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Just who is running the ccfc asylum ??? (1 Viewer)

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Ashdown1

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #36
'To my Knowledge'
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #37
Godiva said:
Look, the original mortgage ACL had at Yorkshire bank had some £15m left to be paid. The CCC bought that debt at some £14m. So now ACL owe CCC £14m-£15m.
Sisu have - to my knowledge - never said the mortgage was only at £5m - they have said the real value of the mortgage should be around £2m to £5m.
In other words - sisu claim ACL are mortgaged to the hilt and then some more.
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Perhaps they should be looking at the enormous failure of the business they are actually responsible for. Relegation and plummeting crowds is hardly something to shout about.
 
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Godiva

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #38
Ashdown1 said:
You sound so pleased with this, do you know anyone in particular who is benefitting from the extortionate administration charges levied against said club?
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I don't think anyone has yet explained the management fee's in detail.
But nobody seem to have any proof the fee's have ever been actually paid, but rather used as a tool to shift assets within the group.

The only thing that gives me any comfort in all this mess is the inevitable outcome: The club and ACL will ultimately be united under the same umbrella and for the first time in almost two decades will find itself on a solid financial foundation.
And it really doesn't matter whoever owns the umbrella.
 

Grendel

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #39
Godiva said:
I don't think anyone has yet explained the management fee's in detail.
But nobody seem to have any proof the fee's have ever been actually paid, but rather used as a tool to shift assets within the group.

The only thing that gives me any comfort in all this mess is the inevitable outcome: The club and ACL will ultimately be united under the same umbrella and for the first time in almost two decades will find itself on a solid financial foundation.
And it really doesn't matter whoever owns the umbrella.
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Agreed to go forward this will have to happen. There will be some losers but ultimately the club will be better off for it.
 

Sky Blue Kid

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #40
Godiva said:
Yes, me too.
But from what little has been said and printed it looks like all payments from FL to the club has been paid to holdings registered bank account. In addition all player contracts seems to be registered with holdings company registration number. Then there's the claim that the club have put in 'a note' with the FL register.

If that is the case, then FL may decide there's 'reasonable doubt' and that the club is actually ccfc holdings.
Then again, they could also decide the club is a combination of holdings and limited, but that could lead anywhere and the 'case' could run for quite some time.
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The piece I've highlighted doesn't mean a thing if the GS is in CCFC ltd:thinking about:
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #41
Grendel said:
Agreed to go forward this will have to happen. There will be some losers but ultimately the club will be better off for it.
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Yeah, if the charity is screwed so be it.
 

James Smith

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #42
Godiva said:
I don't think anyone has yet explained the management fee's in detail.
But nobody seem to have any proof the fee's have ever been actually paid, but rather used as a tool to shift assets within the group.

The only thing that gives me any comfort in all this mess is the inevitable outcome: The club and ACL will ultimately be united under the same umbrella and for the first time in almost two decades will find itself on a solid financial foundation.
And it really doesn't matter whoever owns the umbrella.
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Just so long as it isn't SISU.
 

Grendel

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #43
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Yeah, if the charity is screwed so be it.
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If someone pays the price they invested so be it. If not it is the failure to invest sensibly. That cannot be blamed on any purchaser and the longer they wait the greater the risk of the value diminishing further. The council could so their share at a low value which should help protect the charities share.
 
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Ashdown1

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #44
Godiva said:
I don't think anyone has yet explained the management fee's in detail.
But nobody seem to have any proof the fee's have ever been actually paid, but rather used as a tool to shift assets within the group.

The only thing that gives me any comfort in all this mess is the inevitable outcome: The club and ACL will ultimately be united under the same umbrella and for the first time in almost two decades will find itself on a solid financial foundation.
And it really doesn't matter whoever owns the umbrella.
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What wonderful spin, you dismiss the multi million pound charges out of hand { £60 million debt levied against the club is £60 million debt, no?} and follow that up with 'It doesn't matter which umbrella everything is held'......................very good, but if anyone believes that a hedge fund holding all the cards is good for any football club then they are verging on desperate !
 

Grendel

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #45
Ashdown1 said:
What wonderful spin, you dismiss the multi million pound charges out of hand { £60 million debt levied against the club is £60 million debt, no?} and follow that up with 'It doesn't matter which umbrella everything is held'......................very good, but if anyone believes that a hedge fund holding all the cards is good for any football club then they are verging on desperate !
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Whose running the asylum you live in?
 

James Smith

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #46
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Yeah, if the charity is screwed so be it.
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You have to remember that Grendel doesn't appear to care about the Charity set up to help deprived Coventry children.

Jack Griffin said:
Grendel said:
A curious question. If the club could get it for nothing who on earth would object?
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I would object to the club taking money from a childrens charity.
Guess your morals don't extend to supporting charities, still I'm not surprised.
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James Smith said:
I'm sure the late Sir Higgs and his dad who left all his money to set this charity supporting underprivileged children in Coventry up would be delighted to know that Grendel proposes to deprive them of their money. This charity that built us somewhere very good where the academy could train and bailed our club out when we were looking likely to go into administration before, is the one you're talking about denying them their money. And you talk about people not supporting the club............!

:facepalm:
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Grendel

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #47
James Smith said:
You have to remember that Grendel doesn't appear to care about the Charity set up to help deprived Coventry children.
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Hilarious, how do you earn a living now the panto season is over?
 

Sky Blue Kid

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #48
Grendel said:
Hilarious, how do you earn a living now the panto season is over?
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How the hell do you sleep at night?....But, there you go, some have no morals, Grenduffy being one of them!
 

James Smith

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #49
Grendel said:
Hilarious, how do you earn a living now the panto season is over?
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Do you have a very short memory?
James Smith said:
Deleted member 5849 said:
All these ACL employees sticking together
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I am not as I have stated before employed by ACL, I work in a shop and live down south, the daily commute to the Ricoh would kill me. 2+ hours a day on Virgin Trains doesn't bear thinking about.
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Source: http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/30568-Mediation-arbitration?p=434359&viewfull=1#post434359

James Smith said:
Grendel said:
Shop shut for bank holiday is it?
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Nope but I have the day off! and it's sunny to boot.
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Source: http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/30568-Mediation-arbitration?p=434430&viewfull=1#post434430
 

Grendel

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #50
James Smith said:
Do you have a very short memory?

Source: http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/30568-Mediation-arbitration?p=434359&viewfull=1#post434359


Source: http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/30568-Mediation-arbitration?p=434430&viewfull=1#post434430
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No I have a very good memory but tend to dump dull and irrelevant information to the archive section of my brain.
 

Grendel

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #51
Sky Blue Kid said:
How the hell do you sleep at night?....But, there you go, some have no morals, Grenduffy being one of them!
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Please I'm starting to well up.
 
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SkyblueBazza

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #52
dongonzalos said:
I actually meant to reply to Godiva.
He says he thinks the golden share is in holdings.
I wonder why the club dropped its battle against a 10 point deduction if the club were not in administration.
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Because there is more money to be had through compensation?
 

Sky Blue Kid

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #53
Grendel said:
No I have a very good memory but tend to dump dull and irrelevant information to the archive section of my brain.
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You're very much akin to a "Junkie" Grenduffy, you want you're "Fix" and don't mind who you hurt, or walk over, to get it!....much the same as SISU:thinking about:
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #54
Grendel said:
If someone pays the price they invested so be it. If not it is the failure to invest sensibly. That cannot be blamed on any purchaser and the longer they wait the greater the risk of the value diminishing further. The council could so their share at a low value which should help protect the charities share.
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They stepped in when McGinnity and Richardson messed up. In previous posts you have called for ACL to be wound up and handed to the club for nothing-now you are backtracking.
 
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SkyblueBazza

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #55
James Smith said:
You have to remember that Grendel doesn't appear to care about the Charity set up to help deprived Coventry children.
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Hang on a minute...if a charity actually has these vast sums of money - & if they were using it to benefit deprived kids in Coventry...is it wise to risk it's money by "investing" it the way it has? Or would it help more by spending it on those very children???
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #56
SkyblueBazza said:
Hang on a minute...if a charity actually has these vast sums of money - & if they were using it to benefit deprived kids in Coventry...is it wise to risk it's money by "investing" it the way it has? Or would it help more by spending it on those very children???
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It depends on how serious or immediate the club's debts were at the time. For McGinnity to have wanted to sell the shareholding suggests very, so perhaps they saw it as essential to keeping a major Coventry asset going without the club taking on more debt. The council's quotes of late have defied belief but the charity has been behind the club for a fair while.
 

Grendel

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #57
SkyblueBazza said:
Hang on a minute...if a charity actually has these vast sums of money - & if they were using it to benefit deprived kids in Coventry...is it wise to risk it's money by "investing" it the way it has? Or would it help more by spending it on those very children???
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Exactly if we were in the premier league would they sell at cost price? No and they shouldn't. Nature of speculative investment. Win some lose some.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #58
Grendel said:
Exactly if we were in the premier league would they sell at cost price? No and they shouldn't. Nature of speculative investment. Win some lose some.
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I think it was less of an investment and more a desperate sale to keep the club afloat.
 

cloughie

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #59
Grendel said:
No I have a very good memory but tend to dump dull and irrelevant information to the archive section of my brain.
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Along with any facts that don't suit your argument
 

cloughie

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #60
SkyblueBazza said:
Hang on a minute...if a charity actually has these vast sums of money - & if they were using it to benefit deprived kids in Coventry...is it wise to risk it's money by "investing" it the way it has? Or would it help more by spending it on those very children???
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Usually investeing in property is a safe bet over a period of time
 

torchomatic

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #61
Similarly you lie and make up statements to help back your paper-thin arguments. The difference being?

Sky Blue Kid said:
You're very much akin to a "Junkie" Grenduffy, you want you're "Fix" and don't mind who you hurt, or walk over, to get it!....much the same as SISU:thinking about:
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Waldorf

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #62
Godiva said:
Yes, me too.
But from what little has been said and printed it looks like all payments from FL to the club has been paid to holdings registered bank account. In addition all player contracts seems to be registered with holdings company registration number. Then there's the claim that the club have put in 'a note' with the FL register.

If that is the case, then FL may decide there's 'reasonable doubt' and that the club is actually ccfc holdings.
Then again, they could also decide the club is a combination of holdings and limited, but that could lead anywhere and the 'case' could run for quite some time.
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It's not surprising that payments were made to Holdings and not Ltd. the last set of Sky Blue Sports and Leisure accounts that was filed (SBS&L are the parent company) was quite categorical. Ltd is described as having the purpose of running a professional football club, whilst Holdings is described as providing management services to Ltd. it's quite reasonable for part of those services to be collecting and making payments, managing contracts etc., so leaving Ltd to concentrate on running the club.
 

Grendel

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #63
cloughie said:
Along with any facts that don't suit your argument
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Are you talking to yourself again?
 

Nonleagueherewecome

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #64
Grendel said:
Are you talking to yourself again?
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You're really hitting the intellectual peaks these days, aren't you?
 

torchomatic

Well-Known Member
  • May 7, 2013
  • #65
Ooh, I have to say that is pretty desperate. They should have given the money to the "deprived" 8 years ago and not bothered with us. I hope all the people who work for Higgs do it for nothing. After all they wouldn't want to take food from the mouths of those kids, would they?

But. Seriously. That was a ridiculous statement to make.

James Smith said:
You have to remember that Grendel doesn't appear to care about the Charity set up to help deprived Coventry children.
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dongonzalos

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #66
Waldorf said:
It's not surprising that payments were made to Holdings and not Ltd. the last set of Sky Blue Sports and Leisure accounts that was filed (SBS&L are the parent company) was quite categorical. Ltd is described as having the purpose of running a professional football club, whilst Holdings is described as providing management services to Ltd. it's quite reasonable for part of those services to be collecting and making payments, managing contracts etc., so leaving Ltd to concentrate on running the club.
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Sounds like holdings is just a management company?
 

James Smith

Well-Known Member
  • May 7, 2013
  • #67
Grendel said:
Exactly if we were in the premier league would they sell at cost price? No and they shouldn't. Nature of speculative investment. Win some lose some.
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No they wouldn't sell entirely at cost price but nearly plus interest and some of the market value, PWKH spelled out as much as he could here:

PWKH said:
There is indeed no harm in asking. The purchase price paid by the Charity is well known: £6.5m. The formula within the Option Agreement is commercial in confidence, both parties, the AEHC and CCFC are bound by the Agreement not to disclose the detail. I don't think it would be out of order if I said that 75% of the price would be based on the original purchase price plus interest and the remaining 25% on the value of ACL. Further than that I cannot go.
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Source: http://www.skybluestalk.co.uk/threads/28335-Another-question-for-PKBH?p=398194&viewfull=1#post398194
 

James Smith

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #68
torchomatic said:
Ooh, I have to say that is pretty desperate. They should have given the money to the "deprived" 8 years ago and not bothered with us. I hope all the people who work for Higgs do it for nothing. After all they wouldn't want to take food from the mouths of those kids, would they?

But. Seriously. That was a ridiculous statement to make.
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Well when he asked that If the club could get the stadium for nothing who on earth would object, he obviously couldn't see that a charity and the Coventry Taxpayer would.
See for yourself how much the charity cost to run, the accounts are here http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends67/0000509367_ac_20110405_e_c.pdf

And yes I'm beginning to think that the Charity should have let us go into admin all those years ago, and not bailed us out.
 
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dongonzalos

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #69
James Smith said:
See for yourself how much the charity cost to run, the accounts are here http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends67/0000509367_ac_20110405_e_c.pdf
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Accounts available to read, there's a novel idea
 
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skyblue2k

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  • May 7, 2013
  • #70
Could the council not use whatever is left of the £21 million, ACL paid the council for rent in advance a few years back? As i read it that payment was to cover the remaining 49 years of rent acl owed the council. This is only if the court decides against the council buying out ACL's mortgage and ACL paying the council.
 
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