abdulaziz1

Good win ! Hoping for better performances.

He is a prince who have some experience with clubs here in Saudi. He is business man but I dont think he is Super rich. He bought 51% from the club. I remember one with Portsmoth but not sure about him. I dont think there are more though. He is a prince who have some experience with clubs here in Saudi. He is business man but I dont think he is Super rich. He bought 51% from the club. I remember one with Portsmoth but not sure about him. I dont think there are more though.

The information ive got says that he has being negotiating for couple of months. I think Lerner was putting it unofficialy for sale as Mantis said.

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Colombia is one of teams in the WC. Hopefully they could make it! Falcao is a big loss too. Hoping for a win today !

I think Chile does have a good chance of qualifying this group. Although yesterday result everybody thought Australia would melt down, But they've played quite good. I heard they were doing ok in friendlies. If Chile could go with something like 5-3-2, I think they could somehow cover their mistakes and probably play a nervy spain side. If they somehow got a goal and tried to focus on countering with Sanchez I think they have a good chance to have a result. Spain defence couldn't cope with quick players (Where are you Gabby lol).

Still 0 after 3 matches !

No problem. Just hoping things goes ok and the right way.

Yes they were but also he used to pay. Put it that way. The country backs the clubs with some amount of money plus tv rights....etc But still the presdent of the club pays from his pocket without a return. Could be princes or business men who want the show or loving their clubs. Plus the prince system here is different than you think. Not all princes are that wealthy. I wanted to write more explaination but I dont like writing in smart phones.

Not sure how reliable Dawri Plus are. Not far from what I've heard, He had the thinking of buying a club since more than a year. But things hasn't work with him. Now that he left Al-Shabab he might have take it seriously.

I'd say he's an ok business man. I don't know if he's more than 1 or 2b pounds, Could be more or less (His wealth is unknown but he's known by one of the most people who have money in sporting here in Saudi). I'm not sure what his plannings exactly I'm still trying to figure, But I think he's knowing what he's doing,Although I'm only afraid wether he'll deal well in the European leagues or not because it's totally different than here. He seems to have couple of partners so that might make me more comfortable. Because I think it's very hard for him to spend a lot only by himself. Thanks for the information. Hopefully Khaled appoints an experienced CEO to help him adjust to the league. Do you think Baltan will bring in his own people? No I don't think he's going to bring his own people. I'd be very worried if that was the case. It's totally different between here and Europe in general. To me I would be happy if Faulkner stays. He's experienced and knows what the mistakes they have done before. We don't want do the same way again and again.

Just what I wrote in my first two posts a page ago. He seem to be in the last stages of negotiations, And they're hopeful to finish in a near time. Although I still don't have more details than that. And I'm not sure exactly what's the "Near time" they're actually talking about. What makes me feel comfortable about this and actually posting whenever I have more informations is : 1-The source is very very good and He's near to him. 2-Al-Baltan say it publicly that he's planning to buy an English team (I don't remember if he said a premier league or just any English team). 3-The guy who I've asked him doesn't know English nor knows England as I've said above, So when I asked him he told me that Al-Baltan is planning to buy Aston Villa, Then he asked me if it's the club that is located in Birmingham (I think he mistaked pronouncing it too). 4-Lerner usually doesn't announce something unless he's sure about, We're hearing since 3 year or more that he's planning to sell, Yet he only announced it this time. We were in a worse position last season and the season before, He didn't came out and say it's time to get our strength together and talking about selling after the season ending. I think the club usually say what they did or what they've almost finished. So If I combind all of this, I could think that there is a good chance Al-Baltan would end up the one who's buying the team.

Exactly, this club won't say anything on public. Even with the ten days with Benteke last summer, They've only said (The asking price) without saying the number publicly publicly. Players like Bacuna we haven't heard of them before more that 24 hours from his signings. And that was from foreign sources (same goes with other players).

Thanks Abdul, fingers crossed, can you think of any reasons why he would be interested in the first place? Besides enjoying football I mean, e.g. Man City owners own the Etihad group and wanted to use the club to further promote their brands. No problem mate. I'm not sure but I think he likes to take challenges and he found the Saudi league still needing some improvements, I also heard he owns a house in Birmingham (although I'm not sure about this one because the guy who told me doesn't know England very well nor English so could easily make an easy mistake about the city).

I'd say he's an ok business man. I don't know if he's more than 1 or 2b pounds, Could be more or less (His wealth is unknown but he's known by one of the most people who have money in sporting here in Saudi). I'm not sure what his plannings exactly I'm still trying to figure, But I think he's knowing what he's doing,Although I'm only afraid wether he'll deal well in the European leagues or not because it's totally different than here. He seems to have couple of partners so that might make me more comfortable. Because I think it's very hard for him to spend a lot only by himself.

I think this is somehow right, not far from what I've heard. Although I'm not sure what they mean with two investors. Wether they mean partners or two separate investors. Because from what I know, Al-Baltan won't go only by himself, He's going to have partners while he's going to have the most percentage.

I had a call today, There is a good chance that Khaled Al-Baltan is in the last stages of negotiations. Him with some partners. That's what I heard from a very very good source.

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Colombia v Greece 2-1 Uruguay v Costa Rica 2-1 England v Italy 1-1 Ivory Coast v Japan 0-1 Switzerland v Ecuador 2-1 France v Honduras 3-0 Argentina v Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-1

Brazil v Croatia 1-1 Mexico v Cameroon 1-1 Spain v Netherlands 2-1 Chile v Australia 2-0 When can I put the other predictions ?

It could be the second option, but getting the best out of players was what sort of defined lambert at Norwich. And us at the end of 2012-2013 !

I'd say paying like 40m the first year, then an average of 45m every summer won't be changing the identity of the club, If we could pay the wages too, We won't be a new Man City or Chelsea. And we would have a good chance of pushing on. Ofcourse without changing the name or the stadium.

No one could tell.

The Malaga one was always going to fail. The La Liga income isn't good instead of top teams. I remember one year Real and Barca were about 140m , While Valencia and Atletico about 40 ! Were West Ham who were the bottom of the league in the premier league were more than 40m. Teams in Spain sometimes fail to even pay 2m for a player ! In our worst cases we've paid about 15m with wages not far from top 10 teams in Spain while we're reducing wage bill ! The attraction of the Premier League is much more than La Liga (apart from 2-3 teams). So Malaga owners played it wrong by buying a team in Spain not in England ! I don't remember Portsmoth model very well but it was very bad. Don't know about Notts County aswell.

I don't really think. Our club usually doesn't put a statement where they aren't sure about. I like Lerner way in managing, The only thing I think isn't helping him is dis-interest. Which makes him wanting to make the club as healthy as possible to sell. I don't really think. Our club usually doesn't put a statement where they aren't sure about. I like Lerner way in managing, The only thing I think isn't helping him is dis-interest. Which makes him wanting to make the club as healthy as possible to sell.