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"bribe" ... expect your door to knock soon.................

noone took a holiday then? what does that suggest ....?

if it doesn't open up but opens option to ride the train up to the next stop.

Financial Times
Former Saga chief to return as chairman and invest £100m
Sir Roger, the son of Saga's founder Sidney De Haan, ran the business for 20 years before selling it to the private equity firm Charterhouse for £ ...

The Guardian
Former owner of Saga invests £100m to save company from Covid crisis
The former owner of Saga, who became a billionaire after selling the over-50s holiday and insurance group in 2004, is returning to the ...

Telegraph.co.uk
Former Saga boss back on board with £100m injection
Sir Roger De Haan will stump up the lion's share of a £150m equity raise by Saga, with other investors asked to supply the rest as part of efforts to ...

Sky News
Former Saga chief sails towards shock comeback in £150m cash call
Sky News has learnt that Sir Roger de Haan, who sold Saga for £1.3bn in 2004, is to inject up to £100m into the company in return for a stake of ...

sharefall - surely you know that half of these reported "approaches" are nothing more than planted stories for alternate agendas. [gotto watch this is not a conspiracy theory]. take MTRO for example. [i know panderman...], last year a takeover rumour was fixed to a "thick wristed cufflink wearing merlot drinking man". now, come on.... If there was an offer than that would have been reported. And the Board would have to have considered if they wished to undertake a strategic review with possible option to sell. that in turn would have flushed out a counter off. and so on.

In conclusion, the approach might have been a bigger holder planting a story once they got wind of the interest at hand to try and drive the price up so an even higher amount would need to be paid. we just do not know.

you'll all be thanking your lucky stars that we managed to land a white knight - at any price, let alone a massive premium.

we are not getting younger. we need SAGA booming for your later years. more investment now... and bring on the dancing girls.

hindsight. you have to take each offer in the context it was given.

is at 13.61, many posters here were citing 12p, 10p etc last week. you have someone willing to pay 100% market premium (27p) and you are reporting matters to the FCA because it was not 33p? LOL...............

"Personally I am outraged by this news - private equity said the shares were worth 3[0]p but roger is paying somewhere between 15p and 27p... the BOD should now be sacked. I am thinking of complaining to the FCA about withholding price sensitive info."

whoa. cool your jets. or park your boat.

any share issues needs approved - unless the shareholders already gave the Board the authorisation.

did Laurence Rede move on from BZT to EUZ? no end of pie for these idiots to stick their fingers in??

so one way to settle the debate here...

4p or 2p - which comes first.

morning voggers

September reversal .

ST only discloses positions over 0.5%, and it is not exact anyway. there might be shorts over 0.5% that slip through the ST net.

" Has big Tony brought something to the table "
bet it it g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grreat.

massive doff of the cap to conkclo, for the fine photos.
almost reminds me of the UKOG BB with spy cameras monitoring trucks

all those lovely insurance renewals.
and let's not forget all the other revenue streams...

this'll fix it (not in the jim way) , re the 2020 Q3/Q4 covid concerns.

and i shall, Panderman...