Lower West Stander
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Would you have said this at the end of last season after we had reached the playoffs 2 years in a row?
I'd get back to your fag smoking fitness regime if I were you....
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Why does Bloom escape criticism on here?
- Thread starter terryberry1
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Would you have said this at the end of last season after we had reached the playoffs 2 years in a row?
I'd get back to your fag smoking fitness regime if I were you....
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
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For those of you doubting Tony Bloom's personal wealth, you really need to read the following report by an extremely well-respected, award-winning journalist.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...murky-world-of-professional-football-gambling
In particular, this paragraph:
..Tony Bloom, a legendary gambler known as "The Lizard," is one such operator. So revered, Bloom runs Star Lizard, a company that employs a raft of people to analyse football matches for his millionaire-only investors. Bloom is rumoured to be worth more than £1 billion and owns Brighton, the Premier League wannabes...
I've heard similar from friends in the City who also say that Bloom is worth in excess of a billion. If you can't afford it, you don't loan £200M in cash to anyone and especially not with zero-interest bonds as Bloom has with the Albion.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...murky-world-of-professional-football-gambling
In particular, this paragraph:
..Tony Bloom, a legendary gambler known as "The Lizard," is one such operator. So revered, Bloom runs Star Lizard, a company that employs a raft of people to analyse football matches for his millionaire-only investors. Bloom is rumoured to be worth more than £1 billion and owns Brighton, the Premier League wannabes...
I've heard similar from friends in the City who also say that Bloom is worth in excess of a billion. If you can't afford it, you don't loan £200M in cash to anyone and especially not with zero-interest bonds as Bloom has with the Albion.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
I can only echo what others have written. You don't have post some rubbish but this thread sees you raising the bar to stratospheric levels. Well done!
Pretty pink fairy
Banned
- Jan 30, 2008
- 31,981
I find speculating someones wealth a bit perverse in the context of what he has put into this club, still think he's on an earner from it though
regards
DR
Dick Knights Mumm
Take me Home Falmer Road
I heard from a very reputable person who was more than confident that Bloom was worth more than a billion, and that was 5 years ago.
I appreciate that could like a friend of a friend told me, but it was enough for me to be confident Bloom is a seriously wealthy chap, and we are very fortunate to have him step in when he was needed.
Is he above criticism? No. But there is a substantial goodwill in the scales.
I appreciate that could like a friend of a friend told me, but it was enough for me to be confident Bloom is a seriously wealthy chap, and we are very fortunate to have him step in when he was needed.
Is he above criticism? No. But there is a substantial goodwill in the scales.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Ah, but what he's done and what he intends to do are two different things though, Das. I don't doubt he's a very rich man and that he's poured his own money into the club but as for his intentions I'm as much in the dark about this as you are.
Seagull on the wing
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Perhaps those critizing TB should have a dose of the guy in charge at Leeds or Hull...or Vincent Tan...foreign owners who want to come in and change names and colours to suit their whims...How about...Valley Grasshoppers...playing in Jungle Green with splashes of Monsoon Mud...Never look a gift horse in the mouth and count your blessings,we are very lucky to have TB,a lot of clubs would love to have a local FAN put in £200 million into their passion.
Pretty pink fairy
Banned
- Jan 30, 2008
- 31,981
everyone is , I don't get sucked into the pamper bloom gang ,after all he doesn't pay my wages and as we are all customers now we can have say in what we purchase
regards
DR
Lower West Stander
Well-known member
If you are not capable of understanding the points that are being made against you then there is no point trying to explain.
Not surprising given the dross you have posted on other threads.
Thanks for that, I have always suspected that he makes most of his money through gambling. Still don't know how easy it is to hide that sort of money from the public.
AZ Gull
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Us: Well, he appointed Gus Poyet who won us the League One title with games to spare in 2011.
Mustafa: Yes, but other chairman have won us championships before.
Us: Well, he provided the financial resources for Gus to take the Albion to the Championship play-offs.
Mustafa: Well, okay, but really, what else has he achieved?
Us: Well, after Gus, he appointed a manager who steered the Albion into the Championship play-offs again.
Mustafa: Okay, okay, but aside from that?
Us: Well, there is the £103 million he spent on a brand new, state-of-the-art stadium....
Mustafa: That is quite a lot of money. What else?
Us: ... and another £15 million on the capacity increase...
Mustafa: That's true...
Us: ... and another £30 million on an academy that has recently been adjudged to have the highest rating of any in the country.....
Mustafa: That certainly should help us in the longer term...
Us: ... and about £14 million a year to meet the operating shortfalls.
Mustafa: Okay, okay, enough already.
AlastairWatts
Active member
Didn't Leo want to go, once he'd bee tapped up? Difficult to get him to stay after that.
terryberry1
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Sticks and stones
livewire11
Banned
- Feb 10, 2011
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Which is exactly what TB is doing!!!!
If we are in the Championship and reach the playoffs 50% of the time that is an achievement though. The history of the club puts us as being a Championship/ League One outfit.
You are not being objective because you seem to be benchmarking him against the voices in your head, instead of the performance indicators and resources of those we are competing against.
cobbyseagull
Member
- Jul 31, 2008
- 163
Because without him we may well be screwed!!!!! If you had his money would you put it in the albion....I doubt it.....bloom helped save us with his own money...grow up and accept the man deserves every accolade he gets as there is very few who would put the money in to the extent he had done. Think of the past before you comment........
- Jan 3, 2012
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Part of my dream involved my daughter as Brighton captain (of the men's team) lifting the Champions league Trophy at Wembley, but given that she is now 30 and no longer plays football, I think it is unlikely..... apart from the minor detail of a change in the rules needed!
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
if we knew this why oh why did we not get a replacement before he went, there were plenty to choose from.
fat old seagull
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Because it's a sellers market and the good ones were holding off for as good a deal as possible (for example Lewis Grabban).