In light of Ollie canceling dinner with Mister Di Stefano, what other big money takeover rumours of EL clubs have there been over the years?
Rovers and Brookes Mileson is obiviously one any others?
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In light of Ollie canceling dinner with Mister Di Stefano, what other big money takeover rumours of EL clubs have there been over the years?
Rovers and Brookes Mileson is obiviously one any others?
Brendan O'Carroll turning up with a pen and paper to take over Rovers last year:D
Idiot journos believing a rumour about Aldo taking us over the same time and printing it!
KOH
Forgot about O'Carroll and that webchat he had too!
Roddy Doyle was apparently part of a consortium that tired to buy Pats durng the early 90s. He talked about it during a Fantasy Football episode. A certain builder with a fat ex employee friemd tried to buy us recently buthius valuation was 1/10th of the grounds market value alone...
The same Roddy Doyle who when asked why he "supported" chelsea on fantasy football replied "Cos the league of Ireland is ****e":eek:
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KOH
Total tangent, but that reminded me of a quote from the Chairman of the Leinster Rugby Supporters Club in yesterdays Tribune, who claimed to have turned his back on domestic football to follow rugby(having allegedly followed Drums and Home Farm, being from Drumcondra) because of the bad behaviour of the fans of certain English teams who visited for friendlies in theQuote:
Originally Posted by NY Hoop
70s ...........
I sometimes wonder if domestic football will ever grow when you are dealing with a general populace who not only eschew local football but at the same time manage to invent preposterous reasons or excuses to self-justify their actions.
Roddy Collins attempting to take over Drogheda about 4 or 5 years ago!!
Weren't we lucky :)
Brendan O' Carroll made an attempt to buy Kilkenny City a few years back aswell
Rumour has it Pat Dolan tried to buy Cobh!! Only a rumour id say though because i think its impossible for someone to buy cobh as the community owns it or something like that!
Did Johnny Giles and Eamon Dunphy try to buy Rovers in the 70's?
Don't forget Pats and Brooks Mileson as well, though he only got as far as generally sniffing around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tenderloins
Don't think they tried to buy Rovers, did they ? Giles was manager and Dunphy his assistant in the late 70's (For the benefit of our younger readers.) Louis Kilcoyne, who I think is Giles brother-in-law, would have been owner at the time. I believe he later went on to make quite a bit of money in "property speculation" :p
Ditto for City i believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Budweiser tried to buy out UCD back in the 80s, I think - or at least get more involved than they currently are. There was a plan for a stand on the hill with a Budweiser logo or in Bud colours or something.
Whilst not strictly "big money" an interesting tale on the subject
When a new board was elected for Derry City after our entry into the LOI, senior nationalist politicians in the North were contacted by members of British Intelligence. Apparently they were worried that the new board was a "republican coup" and the possible impact of the such an event
Anyone remember some Lord living in Limerick who wanted to take over the club in the 60s or 70s???
They never tried to buy the club (how would that even work?). They were launching Bud into the Irish market at the time an wanted to put sponsorship into UCD in a stupidly americanized (yes, I used a 'z') kind of way.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Didn't they want to re-name Belfield Park as Budweiser Park or something as well?Quote:
Originally Posted by Student Mullet
I remember now who that Lord was who had an interest in Limerick FC - Lord Petersham.
Consortium tried to take Harps to Letterkenny back in 1996.
Headed by Geoff Carr from TNT Worldwide Express, back by Jimmy Harte (then Chairman) and of course Dermott Keely :rolleyes:
Needless to say they failed, the co-op society was set up and the fans now own the club.
Presumably they give the college lots of money and tell them that in the not-too-distant future, someone will be delighted to have a nest-egg to build gym facilities just for his wife while destroying the grass areas across college.Quote:
Originally Posted by Student Mullet
The idea was deemed to ridiculous, therefore, it was rejected. :)
The actual story is.... Budweiser offered the soccer club a sick amount of money to rename the ground Budweiser Park and to paint the roof of the stand red and have logos etc on the roof.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
There might well have also been a proposal to build a stand on the bank opposite as well not 100%sure about that . The Soccer club had no problem with it and presented the proposal to the College Authorities who baulked at it.
So for a few seasons the club had an all red away strip as a nice gesture to the sponsors instead.
Here's some former directors of LOI clubs.
Noel C. Duggan of Millstreet Green Glens Arena fame was a director of
Cork Hibernians in the 1970's when they went bust.
Pat Grace, who once had the franchise for Kentucky Fried Chicken for Ireland, was the owner of Limerick F.C./ Limerick United/ Limerick City in the 1970's and 80's and moved the club from the Market's Field to Rathbane in 1983.
Conor Clarkson was suposed to finnish Tallaght with E10 million at around the end of 2003.
He tried us as well !Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr.Nightdub
going slightly off topic, i saw a programme on him an gretna not to long ago... not sure if it was mentioned here before, but he actually seems like a down to earth football lover, hes from carlisle but decided to invest gretna cos he liked the place and the fans were good fun. made his money in the insurance business, apparently at gretna matches, you wont fine him in the directors boxes, but down in the middle of the fans enjoying the banter, personally i wouldent mind him getting involved with any loi clubQuote:
Originally Posted by Roo69
yes and I explained this on another thread!Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi