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Tycoon in secret talks with A-League

Ray Gatt
February 20, 2012 12:00AM

A PROMINENT eastern suburbs-based businessman has been approached by Football Federation Australia to head a high-powered consortium with the aim of having a western Sydney franchise up and running by next season.

The Australian understands the businessman, who has widespread interests in Sydney's west where he employs more than 5000 people, has attended a number of meetings, the latest on Friday when he held discussions with Gay Leagueboss Lyall Gorman.

He is believed to have been offered the chairman's role and is interested. He has told FFA he will give it an answer by the end of the week.

FFA chairman Frank Lowy, a close friend of the businessman and his family, has been vigorously pursuing him to become involved in the franchise for at least 12 months.

FFA has already handed the man they believe can get western Sydney up and running in time a business model, though, there are suggestions it was not received with a great deal of enthusiasm and may need a lot of tweaking, if not major surgery.

m.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/tycoon-in-secret-talks-with-a-league/story-fn63e0vj-1226275186556

[paoktzi]

Ye more hakoa buddies the owners of primo lol

[mini]

Feb 20, 2012 8:21:10 GMT 10 paoktzi said:

Ye more hakoa buddies the owners of primo lol

the irony that people jumped off the HAKOA bandwagon to wait for a west sydney bandwagon, for the west sydney franchise just to be an extension of HAKOA ;D ;D ;D ;D ffs, this league is going to shit, and I'm loving every bit of it.

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Palmer has promised legal action against the FFA if they try to take his license off him.

Gay Leagueset to revoke licence of Gold Coast United owner Clive Palmer

After Palmer derided the sport in a newspaper interview yesterday, he will be presented with an ultimatum to either stump up enough capital to guarantee the club's future for two years under a new, arm's-length management, or have Gold Coast's licence revoked at the end of the season.

With the prospect of Palmer choosing the first option regarded as inconceivable, a bitter and expensive legal row is brewing as furious FFA chairman Frank Lowy demands his exit.

Although soccer fans were left frustrated at the time it took Football Federation Australia to respond to Palmer's comments yesterday, it was made clear that he was no longer welcome in the game.

Capping a week in which Palmer had suspended his own coach and made a 17-year-old debutant captain, Palmer said: "I don't even like the game. I think it's a hopeless game. Rugby league's a much better game."
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Calling the Gay League"hopeless", Palmer warned he might sue in the event FFA tried to revoke his licence.

GOLD COAST COACH MIRON BLEIBERG HAS QUIT THE CLUB OVER HIS FRUSTRATIONS WITH PALMER

Nonetheless that is what will happen, barring a startling volte-face from a billionaire who has reduced United's operating budget to almost nothing.

Yesterday afternoon FFA CEO Ben Buckley described Palmer's rant as "out of order" and "a lack of respect", adding: "The comments are offensive to the players, coaches, administrators and volunteers who are the life and soul of Australian football.

"I remind Clive that as a chairman and owner of a club, he has obligations to the competition, his fellow club chairmen and investors in the other nine clubs, and to the game itself."

Though that was seen as a relatively mild response, privately Lowy was said to feel humiliated by Palmer's conduct and ready to face him down. A charge of bringing the game into disrepute seems unlikely on pragmatic grounds, and Gold Coast will be allowed to limp to the end of the season.

By that stage it is almost certain Palmer will be told that he has breached his licence on a number of grounds, including the refusal to pay two players, Peter Perchtold and Robson, the money they were awarded by an independent arbiter.

Bizarrely that arbiter is among a host of people and companies facing legal action from Palmer, whose disdain for soccer's governing body is such that an expensive and drawn out battle over his licence is highly conceivable.

Palmer could also walk away now, though it's believed every club owner has to deposit a bond with the FFA that would be enough to cover the players' and staff salaries until the end of the season.

With no prospect of a west Sydney Gay Leagueteam being ready for next season to take Gold Coast's place, a nine-team competition seems certain especially as FFA's TV deal with Fox Sports guarantees only an eight-team competition.

But that prospect is highly damaging to the negotiations for a new TV deal now underway, with Lowy having predicted in November that it would be signed off within six months.

www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/soccer/a-league-set-to-revoke-licence-of-gold-coast-united-owner-clive-palmer/story-e6frey4r-1226275219190

[levendara]

Feb 20, 2012 8:20:25 GMT 10 mini said:

Tycoon in secret talks with A-League

Ray Gatt
February 20, 2012 12:00AM

A PROMINENT eastern suburbs-based businessman has been approached by Football Federation Australia to head a high-powered consortium with the aim of having a western Sydney franchise up and running by next season.

The Australian understands the businessman, who has widespread interests in Sydney's west where he employs more than 5000 people, has attended a number of meetings, the latest on Friday when he held discussions with Gay Leagueboss Lyall Gorman.

He is believed to have been offered the chairman's role and is interested. He has told FFA he will give it an answer by the end of the week.

FFA chairman Frank Lowy, a close friend of the businessman and his family, has been vigorously pursuing him to become involved in the franchise for at least 12 months.

FFA has already handed the man they believe can get western Sydney up and running in time a business model, though, there are suggestions it was not received with a great deal of enthusiasm and may need a lot of tweaking, if not major surgery.

m.theaustralian.com.au/news/sport/tycoon-in-secret-talks-with-a-league/story-fn63e0vj-1226275186556

Could they be talking about Nick Politis by any chance?

Eastern Suburbs businessman, owns car dealerships in the west of Sydney

[mini]

Apparently the bloke who owns Primo

[paoktzi]

Primo owners are like one with lowy family they share the same religion

[mini]

thought they were italian?

[paoktzi]

nah jews

[rigas]

Apparently Buckley seen at Belmore this afternoon. Dont know if its BS or not!!!!!

[sweeper]

I believe Olympic would pull in good crowds.
The club has a lot of silent supporters who would come out of the woodwork and go to the games.
And don't forget our secrete weapon " Andreas "
Imagine him on national television doing his thing.

[levendara]

His already been on national TV havent you seen that old clip from 'on the ball'

Rigas are you bullshitting or not

[aek210]

I can tell you Buckley visited Belmore a few months ago.

[paoktzi]

Feb 20, 2012 16:08:32 GMT 10 aek210 said:

I can tell you Buckley visited Belmore a few months ago.

i can confirm this

[anothermp]

Not to mention he admitted he is in constant discussions with Olympic to a group of Olympic fans at Doltone House