Red Lecter

As Sinffer said, there was also Gillet. However, it looks like Gilett was interested in ground sharing and would have been borrowing to buy. Although not transferring the debt to the club as the Galzers did with the Scum. If he was borrowing to buy, he would have been taking dividends out of the club to pay those debts back. However, DIC can pay for the stadium in cash and not expect a return other than using the club as a brand in the portfolio. By that I mean, they use us to publicise their other interests and their other interests to boost our visibility worldwide. That in turn means better sponsorship deals for us, no mortgage on a stadium which means we get to keep the extra revenue from 15k seats and all the additional corporate hospitality packages/deals. Equals bigger kitty for Rafa every year without going the way of Chelsea. So we could see Rafa getting an extra £20-25m year on year and at the same time the club is free of any debt whatsoever. I get the feeling that the "experts" are talking b******s and DIC will set out to make us the biggest club in world football, both in terms of success and image/brand/merchandising. That would reflect very well on the "Dubai" brand.

F*!*?!?!***!*!&!&%!$!>!?s

Eh? Won't give any info or Kraft isn't in the running?

Usually a good idea to know the facts, or in the absence of such facts to hand, do your research before you go knocking people.

I gather he's still working out what Rafa's trying to do....

Isn't there also the matter of our pitch being too small for European competitions? As far as I'm aware, we're under special dispensation from UEFA so that we can host European games. Don't know how long UEFA will allow this to continue.