Moores .......done The Deal

[Red_Polo]

PLANE STALKING ALERT

A privatly registered biz jet left Liverpool Sunday morning headed back to Dubai. No clue who was on board , but the aircraft made a non standard departure from runway 27 . According to local plane spotters this was to enable to the plane to fly over Anfield.

Haha! Good work Jim!

[Red_Polo]

Been on there for months Mr Polo Sir, just hasnt been updated.

Yeah I thought as much, it doesn't have any 'offeror' on there which is what we are waiting for.

[Bob]

I am assuming that the 250 million is the amount that he will be giving David Moores for his shares, so the stuff that you are talking about has absolutely no bearing.

Ab-sol-utely. Welcome to the site btw.

The money is for the shares. How many dollars does this bloke have then. We need at least enough for the stadium. I'm sure whoever it is Moores won't sell us out!

[tomasjj]

PLANE STALKING ALERT

A privatly registered biz jet left Liverpool Sunday morning headed back to Dubai. No clue who was on board , but the aircraft made a non standard departure from runway 27 . According to local plane spotters this was to enable to the plane to fly over Anfield.

good work!!

[desertscouser]

Nice one Zico.

I read the same globe trotters snippet from another site earlier and am still as sceptical as ever.

[calvoboy]

MANNIE JACKSON
Chairman and CEO of the Harlem Globetrotters

As Chairman and CEO of the Harlem Globetrotters, Mannie Jackson achieved a dramatic corporate turnaround restoring the Hall of Fame basketball team to its status as a global icon. A former Globetrotter player, Jackson purchased the team in 1993 and revived the near-bankrupt organization into one of the most admired and publicized teams in the world, while increasing revenue five-fold and rebuilding the fan base to near record levels. Before a national television audience, the team confirmed its status as one of the best and most influential basketball teams in the world when Jackson and the Globetrotters were the fifth team inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 27, 2002. In fact, the team has been recognized six times in the past seven years by basketball’s most prestigious barometer of success.

Jackson stepped into the history books when he purchased the team in 1993, as the first African-American to own a major international sports and entertainment organization. The conclusion of the team’s 2005 North American Tour in April 2005, marked 12 consecutive years of double-digit growth. Jackson amassed an impressive list of national sponsors, expanded countries visited to 118 with attendance of over two million annually, and topped the Sports Q ratings as the most liked and recognized team in the world in 1999, 2000 and 2002.

Jackson has served on the Board of Directors of five Fortune 500 companies - and has served on the Board of Governors for the American Red Cross. He is vice chairman of the Basketball Hall of Fame and was among 12 distinguished nominees for the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Award for Human Rights in recognition of his work in South Africa. In May 2005 during the Kentucky Derby weekend celebration, Jackson was named 2005’s Man-of-the-Year by the Winner’s Circle for Children Inc. in Louisville, Ky. Recognizing years of promoting human rights throughout the world, the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tenn. presented their inaugural International Award to Jackson in January 2006.

Jackson is a founding member and former president of the Executive Leadership Council, providing African-American executives with a network and leadership forum to promote excellence in business. In 2002, Jackson and the Globetrotters were inducted into the Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame. This recognition was followed by the National Conference of Community and Justice’s (NCCJ) Arizona region honored Jackson with the 50th Annual Humanitarian of the Year Award. Later that year, the Rainbow/Push Coalition awarded Jackson the prestigious Effa Manley Sports

Executive-of-the-Year Award, for his work with the Globetrotter organization. In the spring of 2003, Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the nation’s oldest historical black college, founded in 1854, recognized Jackson with an honorary doctorate degree in Humane Letters for his work within the business community. Jackson was also presented the achievement award from the Executive Leadership Council in 2003.

Prior to taking the reins of the Globetrotters in 1993, Jackson served as President and General Manager of Honeywell’s Telecommunications Business before retiring as a Corporate Officer and Senior Vice President of Honeywell, Inc. Jackson has been recognized in various prominent financial publications throughout his career, including being named one of the Nation’s 30 Most Powerful and Influential Black Corporate Executives; one of the Nation’s Top 50 Corporate Strategists and in 1992, was named one of the 20 African-American High Net Worth Entrepreneurs. In the spring of 2001, “Harvard Business Review” published a first-person account of Jackson’s business principles that turned the Globetrotters into a market leader and the most renowned team in the world.

During the 1996 and 1997 season, Jackson and the Globetrotters were instrumental in securing over $2 million to the Nelson Mandela African Children’s Foundation. Since 1993, the Globetrotters charitable contributions have totaled more than $11 million. In the fall of 1997, Jackson announced an endowment of $100,000 to the Lincoln School Alumni Foundation of Edwardsville, Ill., helping provide youth with college scholarships and pledged $250,000 to the Globetrotters Alumni Association. The NCCJ, which Jackson contributed $125,000 to, recently named the Harlem Globetrotters Scholarship Fund, awarded to Arizona youth, allowing them to participate in the NCCJ’s leadership program, Anytown USA. During the 2001-2002 season Jackson directly contributed $100,000 to the American Red Cross for the Disaster Relief Fund to help victims of Sept. 11th tragedy. In 2003, Jackson presented the Basketball Hall of Fame with a quarter of a million dollar donation to continue basketball's greatest legacy. In January 2005, Jackson pledged $100,000 to UNICEF to aid victims of the tsunami in Southest Asia, as well as a $250,000 donation to the Edwardsville YMCA. In September 2005, Jackson donated $200,000 to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast.

Born in a railway boxcar in Illmo, Mo., Jackson grew up in Edwardsville, Ill., earning the title of Illinois’ “Mr. Basketball,” and attended the University of Illinois, becoming the first African-American All-American and captain of the Illini basketball team. He is also a charter member of the Illinois Basketball Hall of Fame, and a member of the National Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame, as well as, a charter member of the Black Legends of Professional Basketball, and is an investor with a limited partnership interest in the Arizona Diamondbacks. Jackson and his wife, Cathy, reside in Las Vegas, Nev., and have two adult daughters: Cassandra, a graduate of DePaul University, who is currently studying to be a chef, and Candace, a graduate of New York University and Columbia University, who recently joined the Wall Street Journal as an Associate Editor.

[carheex]

if the deal is so secretive that the press don't have it and it's not being made public until the next meeting........why would the club let an ex-player have the info to pass on to a forum visitor not connected to the club.
Anyone who believes this is a proper crank.


Apart from that, it can't be true or the koptalkinsider would would be sending out mailshots with "breaking news - join now!" messages!

[Pedenj]

Ab-sol-utely. Welcome to the site btw.

The money is for the shares. How many dollars does this bloke have then. We need at least enough for the stadium. I'm sure whoever it is Moores won't sell us out!

Cheers mate, been here a while just never got around to posting much.

It seems that nobody knows how much this bloke has got, but I am sure Moores wouldn't sell to someone who wasn't in a better financial position than himself.

Also if he does indeed accept 250 million, than it is a lot lower than he originally wanted apparently, this means the invester has saved 50 million, that he can put into the club, rather than Mr.Moores pocket.

[KingKenny]

Because once he has control of the club, which he will do if he gives David Moores 250 million for his 51% stake in the club, he will bring his own money to the table.

If someone pays David Moores 500 million for the club, it will be the same situation, the takeover money itself goes into David Moores bank account, not into the club, as some are implying.

I see, cheers.

[Pedenj]

Thats alright mate. Alot of the reports in the papers confuse the matter when they go on about debts and the stadium. While the investor has to take these facts into account, they don't incorporate these features in their bid. They bid for the shares.

[kopite]

if the deal is so secretive that the press don't have it and it's not being made public until the next meeting........why would the club let an ex-player have the info to pass on to a forum visitor not connected to the club.
Anyone who believes this is a proper crank.


Apart from that, it can't be true or the koptalkinsider would would be sending out mailshots with "breaking news - join now!" messages!

I COULDN'T GIVE A FLYING **** WHAT YOU THINK.

I'm not twisting your arm up your back or shovelling it down your throat
you are entitled to believe what you want.
If I didnt have 100% total faith in my source I would not place something as sensitive as this on a football site.
I dont like the exposure of placing something on the internet and having to explain to the likes of you who what or were I got it from,Im just a football supporter just like all of us on here, we are sometimes left in the dark and are concerns are never heard.you have now got some information before the press.
you have a snippit from a source which means you have got it before the press or insider etc...

Now just make up your own minds and lets leave it at that

[dww]

Apart from that, it can't be true or the koptalkinsider would would be sending out mailshots with "breaking news - join now!" messages!

It's probably happening as we speak

Not sure it was necissary to be so harsh on people though. You just have to treat it as a rumour, it's not like you are being charged to hear it.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

I read the same globe trotters snippet from another site earlier and am still as sceptical as ever.

I reckon Moores just won't sell the club, or rather his majority shareholding.

It's either minority investment or nothing.

So that means nothing.

[PeachSalsa]

Don't know about any of that but I've seen the Harlem Globetrotters and they are excellent. Great show.

[Red_Al_77]

David Moores was on the plane that left for Dubai on Sunday.