Just how rich IS Bloom?

[JBizzle]

I believe he must be around the £2bn mark. £200m is a lot to invest unless you've got pots to spare...

 

[Return of the Rev]

I was at the NFL game at Wembley and TB was hosting on the table next to us. The guys from Spreadex we were with estimated he was worth about 900m. This was about 5 years ago.

120 million stadium 30 million lancing 40+ million losses so far=190ish million=21% of 900 million! A big chunk of a big pie

 

[Hampster Gull]

What's a rumour?

Three people backed Knight with. Hard cash. Bloom. Was one of them.

Maybe, maybe not. The point was made earlier that DK only saved the Albion with TB money. Now its TB was one of three...

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I was once asked by somebody at the club if I could use my contacts within News International (as it was then) to find out whether he would be mentioned in the Sunday Times Rich List.

They were delighted to find out that he wouldn't. Seriously wealthy people are always happy to have their wealth underestimated or, even better, ignored, so TB must be happy most of the time. He seems to have managed consistently to avoid appearing on any list of this type - although I must point out that the ST list is highly unreliable, based largely on guesswork and partly put together by interns and work experience people.

 

[Ernest]

Knight saved us in our hour of need

Did you BUY his SHARES ?

 

[Hampster Gull]

Did you BUY his SHARES ?

No, I am ok with that angle. TB came and moved us from L2 to today.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Isn't the new ruling £39m over three years, so in theory you could blow £30+ this seasons in a gamble to get up and then have to go easy over the following two years as a result if promotion didn't happen

The new ruling starts next season. This season it's an interim, fixed level of £13m (which is, ofc, £39m/3, which can't be a coincidence)

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Maybe, maybe not

Not very taxing to reconcile the fact someone is not going to blow 200m on a hobby that ,without a lot of luck you're never going get your money back. Unless the fact is it's going to have a little effect on your life i.e. wealth relatively speaking

 

[Hampster Gull]

Not very taxing to reconcile the fact someone is not going to blow 200m on a hobby that ,without a lot of luck you're never going get your money back. Unless the fact is it's going to have a little effect on your life i.e. wealth relatively speaking

 

[beorhthelm]

Someone's wealth is private if they want it to be.

only while its private. hold a few assets and you'll soon pop up on registers and databases for the tracking of such assets. so once people know to look for you (and familay and associates), they see those assets.

 

[5mins-from-amex]

Maybe, maybe not. The point was made earlier that DK only saved the Albion with TB money. Now its TB was one of three...

Quote from an interview with TB in the sussex life in 2011

''Theres a fairly easy explanation as to why I put the money in that I did. Id been involved financially, albeit in a smaller way, for many, many years when Dick Knight was chairman''

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Also, I'd guess that to invest in excess of 200m in cash to pay for stadium etc, you'd need to be worth considerably more than that, simply to have that amount available.

 

[Working class pride]

120 million stadium 30 million lancing 40+ million losses so far=190ish million=21% of 900 million! A big chunk of a big pie

It doesn't work like that. If we work to £900 M (which is just speculation) then on that is an annual investment return. If say that return is 5-10% then the ground was paid for over a few years, as was the training ground and the players. therefore unlikely to have even touched the speculative £900 Million.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Are you just being a ****.

As stated this has been done to death. Very rare for me to become irritated by another poster. You've succeeded.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Are you just being a ****.

As stated this has been done to death. Very rare for me to become irritated by another poster. You've succeeded.

What are you calling me?

 

[Hampster Gull]

Quote from an interview with TB in the sussex life in 2011

''Theres a fairly easy explanation as to why I put the money in that I did. Id been involved financially, albeit in a smaller way, for many, many years when Dick Knight was chairman''

Someone on here said DK only saved the club with TB money which I was asking for evidence of. I don't think that qoute is the evidence, it doesnt say when or to what extent, only that he invest is a smaller way earleir

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

4 stars can't you see that

 

[Hampster Gull]

4 stars can't you see that

A star. Thx . Lets leave the thread to the issue rather than personal abuse

 

[KZNSeagull]

From an FFP point of view, what could actually be used in this season? I'd think the sale money can't, as it's in the past. I'm not even sure about the goals and staying up bonuses, as they're in the past too.

It's a good point and I do not know the answer. I would imagine though that lots of costs were brought forward into last year's accounts so that we used as much of last year's FFP allowance as possible, thus freeing up extra for this year. But it does not matter, the point that TB will not allow the club to fall foul of FFP stands.

 

[5mins-from-amex]

Someone on here said DK only saved the club with TB money which I was asking for evidence of. I don't think that qoute is the evidence, it doesnt say when or to what extent, only that he invest is a smaller way earleir

What you want? bank statements?