The Sun: Niall Quinn in takeover talks...


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As I posted above its utterly bizarre for the BBC to publish the detail they came out with earlier today. Maybe someone at the BBC was told the details in strict confidence and so are now pushing the "nothing's happening line" after getting a roasting??

It is without doubt the strangest element of this. BBC usually don't get involved unless info is rock solid and the details themselves were pretty off the wall compared to normal standard takeover.

Maybe short is talking to several parties and leaks of one of the bids totally knackers his play with the others.
 
Fair point mate. Getting my optimistic hat on maybe Quinn and the investors don't want it public in case it brings other bidders to the table. SAFC keeping their end of the bargain by denying but someone has blabbed hence the detailed BBC story. Maybe also explains Quinn's silence, that way he doesn't need to deny it. Suppose all we can do is wait and see, from this thread you can see just how much we all still care and how desperate we are for something positive like!

The reality is mate; something leaked today that should never have been common knowledge and I dare say someone is now in trouble. Since then we have seen local journalists in a flap because they are out of the loop; and pretty much radio silence from the club.

I think it’s fair to say we are in talks with someone, but it could still be in the early stages.
 
Maybe. Maybe not

Keith Downie on Twitter

Further to earlier SAFC takeover info: We’re told Niall Quinn has had conversations with three different interested parties over the past eight months, but none as yet have come close to a deal with Sunderland
“Hi, it’s Niall Quinn here.”

“Oh hi Niall! I was wondering when you’d call, you mentioned a potential business investment?”

“Are you interested?”

“I very well may be.”

“Great! It’s to take over a business on the cheap and build it back up to something extraordinary, I’m hoping you can be part of a consortium to buy Sunderland AFC and then we can- hello? Hello?...f***ing tosspot.”
 
It's clear that things are in the very early stages. The potential buyer has not approached the club yet but even if the club expects to hear from them and would be interested in what they have to say they are not confirming anything yet because they need to know some basic details. I don't doubt that Short want's to sell but he is not going to get a decent deal if he jumps for joy and goes mental every time he get the sniff of a prospective buyer. You can't show that you are desperate to sell. Have you never sold something?

difference being is that ES has already shown his hand. If reports are to believed he knows he is going to make a dramatic loss.

What he will be after is to stop drip feeding the club £2 million a month

I think that, the amount of money lost by ES is insignificant to him and its better to be rid of the liability and the hassle. It may be as well, that he is thinking about the club (uproar) and it has to get its self in order and ES is putting stipulations in condition of sale (more uproar).
 
“Hi, it’s Niall Quinn here.”

“Oh hi Niall! I was wondering when you’d call, you mentioned a potential business investment?”

“Are you interested?”

“I very well may be.”

“Great! It’s to take over a business on the cheap and build it back up to something extraordinary, I’m hoping you can be part of a consortium to buy Sunderland AFC and then we can- hello? Hello?...f***ing tosspot.”
Dear me.
 
The reality is mate; something leaked today that should never have been common knowledge and I dare say someone is now in trouble. Since then we have seen local journalists in a flap because they are out of the loop; and pretty much radio silence from the club.

I think it’s fair to say we are in talks with someone, but it could still be in the early stages.
Local journalists are always out of the loop it seems these days.

They always seem to know nowt or be last to know.
 
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