American owners.....urgh.....the club will be a franchise and the fans will be customers.......Not something I could stomach to be honest. If it is Americans, I'll be stepping off planet Notts County for a while. Time to go to a distant planet where Americans haven't gone yet, I was thinking Berwick Rangers would be ideal.....

Genuine question. Have American owners been a good thing anywhere?

One slight bonus, they're much less likely to be crooks than Russians, Italians and people from the Far East judging on Pompey, Leeds, Brum etc. Obviously there are exceptions to this, e.g. Leicester.

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24 minutes ago, Dripsey3 said:

American owners.....urgh.....the club will be a franchise and the fans will be customers.......Not something I could stomach to be honest. If it is Americans, I'll be stepping off planet Notts County for a while. Time to go to a distant planet where Americans haven't gone yet, I was thinking Berwick Rangers would be ideal.....

Don't think we can jump to that analysis on the basis of them being American. If they are yanks, willing to give them a chance first. 

2 hours ago, Super_Danny_Allsopp said:

I originally had sceptical, but it gave me a red line, so changed it. 

I blame @notts-joe's software. 

Dude that's your browsers fault, download the English language directory and set it as your default afterwards. *swiftly pointing back towards you - tut tut...

Money don't buy you love, we just need a fresh change and a new direction.

43 minutes ago, notts-joe said:

Dude that's your browsers fault, download the English language directory and set it as your default afterwards. *swiftly pointing back towards you - tut tut...
 

I'm at work, so it's either Deutsch or US English. Unfortunately the IT gestapo won't let me have UK English  

well Liverpool ain't doing to bad are they last time I checked they were American owned but who knows who it actually is

57 minutes ago, Modern Fan 1862 ???? said:

well Liverpool ain't doing to bad are they last time I checked they were American owned but who knows who it actually is

And Aston Villa are in dire straits. Americans don't understand the concept of English football. They don't understand that a team is deeply rooted within the community. They don't understand that football is not a commodity. Making them understand these concepts is difficult, but not impossible. If it is to be Americans, they need to adapt to the club, not the other way around. 

If it is Americans, let's just pray it isn't Albert Scardino, back to have another crack at owning us!

I wouldn't say that Liverpool are doing that great and neither are Man Utd, nor Villa under American ownership.

Let's just hope that if it is, then they appoint some very experienced British people into the day to day running of the club and all they do is watch the games and sign the cheques!

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8 hours ago, Dripsey3 said:

And Aston Villa are in dire straits. Americans don't understand the concept of English football. They don't understand that a team is deeply rooted within the community. They don't understand that football is not a commodity. Making them understand these concepts is difficult, but not impossible. If it is to be Americans, they need to adapt to the club, not the other way around. 

Aston villa have always been in dire states under Doug Ellis they was never pullin up any trees.

And my mates been a villa season ticket holder all his life and he said before randy leaner came along they were always on a tight rope since Oniel left.

But until we know who it actually is 100% we can't judge could be a Chinese group for all we know unfortunate we can't say all Americans are crap owners they may be a exception who knows 

I don't think we can say all that much, at least until we know who the buyer is and of course see what they do. I'm hoping everything is positive, though it may take time for us to move forward. Any new owner should be given time and judged after they have started sorting out everything which is required.

il make a consortium of me and @notts-joe  @tarquinbeech @Dripsey3 @Northants Pieand make a offer and keep cooper on a perm deal takeover sorted 

It's a UK hedgefund or an Asian consortium. Well a Hedgefund's alleged illegalities have effectively killed Coventry.

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AH confirms on twitter that he is NOT buying Notts........it seems that he is pursuing other business purchases.

Ray tweets that a deal is "close" between the hedge fund and Asian consortium.

Ray Trew ‏@69RT 4h4 hours ago

Both have met my asking price and now its a race to the finish line. I expect a announcement will be forthcoming in days rather than weeks

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  Ray Trew ‏@69RT 4h4 hours ago

  One of the Buyers is a UK Hedgefund and the other is a large Corporation from Asia.

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  Ray Trew ‏@69RT 4h4 hours ago

  To set the record straight........there are two serious buyers left in the hunt. All other buyers have been discarded.

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  Ray Trew ‏@69RT 4h4 hours ago

  phoenix has risen from the ashes after a 3 year exile to address some of the nonsense thats being banded about on here and other forums

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  Ray Trew ‏@69RT 4h4 hours ago

  Some peoples comments on this platform are quite bizarre in the extreme

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So no Americans. That's a relief. A hedge fund wouldn't be ideal. So that leaves the large Asian corporation.