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Colonel Gadaffi to buy Palace?
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 i h8 steve bruce  17 Jul 04 10.06am |
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I don't think its gonna happen but... If it did then it wouldn't be that bad. He's had a bad past but who cares? Not our problem, we're not dead! He'd have loads of money and would probably want to better the club no end. The only thing I would oppose would be he pumps to much money into the team like the situation Chelsea are in where all character is drained from the team.
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SpikeyMatt  Fishing for condiments 17 Jul 04 10.08am |
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Apart from being supremely baffled, one thing has come out of this: JORDAN WANTS OUT! Such a high profile name 'linked' with buying CPFC may bring in other possible investors to come in and take-over. The pieces fit for this - if or when Jordan sells the club, he'll sell it to the man that he thinks will be able to take the team on, and be a popular choice with the fans. I hope!
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| Selhurst_Gazza Upper Tier 17 Jul 04 10.11am |
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What is going on? Everytime something happens to this club that is good something goes wrong. This cannot happen we can not have a person like that involved with our football club it is ridiculous we would be giving our money to a f*ckin terrorist!!!!! It is stupid I think that if it does happen or is near to happening we should have a massive protest. What do you lot think???
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Oz Eagle 2  17 Jul 04 10.12am |
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I suppose now that he and Tony B.Liar have shook hands, Gadaffi is our friend again. It could be worse, it could be George Bush buying the club.
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| Selhurst_Gazza Upper Tier 17 Jul 04 10.15am |
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he is not our friend and never will be i would never want him at this club no matter how much money he has. He is a f*ckin terrorist. THIS CAN'T HAPPEN!!!!!!!!
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| SpikeyMatt Fishing for condiments 17 Jul 04 10.18am |
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From [Link] Saturday 17th July 2004 Crystal Palace owner Simon Jordan has conceded he would listen to offers from interested buyers, including Colonel Gaddafi, should it be in the best interest of the club. Gaddafi is infamous for his support of terrorist organisations including the IRA and the Spanish Basque separatist movement ETA, while he has also shown support - both moral and financial - for Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Jordan has invested a lot of the £36 million fortune he gained from the sale of his pocket phone shop in The Eagles, and may now be mulling over recouping some of his outlay. "Gaddafi is not a name which necessarily inspires enthusiasm from the British public but, if there was any formal contact, we'd look to see if a deal could be best for the club," explained Jordan in The Guardian. "Being in The Premiership is wonderful for the club, the fans and for me because of the burden of underpinning the costs of everything from safety pins to player salaries has been relieved. "If there is a tangible way to move Palace forward without being detrimental to the business, I would look to take it. I have a responsibility to Palace and I take that very seriously, but I also have the right to leave. "I wouldn't do it in a manner detrimental to the club. Whether I go tomorrow or in ten years, I would always make sure the club's best interests were served. "I am very proud of what the club's achieved in the last four years. When I bought the club it was eroded from top to bottom. "The metamorphosis from a club that was dead on its feet to vibrant, effervescent, potentially well perceived football club is remarkable."
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| Selhurst Stallion Guildford 17 Jul 04 10.22am |
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Quote Selhurst_Gazza at 17 Jul 2004 10:11am
What is going on? Everytime something happens to this club that is good something goes wrong. This cannot happen we can not have a person like that involved with our football club it is ridiculous we would be giving our money to a f*ckin terrorist!!!!! It is stupid I think that if it does happen or is near to happening we should have a massive protest. What do you lot think???
Once again we go forward and then take two steps (maybe three) back. If this happens we'd be a laughing stock yet again and we could kiss goodbye to the best thing that's happened to this club in Iain Dowie - I know I certainly would'nt want to work with this evil b******. DON'T DO IT JORDAN PLAEASE.
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| Baldini Wimbledon 17 Jul 04 10.22am |
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All Jordan is saying is that he will take any serious offer and consider it in the best interests of the club. This is what any good businessman would do in any walk of life - look at the whole M&S situation at the moment. On the flip side, IF (and I honestly don't think Gadafi would buy the club in a million years)he did buy the club he certainly wouldn't take any sh*t from Noades when he tries to buy the ground. I would love to be a fly on the wall when those 2 sit down to begin negotiations.........
Its all just rumours, lets wait and see what happens |
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| i h8 steve bruce 17 Jul 04 10.23am |
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Quote Selhurst_Gazza at 17 Jul 2004 10:11am
What is going on? Everytime something happens to this club that is good something goes wrong. This cannot happen we can not have a person like that involved with our football club it is ridiculous we would be giving our money to a f*ckin terrorist!!!!! It is stupid I think that if it does happen or is near to happening we should have a massive protest. What do you lot think???
It would be his club and he would be free to do as he pleases with it. If he makes it a better club because of his money thats good. If you don't like it tuff theres nothing you can do about it. You can't sack the owner. Its not going to happen anyway
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| Selhurst_Gazza Upper Tier 17 Jul 04 10.26am |
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If it does happen then i think it will be very sad. By the way you said that it is his club what about us??? we give him all the money without us we would not be in the prem. If Jordan does this i will be very sad and dissapointed
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| peterg Anerley 17 Jul 04 10.27am |
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Could I add a dissenting note? There is serious doubt as to whether Libya was responsible for Lockerbie. The evidence against the two Libyan intelligence officials accused of planting the bomb on Panam 103 in 1988 was crap and no satisfactory account of how the bomb was supposed to have been planted on a feeder flight in Malta and transferred twice, at Frankfurt and Heathrow, has ever been provided. Initially westenn intelligence believed that the bombing had been carried out by Syrian-based terrorists commissioned by Iran to avenge the shooting down of an Iranian civilian air-bus by a US warship. But then the west needed Syrian support in the first Gulf War against Saddam Hussein, and Syria was dropped from the frame. In came Libya instead, with an indictment based on allegations by a Libyan "defector" which were later thrown out by the Scottish court which tried the two Libyans. The court, wihch sat without a jury, was in a quandary at the trial, as the evidence was so thin. In the end it went for a compromise, convicting one and acquitting the other, even though they were supposed to have plotted the bombing together. FOr a long time Gadafy denied that Libya had anything to do with Lockerbie. He eventually agreed to pay compensation as part of the price for his settlement with the west, whereby he was drawn back into the fold and judged a reliable ally, which led to Blair's meeting with Gadafy in Libya this year. Libya's prime minister blurted out the truth in February when he said that Libya had paid compensation to the Lockerbie families in order to "buy peace" and end western sanctions against Libya. I hold no brief for Gadafy and he was certainly involved in sponsoring terrorism elsewhere in the past, most notably when he sold arms to the IRA in the 1970s. I just wanted to provide a note of caution to set against the sense of outrage some people clearly feel.
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| tarquin Orpington 17 Jul 04 10.30am |
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How the f*** can people say it would do the club good! Yea ok i want to see us up there with the likes of Arsenal, Man u and Cheslea, but i would rather we earnt it! But then you have to relise that He has done alot to get back into peoples good books. i am very confused as to how i would feek if palace were to be brought by this man.
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