Confimred new owners of Raeding Footbal Club

[maffff]

I imagine Samuelson signed off on it, but a lot of the ongoing work on the deals would have involved a few people. Tomo definitely had input, whether he initiated it or not I don't know, but that's the impression Tomo gives.

[winchester_royal]

He quit the club. Was a community adviser set up the Galatasaray and Marussia deals. He helped the takeover, finding new possible owners. Burman was a personal friend of his for instance, when the Thais got involved he helped with their bid and them getting exclusivity. I guess he feels with the takeover he's lost money. Not the best way to deal with it being so public if you're taking legal recourse.

He was very close with Samuelson and seems sceptical about the Thais since their initial involvement, especially Omar Hassanieh.

Sounds like he got mugged off a little, and with no legal case he's trying to create a bit of noise to scare the club/Thais into paying him off.

[maffff]

Possibly. The stuff I heard about the other week came from him. Hence why I was hesitant to post anything in case it were just that.

If your employer didn't pay you for 10months worth of work when you've been working as a consultant but heavily influential in the running and security of the club I guess you wouldn't be too happy either.

Hopefully the stuff he's posted won't affect his case. It's true he's owed that then fair enough. He needs to be careful he doesn't veer into being able to be done for defamation. Wasn't clever posting everyones email details, too.

[Royal Biscuitman]

His e-mail to club officials and the Thai's is on twitter, his tweets are protected but others are retweeting the screenshots.

[SPARTA]

He quit the club. Was a community adviser set up the Galatasaray and Marussia deals. He helped the takeover, finding new possible owners. Burman was a personal friend of his for instance, when the Thais got involved he helped with their bid and them getting exclusivity. I guess he feels with the takeover he's lost money. Not the best way to deal with it being so public if you're taking legal recourse.

He was very close with Samuelson and seems sceptical about the Thais since their initial involvement, especially Omar Hassanieh.

His e-mail to club officials and the Thai's is on twitter, his tweets are protected but others are retweeting the screenshots.

[Royal Biscuitman]

I'm surprised to see people involved in big business takeovers using Hotmail and Gmail, Can they not afford their own domain name?

[El Diablo]

He quit the club. Was a community adviser set up the Galatasaray and Marussia deals. He helped the takeover, finding new possible owners. Burman was a personal friend of his for instance, when the Thais got involved he helped with their bid and them getting exclusivity. I guess he feels with the takeover he's lost money. Not the best way to deal with it being so public if you're taking legal recourse.

He was very close with Samuelson and seems sceptical about the Thais since their initial involvement, especially Omar Hassanieh.

His e-mail to club officials and the Thai's is on twitter, his tweets are protected but others are retweeting the screenshots.

I very much doubt he's got the financial clout required to get this into any type serious legal action - if of course RFC are not planning on making some sort of out of court agreement.

Hilarious that he's putting it over social media.

[Royal Biscuitman]

Hilarious that he's putting it over social media.

Would do his future career some harm.

[melonhead]

clearly aint got a leg to stand on, and so is trying to rattle them into caving

[Mr Angry]

The rights and wrongs of this issue, and wether this bloke is owed money or not, is almost irrelevant; the fact that this situation has occurred at all is bad enough, but for it to go public in such an unprofessional manner is simply an embarrassment for Reading FC, and sadly symptomatic of what has gone wrong with our club over the last few years.

[Norfolk Royal]

The rights and wrongs of this issue, and wether this bloke is owed money or not, is almost irrelevant; the fact that this situation has occurred at all is bad enough, but for it to go public in such an unprofessional manner is simply an embarrassment for Reading FC, and sadly symptomatic of what has gone wrong with our club over the last few years.

That's pushing it a bit. A bloke gets the hump and splarts it on social media is hardly an unknown scenario for any business.

[kwik-silva]

The rights and wrongs of this issue, and wether this bloke is owed money or not, is almost irrelevant; the fact that this situation has occurred at all is bad enough, but for it to go public in such an unprofessional manner is simply an embarrassment for Reading FC, and sadly symptomatic of what has gone wrong with our club over the last few years.

That's pushing it a bit. A bloke gets the hump and splarts it on social media is hardly an unknown scenario for any business.

Yeah, I don't think this is gonna affect Reading in any way. Slightly embarrassing, yes, but not really even an issue.

[WoodleyRoyal]

Hypothetical question - had we not been promoted just 6 months after Anton first arrived on the scene, stayed in the champ didn't buy the likes of pog, didn't get parachute payments to waste on the likes of Drenthe wayne bridge etc and just carried on as we were a team in and around the top of the champ. Do you think Anton would still be here?

[EPR2.0]

I'm surprised to see people involved in big business takeovers using Hotmail and Gmail, Can they not afford their own domain name?

I think that's pretty normal practice in such proceedings, take overs and buy-outs by wealthy individuals are done through newly formed companies for perfectly legitimate reasons with no time or even point in setting up domain names / email etc. so it makes sense to communicate through generic, non-corporate email addresses.

[Pseud O'Nym]

does any one no when deal done? still not confrimed

Confimred.

[Upper West Ginger]

DefCon RIM

[Pseud O'Nym]

Confer dim.

[3points]

Hypothetical question - had we not been promoted just 6 months after Anton first arrived on the scene, stayed in the champ didn't buy the likes of pog, didn't get parachute payments to waste on the likes of Drenthe wayne bridge etc and just carried on as we were a team in and around the top of the champ. Do you think Anton would still be here?

No - he couldn't afford the second part of the buyout transaction from SJM. But we wouldn't have been so far in the financial poo. I expect he'd still have wasted money on over priced championship players

[Royal Biscuitman]

I'm surprised to see people involved in big business takeovers using Hotmail and Gmail, Can they not afford their own domain name?

I think that's pretty normal practice in such proceedings, take overs and buy-outs by wealthy individuals are done through newly formed companies for perfectly legitimate reasons with no time or even point in setting up domain names / email etc. so it makes sense to communicate through generic, non-corporate email addresses.

It looks a bit amateurish to me, particularly when trying to make a good impression.

[RoyalBlue]

Well someone has a sense of humour - or maybe they know something that we don't know about how JM found our new owners:

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