OFFICIAL CLUB SOLD TO FV!!!!!

terenceanne wrote:Can any of you throw some light on who Football Ventures actually is and more importantly have they got major money to invest? I know nothing about them at all.

terenceanne wrote:Can any of you throw some light on who Football Ventures actually is and more importantly have they got major money to invest? I know nothing about them at all.

Hipster_Nebula wrote:
It's just a few local investors.

No real money involved.

In football terms these people are extremely poor.

Bolton. Hear Football Ventures  have an experienced football figure in their takeover team. First jobs will include manager’s future.

— Alan Nixon (@reluctantnicko) [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Sluffy wrote:

terenceanne wrote:Can any of you throw some light on who Football Ventures actually is and more importantly have they got major money to invest? I know nothing about them at all.

The short version is -

Football Ventures (Whites) seems to be a 'holding' company to take ownership of the club in such a way that Sports Shield BWFC and Inner Circle Investments were set to take ownership of the club for Holdsworth and Anderson respectively.

FV was originally set up by Basran and Sharon Brittan.  Basran being someone who set up investment funds (people pay money into them and hope/expect to get a health interest rate return on their investment) and Brittan (the wife of the Pink Floyd drummer or something like that) being some sort of a property developer(?)/ investor in her own right.

Two later Directors were added - Michael James - the bloke with £5.5m already secured against the clubs hotel and Jeff Thomas who seems to be a serial Director in about 50 other companies.

Non of this made any real sense to me - why would these random people want to buy our club - until a poster on Wways (Benny) explained the thinking to be that the land is where the money is by building more shopping units to make the Middlebrook four sided and the football clubs car park to be made into Multi storeys to enable the land to be built on and still to have adequate car parking.

This would be the thing that pulled in the investment with the club really being an afterthought but with enough money being spent on it to keep us solvent and in existence.

The obvious question is whether shopping centres are still viable with the move away to on-line shopping but I guess as long as they are popular enough for the investors to get the returns they are looking for over the course of their investment, then that would be all they needed to invest.

Sluffy wrote:FFS Martin it really isn't difficult to copy and paste properly!

Bolton. Hear Football Ventures  have an experienced football figure in their takeover team. First jobs will include manager’s future.

— Alan Nixon (@reluctantnicko) [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Norpig wrote:

Sluffy wrote:FFS Martin it really isn't difficult to copy and paste properly!

Bolton. Hear Football Ventures  have an experienced football figure in their takeover team. First jobs will include manager’s future.

— Alan Nixon (@reluctantnicko) [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Sluffy instead of having a go at Martin why not let him know how to do it. He may be on a phone or just not that computer savvy 

Norpig wrote:Sluffy instead of having a go at Martin why not let him know how to do it. He may be on a phone or just not that computer savvy 

Norpig wrote:

Sluffy wrote:FFS Martin it really isn't difficult to copy and paste properly!

Bolton. Hear Football Ventures  have an experienced football figure in their takeover team. First jobs will include manager’s future.

— Alan Nixon (@reluctantnicko) [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

Sluffy instead of having a go at Martin why not let him know how to do it. He may be on a phone or just not that computer savvy 

MartinBWFC wrote:

Norpig wrote:Sluffy instead of having a go at Martin why not let him know how to do it. He may be on a phone or just not that computer savvy 

Because he's a beligerent CUNT that enjoys putting folk down, he should never be allowed to run a football forum as he has too many agendas against too many folk.

Natasha Whittam wrote:Hipster is still fuming that his beloved Coventry are having to ground share with Birmingham.

Sluffy wrote:
Boo hoo, you're going to make me cry.

I've gone out of my way plenty times to help you - and I'm far from being the only one on here - if I remember rightly someone even got his wife to fix you up for a job interview once, and I've certainly allowed you to publish the travel agent business you were once trying to get off the ground, let alone many times in the past telling you how to do simple stuff like copy and paste and put up your own avatar and all the thanks I (and others) have got back from you is your foul mouth comments.

I certainly don't have to make you out to look ignorant, abusive and stupid, you do a brilliant job of doing that yourself.

I might well be a cunt but at least I can copy and paste and that's more than you can manage in over 10 years of being on forums!

Norpig wrote:Sluffy the point i was trying to make was how you pointed out to Martin about copy and paste. If it had been for example Glos or LPP then you wouldn't have started with FFS would you?

Hear there has been positive movement on the takeover front at Wanderers - but I don't think there will be an official announcement today. Not going into reasons. [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

— Marc Iles (@MarcIles) [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]