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Mike Ashley buying another stadium? (1 Viewer)

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Skybluedownunder

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Mike Ashley is in detailed negotiations with Yorkshire about buying Headingley Stadium in a £22m-plus deal.

Maybe he really isn’t actually interested in buying us and is now just buying up stadiums… bit odd


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duffer

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Apparently, once you get all of the stadiums you can start building hotels. Then if anyone lands on them they're screwed.
 
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Skybluedownunder

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usskyblue said:
It just not Cricket m8
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Fair dinkum cobba


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Skybluedownunder

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duffer said:
Apparently, once you get all of the stadiums you can start building hotels. Then if anyone lands on them they're screwed.
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Sounds a very Mike Ashley thing to do


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Terry_dactyl

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Maybe he’s planning to relocate us?
 
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‘HEADING’ IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION: Top 10 cricket stadia the Sky Blues could be playing in by 2025
 
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Terry_dactyl

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It’s a shame Ndlovu isn’t still playing for us, I hear he bowled more than one maiden over…
 
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SlowerThanPlatt

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Yorkshire are crickets version of Wasps, they’re £15m in debt to their former chairman (who overseen the racism scandal)
 
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slowpoke

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Interesting, I don’t think Yorkshire are the only county up to their ears, selling grounds possibly a way forward for some.
 
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Skybluedownunder said:
Sounds a very Mike Ashley thing to do


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You can't put hotels on stadiums, it's just the more of them you own then the more ridiculous rent charge you can inflict on anyone who goes/stays there. From time to time clubs will get a directive to "take a trip" to stadiums such a Sixfields and St Andrews usually meaning a walk-out by some during the game over the legitimacy of such a move.
 
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SlowerThanPlatt said:
Yorkshire are crickets version of Wasps, they’re £15m in debt to their former chairman (who overseen the racism scandal)
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They are on a bit of a sticky wicket and he’s Looking to bail them out then?
 
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I’m stumped
 
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Kingokings204

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I remember on talksport a month or so back saying that he is a massive cricket fan maybe even more so than football. And even went on to say don’t be surprised to see his involvement in cricket soon. This could be it then.
 

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Covkid1968# said:
They are on a bit of a sticky wicket and he’s Looking to bail them out then?
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That creased me up
 

Sick Boy

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Skybluedownunder said:
Maybe he really isn’t actually interested in buying us and is now just buying up stadiums… bit odd
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I don’t he or anyone connected to him has ever said he’s interested in buying us.
 

SBAndy

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Interesting that Ashley is purchasing another asset that Stephen Vaughan is involved in…
 
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SlowerThanPlatt said:
Yorkshire are crickets version of Wasps, they’re £15m in debt to their former chairman (who overseen the racism scandal)
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Same CEO as Wasps as well of course
 
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Skybluedownunder

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Captain_Slackbladder said:
You can't put hotels on stadiums, it's just the more of them you own then the more ridiculous rent charge you can inflict on anyone who goes/stays there. From time to time clubs will get a directive to "take a trip" to stadiums such a Sixfields and St Andrews usually meaning a walk-out by some during the game over the legitimacy of such a move.
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We were on about Monopoly


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He has made it known for sometime he was looking to get involved in a cricket club.
 
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MalcSB

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Skybluedownunder said:
We were on about Monopoly


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So was the Captain.
 

Gibbo

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Read my lips. He...was...never...interested...in...buying...us. Why on earth would he? He's been there, done that, got the T shirt and the scars. The ground is an asset he can exploit, a club is a money pit. He quite likes money.
 
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Hobo

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Gibbo said:
Read my lips. He...was...never...interested...in...buying...us. Why on earth would he? He's been there, done that, got the T shirt and the scars. The ground is an asset he can exploit, a club is a money pit. He quite likes money.
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Absolutely. A few of our fans still don't understand he didn't put any of his own money into Newcastle.
 
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pusbccfc

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Mike Ashley will buy anything that's distressed.
 

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pusbccfc said:
Mike Ashley will buy anything that's distressed.
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...if it has the potential to make money. Some things are distressed for a reason, so not 'anything'.

There must be unfulfilled revenue opportunities that can be released relatively easily. Nobody ever said that about a football club.

I suspect he quite fancies the idea of 'The Fraser Arena Coventry' as being a marketing tool that actually makes money rather than just being a cost, but it is not uppermost in his thinking. But who knows?
 
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MalcSB

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pusbccfc said:
Mike Ashley will buy anything that's distressed.
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I’d better cheer up then.
 
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Skybluedownunder said:
We were on about Monopoly


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So was I...
 
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Alan Dugdales Moustache

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pusbccfc said:
Mike Ashley will buy anything that's distressed.
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Hell be buying Birmingham City Council and rebranding it .
 
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Alan Dugdales Moustache said:
Hell be buying Birmingham City Council and rebranding it .
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Return to St Andrews confirmed?
 

MalcSB

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Captain_Slackbladder said:
So was I...
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Yours was quite Monopoly logical.
 
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