FlemishDuck
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Just recently, Marck Coucke (a Belgian billionaire) bought RSC Anderlecht that was for sale. As a result he is forced to sell his controling share in KV oostende which is a team that also plays in the Belgium first league, he has to because you can't own 2 teams in the same competition. At this moment they are in negotiations with Manchester city for the majority of the shares of KV Oostende.
One might wonder where the logic is in that, when a owner basicly changes of club and is forced to sell his old club likely not at a premium price? The answer is that it's pretty much all the result of petty personal vendetta's among Belgian billionare Entrepeneurs. There were several candidate's to buy RSC Anderlecht, but the main candidate was Paul Gheysens who is owner of Royal Antwerp FC (also a Belgium 1st class team) and who wanted to buy RSC for his sons. But now, to the surprise of everyone, RSC has been bought up by Mark Coucke and his bussiness associate Jonas Ide. Jonas Ide got into a spat with Gheysens when the former wanted to buy 30 hectares of farmland extra around his estate and the latter instead bought up all that land around Ide's estate pretty much to spite him. Jan Coucke otoh got into a spat with with Gheysens when he had bought up a apartment block toghether with a bussiness associate for renovation and the latter demanded a 50% share of the cake when it was revealed that he owned 2 appartments in the block. So Mark Coucke and Jonas Ide who are friends decided to buy up RSC Anderlecht under the nose of Gheysens just to get back at him, apparently they even had a another bussiness associate spy among the negotiations of Gheysens by presenting himself as a interrested co-investor, all the while constantly phoning trough information to Mark Coucke.
As a sidenote, Gheysens club Royal Antwerp FC is in a partnership with Manchester United.
http://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20171222_0...hoe-alles-begon-met-een-ruzie-over-deze-hoeve
http://derijkstebelgen.be/nieuws/de-vijanden-van-paul-gheysens-deel-ii/
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20171222_03257202
One might wonder where the logic is in that, when a owner basicly changes of club and is forced to sell his old club likely not at a premium price? The answer is that it's pretty much all the result of petty personal vendetta's among Belgian billionare Entrepeneurs. There were several candidate's to buy RSC Anderlecht, but the main candidate was Paul Gheysens who is owner of Royal Antwerp FC (also a Belgium 1st class team) and who wanted to buy RSC for his sons. But now, to the surprise of everyone, RSC has been bought up by Mark Coucke and his bussiness associate Jonas Ide. Jonas Ide got into a spat with Gheysens when the former wanted to buy 30 hectares of farmland extra around his estate and the latter instead bought up all that land around Ide's estate pretty much to spite him. Jan Coucke otoh got into a spat with with Gheysens when he had bought up a apartment block toghether with a bussiness associate for renovation and the latter demanded a 50% share of the cake when it was revealed that he owned 2 appartments in the block. So Mark Coucke and Jonas Ide who are friends decided to buy up RSC Anderlecht under the nose of Gheysens just to get back at him, apparently they even had a another bussiness associate spy among the negotiations of Gheysens by presenting himself as a interrested co-investor, all the while constantly phoning trough information to Mark Coucke.
As a sidenote, Gheysens club Royal Antwerp FC is in a partnership with Manchester United.
http://www.gva.be/cnt/dmf20171222_0...hoe-alles-begon-met-een-ruzie-over-deze-hoeve
http://derijkstebelgen.be/nieuws/de-vijanden-van-paul-gheysens-deel-ii/
http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20171222_03257202
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