03 Dec 2013 09:35:06
Just got back from china on a business trip and in the airport there's a paper called West china city news and in the middle page 18 of the sport bit (incase you wanna check) it says that a company called Gsk was at the Blackpool game and are going to the game tonight and they will be in charge by January the deal is Worth £15 million and they want a manager with premier league experience. Alan curbusley

1.) 03 Dec 2013
Glaxo smith klyne

2.) 03 Dec 2013
Nope can't find anything on the web, can't even any reference to the paper let alone a link between GSK and us.

3.) 03 Dec 2013
Aren't GSK a pharmaceutical company, can't see how owning a football club fits with that other than they have a club with 20,000 fans who have been feeling sick for 20 years! NB

4.) 03 Dec 2013
Dont care who the next manager is as long as he can get us out of this mess we are just going backwards warnock will do for me

5.) 03 Dec 2013
Why warnock he's to old now

6.) 03 Dec 2013
The paper is real.

"The Chengdu-based West China City News is Sichuan Province's most-read newspaper with circulation of 1. 15 million. Established on New Year's Day, 1995, the City News is the largest of 12 newspapers published by the Sichuan Daily Newspaper Group. The commercial paper is a cash cow, bringing in 1. 2 billion yuan in advertising revenue in 2010 with the third fastest-growing ad sales of any Chinese newspaper, according to the paper's website. An electronic version of the paper is available online. "

As for the GSK link, can't find that at all online but I don't read Mandarin. Is this really the Sammy Yu consortium again?

7.) 03 Dec 2013
Thought you'd been quiet today ponty, obviously studying Chinese tabloids! I refer to my earlier post about gsk so would seriously question the strength of this rumour, not disputing the integrity of the original poster though. Heard any more speculation? Someone at eork told me that the Crawley manager resigned last night, haven't had chance to verify. NB

8.) 03 Dec 2013
Shanghai world financial center = swfc

9.) 03 Dec 2013
I've just received West China City Newspaper from the last 4 days (30th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd) and there isn't any mention of this in any of them.

10.) 03 Dec 2013
Not a rumour just a gut feeling it will be Warnock to the end of the season.

11.) 03 Dec 2013
Yeah Steve Coppell quit as DoF at Crawley last night, they then moved to install John Gregory as manager today (remember him?)

12.) 03 Dec 2013
I asked at the shop for the West China Newspaper and was shocked to hear that they didn't stock it. Shocking.

13.) 03 Dec 2013
You read Mandarin then SensibleOwl? Cause I translated the online version and it has a copy of the paper as PDF format and it is in Mandarin.

14.) 03 Dec 2013
Steve coppell wouldn't be a bad appointment, plenty of experience inthis division. NB

15.) 03 Dec 2013
Yes, I can speak and read Mandarin, Ponty. X

16.) 04 Dec 2013
Are you part of the far eastern consortium? ;)

17.) 04 Dec 2013
I wish, haha! But no, I learned Mandarin a few years ago, when I was coaching. x

18.) 04 Dec 2013
Ooh have we worked together? Ever worked in Hong Kong?

19.) 04 Dec 2013
If the deals 15m that's 10m short of MM claimed investment making allowance for 5m pa losses.

What exactly is he selling? After such a trans action who owns the ground, the training facilities? Your season ticket?

20.) 04 Dec 2013
No Ponty, I worked as a coach for Shenhua Reserves, in Shanghai. I left a few months before Anelka joined, wish I had stayed there to see that, and my good friend Ian Walker when he came along. X

21.) 05 Dec 2013
I was at Sun Hei briefly with the Under 21's a long while ago, very briefly haha.

22.) 05 Dec 2013
What a load of rubbish!!! And £15m...

Try harder next time!

23.) 05 Dec 2013
Sammy Yu team I have on good authority culd not prduce finance required so will not be them if true.

24.) 05 Dec 2013
I agree SensibleOwl, the figure is way short of what MM would demand.

25.) 06 Dec 2013
I know right Ponty? And Sun Hei? In the Hong Kong league? That's not proper football! Haha!

26.) 07 Dec 2013
Haha I said it was with the under 21's a long time ago, I never said which under 21's haha.

27.) 07 Dec 2013
You said you were with Sun Hei, so you can't escape that Ponty! Hong Kong league = English 8-10 year old leagues. Haha.

28.) 09 Dec 2013
Well, sorry it took so long to reply, I forgot all about the thread. But you're wrong on so many counts. Fistly the Hong Kong league is a mens league, not a childrens league, secondly I said I was there briefly many years ago with the under 21's not that I was playing or coaching for the club, thirdly because when I said under 21's I meant the national team under 21's which trained there when the national team played a friendly against the club.

But erm, yeah think what you want :/