David Guetta & Afrojack ft Charli XCX & French Montana - "Dirty Sexy Money", Ol' Dirty Bastard ft. Kelis - "Got Your Money", Dire Straits - "Money For Nothing", Adventures of Stevie V. - "Dirty Cash (Money Talks)", The Flying Lizards - "Money", Cyndi Lauper - "Money Changes Everything", Depeche Mode "Everything Counts", Rihanna - "Bitch Better Have My Money"

Junior Nkeng not even on bench for Charlton today. Why didn’t we just get a loan back option when he was sold surely would have been better

One final consideration, of course, is that, these days, if you were a shady character who wanted to hide your activities the very very worst thing that you would choose to do would be to buy a football club- thus raising your profile massively and getting thousands of interested supporters trying to find out more about you - it’s not the old days of Robert Maxwell any more.

Thanks Nicander - I'd seen a link to Grey Parrot, but not the other two. My doc is a work-in-progress - I'll add them to the list when I get back from the game this evening.

Straits

Nick - thank you for applying some good sense to the matter

Money for nothing, ironically by Dire Straights

Which makes me think we need a playlist for today - how about Money by Pink Floyd or Money Money Money by ABBA to start…. Any others…?

Let's hope he doesn't "want to break free"

A4e - totally agree with your post of 12:02

I wonder if Mir is reading WUP, and calling out “They want to know if I’m married, and if I’ve got kids…”, or “Apparently they think I’m Freddie Mercury resurrected…”, and “According to someone on here, I don’t actually exist… what should I do?”

Dr Mir is clearly a bit of a mystery man and it would be nice if he turned up in person to meet us,but I would say that the level of due diligence that he will have to go through to get the investment approved by the regulator is way more thorough than any of us can do by searching online. It is an interesting point, which has been brought up a few times recently, that the football regulator is now a proper regulator, similar to that seen in other industries- it’s not the EFL, with a load of loopholes and blind eyes being turned any more. I personally am happy to trust the various lawyers and regulators to do their job properly in checking on the source of his funds and his background.

I’m starting to think that our biggest misses are Sweeney and Ogs rather than Stevens and Browne - I guess we’ll only find out when they are all back…

Sorry if my tongue in cheek comment caused anxiety to anyone :-)

The absence of information about Mir’s previous work isn’t necessarily information in itself nor evidence of dodginess - there’s plenty of information about his more recent projects, much of which mean almost nothing to me (and others, I suspect…), especially those relating to AI, etc. Thanks to oxford for the detailed stuff earlier - I find it simultaneously reassuring and worrying (not sure if that’s anyone else’s experience…?). I still think it should be a Yes - we might regret it at some future point, but we might regret going bust in a year’s time even more if we don’t try to make the best of this apparent lifeline….

Russ - I would care if he was a front fot Saudi UAE money tbh

Quite possible that Mir has inherited/family wealth

I agree with Spit, if (and it still is if) we get the 16 million it gives us breathing space. Any portion of the other 71 million turning up is a bonus for me.

Spit - I haven't seen anyone post a conspiracy theory. I assume anyone saying he doesn't exist is joking. But there is remarkably little known about someone who will own our club, who many of us have the right and duty to vote on. It was notable that the other SSC investors the other night seemed to be suggesting not to focus on him because he won't be operationally involved, which I thought was an extraordinary statement. He's putting up literally all the cash! He's the key person!

Our business model is clearly not sustainable and is heading towards administration.

Reading his bio, Omar Mir appears to have been a very successful board exec. I assume it doesn’t make him billions but likely a multi millionaire from the various salaries, bonuses, share options etc. I’d be surprised if all the money is coming from him though, he has a lot of contacts with high net worth individuals, and talks about ‘arranging investment’, so my own working hypothesis is that he is sourcing funding from third parties rather than fully funding it all himself. Personally I don’t care if that’s the case as long as the money comes in.

RP - little bit more known, all publicly available. He holds three UK company directorships (caveat these are all under the name Omar Iqtidar Mir, which is not the name he is registered under at SSC - Omar Michael Thomas Mir). These are: Grey Parrot AI since Mar 26 (a sustainable waste solutions tech firm); Apolitical Group since May 25 (a government/civil service learning network); and Blackwood Investment Portfolio since Mar 26, which appears to be his own investment vehicle. The other director of that is Niall Dunne, who is a very established and publicly known Irish sustainability businessman, who was a director of BT for many years. His apparent closeness to Dunne (who has described Mir on LinkedIn as "my friend" and has alluded to Mir being a quiet background kind of guy - but these are just scraps of mentions) is encouraging as he is on the face of it a good, known, serious guy with ties to the King's sustainability activities. The issue with Mir is quite clearly that all public records of him with any weight start a very small number of years ago, which seems inconceivable given his apparent level of wealth. But that said someone who has been working in the background doing AI deals for many years, and was known in that sector (which existed long before Open AI etc), could conceivably have had a relatively recent big jump in net worth and be looking for outlets for it. But as the article posted below suggests he could quite easily be a front man for an unknown person.

Saying he doesn't exist is quite a conspricy one would think:-)

Thanks TS, it just shows how confusing VAR is. It can be used for yellow cards.

A conspiracy theory is where you ignore all the facts and come up with a different conclusion. The issue most on here have is we don't know many known facts about Omar Mir and his funding yet.