Another takeover rumour

[Geoff Parkstone]

A little more to the above. Samuelson was also involved in the Chinese takeover of Villa and I think also he was a board position there.

My take on this is that Obolonsky and Samuelson are the "kingmakers" via their Swiss company Mutual Trust International Limited, and that the Middle Eastern connection is the (perhaps gullible) money behind the deal, who has failed in attempts to take over Liverpool and Newcastle O and S have been involved behind the scenes in the Reading and Villa sales, the former of which was not good news for the Royals. When the Russo-Reading deal fell apart Samuelson launched another bid for Reading via an American hedge fund (sound familiar?) before Reading ended in Thai ownership. No doubt MTIL will be on a good finders fee (it was rumoured evidently on 40k a month for the proposed - and failed - second takeover at Reading)

Something just doesn't taste right, but if it does go through one hopes there is sibling rivalry with the pale blue Manks? Lets hope Mel doesn't forget to mention that the club no longer owns the ground