26CornerBlitz Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Shad Khan Withdraws Bid to Buy Wembley Stadium Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan is shutting down his efforts to buy Wembley Stadium. Khan and the Football Association announced Wednesday that the Jacksonville Jaguars owner has withdrawn his unsolicited offer to purchase the London stadium. "Unfortunately, given where we are today, I've concluded that the outcome of a vote next week would be far from sufficient in expressing the broad support favored by the FA Chairman to sell Wembley Stadium," Khan said in a statement. "Until a time when it is evident there is an unmistakable directive from the FA to explore and close a sale, I am respectfully withdrawing my offer to purchase Wembley Stadium." Khan, who is principal owner of Fulham F.C. as well as the Jags, proposed purchasing the stadium earlier this year, an effort he argued would free up funds to allow the FA to allocate elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Vader Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Why buy when you can play there for free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeviF Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 How did the NFL let a guy with a Bond villain name into the owners' club anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PromoTheRobot Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 (edited) According to Peter King on One Bills Live, this Wembley deal was pissing off the Tottenham people. Their new stadium was intended to host an NFL team. Putting the Jags in Wembley meant they had to drag another team over. (The Chargers?) Edited October 17, 2018 by PromoTheRobot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 1 minute ago, PromoTheRobot said: According to Peter King on One Bills Live, this Wembley deal was pissing off the Tottenham people. Their new stadium was intended to host an NFL team. Putting the Jags in Wembley meant they had to drag another team over. (The Chargers?) As an Arsenal fan of many years: Tottenham is . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 12 minutes ago, Peter said: As an Arsenal fan of many years: Tottenham is . . . . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie's Dead Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Wankas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjv001 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Khan is having a hard time selling Pro-Football in a town that favors college football. Perhaps a few seasons getting deep into the playoff can help turn things around in the Jags favor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoCal Deek Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Sweet! Maybe I’ll but it then. ?. What are the HOA fees? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Over 29 years of fanhood Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Oh well eff it..... I guess he’ll just buy some jets and a yacht instead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Marv's Neighbor Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 On 10/17/2018 at 1:25 PM, LeviF91 said: How did the NFL let a guy with a Bond villain name into the owners' club anyway? $$$$? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddo Posted October 24, 2018 Share Posted October 24, 2018 On 10/17/2018 at 6:26 PM, PromoTheRobot said: According to Peter King on One Bills Live, this Wembley deal was pissing off the Tottenham people. Their new stadium was intended to host an NFL team. Putting the Jags in Wembley meant they had to drag another team over. (The Chargers?) While there may be truth in that, it wasn't the underlying reason. Which was that the full F.A. Council was due to vote on the proposal, and it suddenly appeared that that vote wasn't going to go in favour. Khan could have tried forcing the issue, as the F.A. Executive had apparently agreed to the sale, and they actually have the authority to have gone through with the sale, but Khan decided that discretion was the better part of valour, and withdrew the bid. The F.A. Council is made up of people from all aspects of what the F.A. do, from grass roots level, to the various professional levels of the game. As such, it could be seen to be a guide to how popular, or not, the move would have been throughout the game as a whole. If the suppport elsewhere wasn't forthcoming, Khan did the ultimately sensible thing, imho, by backing off, as possibly becoming a 'hate' figure, isn't going to serve either of his teams purposes in the long term. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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