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Why? They'd be looking to get them into Europe.

You're having a laugh aren't you. Letting in a monster like Farage! ;)

We say that but it'd be up to the buyers to enforce that - I reckon they'd at least try and pull a fast one and see if the potential owners (or more likely their lawyers) had their heads screwed on). Without a stadium now they're asking for millions for the club as well as servicing the debt...

Sounds more like the missus! V.A.G. It's when she has to ask goalline technology if it's in or not that's most depressing.

Sounds like bollocks, and personally if someone's coming in right now with proof of funds it's because they don't want to be properly scrutinised prior to sale. Be wary. Be very, very wary.

It is, but it has happened before where the stadium has been put in a holding company which was a subsidiary of the same company that owned the club. All seemed fine. Parent company then decides to sell the club but keep the stadium holding company. Do you trust SISU not to try and pull that...

If it gets him game time then the chance to build from that. It's a decent level - Kastaneer got relegated from that division last season.

But there is a preferential creditors list and an order of priority in who gets paid first. The only way around that was if the football creditor was classified as a secured creditor, who held a charge over a business asset (most likely the player the club bought). For me, they shouldn't be and...

Unless you turn up in City gear chanting Sky Blue Army no. They could kick you out if you celebrated us scoring or just generally made it obvious where your allegiances lie. Did it a Villa Park when Mouldy Van scored. Got a little carried away but quickly remembered myself and sat down.

Football creditors rule. Any other industry they'd just be classed as trade creditors.

More likely nick mementos. For the administrator it's all stuff that could potentially be sold to pay off creditors.

Agree entirely with this point. Having the football creditors rule exacerbates rash spending on transfers because they have a level of indemnity. I'm not sure how a governing bodies laws can supercede the laws of the land. Imagine if say the pork industry demanded that all suppliers of pigs...

Am I the only one who wished this thread had been titled Punt for Sky-Blue October?

Given his injury problems I guess you're advocating getting stuck into him early so he doesn't fancy it?

Good post. I feel with any potential holding company (which would ultimately be SISU owned and controlled) as well as receiving the lease/mortgage costs from the club I suspect an additional management fee would also be charged to the club on top of those already in place. As the club still...

I think a bit more is being spent in Birmingham than would be if we played in Coventry, because it feels more like a day out or away game. My neighbours are now going on the train to Brum and having something to eat and drink on the walk to/from the stadium. At the Ricoh they'd park up, watch...

If you chose just the level of the penalty area you're going to have huge gaps between the defence, midfield and attack. Which will either lead to a huge amount of space for midfield or players lumping it back and forth. Also if you chose the penalty area itself, couldn't a player stand on the...

It's still two players - it's called 'last man' but in reality it's assumed the GK will be behind the attacker. If for some reason the keeper has gone walkabout (say a last minute corner) the attacker would have to be behind two defenders in their half to be onside.

Exactly. Fans, including me at times, want the club to show ambition. We want to be signing decent players (or just signing players as many on here seem to get a bit narked if we go more than 10 days off season without signing someone). We want to be keeping our best ones. But then when the...