down, but watching my little club fighting against all those that put us down and watching the club and stadium grow really excites me.

Without the investment from TSI we will keep selling our best players to fill the annual void, other key players will express their frustration and also leave, and our luck will run out and we will ultimately drop into L1 for God knows how long.

Madejski wont let it fall through. It means too much to the football club and its future.