Puff Daddy to take over Crystal Palace

[Selhurst Wonderland]

Bloom and his family have been on the Albion board of directors for generations. They're not in it for the money, they don't invest their money on a whim, and the club is not their plaything. There is a difference.

Piff Duddly (or whatever) has no links with football, no links with Palace, and probably only became vaguely aware of Palace's existance when he noticed a funny smell as he wound down the tinted window in his Hummer somewhere around Norwood.

I don't think it'll happen either (its just too ridiculous even for your club), but be careful what you wish for. Rich businessmen don't get rich by tipping their cash into random black holes. Theres nearly always a downside.

Randy Lerner was much the same when he went to Villa.
Not done to badly by them, has he?

 

[Selhurst Wonderland]

£360m ?
Do you think he has ANY clue how much of a dent owning Crystal Palace would put in that ? You don't own the ground, you don't own the freehold, you're massively in debt and most of the squad arn't worth two bob.

If he was stupid enough to buy your mob, he'd want his rocks tested. That would be about as far away from "astute" as you could possibly get.

Are you a young man?
You surely can't be as you sound so bitter.

 

[Easy 10]

Randy Lerner was much the same when he went to Villa.
Not done to badly by them, has he?

For every Randy Lerner, you can also look at:

Ali Al-Faraj
Sulaman Al Fahim
Sacha Gayadarmark
Munto Finance (and whoever headed them up)
Malcolm Glazer
Gudmundsson (Icelandic Wet Clam bloke)

etc etc

Like I say, be careful what you wish for.

 

[herbicide]

Why not?
If some nobody like Bloom can pour millions into that white elephant of an identikit ground like yours then a superstar can buy a better club like ours.

1-0 (Easy10 OG)

 

[CAPTAIN GREALISH]

wanker

 

[Icy Gull]

Why not?
If some nobody like Bloom can pour millions into that white elephant of an identikit ground like .

Identikit ground? So which other ground is it gonna look like?

 

[Easy 10]

Are you a young man?
You surely can't be as you sound so bitter.

Not really, no. Perhaps I'm approaching a midlife crisis in my late thirties.

Not in the slightest bit bitter though. I can understand Palace fans grasping at absolutely any potential rescue-rope thats dangled in front of them now, given the clubs current circumstances - we'd probably be exactly the same. In fact we pretty much were, when Dick Knight rescued the club. All I knew about him was that he was (apparently) a lifelong fan, and he was behind the Wonderbra ads, and off the back of that I was desperate for him to step in and get rid of Archer. Fortunately for us, he proved to be the real deal.

I'd just be wary of celebs like Diddly suddenly and inexplicably turning up on the scene to apparently buy the club, you've got to question his motives. Its just ODD.
Genuinely hope it all works out and you survive though (following a relegation or two, of course).

 

[Icy Gull]

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I'd just be wary of celebs like Diddly suddenly and inexplicably turning up on the scene to apparently buy the club, you've got to question his motives. Its just ODD.
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He likes the name?

 

[Easy 10]

1-0 (Easy10 OG)

Are you watching the same game ?

 

[herbicide]

Are you watching the same game ?

Dissent?

 

[Barry Izbak]

If you were going to go on the Croydon board and try to wind them up, you couldn't do better than this.
You really could not make it up. LMAO

 

[Sweeney Todd]

Why not?
If some nobody like Bloom can pour millions into that white elephant of an identikit ground like yours then a superstar can buy a better club like ours.
I don't think it'll happen but you never know.

Selhurst Wonderland, on another forum, in another incarnation, you say that you are jealous of our new ground. If it's a white elephant then why are you jealous?

 

[little al]

Rich businessmen don't get rich by tipping their cash into random black holes. Theres nearly always a downside.

Yes, he takes calculated risks, not risks on the turn of a card.

 

[aberllefenni]

Why not?
If some nobody like Bloom can pour millions into that white elephant of an identikit ground like yours then a superstar can buy a better club like ours.
I don't think it'll happen but you never know.

Identikit ground Which ground would that be?

 

[Selhurst Wonderland]

Selhurst Wonderland, on another forum, in another incarnation, you say that you are jealous of our new ground. If it's a white elephant then why are you jealous?

No.
I'm not jealous of a 22,000 capacity stadium at a vast cost(who's building it? the same cowboys that built Wembley), I'm jealous that we don't as yet own our own ground and you will.

 

[Selhurst Wonderland]

Identikit ground Which ground would that be?

Let me educate you...a new, soulless, faceless stadium which resembles all the other soulless, faceless stadia that have been thrown up, up and down the country.

 

[Sweeney Todd]

Let me educate you...a new, soulless, faceless stadium which resembles all the other soulless, faceless stadia that have been thrown up, up and down the country.

You will be surprised when you see the finished product. In the meantime, keep repeating the mantra and you might continue to believe it.

 

[26-10-02]

Bloom and his family have been on the Albion board of directors for generations. They're not in it for the money, they don't invest their money on a whim, and the club is not their plaything. There is a difference.

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Too right .They are such good fans that they have left it till now to help you out.For fucks sake they nearly let you go out of the league and saw you drifting around the south like pikies.
Great fans that family

 

[The Wizard]

Let me educate you...a new, soulless, faceless stadium which resembles all the other soulless, faceless stadia that have been thrown up, up and down the country.

It absolutely WREAKS of jealousy in here.

 

[26-10-02]

If you were going to go on the Croydon board and try to wind them up, you couldn't do better than this.
You really could not ma ke it up. LMAO

why we would love it.The same as you lot wanked yourseves silly when you thought the palace reject DJ was taking over.