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Another 'friend of someone who knows somebody who knows ...' One thing is true though - sisu never invested £30m themself (and they never claimed they did). The money is loan from from funds managed by sisu. As sisu are a hedge fund management company they usually earn their money on...

Interesting report. Average spending on agents fee: £0.6m per club. As agents fees should be pretty much scaleable with transfer fees we should be able to see proof to the assumption that the more spending, the more success. So let's see: Most spending clubs - agents fee paid - (final...

That resentment is also present with club owners/investors. We think: They are loaded with money, they should be able to inject millions every time we need a new player!!! Same logic.

If conspiracy theories suddenly stops, then someone must be stopping them - surely. But who? And for what purpose?

Can I add another thing we have discussed many times ... Even if an offer was creditable enough to get accepted, and there should be £10m to inject into the team, what will be the consequences? Unless the club gains immidiate promotion to PL we'll face 1) Even greater yearly losses and 2)...

I think Marlon Kings agent was paid too ...

If you have good ideas surely you should send them today rather than next year or next decade. If they ignore you or screw up implementation then you have done your part and can still come back when new management walks in.

It was Ray Ranson who pursuaded sisu to invest and they relied on him to be the one who knew how to run a football club. I would hope there is a creditable offer on the table, but that offer will probably have to include a plan to secure the 30+ mil invested by the funds. And this is for me...

Use public transportation or change job :) And it is a race against time. If we don't break even the club goes into bankruptcy/admin. If a new investor comes in at that point we will all expect him/them to spend a few millions to strengthen the team, and when that is not enough to get us...

Yes, it's this season. And yes, everytime they run out of money they sell something. Wouldn't you?

It's an ongoing excercise. It goes back many, many years and will continue no matter the owner until the club runs continuesly at a profit. Loan agianst season tickets is not a new trick in the book and is used by many clubs - in the pre-season it will happen again. Same with player trading, we...

On the other hand - the bad publicity makes it more difficult to attract investors/new owners, keep fans away from matches, makes it more difficult for the manager to attract players ... Their breaking point is probably where there's no more costs to cut and no more money to pay the bills due...

Thomas 4 shots - 3 on target Bigi: 4 shots - 2 on target http://soccernet.espn.go.com/team/squad/_/id/388/coventry-city?cc=5739

Yes, we have discussed this quite a few times - see f.ex. the three FAQ's in the sub-board (sub/finance discussions). I believe the cap for this league will be 90%.

This is where I choose to be naive (yes, its a choice I make) and think that the board is new, they have agreed on the strategy: Setup meeting with council, go for the 50% option. Maybe (just maybe) they decided to try to get the meeting on said Friday and the chairman actually thought the...

I hope nobody have me confused with you (would be unfair to you)! Just to be clear: I am not 'im-confused', but I am confused (now even more).

True - but then accept that it is where we are and take the positive: We held on to our most valued player and got an exciting midfielder for the next 6 matches.

Jan, I think my viewpoint is a bit different from yours. I think the disaster was Ranson and his regime. Sisu trusted him (their fault) to run the club and he didn't deliver, yet ended up spending all the money available. The new regime is from March this year and without money it is difficult...

I hear you Harvey, but at the moment it really isn't the board letting us down. It's ourself. We create all sorts of threads with the sole intention of blaming everything bad on the owners. It's now a runaway train impossible to stop and no matter what the owners decide, do or say it won't make...

I think I am falling in love with a Villa fan ... must up the dosis! You have injected more hope to the average Coventry fan than anyone else before .... oh wait, hang on .... your real name wouldn't be Ken by any chance?