Transfer Rumour 25/26 Summer Transfer Window (74 Viewers)

[clint van damme]

Lati is an out and out centre half ??? You might not rate him but that’s his position.

But he's played there, RB/RWB and midfield so for me he's more of a utility player even if that's his most favoured position.

We really need another CB, but again, after yesterday's news, I won't get bent out of shape about it.

 

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[Brighton Sky Blue]

But he's played there, RB/RWB and midfield so for me he's more of a utility player even if that's his most favoured position.

We really need another CB, but again, after yesterday's news, I won't get bent out of shape about it.

I am certain we’ll get another one in and Lati will be the emergency reserve.

 

[clint van damme]

I am certain we’ll get another one in and Lati will be the emergency reserve.

I'm sure attempts to sign one are ongoing, hopefully they bear fruit

 

[TomRad85]

I am certain we’ll get another one in and Lati will be the emergency reserve.

Lati: So I'm like 'first reserve' then?
Frank: Well we haven't really got any reserves so, sort of, no.
Lati: Cool, cool.

 

[Speedie's Head]

Come on man, are you genuinely moaning we bought the stadium because you'd rather spend £20 million on players
I don't know whats up with you atm, you need to cheer up. I can give you a hug if you like? Maybe I can persuade a few others and we could do a full on forum cuddle party.

It'll have been a lot more than £20m that's for sure...

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Lati: So I'm like 'first reserve' then?
Frank: Well we haven't really got any reserves so, sort of, no.
Lati: Cool, cool.

Lati: Sorry fellas, just got a missed call from Pep Guardiola.

Frank: Didn’t even ring did it?

 

[Liquid Gold]

It does sound to me like Doug is a bit pissy about everybody demanding transfers when he has to pay for them.

I just think we could fund them by selling players but he’s overvalued some.

 

[Flying Fokker]

Always up for a cuddle

Just never been sold that the stadium is anything but an albatross or a turkey or whatever bird it was. Maybe I’m wrong and it does make us millions, I hope so. Just feel that priority was getting us over the line to a proper promotion contender.

You did it…Bloody Fisher…not in relation to this but he said ‘Two Turkeys do not an Eagle make’.

I always thought SISU’s time at the club was a tad challenging for us fans…

 

[Lamps]

Like I see the theory. As King says every club wants to build a ground with an exhibition hall and a hotel and do concerts and we have that. I just think ultimately success on the pitch gets you much more and the arena success is off the back of that. This stadium in L1 isn’t much use as we saw, in the PL it may be a huge asset, but we’ve got to get there.

I just can’t get over how everyone who has owned it has failed or given up. Is it too close to the NEC? Is transport lacking? Or has it just been badly run or as King suggests needs a brand identity? I’m not sure.

The previous owners of the arena didn't buy it for the benefit of who it was built for. On top of that we're getting our best attendances since the days JH made HR an all seater stadium. Our city is buzzing. If there's a time and an owner to make the arena a success it's now. If it still makes a loss but it's less than the rent would be we're still up and are safer than we've been for many years.

 

[Speedie's Head]

Last report I can find just says revenue up.

Mike Ashley's Coventry Building Society Arena revenue increase

Coventry City stadium news from CoventryLive as Coventry Building Society Arena continues to go from strength to strength under new ownership

www.coventrytelegraph.net

The one before in April last year said £7m loss I believe. Couldn’t find this years accounts tho.

I looked yesterday too, they didn't file their accounts in May as they had in 2024. The financial position had been improving it was said and the £7m was expected to be much smaller. The interesting part of the King interview yesterday was him saying that the prem clubs are all trying to get the hotel, arena, casino thing going at their gaffs and "we already have it".

I think that if the losses start to mount up King will sell up, in all or in part. The value of the club probably doubled yesterday.

 

[shmmeee]

I looked yesterday too, they didn't file their accounts in May as they had in 2024. The financial position had been improving it was said and the £7m was expected to be much smaller. The interesting part of the King interview yesterday was him saying that the prem clubs are all trying to get the hotel, arena, casino thing going at their gaffs and "we already have it".

I think that if the losses start to mount up King will sell up, in all or in part. The value of the club probably doubled yesterday.

Yeah as I said when everyone jumped on me I can see it if we’re looking to sell.

 

[shmmeee]

The previous owners of the arena didn't buy it for the benefit of who it was built for. On top of that we're getting our best attendances since the days JH made HR an all seater stadium. Our city is buzzing. If there's a time and an owner to make the arena a success it's now. If it still makes a loss but it's less than the rent would be we're still up and are safer than we've been for many years.

Yeah but last we knew it lost £7m a year. The rest is just emotion from a city fan and not really relevant tbh.

 

[shmmeee]

We've played home games in 4 different grounds in the last 12 years, it's been insane.
So I can't see how anyone can see this as anything but brilliant news.
Doesn't mean it won't be without issues, but there are no players I'd prefer to sign over buying the stadium.

I think our current CB situation is really poor and we shouldn't have allowed it to get to the point where we've only got 2 out and out CBs at the club, but after yesterday I couldn't care less, owning the stadium trumps everything else.

I don’t think we’d ever have a Sisu situation again. They were uniquely stupid in their approach. Again if that was your fear I get it but I don’t think it was a rational fear.

 

[Deity]

Wtf

 

[shmmeee]

You did it…Bloody Fisher…not in relation to this but he said ‘Two Turkeys do not an Eagle make’.

I always thought SISU’s time at the club was a tad challenging for us fans…

His point was right though. Two loss making businesses don’t make a profit.

 

[clint van damme]

I don’t think we’d ever have a Sisu situation again. They were uniquely stupid in their approach. Again if that was your fear I get it but I don’t think it was a rational fear.

The thing is, when you're beholden to a 3rd party you don't need to have owners as stupid as sisu, you just need a landlord as cuntish as wasps.

We had the double whammy of both.

Our destiny is now firmly in our own hands.

 

[Deity]

Yeah but last we knew it lost £7m a year. The rest is just emotion from a city fan and not really relevant tbh.

Your expertise on irrelevant emotion is unsurpassed so fair enough ….

 

[shmmeee]

The thing is, when you're beholden to a 3rd party you don't need to have owners as stupid as sisu, you just need a landlord as cuntish as wasps.

We had the double whammy of both.

Our destiny is now firmly in our own hands.

And the hands of our landlords

 

[shmmeee]

Your expertise on irrelevant emotion is unsurpassed so fair enough ….

Do you need some outside time?

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

The previous owners of the arena didn't buy it for the benefit of who it was built for. On top of that we're getting our best attendances since the days JH made HR an all seater stadium. Our city is buzzing. If there's a time and an owner to make the arena a success it's now. If it still makes a loss but it's less than the rent would be we're still up and are safer than we've been for many years.

Damn straight

 

[Speedie's Head]

Yeah as I said when everyone jumped on me I can see it if we’re looking to sell.

Maybe it all makes more financial sense in a PL setup. I sense from what King said that they feel this is the season or we're likely gong to be losing a few of these players. Haji will be worth a king's ransom if he has a good World Cup, Rudi will probably want to move on, maybe Milan, Torp and we're back to rebuilding.

 

[clint van damme]

And the hands of our landlords

The council? Surely they wouldn't be stupid enough to try and fuck the club over again

 

[shmmeee]

Maybe it all makes more financial sense in a PL setup. I sense from what King said that they feel this is the season or we're likely gong to be losing a few of these players. Haji will be worth a king's ransom if he has a good World Cup, Rudi will probably want to move on, maybe Milan, Torp and we're back to rebuilding.

See my theory for a while has been the 5 years thing isn’t random and he’ll look to sell after five years if we don’t go up. This kind of makes me thinks that’s the case even more. And maybe we do, I just think it’s more about that than anything immediate.

Or maybe he’s going to drop £20m in a week and make us promotion contenders too

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Yeah as I said when everyone jumped on me I can see it if we’re looking to sell.

Clearly it does make the club a more attractive proposition to any buyer, and that is a good thing.

 

[shmmeee]

The council? Surely they wouldn't be stupid enough to try and fuck the club over again

I mean they never tried in the first place but if you were worried before then I don’t see why you wouldn’t be now. We’re in the exact position Sis went to Northampton to avoid. Hence all the uninsured freehold bollocks.

 

[shmmeee]

Clearly it does make the club a more attractive proposition to any buyer, and that is a good thing.

Maybe. I dont know the financials. If we’ve just taken on a load of debt to finance a loss making business I’m not sure how true that is. We as fans make a big thing about owning grounds but it doesn’t seem to stop some of the most valuable clubs on the planet.

 

[clint van damme]

I mean they never tried in the first place but if you were worried before then I don’t see why you wouldn’t be now. We’re in the exact position Sis went to Northampton to avoid. Hence all the uninsured freehold bollocks.

In no way are we in the exact same position.
We never owned the Arena then, we do now.

And if you think the council never tried to fuck the football club over thenI don't know what to say.
If you weren't convinced before they handed wasps a 250 year lease you definitely should have been afterwards.

 

[Speedie's Head]

See my theory for a while has been the 5 years thing isn’t random and he’ll look to sell after five years if we don’t go up. This kind of makes me thinks that’s the case even more. And maybe we do, I just think it’s more about that than anything immediate.

Or maybe he’s going to drop £20m in a week and make us promotion contenders too

Absolutely agree. You could see it in the players' contracts. Until recently we had nobody with a contract beyond the five years, that's beginning to change now and King has probably decided to make a longer game of it.

 

[shmmeee]

Complete aside but also fuck all the way off with prompting the Doug King song after the announcement and unless I missed it dropping Take Me Home Highfield Road from the playlist.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

Maybe. I dont know the financials. If we’ve just taken on a load of debt to finance a loss making business I’m not sure how true that is. We as fans make a big thing about owning grounds but it doesn’t seem to stop some of the most valuable clubs on the planet.

you seriously don't think owning the ground doesnt make us a more attractive option to potential buyers. I'm lost for words.

 

[shmmeee]

In no way are we in the exact same position.
We never owned the Arena then, we do now.

And if you think the council never tried to fuck the football club over thenI don't know what to say.
If you weren't convinced before they handed wasps a 250 year lease you definitely should have been afterwards.

I’m not reiterating this but they went to Wasps because we said we wanted the freehold and not a long lease. It’s not ever been SBT psychosis that the council gave wasps something that wasn’t on offer to CCFC. Sisu just refused to pay for it at every turn.

 

[shmmeee]

you seriously don't think owning the ground doesnt make us a more attractive option to potential buyers. I'm lost for words.

I don’t know. Is a business that loses £6m a year and has £10m less attractive than a company that loses £12m a year and has £60m debt? You’re the accountant.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Maybe. I dont know the financials. If we’ve just taken on a load of debt to finance a loss making business I’m not sure how true that is. We as fans make a big thing about owning grounds but it doesn’t seem to stop some of the most valuable clubs on the planet.

It’s on a different level to us of course but the Tottenham stadium is owned by the club and has transformed its value.

 

[clint van damme]

See my theory for a while has been the 5 years thing isn’t random and he’ll look to sell after five years if we don’t go up. This kind of makes me thinks that’s the case even more. And maybe we do, I just think it’s more about that than anything immediate.

Or maybe he’s going to drop £20m in a week and make us promotion contenders too

I don't doubt King has an exit strategy that will see him out of here in no more than 5 years.

If he leaves using a better place than when he arrived, and at the moment I don't think it Can be disputed that that certainly looks to be on the cards, thenI don't see the problem.

 

[Marty]

Complete aside but also fuck all the way off with prompting the Doug King song after the announcement and unless I missed it dropping Take Me Home Highfield Road from the playlist.

Do you ever give it a rest? Just whinge whinge whinge, it's tedious as fuck. Just enjoy the buying of the stadium and the great result we had yesterday. PUSB!!!