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There have been interested parties over the years, like DIC, Kraft and Steve Morgan, but just because they have been interested a few years earlier doesn't mean they would want to own us now or back in 2010, markets and business changes, DIC hit a slump a while ago when the markets collapsed, so it's quite possible we had 2 bidders, and if there were richer bidders offering a better deal, I'm sure RBS would have wanted to take that as their pound of flesh, Broughton could not have stopped them.

MNF was interesting the other night, Ranieri was on and he said the final game of the 2002 season was the biggest game of Chelsea's history, we played them for who made 4th place CL, they beat us and got CL, just after that Abramovich bought them and changed the club for ever, if we would have beaten them that day, from what Ranieri said, Abramovich wouldn't have bought Chelsea and they were probably going into Administration as they were broke, maybe he would have bought us instead??? I doubt it as he wanted a club in London where he lived, that's the point about these billionaires, they are buying what they want, on paper with our fan base and history/squad, we were a better buy than Chelsea in 2003, if we were in London I bet Abramovich would have bought us.

It all depends on the price and what comes with it, neither Abramovich nor the Sheikhs paid that much and City came with the attracting lease of a brand new stadium. Chelsea probably has the richest local fans of the EPL and their stadium is right in the centre of one of the richest parts of London making the land very expensive if you want to develop. In our case, we were a loss making club (same as them) with Anfield land having hardly the value of Stamford bridge's and which had to be replaced. You won't get a lot of suitors to pay 300m who would then have to add another 300-400m for a stadium. In addition to that any buyer was sure they would have a court case from H&G. Transaction costs in such an acquisition are significant and the risks were very high.

Your also talking about the Whims of multi billionaires, there were stories that Abramovich flew over London in his helicopter looking at where clubs were, for which he wanted to buy, he picked Tottenham first to buy and met Levy, but they couldn't do a deal, so he bough Chelsea a few months later.

Also, someone like Abramovich might be happy to buy a club without much history, he doesn't have the pressure of the fans demands as much if they have failed for years, he can go in there and make wholesale changes, we would be protesting all over the city !!!

You mean getting rid of the dross and bringing in world class players..what a fukkin liberty.

I know a few City fans who aren't happy how the club has changed, they used to take the p*ss out of Utd being a 'brand' and buying the league, seeing some of their players acting like mercenaries, they'd still prefer to have the likes of Shaun Goater upfront.

Personally I think we've missed the boat with a sugar daddy,are we really that an attractive acquisition at an overinflated price ?

So in summary we are buggered ?

No, we are well managed, but we have less money than some of our major rivals.

Sounds great

We are indeed being well managed.