https://www.rferl.org/amp/serbia-southhampton-soccer-battle/31649742.html
Facing a government squeeze on his local assets in Serbia, purchasing Southampton FC could be one way for Solak to fight back. Simon Chadwick, global professor of sport at Emlyon Business School in Paris, said that by owning a soccer club, “[Solak] will be entitled to attend high-level meetings inside the Premier League…where key issues pertaining to the award of broadcasting contracts are decided. Hence, he will play a role in shaping the criteria for awarding broadcast contracts,” which would benefit Southampton’s profit margin and could potentially give him leverage over the Telekom group.
Fucking hell - so how long before his assets are seized / frozen or a tax evasion case heads his way
Why do we always get the shit billionaires - the only half decent one we had, had a dicky ticker
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/25117398.former-premier-league-chairman-claims-southampton-sale/
https://x.com/AlfieHouseEcho/status/1916834995533947182?t=bV6K7TBr7qcHRsN-iHtnqQ&s=19
Advisor to MBS in Saudi. A box of frogs springs to mind but he is Solak or more level rich.
There are other rumblings
Ah its in the Echo. Gere we ho as Fabrizio would not say
Not another hand chopper. 
…but of course it’s The Echo so very probably a load of bollocks.
They keep a list…
Everything you think
Everything you type
It has come from Talkshyte’s Major Gobshyte, Simon Jordan, who, apparently, is on speaking terms with the potential buyer.
Why would Solak sell us now?
He paid 200m probably has some loans in the club and we got relegated so our value would have dropped.
Let’s put this into context
I nearly bought the club, during my divorce in 2003
(I didn’t want to btw but that was the direction it was going)