ACL own 72 % of Compass so they are intrinsically linked ACL knew exactly what they were doing when the F&B was offered to SISU for £24million, ACL are now in deep shit and the CCC cannot offer any kind of financial support
Actually, Compass are enormous, if ACL owned 72% of them they wouldn't have to worry about anything.
A joint company (IEC?) was set up between Compass and ACL to handle F & B at the Ricoh. Compass wanted to buy in rather than just supply, presumably. ACL own 70%+ of that company.
On that basis, with regard to pressure from Compass, I don't think ACL are in the sh*t yet, although I get the sense here that many would delight if they were. This seems odd given their ownership rests between the taxpayer and a charity.
As for a deal on F&B, as I recall SISU didn't even avail themselves of a chance to discuss that. It was all about the rent being too high to start off with, then when that seemed resovled it moved to an issue about F&B. Now it's all about owning our own stadium.
Maybe when Fisher stops moving the goalposts their might be some sort of deal to be had, until then I've seen no evidence that SISU's plan is anything other than to distress ACL into selling up on the cheap.
You can support that plan if you want, but personally I think it's odious.