Note the contradictions of the amount of money made and ownership of
land by Al Fahim of Hydra. The first are Al Fahim's statements, the
second are statements from the person who is in charge of the trust
that sold the club to Al Fahim:
This is an interview by Asharq Al-Awsat:
'Q) We know that you bought Portsmouth FC for 60 million pounds
sterling. What other details of the deal can you tell us about?
A) I sold 90 percent of the club’s shares for a total of 70 million
pounds sterling and I have retained 10 percent of the shares. I will
remain head of the club’s board of directors for two seasons.
Moreover, I kept 100 percent of the club’s real estate assets and this
is something nobody has paid attention to or spoken about. I am
announcing this for the first time that [the real estate assets] are
owned by the Al Fahim Group. Without doubt the real estate aspect is
important in sports investment. Praise be to God, I was able to
transfer all the club’s debts to the new owner and I gained excellent
revenue. '
Link:
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=18494
This is from the UK Gaurdian:
'The club went, instead, to Fahim, who paid £1 for it, but he put £5m
in, apparently to deal with the most immediate financial demands. In
order to ensure that a takeover could happen, Cooper explained that
Gaydamak's trust directly took on the debt owed to Standard Bank,
which was then down to around £25m. The club owes that money in turn
to Gaydamak's trust, plus other amounts, making a total of £33.5m. He
had already written off his £13.5m loans, demonstrating that funding a
Premier League club to overachieve is a very expensive venture. Fahim,
according to Cooper, had the option to buy from Gaydamak 51% of the
land around Fratton Park for £1 once Fahim had refinanced an initial
£12m. The £33.5m the club owes Gaydamak is due for repayment in stages
by 2012, at which point he would sell the remaining land, for around
£4.5m.
...
Fahim passed to Faraj, again for £1, the prize he had craved, a
Premier League club, after less than 50 days in charge. Faraj bought
90% of the club, Fahim retaining a 10% stake and the position as
chairman, although that may be uncertain with Faraj understood to be
unhappy with comments Fahim made to a Saudi newspaper. Faraj paid
£1.8m wages immediately, and took on the obligations to repay
Gaydamak, HMRC, agents and other clubs whom Portsmouth owe, around
£50m in total. "If we hadn't come in then and paid the wages," Jacob
said, "the club would have gone into administration." '
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