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Morning Villa fans, give this a read. Sorry its long but wanted to give you full story. UTV -Alastair Micky Arison, the chairman of Carnival Corporation, has not denied rumours linking him to a potential acquisition of Aston Villa FC. Aston Villa fans have been on the edge of their seats ever since Diary suggested that Micky Arison, the billionaire cruise ship tycoon, could be the for-sale football club’s next owner, after selling £36m of Carnival Corporation shares since March. In an update on last Thursday’s tale, Diary notes that Mr Arison sold a further £23.9m of Carnival stock on Monday and Tuesday this week – and, intriguingly, parties close to the Premier League action decline to issue an outright denial that the US mogul has his eye on the takeover ball. Jennifer de la Cruz, Arison’s chief spokesman, thanked Diary for its enquiry, but said that: “As a general rule, we do not comment on such rumors [sic].” Keith Mr Football Harris, the investment banker advising owner Randy Lerner on the club’s sale, deployed the even more defensive tactic of ignoring Diary’s emails and calls. One to keep tackling, then, as new reports emerge that Lerner, who hopes to exit by the start of the next football season, has offered Aston Villa to two unnamed Middle East investors at the reduced price of £150m. -------------------------------------------------------------- In more media-friendly times, Kamel Maamria, the Qatar investment execuitve, posed for photos at the opening of the Harrods summer sale with former chairman Mohamed Al-Fayed and actor Gemma Arterton, of James Bond fame. Those days are no more. Maamria, the executive director of Harrods owner Qatar Holding, the investment vehicle of the Gulf state’s sovereign wealth fund, has resigned from the Harrods board – and a spokesman for the famous corner shop refuses to talk shop with a stern “no comment”. “I am not authorised to say anything else,” said a Knightsbridge source, after consulting a Harrods director. Surely Qatar Holding, the fund described as “the world’s most aggressive dealmaker” after taking strategic stakes in the likes of Barclays, GlencoreXstrata and Sainsburys, isn’t – for once – closed for business?
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:15:39 +0000

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