hoppe Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 i was just wondering what some of the more bizarre take overs you had all witnessed were? i've seen a fair few random ones, like a multi billionaire taking over liverpool,chelsea (abramovich stopped investing ) and villa and then they can do whatever they want.... but have you seen it happen to lower teams? in my liverpool save, crystal palace got taken over after 6 season and spent absolutely obscene amounts. they spent 50m in 2 seasons buying my rejects alone. plus another 50m on other players. after about 4 years, i counted it all up and they spent 224m, received 18m!!! yet there financial status was secure?? then the same thing happened to reading! they went out and started spedning money man city would've been proud of! first transfer window they had they bought 3 players, one for about 16-17m, one for 20-22m, and one for 28.5mil! and they were all given stupid wages as the 28.5m player turned down me (i'd won the PL and CL 5 times on the bounce) for the money!!! so whats the weirdest take overs you've all seen?? p.s. apologies if this has been done already.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArsenalMetro Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 Happened with Darlington in mine. They were down in League 2 and got bought by a Thai tycoon, and made it to the Prem within 5 years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAF_85 Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 I seen it with Notts County, some dodgy foreigners bought them but left after a short while...oh wait, lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron1606 Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 I seen it with Notts County, some dodgy foreigners bought them but left after a short while...oh wait, lol Haha, not that there were any foreigners in reality.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryknow Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 I just realised Luis Figo took over Inter Milan...maybe not such a weird thing as he's on the board/committee but still strange too see. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud S Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 West Brom got taken over on mine and then didn't buy anyone in about 3 seasons lol. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoppe Posted May 26, 2010 Author Share Posted May 26, 2010 Cloud S, did they get some multi-millionaire or a tight git? as some people have said they got taken over and were given no money whatsoever??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud S Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 Not sure lol probably a tight git. They use to be a top 4 team on it but have now turned into a midtable team. There was also talk of Gary Neville taking over as manager after the takeover but that never happened and he retired from the game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackripper Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 newcastle got a tycoon take over on my save but hired rafa as manager Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sporadicsmiles Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 A newly promoted second division croatian team in a game with my lower league croatian databse got taken over by a tycoon. They promptly got promoted and replaced Dinamo as the best team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allies Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 I know this is not exactly what the thread is about, but I thought it would be interesting nonetheless. This is coming from my Chelsea save - myself, as Chelsea, was taken over by a business consortium. In Dec 2026 the following takeovers has happened (since the start of the game - July 2009 - up untill now) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EPL: Consortiums: Man Utd, Arsenal, West Brom, Aston Villa, QPR, Sheffield United, Portsmouth, Everton and Newcastle(twice actually). Fans trust: Reading. Tycoons: Liverpool, West Ham (as well as a consortium takeover earlier on), Sheffield Wednesday. Serie A: Consortiums: Udinese, Genoa, Juventus, Atlanta, Palermo, Ascoli, , Sampdoria. Fans trust: Tycoons: Reggina, Inter Milan, Brescia. newcastle got a tycoon take over on my save but hired rafa as manager What a way to ruin a great chance to add to a club's history... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Play Up Pompey! Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 On my save Reading got taken over by a tycoon in the first season. Five years later they have spent about £60 million on players but they are still in the Championship because they keep sacking their manager every three months. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudge7 Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 I'm sure I read on here about a guy who took over a BSS/BSN team and one of the teams down there had been taken over by a billionaire and were spending ridiculous amounts considering where they were. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CooCooKaJoo Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 Bury City and Worthing FC got Tycoon takeovers on my old save. Both promtly got many promotions but Bury ended up languishing in the Championship and When i stopped on the save Worthing (who started in the 8th Tier had had continuos league wins to League 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingken Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 on my liverpool save, man united got taken over by a jamaican tycoon and invested heavily into them, and all i got was sum poor guy who thankfully has reduced how much i have to pay out every month in debts Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trypio Posted May 26, 2010 Share Posted May 26, 2010 On my FC Brussels (Belgian Second Division) save my board got taken over by a wealthy Russian in the third season. He pumped 40M or something close to that in the team and I was the third richest club in Belgium after that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormenDK Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 In my former save, I got taken over by a consortium as Bath City in the BSP. Sadly they only injected 350k into the club and I didn't get to see a penny of those. But it was still surprising to me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bytheway Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 ive currently got a save using the 11 tiers of england, im playing as newton in the west cheshire league divsion 1(level 11) and have been taken over by a romanian tycoon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abaddon879 Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 I had my Reading team taken over in the first/second season. Previous chairman was quite wealthy and provided secure financial backing. Then a fan's trust came in and took over and they know NOTHING about business! Despite having only £6M in the bank they are offering me upwards of £40M transfer budgets and £1.5M wages. Had a cheeky look on Genie Scout to find out what was going on, and they have something like 2 for business and 3 for resources! I am now praying for another take-over so I don't have to keep selling to keep the club afloat. I am challenging for europe, but they don't seem to be able to take advantage of that in terms of marketing etc. Very annoyed... Come back Sir John Madjeski, all is forgiven! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duckers4 Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 I just realised Luis Figo took over Inter Milan...maybe not such a weird thing as he's on the board/committee but still strange too see. I am manager of Inter at the minute 4 seasons into the game and Figo is chairman having taken over from Moratti last year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BungleFish Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Bury City and Worthing FC got Tycoon takeovers on my old save.Both promtly got many promotions but Bury ended up languishing in the Championship and When i stopped on the save Worthing (who started in the 8th Tier had had continuos league wins to League 2 go on worthing!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanThomas2006 Posted May 27, 2010 Share Posted May 27, 2010 Chesterfield got taken over by some Macedonian tycoon when they were in League One I believe. Rocketed up the tables, now are regularly getting points off me in the Premier League, with Alberto Aquilani as their manager. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
makam21 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 I am playing as Sunderland. Quinn ran out of money in 2012 then got taken over by a consortium led by Simon Jordan!!!! Money flowed and so did titles and cups. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddietheorc Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 There only been loads of takeovers, but ones for the smaller clubs seem to have not too much money on them. What happens when tycoons buy clubs ? load it with debt ? I am sure that reading some where that some people didn't want them at the club. Also do rich owners leave clubs ? just thinking of man city because there doing my head in with buying half of the transfer market every damm summer, always seem to be after my best players grrrrr. would love to see them crash and burn. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlo116 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 I'm close to being taken over by a consortium led by Javier Zanetti, and the message said if it goes ahaed one of my coaches will be appointed as the new manager! Hopefully i do well enough to keep my job. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgar555 Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Everton had a tycoon takeover in the summer before the 3rd season on my last save. They were instantly made title favourites, but Moyes only spent £9m on an average right back and they finished 11th. He then took another 2 years to spend any more of their cash and they finished 8th and 6th before he did. Why they didn't sack him I'll never know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoiberg Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 I signed for Brunschweig on German 3rd tier. After one day at the club, club started a takeover so I couldn't sign any player, just two weeks later I was fired because they bringed in their own manager.... Crazy! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunt Posted May 28, 2010 Share Posted May 28, 2010 Sheffield Wednesday were bought out by a tycoon and somehow appointed Jose Mourinho as manager. Didnt play on much after that so it'd be interesting to see how they'd have done Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryknow Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 I am manager of Inter at the minute 4 seasons into the game and Figo is chairman having taken over from Moratti last year. Was there any injection of funds or was it a "straight swap" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dees-Blake Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Edwin van der Sar took over a club languishing near the bottom in Portugal - I've forgotten the name, but it was interesting to see. Not sure why he chose the Portuguese league as a place to become a chairman... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
backpackant Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 I've seen Newcastle get one. And Everton, I believe. Bristol City got a "tycoon" too, but they never really did anything in the two years I played in the same league. I've heard of Nottingham Forest getting one too, but not seen it on my game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horst Nordfink Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 In my current save, my Exeter City were taken over by a Supporters Trust. The previous board were OK by me; gave me decent money for League 2 standards and were generally receptive to most of my suggestions. The Supporters Trust took over and almost bankrupted us despite giving me no money to spend and a pittence to pay players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbhtfc Posted May 29, 2010 Share Posted May 29, 2010 Bury City and Worthing FC got Tycoon takeovers on my old save.Both promtly got many promotions but Bury ended up languishing in the Championship and When i stopped on the save Worthing (who started in the 8th Tier had had continuos league wins to League 2 I bet Worthing want a tycoon to take over in real life!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomManager Posted May 30, 2010 Share Posted May 30, 2010 In my AFC Kempston save Tring got taken over and they went for estimated value 12k to 6.7 million. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyleb1985 Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 I saw Redditch get a tycoon on fm08 or 09 and they then hired gary lewin as physio i took over and had 3m to spend and a 250k wage budget but average bsn players wanted 2k plus a week and players from leagues above didnt want to join me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hkdavey Posted May 31, 2010 Share Posted May 31, 2010 Im with Leeds Utd from the start and im now in 2026/27. I was taken over by a brazilian tycoon about 8 seasons ago. He ploughs about 25 million plus every 3 months, i get a transfer budget of about 50 million every season but don't spend much off it lately due to high spending alot for about 4 seasons on youth players so got a good young team Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brose Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 I am playing as workington and I think I got taken over by a fan's trust somewhere in my 3rd season or so when I am in the BSP. The new chairman is just as broke so there is no funds injection whatsoever. I can't really tell the diff between the old chairman and the new one because none of them gave my any transfer budget. If I am not wrong my transfer budget is close to 0 all the way til L1. Where I got like 100k and CCC which I got 800k. However when I reached premier league, I got 28mil transfer budget in my 1st season and 48mil in my 2nd season. And thats for simply avoiding relegation. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGN_1982 Posted June 1, 2010 Share Posted June 1, 2010 southampton are the BIG spenders in my villa save after 7 seasons.........they just bought an ageing dzeko and ash young off me for a combined 58 million in one close season.....sad to see the legend that is dzeko leave but 30 mill is too much to reject for someone of that age Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMaynard Posted June 4, 2010 Share Posted June 4, 2010 in mine Wolves got taken over by a thai tycoon and are now one of the best teams in europe, only Man City come close to them in terms of transfer spending. Combined the 2 clubs spend about 200m a season, almost every player who's even half decent or shows an ouce on promise is on the books at one of the two clubs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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