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[Craig_H]

I'm not sure Southampton will be much better from here..

From where?

I'm happy with Southampton, it's much nearer than Blackburn

[sean_lfc]

Which ones? (I've heard quite a few )

I can't remember the exact details, but basically something along the lines of Kean and Vencky's all in on fleecing the club in some way or another, something to do with £20 million. I'd search the post some Blackburn fan posted, but **** knows how I'd go about it. It was so detailed and outlandish I never thought anyone would make up something like that. Not that I'm too bothered, but there was/is something clearly fishy about the fact a no-mark manager got to stay on all season to take a club down, when the whole stadium and all fans were continuously trying to oust the hapless manager. Something just stinks there, and it ain't a bucket of chicken.

[Exiled_red]

I can't remember the exact details, but basically something along the lines of Kean and Vencky's all in on fleecing the club in some way or another, something to do with £20 million. I'd search the post some Blackburn fan posted, but **** knows how I'd go about it. It was so detailed and outlandish I never thought anyone would make up something like that. Not that I'm too bothered, but there was/is something clearly fishy about the fact a no-mark manager got to stay on all season to take a club down, when the whole stadium and all fans were continuously trying to oust the hapless manager. Something just stinks there, and it ain't a bucket of chicken.

I've got a couple of mates who are Blackburn fans and some of the rumours that were going around were crazy, the Glasgow Mafia insisting Kean stay on, money laundering, Kean owning the club...

[Shanks]

From where?

I'm happy with Southampton, it's much nearer than Blackburn

L9.

I bet you're hoping for a West Ham win as well..
All three down your neck of the woods..

[sean_lfc]

money laundering, Kean owning the club...

That's what was part of the post I originally mentioned, if I remember correctly. Definitely something to do with Kean part-owning the club with some dubious Scotland links. Be ****ed if I remember where that post was. I bet it's in the Kean thread actually LOL Let's have a looksie...

[sean_lfc]

Here we go:

Mate is a Blackburn fan. Says this is often posted in the comments under local newstories.

Steve KEAN (Minor 2nd team coach) is connected to a number of pretty serious Glasgow criminals who had a vast amount of money which required laundering. (2-3million)

As an employee of the club KEAN was aware that ROVERS had been for sale for quite some time with very little serious interest from anyone, he knew the price and the money which would be required to purchase it. He approached his Management Company KETARO (owned by ANDERSON) and put to him a business plan for the purchase of the club, this plan would give ANDERSON unofficial control of the club and enable him to 'legally' perform the sort of transaction with existing and future players on his books that got West Ham into trouble with the TEVEZ / MASSCARNO saga. (the buying and selling of players being the only way to make money from a Premier League club)

The consortium that KEAN suggested involved himself (representing the the gangster money) being a shareholder and part owner in the little scheme, KENTRO unable to purchase a Premier League club to to league conflict rules, scouted around emerging markets (India / China / Brazil) for a company to come in as the official new 'owners' capable of satisfying the fit and proper test laid down by the league. VENKYS loved the idea as they were keen to attack the European market and expand beyond India. The cost to VENKYS for taking part in the venture was half the purchase price of 43million. (This 20 million was set aside anyway for marketing costs in breaking into the European market so net coast to VENKYS being NIL) The remainder of the cost was met by ANDERSON and a number of others in his syndicate (including KEAN) The scheme was sold to all involve as being 'win win' as the purchase price was assured of being returned to all members of the syndicate by TV money and in worst case relegation parachute payment which totaled coincidentally approx 43 million)

KEAN had one condition for his involvement, the removal of BIG SAM and his promotion to Club Manager. The removal of the established management infrastructure was essential in helping the group keep the deal secret, hence JOHN W and the rest were thanked for their services and shown the door. The recent mortgage in Aug 2011 for 43million is assured against the TV money for this year and any subsequent parachute payment from relegation whether that come this year or in the future. This money has been returned to all members of the syndicate to cover their initial stake (hence the secrecy), thus any money made from here on in by way of transfers, TV money, sale of the club being total profit to the group. The Indians are basically passengers on this train and as now they have their money back they are totally uninterested in the future of the club, for them it remains what it always has been, a marketing tool. ANDERSON is keen to continue to use the club as a feeder for his younger less established players, he makes money by legitamatly charging massively inflated agent fees for all players coming in and out, and in the event of a player making a big breakthrough gains millions for the syndicate in the sell on fee. KEAN..well he's just living the dream, he would never have made a Premier League manager as long as he lived, the best he could aspire to was being someones No 2 and that dream was 5-10years away. The new deal recently signed by KEAN is in recognition and reward from all concerned as the others have all done very well out of the deal to date (he obviously had to be rewarded as well) He is the Manager and he's going nowhere, not because he's un-sackable but because he's delivered what he said and not withstanding HE OWNS PART OF THE CLUB. (albeit via his gangster friends in Glasgow) All of his little trips to INDIA are not about him answering to the INDIANS is about him telling them what to do, when to speak and what to say, all stuff that needs to be said in person at risk of emails or phone calls being recorded. The whole thing would take a financial investigator years to uncover and is more or less impossible to trace as the paper trail all runs though VENKYS in INDIA. They have the club pretty much sawn up. The recent interest from the Middle East is of no interest to the syndicate as they only stand to gain a little over what they paid, the rewards from keeping the club are much more to them than that..If this deal ever came out..people will be going to jail..so don't expect it to anytime soon..Oh what fun to be a Rovers fan.

[Lee]

It's such a brilliant story that I want it to be true.

[Craig_H]

L9.

I bet you're hoping for a West Ham win as well..
All three down your neck of the woods..

Absolutely Although even Birmingham would be easier tha Blackburn or Bolton. Southampton's 75 miles away, Blackburn was 245, so yeah, that's a great swap

But you're right, if we end up with West Ham to go with Reading and Southampton, that'd be best. Even better if we end up having swapped them for Blackburn, Bolton & Wolves.

Wigan going down instead of Wolves would've been perfect, but you cant have everything in life

[Exiled_red]

Here we go:

That was it

It's such a brilliant story that I want it to be true.

[sean_lfc]

It's such a brilliant story that I want it to be true.

The thing is, I actually don't believe it to be that outlandish. If you go back to that program they did on the whole Asia stuff with what's the pricks name, some Ex-United player and how he whored out clubs 'I can get you a manager that does as he's told, I can get you XYZ players etc. etc., it does indeed set some alarm bells ringing; however mostly with regards to some of the deep reporting I read over here in Germany when the whole German referee scandals involving Serbian/Croatian/Eastern mafia, with players up and down the country and in Europe paid off (they go for the players/refs/etc. who gamble, get them all sweet into high figure debt etc.), with a Godfather type figure who resided in the Netherlands and basically pulling all the strings not only in Europe, but mainly with huge betting syndicates in Asia who in turn were his investors... then I really don't believe it's that outlandish. It's a huge money industry and it's a piece of piss to keep revenue streams up, because of a) TV and b) fans that'll come until the day they die. It's all global, the whole betting stuff, Asia is much more untraceable.

I'd love to know more about the whole Blackburn fiasco. I hope - for the fans sake - heads will at some point roll. It is definitely quite ****ing damning that a manager who has done *nothing* in the game suddenly gets to manage for so long, coming up with completely ****ing crocked results every ****ing week, fans going completely ballistic throughout the season and he stays in the job like there's no tomorrow. Imagine if they hadn't had Yakubu (17 goals) this season - not that it mattered. But there's definitely something really ****ing fishy going on. I mean ****ing Neil Warnock was sacked and had QPR playing some proper good stuff early this season and they're on the brink of relegation now, yet Kean bobbles along all season without a care in the world.

[Chazza]

I know its been said before but Gary Neville is good at this pundit lark

[Kenneth]

I'm delighted that Blackburn are down. And that Wigan stay up. Good stuff

[little dave hedgehog]

venky's are cunts though, aren't they?

[sean_lfc]

Let's take this discussion to the Kean thread. I've copied and pasted most relevant info from this thread to that one.

[Angryred]

I'm delighted that Blackburn are down. And that Wigan stay up. Good stuff

I can't ever see them getting back into the premier league again...

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