dongonzalos
Well-Known Member
Why do most people seem to be in the category of either love or hate SISU?
They started off not too badly. Their money got wasted for the first few years as they didn't employ a manager that could do any good for us. It all went wrong when they decided to tighten the budget too quickly. Something needed doing but not as quickly as they decided to do things.
This season they have put the money into our playing squad that they should have put in the season before. They have also got us a decent manager. I now trust them much more with the football side of the club than a year ago.
Financially I don't trust them. They say they want to pay a fair rent. So why don't they pay what they see as a fair rent until things get sorted out? To me the investors have had enough of throwing money at us for running costs. They seem to not to want to pay any rent until we get promoted, and are gambling on it happening this season. As in Clarke being signed to take over from McG. No cost savings on the squad this season. Is this being paid for from not paying the rent?
I see some are still arguing over whether SISU could afford to buy ACL out. We are not owned by SISU. We are run by SISU. We are owned by shareholders in the fund which is run by SISU. Nobody has more than 9.9% of the share value in our club. So we are owned by at least 11 people. Investors in the riskier funds like ours don't risk everything they have. So they should have the funds between them to buy the ACL share and then finally the councils freehold. I say again this is not SISU who wants to buy the ground for themselves.
I would be happy for these shareholders to buy the leasehold, but only at a fair price. The Council and Higgs Trust helped our club when we needed them to after being shafted badly. Why should they make a loss on helping our club when we needed them to faceless shareholders we will never know about?
Really for all we know we could be owned by , one, two or three people.
Who are extremely wealthy.
They may have the business knowledge. That allows them to disguise their investment. Ensuring they are protected by anonymity for tax reasons and protected from the hassle of fans.