It’s on a different level to us of course but the Tottenham stadium is owned by the club and has transformed its value.
Our City is buzzing? It's actually as shit as its ever been, apart from a new vape shop, a bookies and 14 new barber shops.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.
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.
Our City is buzzing? It's actually as shit as its ever been, apart from a new vape shop, a bookies and 14 new barber shops.
The busiest part of the city is the fountains in town where people take their kids to wash.
We are straved of success and have nothing to do, I wouldn't call that buzzing.
Don't you live in France?
Was a 250 year lease on offer to the club?
I'm lost for words.
Sisu repeatedly said they didn’t want it and just wanted the freehold and not ACL. Every meeting Joy said this. Every public statement Joy and Fisher said this. So yeah.
I'm fairly sure they didn't get offered 250 years. Even wasps didn't initially .
And I think the way it turned out just shows that the council made a complete arse of things.
Though none of that really has anything to do with where we are now and your concerns about owning the stadium, which I think are unfounded
No conversations happened because Sisu only wanted the freehold. They didn’t think the leasehold was worth having. The council were always happy to sell ACL and in fact had to once CCFC left. Sisu hoped they would sell the freehold but councils don’t generally. Wasps understood this basic fact of local authorities, didn’t try and get it through court, and made and offer and got it. The football club could have done that at every time but every time it was mentioned they said they wanted the freehold. “Two turkeys doesn’t make an eagle” and all that.
The real problem it seems was Sisu were skint a needed it for free. By the time tha changed Ashley was on the scene.
I know we love to hate a politician on here but the SBT lore on this is just insane. The idea there were teams of evil councillors plotting against the club they support was always up there with GIMOCS contrails for biggest conspiracy nonsense on here.
I wouldn’t trust you to run a bath let alone a business and certainly not a football club that I love ….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.
I'm not sure people want him to sell. It's just assumed that his plan is to increase the value of his investment and sell.Am I the only one who’s not jonesing to see Doug King sell the club? We’re in a strong position on the pitch, seemingly financially secure off it….maybe I’m just risk averse but I don’t really want to trade it all for some bloke from overseas who claims to be a billionaire and wants to turn us into an advert for their petrostate/VC firm/streaming service/energy drink of choice.
Some councillors wanted to loan Wasp millions when they were going bust so they could save face, wanted to kick the academy out of the Higgs to build a kicking barn, Mutton stated he would never sell his stadium to the football club. Ann Lucas someething about not allowing the club to own it over her dead body. We are now a City of Rugby.All crooks.No conversations happened because Sisu only wanted the freehold. They didn’t think the leasehold was worth having. The council were always happy to sell ACL and in fact had to once CCFC left. Sisu hoped they would sell the freehold but councils don’t generally. Wasps understood this basic fact of local authorities, didn’t try and get it through court, and made and offer and got it. The football club could have done that at every time but every time it was mentioned they said they wanted the freehold. “Two turkeys doesn’t make an eagle” and all that.
The real problem it seems was Sisu were skint a needed it for free. By the time tha changed Ashley was on the scene.
I know we love to hate a politician on here but the SBT lore on this is just insane. The idea there were teams of evil councillors plotting against the club they support was always up there with GIMOCS contrails for biggest conspiracy nonsense on here.
I did actually help to stage a conference at the NEC last year, it looks pretty dated and in need of some serious refurbishment itself. Excellent transport links though. Tottenham's ground has Wembley and the Emirates close by as 'competition' for example.At the pl level I can see it. Also a ground in London. As I said at this level with the NEC nearby and transport links is it apples and apples? I have no idea because for the eighteenth time I’m a football club fan not a stadium management company fan.
I know we love to hate a politician on here but the SBT lore on this is just insane. The idea there were teams of evil councillors plotting against the club they support was always up there with GIMOCS contrails for biggest conspiracy nonsense on here.
King has done an amazing job with us. Who would have seen us playing to around 30,000 a game, goals flying in all over the place and finally owning OUR stadium within such a short time?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.
OK I should have said football supporters in our city would be buzzingOur City is buzzing? It's actually as shit as its ever been, apart from a new vape shop, a bookies and 14 new barber shops.
The busiest part of the city is the fountains in town where people take their kids to wash.
We are straved of success and have nothing to do, I wouldn't call that buzzing.
Don't you live in France?
That's a bit polite. Would you like another attempt?They were just stupid, stubborn eejits.
Where are the 5 year contracts? Aren’t they 4 for the recent signing?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.
Am I the only one who’s not jonesing to see Doug King sell the club? We’re in a strong position on the pitch, seemingly financially secure off it….maybe I’m just risk averse but I don’t really want to trade it all for some bloke from overseas who claims to be a billionaire and wants to turn us into an advert for their petrostate/VC firm/streaming service/energy drink of choice.
Grimes got 3 1/2 years so I think off the top of my head that only the new signings take King beyond his 5 year plan. KKH got 4 years. My thinking is that is when he decided that he was in it for longer but who knows really. We do have an issue brewing with a cliff edge of contracts ending at the same time but we're not there yet.Where are the 5 year contracts? Aren’t they 4 for the recent signing?
Like I said at the time and I’ll repeat it now.
No council in the entire country would’ve done what Coventry’s did to their own football club.
They let personal feelings get in the way of what their job is-represent the people of Coventry.
Their opinions were heavily influenced by outsiders with damaging agendas and instead of remaining neutral they were hugely biased.
Their many decisions nearly mortally wounded their own city’s football club-all out of spite.
Who else hires a publicity team from London to infiltrate a supporter message board to sway opinion!
So yeah fuckin evil councillors is not even a close enough description.
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Absolute twats?That's a bit polite. Would you like another attempt?
Geez give it a rest man.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.
Just leave it at that mateI have no idea
Looks like it’s only if Collins goes and I haven’t seen anyone linked for him
I've lost track of the list of previous owners but the council had way more on their plate and obviously couldn't pay decent money to attract top level people to run the arena. The WASPs project was doomed to fail from the off and I have the feeling Frasers lost interest pretty quick and knew they could just flog it for a profit.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.
Liverpool have linked with him over the last 2 weeksLooks like it’s only if Collins goes and I haven’t seen anyone linked for him
Surely not another right back.Anybody know of this fella
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I don’t know why anyone thought that he’s a realistic target tbhFor anyone hoping he would end up on loan with us this year (me included in that) bit of reality check if that’s the level of team in for him
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