City Football Group | Secure $650m loan facility for infrastructure projects (p 54)

[KS55]

This isn't good news - 10 % stake going to venture capitalists - all they care about is a return ! The Chinese deal made sense as there was a media company involved and the chance to increase and substantially grow the franchise using their expertise. There doesn't appear to be anything strategic about this alliance. Let's hope this doesn't become a growing trend or x years down the line it could be Glazer's like with football taking very much a back seat ....

No. They have paid a premium for their shares and indicated a ten year exit horizon. Serious investors not venous venture capitalists.

 

[cleavers]

Serious investors not venous venture capitalists.

Given the things they are involved in, its bordering on ridiculous (or desperate).

 

[KS55]

Given the things they are involved in, its bordering on ridiculous (or desperate).

Explain, please.

 

[cleavers]

Explain, please.

Not your post, the earlier one, either ridiculous because he knows nothing about Silver Lake, or desperate because he isn't a blue.

 

[Shaelumstash]

https://www.silverlake.com/Images/Uploads/docs/Silverlake1303180129572937.pdf
I should coco

I'm in the entertainment business and it's safe to say that the penny dropped big time with the news about Silver Lake. Wish you all could see the big picture because its mind blowing, the media doesn't understand the magnitude of this deal. I won't feed the enemy lurking here, but let me just say; CFG Ain't Nuttin Ta Fuck Wit.

How do you see it panning out, mate?

I’m by no means an expert in the industry, but I know enough to know Endeavor are the biggest cheese in terms of agencies and are owned by Silver Lake. I’m sure that could open up a world of possibilities, but don’t City have a relationship with their rivals CAA?

Also as soon as I saw the Oak View relationship, straight away I thought that opens up the possibility of the new arena being built under the City umbrella as opposed to a separate company renting land co-owned by City and the council.

If Oak View (via SilverLake) just spent £500m building an arena, that’s one thing. But if Oak View invest that £500m in to CFG in return for a 10% stake in the group, and the CFG use that £500m to build the arena, then surely that opens up a world of possibilities for City to increase their revenue exponentially, and it gives Silverlake and Oak View a foothold in other key markets like NY, China, Australia, possibly soon to be India?

I might have got the wrong end of the stick, but it’s surely no coincidence that Oak View are looking to build that arena on City owned land.

 

[paulchapo]

All this talk of City owned land reminds me of that rag who was refusing to move his business to try and hold us up.

 

[Semper aggressus]

Will this extra investment count towards our books to defeat ffp?

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Will this extra investment count towards our books to defeat ffp?

That depends on your definition of “our,” as the money goes to the holding company (CFG) not MCFC.

 

[TheThirdDeano]

I think as a fan base we’ve been thinking too small for what the sheik and his band of merry men have planned for football, not just us.
That’s why they hate us and the CFG so much, they know what it means for them and the future of the corrupt game they’re running now, and like a dying whale they lash out.
It’s so corrupt that the only way to fix it is to tear it all down. what we haven’t considered is how much their is to lose by just getting rid.
Instead build an alternative first get in before the corruption (or be the corruption instead)then destroy the old one. Quite smart really,

They are right, we will be the death of football. But we’ll also be the rebirth.

 

[manimanc]

This isn't good news - 10 % stake going to venture capitalists - all they care about is a return ! The Chinese deal made sense as there was a media company involved and the chance to increase and substantially grow the franchise using their expertise. There doesn't appear to be anything strategic about this alliance. Let's hope this doesn't become a growing trend or x years down the line it could be Glazer's like with football taking very much a back seat ....