[Football] Possible Bloom investment in Hearts

[Barham's tash]

Details of the consultation period and subsequent vote:

Investment Proposal Consultation – Foundation of Hearts

Following on from the club’s confirmation that Tony Bloom has submitted a proposal to invest £9.86m in Heart of Midlothian, we are delighted to share with you, our members, further details. Our aim is to provide you with as much information as we can before asking you to vote on whether or not...

www.foundationofhearts.org

Interesting.

I mean whilst the narrative in their FAQ is clear - especially given the no voting rights nature of his position - I cannot fathom what this does for 'us'. Sure we're not a parent club but one has to hope this provides an angle to let our strong youth contingent play in competitive football, albeit at a standard similar to the Championship.

He's not doing this to hope that in five years Hearts have won a couple of trophies and his £10m/29% shareholding becomes worth say £30-50m as that does nothing for a man of his means.

What do we think the end goal is with this? Seems like at face value and I say this with caution and a warning for snowflakes that could it be an ego trip for TB? (God knows he's earned the right and I'm not against this btw just that I can't see how it helps us specifically)

 

[Dibdab]

Interesting.

I mean whilst the narrative in their FAQ is clear - especially given the no voting rights nature of his position - I cannot fathom what this does for 'us'. Sure we're not a parent club but one has to hope this provides an angle to let our strong youth contingent play in competitive football, albeit at a standard similar to the Championship.

He's not doing this to hope that in five years Hearts have won a couple of trophies and his £10m/29% shareholding becomes worth say £30-50m as that does nothing for a man of his means.

What do we think the end goal is with this? Seems like at face value and I say this with caution and a warning for snowflakes that could it be an ego trip for TB? (God knows he's earned the right and I'm not against this btw just that I can't see how it helps us specifically)

Maybe Tony would just like to see if his model can break up the Rangers/Celtic monopoly on the Scottish top two?

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Interesting.

I mean whilst the narrative in their FAQ is clear - especially given the no voting rights nature of his position - I cannot fathom what this does for 'us'. Sure we're not a parent club but one has to hope this provides an angle to let our strong youth contingent play in competitive football, albeit at a standard similar to the Championship.

He's not doing this to hope that in five years Hearts have won a couple of trophies and his £10m/29% shareholding becomes worth say £30-50m as that does nothing for a man of his means.

What do we think the end goal is with this? Seems like at face value and I say this with caution and a warning for snowflakes that could it be an ego trip for TB? (God knows he's earned the right and I'm not against this btw just that I can't see how it helps us specifically)

Why should it do something for "us"? It's not about us. I'd imagine he's doing it because he can, because it's a challenge, and because shaking things up a bit and knocking those two off their perch is an irresistible project and would be quite fun. Calling it an "ego trip" is a bit unnecessarily negative in my opinion.

 

[Barham's tash]

Why should it do something for "us"? It's not about us. I'd imagine he's doing it because he can, because it's a challenge, and because shaking things up a bit and knocking those two off their perch is an irresistible project and would be quite fun. Calling it an "ego trip" is a bit unnecessarily negative in my opinion.

Dude, he supports us, has invested in his tenure close to half a billion pounds on us and when he made the investment in USG originally it was two fold - a pathway for us to bring overseas players to Europe and then have them qualify for a UK visa whilst not necessarily meeting the full international criteria at the time so to date everything he does has been for us.

I mean no disrespect by calling it an ego trip I am purely interested in the modus operandi.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

Did Hibs just really piss him off when we had our arrangement with them or something?!

 

[chickens]

Interesting.

I mean whilst the narrative in their FAQ is clear - especially given the no voting rights nature of his position - I cannot fathom what this does for 'us'. Sure we're not a parent club but one has to hope this provides an angle to let our strong youth contingent play in competitive football, albeit at a standard similar to the Championship.

He's not doing this to hope that in five years Hearts have won a couple of trophies and his £10m/29% shareholding becomes worth say £30-50m as that does nothing for a man of his means.

What do we think the end goal is with this? Seems like at face value and I say this with caution and a warning for snowflakes that could it be an ego trip for TB? (God knows he's earned the right and I'm not against this btw just that I can't see how it helps us specifically)

I’d have thought that the value to TB is the increased data available to his people. The more clubs he has enrolled and using his data in decision-making, the quicker he can identify areas for improvement and refine his algorithms.

I suspect we won’t see a concrete and immediately identifiable benefit, but I’m willing to bet that behind the scenes his data people are making the most of these additional strands of data.

The intangible benefit will be the improvement of the algorithms and decision-making tools available to those at Brighton, USG and Hearts.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Dude, he supports us, has invested in his tenure close to half a billion pounds on us and when he made the investment in USG originally it was two fold - a pathway for us to bring overseas players to Europe and then have them qualify for a UK visa whilst not necessarily meeting the full international criteria at the time so to date everything he does has been for us.

I mean no disrespect by calling it an ego trip I am purely interested in the modus operandi.

Of course he has invested most with Brighton, as Brighton is his club and will hopefully always remain top of his agenda. However, maybe dragging up the Albion to where we are now has given him a taste for doing the same for other clubs. So he has managed to do it for down-on-its-luck USG, which must have been enormously satisfying, and now wants the challenge of doing the same in Scotland and challenging that hugely tedious Celtic/Rangers monopoly. Imagine being in a position to do that, just because you want to and you can, not for any other reason? But I might be wrong, of course, maybe there's an ulterior motive designed to benefit the Albion.

BTW, I've never been duded before...

 

[DJ NOBO]

£10m for a third of the club sounds cheap.
Maybe he thinks it’s a chance to make money relatively easily and quickly.
With the added challenge of at least toppling Rangers.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Dude, he supports us, has invested in his tenure close to half a billion pounds on us and when he made the investment in USG originally it was two fold - a pathway for us to bring overseas players to Europe and then have them qualify for a UK visa whilst not necessarily meeting the full international criteria at the time so to date everything he does has been for us.

I mean no disrespect by calling it an ego trip I am purely interested in the modus operandi.

I think we need to at least consider the possibility that he's completely lost his mind.

 

[Albion my Albion]

I mean no disrespect by calling it an ego trip I am purely interested in the modus operandi.

mo·dus op·e·ran·di
/ˌmōdəs ˌäpəˈrandē,ˌmōdəs ˌäpəˈranˌdī/

noun

1. a particular way or method of doing something, especially one that is characteristic or well-established.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

£10m for a third of the club sounds cheap.

Well, yeah. This was the first thing that caught my eye.

 

[dangull]

Encisco, Buananote, and Ferguson being loaned to Hearts would shake things up a bit in the SPL.
I think they should vote yes.

 

[portlock seagull]

Why is he bothering?

 

[JBizzle]

Why is he bothering?

Because he's a billionaire businessman who's always on the the lookout to expand his empire wit the right investment

 

[albionalba]

I think it's been said before....it's all part of a Succession parody joke that he is playing on a Hibs fan.....they'll be disappointed when they open their birthday present and find those share certificates......

 

[Hugo Rune]

Encisco, Buananote, and Ferguson being loaned to Hearts would shake things up a bit in the SPL.
I think they should vote yes.

He has the Melbourne club too. But I imagine loans there are reserved for Locadia type players!

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Encisco, Buananote, and Ferguson being loaned to Hearts would shake things up a bit in the SPL.
I think they should vote yes.

Not sure any of those players would be too happy with that!

 

[GT49er]

Did Hibs just really piss him off when we had our arrangement with them or something?!

Good question!

Another question - will TB have to give up his Hearts shares if we are both in the Conference or Europa Leagues at any time?

 

[Ali_rrr]

£10m for a third of the club sounds cheap.
Maybe he thinks it’s a chance to make money relatively easily and quickly.
With the added challenge of at least toppling Rangers.

I mean even if they qualify for the Champions League group stage once that's €17 million that goes into Hearts' coffers. Do that a couple of years, sell a couple of players and I'm sure he has his investment back.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Good question!

Another question - will TB have to give up his Hearts shares if we are both in the Conference or Europa Leagues at any time?

Bloom will have 29% of the shares, conveniently just under the 30% threshold in the UEFA rules so he should be fine.