Babylon
Active Member
Sometime ago I tried to post on this board and give the real reasons why MM wanted to take over LCFC. I was actively prevented from doing so by one of the moderators more concerned with his own ego than with board members knowing the truth. So I am going to try again...
Lets get the trivial ones out of the way first:
1) Premiership football could be secured for a very modest outlay on the never never for an inital return of £50 million excluding receipts and merchandising ( a 1000% profit on investment).
2) A revival of the 'merger' with the Tigers would facilitate the reacquisition of The Walkers (and expansion) and slash administration and marketing costs.
But these are not the REAL reasons. Some of you may know that MM once owned an MLS outfit called San Jose Earthquakes. Well, word on the street is that he wants to own another MLS club. Malcolm Glazer wants one too and so does Randy Lerner. In fact both these Americans bought into Premiership clubs first so that they could then go back and buy in the States. Why do they want to do that. The answer is...
FRANCHSING
At the moment Glazer is looking to buy one of the four MLS clubs owned by Philip Anschutz's entertainment conglomerate AEG who in turn is key to make at least one disposal following the introduction of the so called 'Beckham' rule which now allows MLS clubs the right to have two players on their 'rosters' whose salaries are not capped.
This rule was introduced to facilitate the possible move to MLS of one David Beckham. It looks almost certain that he will be going to LA Galaxy at the end of this season and that the club will be taken over by Malcolm Glazer and be rebranded as 'Manchester United USA.' Colossal TV and merchandising revenues will then be used to pay off loans taken out to finance the purchase of MUFC. This my friends is FACT check here:
http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/storie...27/daily33.html
Now my spies in the US tell me that MM has been seen both at DC United this season (home of the not so young Freddy Adu and another AEG club) and at New York Red Bulls (yet another AEG outfit and to where David Beckham was first mooted as moving) and that he had expressed interest in getting 'involved' once the Beckham Rule had passed.
If all this does come to pass by 2008/9 we will have a 'twin club' in Washington or New York with the word 'Foxes' in the title and whose players will take the field in the holy blue. Too much isn't it? Back of the envelope calculations show that whole franchise revenues by 2010 will be inexcess of £150 million per annum - second only to MUFC (yes, more than Chelsea) and enough to launch a Premiersip title bid.
And enough to make Milan a billionaire by the time he pops his clogs...
Lets get the trivial ones out of the way first:
1) Premiership football could be secured for a very modest outlay on the never never for an inital return of £50 million excluding receipts and merchandising ( a 1000% profit on investment).
2) A revival of the 'merger' with the Tigers would facilitate the reacquisition of The Walkers (and expansion) and slash administration and marketing costs.
But these are not the REAL reasons. Some of you may know that MM once owned an MLS outfit called San Jose Earthquakes. Well, word on the street is that he wants to own another MLS club. Malcolm Glazer wants one too and so does Randy Lerner. In fact both these Americans bought into Premiership clubs first so that they could then go back and buy in the States. Why do they want to do that. The answer is...
FRANCHSING
At the moment Glazer is looking to buy one of the four MLS clubs owned by Philip Anschutz's entertainment conglomerate AEG who in turn is key to make at least one disposal following the introduction of the so called 'Beckham' rule which now allows MLS clubs the right to have two players on their 'rosters' whose salaries are not capped.
This rule was introduced to facilitate the possible move to MLS of one David Beckham. It looks almost certain that he will be going to LA Galaxy at the end of this season and that the club will be taken over by Malcolm Glazer and be rebranded as 'Manchester United USA.' Colossal TV and merchandising revenues will then be used to pay off loans taken out to finance the purchase of MUFC. This my friends is FACT check here:
http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/storie...27/daily33.html
Now my spies in the US tell me that MM has been seen both at DC United this season (home of the not so young Freddy Adu and another AEG club) and at New York Red Bulls (yet another AEG outfit and to where David Beckham was first mooted as moving) and that he had expressed interest in getting 'involved' once the Beckham Rule had passed.
If all this does come to pass by 2008/9 we will have a 'twin club' in Washington or New York with the word 'Foxes' in the title and whose players will take the field in the holy blue. Too much isn't it? Back of the envelope calculations show that whole franchise revenues by 2010 will be inexcess of £150 million per annum - second only to MUFC (yes, more than Chelsea) and enough to launch a Premiersip title bid.
And enough to make Milan a billionaire by the time he pops his clogs...
