Takeover is definitely possible. However as a publicly traded company on the NYSE anything like this would have to be reported to the SEC and announced officially before anyone should believe any of these rumors. And it will probably require anti-trust approval, etc. Maybe it will happen maybe it won’t, but I’ll wait for a real announcement.
Does anyone know what percentage of the ownership of the club floats on the market? Even if this happens it will take a while to go through.