Dave Powell
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715 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Aug
Dave Powell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So he's not um I I wonder whether there's this, you know, kind of pushing against the idea of
having someone come in who's just gonna talk big ideas and we're gonna do this and we're gonna do that.
And this is how we're gonna take this kind of North American sports mindset and completely reshape what everyone else thinks possible in European football.
I don't think there's that element of it.
I just think it's probably I think they've looked for someone who might be similar mindset to them.
Um that will be happy to sit in the passenger seat for a while and
then be able to be in a position to have a greater say and take greater control at a time when FSG are ready to cash in their chips, which will it probably seems that's been brought forward that now.
Do I think it's gonna be the next 12 months?
No.
But I'd
I'm not confident.
I think but for me, so we have to look at the this was a secondary share seller, which means that all the proceeds from this went to FSG, so they've just they've you know they've had a X 18X, 15X uh return on their initial investment.
Um it's not free, no fresh shares created, anything like that.
But what this tells me is this money now at the moment is for is maybe some people want to be.
Paid some partial liquidity, some partners are kind of well, we've been in this for ages, give me some money, you know.
You know.
Um, but also they are planning other investments, developments.
There is uh NBA expansion team, which is gonna be on the block soon.
Um, which is gonna be more expensive than I think people realise because the LA Lakers sold for twelve billion to Josh Kushner um recently, which is
I mean only
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