mus-28 Posted August 6, 2013 Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 By Kathy Stone Aug 7 2013 01:02 SOUTH Melbourne FC have withdrawn from talks to buy the licence of Melbourne Heart after a $7 million bid was rejected. The Victorian Premier League side upped an earlier offer of $4 million but is understood to have walked away from further negotiations. Talks broke down about three weeks ago after South Melbourne baulked at suggestions the licence may be on the table for $9 million plus. This is the third time this year the VPL great’s A-League aspirations have been thwarted. A move on cash-strapped champions Central Coast Mariners in March was headed off by after an ownership restructure at Bluetongue. Last night South Melbourne members were told their latest tilt at the topflight had hit another wall. “We feel (Heart) think we’ve got more money to give them but we’re withdrawing the offer,” a member toldau.fourfourtwo.com. “There’s not another cent on top of that.” A giant of the old National Soccer League, South Melbourne have made no secret of their desire to return to the Aussie elite but will now look at other options. One avenue is to buy a third licence in Melbourne when it becomes available. The club is hoping pressure from the Asian Football Confederation to open up the closed 10-club competition could see that happen in the next three to four years. In May, Heart CEO Scott Munn told the Herald Sun the club was in talks with interested parties from the Middle East and Europe. The A-League expansion side has struggled to grow its fan-base since its 2010-11 season launch and last year endured the league’s second lowest average attendances (8,484). South Melbourne believe they can run a more viable A-League operation out of their 15,000 capacity Lakeside Stadium with blockbuster games - such as the derby against Melbourne Victory - staged at AAMI Park. The four-time NSL champions have 8,000 members on their database and are confident of attracting crowds of between 12,000 and 15,000 to A-League games. Meanwhile the club continues to battle on another front with no sign of a ceasefire in the National Premier League wars in Victoria. South Melbourne have given Football Federation Victoria until 4pm tomorrow to disband the roll-out of its NPL model or face court action. About 50 clubs have announced their opposition to the FFV version of a second tier competition being introduced across Australia http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/278656,heart-turn-down-smfcs-7m-buy-out.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mus-28 Posted August 6, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2013 Pretty sure her source is just Chris off the FourFourTwo forums. The same Chris that has predicted out demise on more than a few occasions, with his sources close to the club. 8,000 members on their database, crowds of between 12,000 and 15,000. Also pretty sure they are some of the numbers predicted by another of the Hellas fans posted in one of the numerous SMH in, Heart out threads. She should stick to writing blogs instead of trying to be a real journalist. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bannon Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 i actually hate these cunts now. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mus-28 Posted August 7, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 If they really have all of this money and ambition, would they not be better served actually organizing a bid to present to the FFA to become the 11th team in the competition. They're better served being the 3rd Melbourne team where they can at least have 2 home derbies per season that will be key fixtures for them financially and will give them more mainstream media attention than they have ever had before. Sadly I don't think they realize that a large number of their "potential" fans (young greeks aged between 15 & 25) are firmly entrenched as supporters of MVFC, even more so now that Ange is at the club. It's not really a hard decision as a fan to choose between the AAMI Park or Lakeside Staduim and it's athletics track as your preferred destination to watch top flight football. It's just got to an embarrassing point where they continually make all of these outlandish claims with nothing to back it up, other than the usual flogs on FFT being quoted as sources in shit articles like this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 South Melbourne need to just accept that their glory days are dead. They're like a clingy ex-girlfriend who just can't take a hint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southerner Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 Shouldn't this go under "Melbourne Heart"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shahanga Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 Its a relief thats dead. SMH would need their own fan base as the chances of retaining the existing Heart fan base would be approximately zero. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGaffer Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 Its a relief thats dead. SMH would need their own fan base as the chances of retaining the existing Heart fan base would be approximately zero. How many members do we currently have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braveheart Posted August 7, 2013 Report Share Posted August 7, 2013 Its a relief thats dead. SMH would need their own fan base as the chances of retaining the existing Heart fan base would be approximately zero. How many members do we currently have? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deviant Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 (edited) South Melbourne Fellas "Never leave your mates behind" Edited August 8, 2013 by Deviate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post FB. Posted August 8, 2013 Popular Post Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 So these kents have got 4 mill in spare dosh? How about they actually invest it into their firsts team, and try and win some titles and prove they are too good for the lower grades??? They've been in the VPL how long? 8 years? And have won, what? One title??? And these kents try and argue they are too BIG for the VPL??? FFS, Altona Magic have won more titles then them. You couldn't make this shit up. Boggles the mind. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deviant Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 Re, we invented inventions... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theresonlyonebzamora Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 So these kents have got 4 mill in spare dosh? How about they actually invest it into their firsts team, and try and win some titles and prove they are too good for the lower grades??? They've been in the VPL how long? 8 years? And have won, what? One title??? And these kents try and argue they are too BIG for the VPL??? FFS, Altona Magic have won more titles then them. You couldn't make this shit up. Boggles the mind. FB but its 'history' and 'culture'. they think they're the biggest victorian club in history so therefore should be the only club anyone ever follows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 but its 'history' and 'culture'. Probably stolen. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theresonlyonebzamora Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 nah they had to spend a few mil to get it, otherwise lakeside wouldn't have had an aths track - that was the compromise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deviant Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 nah they had to spend a few mil to get it, otherwise lakeside wouldn't have had an aths track - that was the compromise Your talking about the ATHENS track yeah? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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n i k o Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 South Melbourne FC is the greatest Greek acheivement since the invention of the souvlaki in the the 2nd or 3rd century AD http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Greece Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted August 8, 2013 Report Share Posted August 8, 2013 Shouldn't this go under "Melbourne Heart" "Greek Football"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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