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Paul Waine

Presumably to address the anomaly between penalties during the game (rebounds allowed) and penalties in a shoot out (rebounds not allowed) And the anomaly is what? Penalties during the game, the game is still being played: player shoots, keeper get's hand to the ball and it bounces back of the post...

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Interesting article by Martin Samuel in the Times today. Posting it here because it addresses football, football finances, all the new club owners and all the new football competitions. Football will always be the 90 minutes — it will rise above the noise Donald Trump giving Club World Cup trophy to...

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not if funds are transferred via inter company loans in the way we have seen previously - it is key that that RCD Espanyol now fall under Velocity Sports Ltd (Jersey) the entity that wholly owns the shareholding in Velocity Capital (UK) Limited the entity that owns 82.7% of Burnley FC Holdings Limi...

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No one appears to have asked the most important question. Are we now all fans of Espanyol? Will we go to watch Espanyol when we are in Spain for our holidays? Perhaps, we will also plan weekends in Barcelona to take in a game. Will we be able to get tickets for some of Espanyol's big home games, Rea...

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What I didn't say here, but remains relevant is that it appears that either: - Morgan Edwards and John Dewey are no longer part of ALK Capital LLC or, and this wouldn't be anywhere close to the first time - the detail offered on the club website is not fully factually correct if it is the latter - ...

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this feels topical - and a lesson that very few seem to realise, including the current owners at our club I would argue, who went against almost everything stated here when they arrived as even Sean Dyche acknowledged in the recent 'From the Bee Hole End' podcast from the Gameplayer blog of Jordan ...

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It has been public knowledge for a while that the deal is similarly constructed to the one used to takeover our club Hi CP, I'm curious about your words. What exactly has been "public knowledge for a while?" The deal has only been confirmed today. Has there been any previous public announcement on ...

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Congratulations Alan Pace and team on reaching agreement with the shareholders of Espanyol and adding the Spanish club to ALK/VSP group. It's good to know that the investors in ALK/VSP support what has been achieved so far with Burnley Football Club, and that you have your investors support to expan...

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He guys, If you don't all stop guessing... Father Christmas might not come.

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Guys, this isn't "spam" it's spelt scam. The world is full of people out to scam other people. In the 1980s/90s it used to be low volume, letters mailed with the hope that someone would be fooled, perhaps with 10% pay out from aiding the scammed to move a lot of money from an otherwise dormant bank ...

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Your Essex boys had a good day that day. My 65s team are still wondering how we didn't beat your 65s! The only goal we conceded all day! Hi mik, my team were Surrey 70s. We beat Gtr Manchester 2-0 in the final. Surrey 65s came 3rd. I don't recall their results. Did you find out why Birmingham 70s w...

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Just chillin with a pint and this game is on the big screen, the one thing that stands out is the pitch looks massive. I can't help but think that if the pitch is reduced in size a bit, it would make it a much better game for the players. This isn't a slant on the women's game, it's just that given...

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Thanks for doing a search Paul, much appreciated. Maybe not then, for some reason I thought Micheal Dell was part of the LDS but he’s not so maybe that was the guy running MSD at the time of the purchase. Anyway, the report I read said they’re connected to “100’s” of family offices so who knows? Fo...

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That was my take from a brief bit of research. I’d be most interested to know if the Dell family were one of those ‘family offices’. I doubt Dell family are connected with Eccles family and Cynosure. There's nothing showing up on "search" that connects the two. Eccles family converted to Church of ...

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Not sure who told you that but I've seen plenty of late filing penalties and even prosecutions of directors for late filing of accounts before accounts have been filed. The main issue with the fines is that they are pretty small in the scheme of things. A few years ago I was fined £100 by Companies...

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WINDOW WATCH Kyle Walker close to signing two-year deal with Burnley The 35-year-old defender is set to join former team-mate Scott Parker at Burnley in a free transfer, though bonuses could be worth up to £5m for Manchester City Peter Rutzler | Martin Hardy, Northern Sports Correspondent, Friday Ju...

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I don't get why they invest but as you'll know there are LOTS of folks in America that can find 200 million down the back of their sofa and not miss it one bit. I suspect minimum investment is of the order of $5 million or $10 million per individual (or family). So far as I understand, none will be...

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Interesting Paul. So not ALK Capital LLP or whatever the top entity is? Does Velocity Sports Partnership even exist in our structure? If not I assume it’s a separate acquisition? Hi New, there was a typo in my post. I should have typed "Velocity Sports Partners" not ""Partnership." If we go back to...

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Yes, UK and US owned 2 billion dollar tech company but I have nothing to do with them other than they look to grow businesses by investing in future technologies like SAAS (in the past) or AI currently because that's how you raise the value of your products and compete in the marketplace.. As I thi...

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Catalan News: "Sale of RCD Espanyol for €200m is almost ready. Media reports cite Alan Pace's investment fund Velocity Sports Partnership is behind the acquisition. A little more info in this report in Sport Witness, 2nd July Burnley owner Alan Pace is now finalising €200m club deal Burnley owner A...

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Catalan News: "Sale of RCD Espanyol for €200m is almost ready.

Media reports cite Alan Pace's investment fund Velocity Sports Partnership is behind the acquisition.

Paul Waine

Watched Live Aid on tv. Just for One Day musical is worth seeing if you get the chance.

Paul Waine

I could have told you some differences between English and German football as a kid just from having watched a bit of both. It's not a particularly complicated or controversial question for a professional footballer to have to contend with, although I appreciate he's not answering in his native lan...

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Agreed. It basically consists of: How excited are you to be here? How excited are you about the Premier League? How excited are you about playing for Scott Parker? How excited were you to make your professional debut? How excited are you about playing with the current squad? Just off the top of my ...

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All the years that Burnley have been successful when I've been a supporter (mid-1960s onwards) I've been aware that BFC is a feeder club to clubs that can pay higher wages to Burnley's better players. I'm sure we are all aware of this, even though we may not apply the "feeder club" description to th...

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In what respect will it change do you think? Are the shares an equal split for all the employees or are those higher up given more of the split? I have a meeting with an independent accounting company in July to get the ball rolling at my place but could do with knowing what questions to ask beyond...

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MODs: Can we merge this thread with the Bloomberg article. They are both about the same subject, ALK raising $X millions to buy Espanyol.

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MODs: Suggest this thread is merged with Pace/ALK set to buy Espanyol? thread.

Paul Waine

Thanks but shouldn’t they have lined up investors with £110m first and maybe even more to help pay back loans they charge to BFC accounts? If the ALK investors feel that that is what needs to happen it would very likely happen. On the other hand, it's probably not the best way to allocate new inves...

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Spike wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 19, 2025 8:36 pm
The Loan Arranger rides again

The loan arranger is going nowhere. ALK is seeking new equity investors. This is good for BFC. New investors will be investors in ALK and benefit from success and opportunities of both BFC and Espanyol.

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Corway wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 19, 2025 6:34 pm
If they use our clubs assets as security for any loan and we get relegated we could be stuffed.

ALK is seeking new equity investors, not adding to loans. Spanish law does allow leveraged purchases - according to reports - so, this is not about more borrowing.

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Guessing this is just to buy Espanyol so no benefit for us, unfortunately. Benefit to BFC is that ALK investor base will be larger. Hard to say how much larger because we don't know how much has already been paid into ALK by investors. Investors will be attracted by opportunities/successes of both ...

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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Thu Jun 19, 2025 5:56 pm
not being funny, but what do they think they can achieve with only 150 million

It's roughly the amount needed to buy Espanyol.

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aggi wrote: ↑
Fri Jun 13, 2025 11:30 am
The main thing I've taken from this is that Espanyol are owned by Rastar which is one of the biggest toy car manufacturers in the world. Seems very random.

I'm guessing when Rastar bought Espanyol, 2015/16, there were lots of Chinese firms buying football clubs in Europe.

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Tiempos emocionantes - as Trent Alexander-Arnold might say.

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Loved that show and he was a major reason why it felt lovely when you watched it. I always wanted to pop in for a beer with Norm. I first visited Boston getting on 30 years ago. Visited the "Cheers" bar - really just the steps leading down to the entrance door - for a beer. Bought the Cheers t-shir...

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Do you still get rapid wingers in walking football? There are always a few who move around quicker than others. A good ref will always call them out - a free kick to the opposition for "not walking." Many competitions have the rule that 4 "not walking" offences by a team results in a penalty being ...

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The bar (which also has coffee) and, possibly, some food will be open at Coleshill on the 16th. I haven't had fixtures for my 65s yet but I suspect we will be in the morning games. 65s provisional times: 12:30 to 13:55. Presentation 14:15. As I said schedule marked as all times provisional "and may...

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It was good to see you. Glad I had my Burnley shirt on so you could recognise me ;) . Shame that we both lost in the quarter-finals, but those 10 minute games were awful. I've never been to a tournament with games less than 15 minutes before, most seem to be 2x12 minutes or 1x20. And I expected far...

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Yes, I'll be there. That is our 'home' league venue where we play matches every fortnight on Wednesday lunchtime. Very accessible from J4 of the M6. Last year I only had 3 weeks before the Redditch national finals so I only chose players I knew! This year I have already held my 1st trial session an...

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That's exactly what I mean. Modernity over tradition. However, football has to move forward, but it's not necessarily a good thing to become a commercial beast rather than an institution, which no new stadium will ever become. We all grow older. How many now remember the maximum wage? In a few year...

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What’s the first and second worth, our resident Evertonian? Not that it really matters, going from the famous Goodison Park to a shiny bowl and renaming it after a tiny law firm is grim whatever pounds it’s bringing in. Hi New, Hill Dickinson is not a tiny law firm. 200 partners, 1,000 staff. As al...

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Hi Paul I think it was Wittgenstein who said that language is understood in the context it is used and everyone on here knows what is meant by firesale. Hi Pete, did you notice that there are 3 other posts on this page of this thread where the posters have said many of the posters on here who use t...

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CP - I may have asked this before and apologies if I’ve forgotten your response, but did you ever track the £170m+ back through MG and JB’s company accounts? I.e. are we certain all monies that left the club and now owed back to the club reached their respective companies? That's an interesting que...

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I think I must have been away when these came out and they have completely passed me by. As predicted everything is still pretty much going in the wrong direction. The wage bill is staggering given it took us several years to get to that level under Dyche. Even if you blame PL inflation that in its...

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Without the context I have no idea whether he's suggesting the guy that owns Burnley (and let's be honest, if he's referring to "the guy that owns Burnley" it's pretty clear he has little idea of the ownership structure) hasn't got money or prefers not to invest it. I know you're one of those that ...

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The comments don't show up for me but that's a very vague comment to support "ALK have plenty of money." Particularly as one of the answers to that question is "the guy that owns Burnley hasn’t got money" Given that he was presenting Tresor as a Championship signing with none of the nuance of him b...

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aggi wrote: ↑
Fri May 16, 2025 2:34 pm
I can't see anything about ALK on that link.

Martin Samuel typed "You think the guy that owns Burnley hasn’t got money..." in the comments.

Yes, he didn't mention ALK. See my reply to Big Vinny K.

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With all due respect Paul how on earth would Martin Samuel have a clue whether ALK have plenty of money ? Tbh I cannot imagine that he would have a clue who or what ALK are or where to start on our ownership structure. And even on the small chance he is correct having lots of money and making that ...

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Really? Any link to that? Martin Samuel's comment was "You think the guy that owns Burnley hasn’t got money; or that he prefers not to invest it as Marinakis did?" The article was headed: Relegation clauses are killing hopes of promoted clubs Putting punitive relegation clauses into players’ contra...

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