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BIH
Look what you could have won
Lifelong Birmingham City fan Darryl Eales became chairman of Oxford United over the weekend having taken a stake in the club of between 30 and 50%. This morning’s Birmingham Mail has the story about Eales having previously been in negotiation to buy Blues over the past year.
Tags: BIH, Darryl Eales, Peter Pannu
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points | 114 Comments »
Same As It Ever Was
Birmingham City players report back for their first day of pre-season training this morning. It’ll be the first chance for the nine new signings made over the past few weeks to come together with the rest of the squad as the team shapes up for the new campaign.
Tags: BIH, Stasis, The Takeover
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points | 35 Comments »
“Unbelievably Complicated”
It’s now one week since the self-imposed deadline of three weeks due diligence has elapsed, and Birmingham City seem no closer to having new investment. Although there can be announcements on the HKSE until 11pm HKT (4pm BST), it does seem unlikely that there will be any major announcement today as there has been no halt called on trading of shares.
Tags: BIH, Carson Yeung, Jeremy Wray, Peter Day, SMW
Posted in Birmingham City, News, Talking Points | 87 Comments »
Parallel Universe
Rumours have circulated in the last day that Blackpool manager Jose Riga has walked out of the Bloomfield Road club only a week or so after taking the job.
Tags: BIH, Blackpool FC, Lee Clark, The Championship
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points | 79 Comments »
Guarded Optimism
Peter Day of the Soccer Management Worldwide consortium told the Birmingham Mail last night that they were “ready to do the deal” to buy a stake in the club. However, there is a strong indication from Hong Kong that there may be added complications to the deal due to the HKSE apparently making preliminary enquiries about various aspects of BIH’s corporate governance.
Tags: BIH, HKSE, Peter Day, SMW
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points | 233 Comments »
Day “ready to do the deal”; BIH may not have approval
Soccer Management Worldwide have tonight insisted that they have the wherewithal to complete their purchase of a stake in Birmingham City. Peter Day, former deputy managing director of Birmingham City told the Birmingham Mail tonight that they “we’re ready to do the deal , as and when, subject to the price being agreed.”
Tags: BIH, HKSE, Jeremy Wray, Peter Day
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points | 1 Comment »
Rumours of HKSE Investigation Into BIH Over Delayed Accounts.
Sources from Hong Kong indicate that Birmingham International Holdings have been asked to answer questions surrounding the prolonged audit for their 2011 accounts. The accounts in question were finally released a year and a half late amid controversy over a consultancy agreement between Carson Yeung and Peter Pannu.
Tags: Asia Rays, BDO, BIH, Carson Yeung, HKSE, Peter Pannu
Posted in Birmingham City, Finances in Football | No Comments »
Two Weeks In
Today marks two weeks since (according to Jeremy Wray at least) SMW were told that they were the preferred bidder for purchasing a stake in Birmingham City FC. As yet there has been no announcement as to what is going to happen and life at St Andrew’s has continued as normal with the club being linked with former striker Wes Thomas.
Tags: BCFC2014, BIH, Gavin Sheehan, Hayden Mullins, SMW, The Takeover, Wes Thomas
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points | 74 Comments »
Preferred Bidders
Since news broke of Birmingham International Holdings receiving an “indicative, non-binding offer” for 24% of Birmingham City PLC there has been a lot of talk about how long the whole sale process will take. We’ve seen Jeremy Wray of Soccer Management Worldwide talk about how is group have a three week exclusivity period and the hot question is “what’s next?”
Tags: BIH, HKSE, SMW, The Takeover
Posted in Birmingham City, Finances in Football | 30 Comments »
Joining Forces
Birmingham City bidders Soccer Management Worldwide have been in contact with two other British-based consortiums to try to build a stronger group to take control of the club.
Tags: BIH, Paul Richardson, Pavareco Management, Richard Caplan, SMW, The Takeover
Posted in Birmingham City, News | 137 Comments »