From the BBC gossip Hmmmm...

[Footstomper]

Birmingham chairman David Gold is plotting a £40m buy-out of West Ham if the club fail in the Championship play-off final. (Express)

[blainehammer]

That would still be the booby prize as far as I am concerned.

[Sxboy66]

Also strong rumours that Cubic Expression (John Magnier and J.P. McManus) have tabled a similar bid having made a cool £90 Million (c.$170 Million) profit from selling their ManUre shares to that Glazier gnome. Various sources, believed reliable. It's thought likely that Tabor is involved with them.



If we go up I'd sacrifice my dream of getting rid of the parasite Brown for a while. :confused:

If Brown gets bought out I'd sacrifice my dream of going up. :confused:

Ideal scenario, we go up AND Brown sells. :)

[Footstomper]

Ideal scenario, we go up AND Brown sells. :)
Sounds good to me!

[panicfc]

let it be.

[El Toro]

Ideal scenario, we go up AND Brown sells. :)

Either way we should get a good result this season. Either we will be in th PL or rid of Brown. And ideally....both!

[pething101]

Maybe I have missed out on something but can someone point to me where it is definite that Brown will sell if we don't go up this season?

If it is just pure hopefull conjecture ...

I hope we get it done on Monday and get the result. That is the only thing that our lads can control. All that other stuff seems like conjecture and speculation.

[(TxT)]

According to Soccernet all it is is rumors.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinenews?id=334163&cc=5901

Chairman David Gold has squashed speculation that he is about to quit Birmingham City and spearhead a £40million takeover bid for West Ham.

Gold confirmed he has been approached by a consortium who want to take control of the Hammers and bring an end to the Terry Brown regime.

But Gold, a former shareholder at Upton Park along with Blues co-owner David Sullivan, is adamant his loyalties lie with Steve Bruce's side.

Gold told the Birmingham Evening Mail: 'The truth of the matter is that I have never, ever said that I am going anywhere else.

Gold, his brother Ralph and Sullivan sold their shares in the Hammers at the start of the 1990s after they were not allowed a seat on the board, before taking over Birmingham and rescuing them from oblivion.

Gold said: 'People often come up to me and say 'come and solve our problem at West Ham'. Maybe they should have thought about that 15 years ago!'

[LAIrons]

I just read that article TxT and its an absolute heart breaker.Gold really seems to be the business,you know the complete opposite to Brown the Impaler.I wonder what would surface if we stopped tracking our young stars that left us and focused on men of wealth that have courted the Hammers but have left disenchanted by Brown and his puppeteers.

[hammer_scout51]

I just hope that Brown does the right thing and gives someone else a chance of running our club. Over the years he has been in charge he has proved time and again he is not up to the job. Cubic would be my bet and i have been told that there is a bid on the table. Brown though seems to want more for himself to walk than has been offered. His greed has been our problem for a number of years. Lets hope we go up and he goes. A double joy.

The reason Brown would have problems if we don't go up is our payments from the EPL cease this year. Consequently we still have problems keeping the bank happy. We would get money for several players but again that is just a band aid solution.

BROWN OUT.

[TheNewOrleansHammer]

Cubic would be my bet and i have been told that there is a bid on the table.


Where d'ya here that one? It would be nice, I'm sure they would love to buy a club and have them finnish higher than The Manchester Buccaneers.