Lets screw everyone in the city then (1 Viewer)

[Bennosdancingfeet]

Get a grip.... Why hand the arena for peanuts to the cancer that wants it. You, the tax payer contributed to that ground, lets just give the ground by running a lottery to a Cv resident. Much better than letting SISU get the mits on it. Nothing in life is free.

 

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[hill83]

"Get a grip"

Yep, you said it.

 

[Nick]

Has anybody said sisu want it for free?

 

[covmark]

Get a grip.... Why hand the arena for peanuts to the cancer that wants it. You, the tax payer contributed to that ground, lets just give the ground by running a lottery to a Cv resident. Much better than letting SISU get the mits on it. Nothing in life is free.

who said they should have it for free you clown

 

[covmark]

Has anybody said sisu want it for free?

Beat me to it

 

[ajsccfc]

That post is a bit mad, with cancer and free stadium to a lottery winner and all that.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

There are a few on here that believe they should give the arena away for next to nothing Sorry but if they want it charge them Double better still never Sell it to the Scum!!!!!

Get a grip.... Why hand the arena for peanuts to the cancer that wants it. You, the tax payer contributed to that ground, lets just give the ground by running a lottery to a Cv resident. Much better than letting SISU get the mits on it. Nothing in life is free.

 

[Bennosdancingfeet]

Just read my thread starter, heat of the moment.

 

[deanocity3]

Just read my thread starter, heat of the moment.

I'm too knackered at the mo

 

[Chinny_Hill]

Has anybody said sisu want it for free?

Do you know that they don't?

 

[NorthernWisdom]

I don't know that they don't intend to open a freak show with dancing elephants and Siegfried and Roy making a comeback, all situated on the plot allocated for a hotel.

 

[stupot07]

 

[Chinny_Hill]

I don't know that they don't intend to open a freak show with dancing elephants and Siegfried and Roy making a comeback, all situated on the plot allocated for a hotel.

You don't know what you don't know.

 

[chorlton]

Get a grip.... Why hand the arena for peanuts to the cancer that wants it. You, the tax payer contributed to that ground, lets just give the ground by running a lottery to a Cv resident. Much better than letting SISU get the mits on it. Nothing in life is free.

Funnily enough, throughout this whole business I've been amazed at how few people have made the point that as the Arena is half owned by the City council, it means it is half-owned by the citizens of Coventry. It is the job of the Council to do the best for the people of Coventry, not just those who support the football team. Obviously the football team rests at the heart of the City but the Arena is about more than just football. It's about regeneration and developing the local economy. Football is being used (appropriately) to enable that to happen.

SISU, in my opinion, have tried to bully ACL and therefore it must never be sold to them. Only to the club when it under fit and suitable management that will have both the football club and the community at it's heart.

When Fisher described the council as Socialist and SISU as 'uber-capitalist' it summed it all up perfectly to me.

To paraphrase Mark Twain when he said, "Loyalty to your country always. Loyalty to your Government , only when it deserves it" I would say, "Loyalty to your club always. Loyalty to the owners only when they deserve it".

 

[Bennosdancingfeet]

You said what I was wanting to say but with intelligence.

Sadly I lack this trait.

 

[Buster]

He wrote what I wanted to write but with punctuation ,grammar and he even threw a quote in ! I recon he's just back from uni.

 

[chorlton]

He wrote what I wanted to write but with punctuation ,grammar and he even threw a quote in ! I recon he's just back from uni.

If only. My kids are closer to Uni age than me! That's quite depressing.

 

[James Smith]

Has anybody said sisu want it for free?

OSB58 said he thought they might have offered £10m which is fairly lowball wouldn't surprise me if they'd offered lower than though.

 

[DazzleTommyDazzle]

I don't know that they don't intend to open a freak show with dancing elephants and Siegfried and Roy making a comeback, all situated on the plot allocated for a hotel.

I had heard that, although I understand that they were planning to save money by selling the elephants and instead using Sky Blue Sam.

 

[ajsccfc]

If the Ricoh did host a show with dancing elephants I wouldn't miss football as much.

 

[Grendel]

Funnily enough, throughout this whole business I've been amazed at how few people have made the point that as the Arena is half owned by the City council, it means it is half-owned by the citizens of Coventry. It is the job of the Council to do the best for the people of Coventry, not just those who support the football team. Obviously the football team rests at the heart of the City but the Arena is about more than just football. It's about regeneration and developing the local economy. Football is being used (appropriately) to enable that to happen.

SISU, in my opinion, have tried to bully ACL and therefore it must never be sold to them. Only to the club when it under fit and suitable management that will have both the football club and the community at it's heart.

When Fisher described the council as Socialist and SISU as 'uber-capitalist' it summed it all up perfectly to me.

To paraphrase Mark Twain when he said, "Loyalty to your country always. Loyalty to your Government , only when it deserves it" I would say, "Loyalty to your club always. Loyalty to the owners only when they deserve it".

With supporters like you the club deserves to be in the state it's in. What a complete load of tripe.

 

[Grendel]

Do you know that they don't?

Are you saying that any private institution wouldn't have it for free? What actually are you saying?

 

[oldskyblue58]

Only a guess but I would bet on Seppala wanting the freehold of the whole site for somewhere less than £5m (why offer a sensible sum ?) and her being prepared to keep going to legal actions to drain the stakeholders of cash so picking up the freehold and ACL. Pick it up for a pittance flip the site for a big gain. No tax to pay because of losses, repay the SISU debt job done.

Just a thought though but in a contaminated state the site was purchased for something like £15m and half sold to Tesco for 62m. So the real value of the freehold stadium/complex and development land remaining is ?

a lot more than SISU want/expect to pay

 

[skybluesam66]

some people are so narrow minded

the football stadium belongs to the council tax payers - so why help the football club

it is about having a growing vibrant city where people want to come to and investors want to invest

By creating a 4th division football team and a load of pound shops and charity shops this will not happen
A vibrant city needs successful sports teams (amongst other things) - so as soon as the council got involved in the stadium they should have appreciated that

now i am not saying SISU are the answer - but looking ahead, if the council want to keep their fingers in the pie, then it is in everbody in the City'sinterest that they do help the football club

Remember 87 - if we could ever get that back again, how much would that be worth to the city??

 

[M&B Stand]

some people are so narrow minded

the football stadium belongs to the council tax payers - so why help the football club

it is about having a growing vibrant city where people want to come to and investors want to invest

By creating a 4th division football team and a load of pound shops and charity shops this will not happen
A vibrant city needs successful sports teams (amongst other things) - so as soon as the council got involved in the stadium they should have appreciated that

now i am not saying SISU are the answer - but looking ahead, if the council want to keep their fingers in the pie, then it is in everbody in the City'sinterest that they do help the football club

Remember 87 - if we could ever get that back again, how much would that be worth to the city??

It's either an asset of the people of Coventry as Anne Lucas said, in which case ACL are right and duty bound to make as much from it as they can OR its the Cites football stadium where Coventry City FC can be a successful club.

It's pretty obvious, it can't be both. Ultimately the people of Coventry will decide which it is to be.

 

[Chinny_Hill]

Are you saying that any private institution wouldn't have it for free? What actually are you saying?

I am saying "Do you know that they don't?" If you read the thread from the beginning the context should become clear. However if you have any more queries just let me know, and I will be happy to help.

 

[skybluesam66]

It's either an asset of the people of Coventry as Anne Lucas said, in which case ACL are right and duty bound to make as much from it as they can OR its the Cites football stadium where Coventry City FC can be a successful club.

It's pretty obvious, it can't be both. Ultimately the people of Coventry will decide which it is to be.

but by housing a prosperous football club - the value of that asset significantly increases, and so does the value of other linked businesses and local businesses

 

[Tank Top]

Does anyone imagine in their wildest dreams, that if Sisu/CCFC owned the Ricoh, there would be any significant difference regarding the status of the team on the pitch, Sisu have shown no desire to invest the kind of money needed to lift the sky blues to anything but relegation scrappers, and the way they have run the club in terms of day to day administration, and the callous dismissive way they have treated the loyal fan base, has been nothing short of a disgrace, they are using the club as a means to an end, and that end is plainly not the rebirth of our once respected Sky Blues, this rebirth, will not happen, until we are out of the clutches of the present ownership, these people, make Wonga, look like a charity.
I too am convinced, that their aim is to aquire the Ricoh for little or nothing, but with none of the money going to the benefit of the team, Sisu is a Ruthless, shuffler of money and accounts, close one down Monday, up pops another on Tuesday, they would liquidate us at the bat of an eye, with not a backward glance, and still blame ACL.

 

[RegTheDonk]

I agree Tank Top, with the lack of previous investment you can only assume their endgame would be to buy the Ricoh and sell the lot as a package.

The only contradition to that I can see is investment in the team would (hopefully) mean promotion, and more TV money. But you have to invest and seeings as we've never once even been in the play offs, would be a big punt for SISU to take.