Melbourne City FC Thread

[paska]

Read something the other day about victory being bought out by that multi club American company run by a convicted coke dealer

Who?

 

[LongsightM13]

Who?

Josh Wander

Collective goals: multi-club ownership is changing world football’s landscape | Hertha Berlin | The Guardian

The new Hertha Berlin investors, 777 Partners, are one of many groups putting money into multiple clubs around the world

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Tbilisi]

Josh Wander

Collective goals: multi-club ownership is changing world football’s landscape | Hertha Berlin | The Guardian

The new Hertha Berlin investors, 777 Partners, are one of many groups putting money into multiple clubs around the world

amp.theguardian.com

How have they got a 64% stake in Hertha with 50 plus 1 rule?

 

[heartman]

Hertha Berlin majority stake sold to 777 Partners as club seeks financial and Bundesliga stability - Inside World Football

March 14 – Miami-based private equity firm 777 Partners has bought a 64.7% majority stake in Hertha Berlin, buying the shares of disaffected owner Lars Windhorst, held by his Peil Investment group. Windhorst had invested €374 million ($400 million) since 2019 on turning Hertha into a “big city...

www.insideworldfootball.com

This explains 50 plus rule.

 

[LongsightM13]

Hertha Berlin majority stake sold to 777 Partners as club seeks financial and Bundesliga stability - Inside World Football

March 14 – Miami-based private equity firm 777 Partners has bought a 64.7% majority stake in Hertha Berlin, buying the shares of disaffected owner Lars Windhorst, held by his Peil Investment group. Windhorst had invested €374 million ($400 million) since 2019 on turning Hertha into a “big city...

www.insideworldfootball.com

This explains 50 plus rule.

So they can actually be owned over 50+1 but not control the voting rights?
Kind of makes it all a bit of a pose imo

 

[LongsightM13]

777 have been heavily linked with a takeover or at least a significant investment in Everton, but hard to see how a convicted Class A drug dealer could ever pass even our shit fit and proper test

 

[Vienna_70]

777 have been heavily linked with a takeover or at least a significant investment in Everton, but hard to see how a convicted Class A drug dealer could ever pass even our shit fit and proper test

Never put anything past the idiots, who run our game.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Last game of the league season today 10.45 ko for us in the UK.

I assume TV will show the trophy presentation at the end.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Came from behind twice to win 3-2.

 

[decmancity]