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Rumour: Hoffman and Elliot takeover negotiations (4 Viewers)

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Skybluefaz

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,566
Astute said:
One more thing. Something looks to have been leaked :woot: I await those going mental about another leak :shifty:
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What's been leaked? I love a leak.
 
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Gaz71

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,567
Skybluefaz said:
What's been leaked? I love a leak.
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Skybluefaz

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  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,568
Gaz71 said:
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You wacky funster
 
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Deity

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,569
That's not how corporate deals are structured.

It would be normal for the seller to retain the Cash right up until the transaction concludes. It is equally normal to calculate what normalised cash flow looks like ... no reason for season tickets to be a barrier
 

Captain Dart

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,570
rupert_bear said:
I still think the key is the ground,where we play or would like to next season and how much it will cost. No indication of any Wasp deal yet and sooner or later sisu will have to confirm to the EFL where. There might well be a deal with the stadium owner but they might demand significantly more and upfront and with the sisu past re rent who could blame them. This doubt surely effects value.
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That and whether this next JR has any traction. For those reasons I don not expect anything to happen till this time next season.
 

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,571
Captain Dart said:
That and whether this next JR has any traction. For those reasons I don not expect anything to happen till this time next season.
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It all depends on if talks are actually happening. Then it is down to the unrealistic amount Joy is asking for and the under value they have offered. If there is an amount somewhere in the middle they can agree on there's a deal to be done. If not.......
 
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oldfiver

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,572
Astute said:
It all depends on if talks are actually happening. Then it is down to the unrealistic amount Joy is asking for and the under value they have offered. If there is an amount somewhere in the middle they can agree on there's a deal to be done. If not.......
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People keep saying "if" - I thought Moz Baker confirmed on Friday that was reason Hoffman could not go on CWR?
 

mark82

Super Moderator
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,573
Didn't think Moz was involved in the trust any more?
 
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oldfiver

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,574
mark82 said:
Didn't think Moz was involved in the trust any more?
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It says "Chair" on SBT site
 

mark82

Super Moderator
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,575
oldfiver said:
It says "Chair" on SBT site
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Guess I was wrong then
 

Skyblueweeman

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,576
italiahorse said:
Offering a realistic figure but give Sisu an incentive of sharing 'some' future incomes is the best way forward.
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Yeah, maybe. I'd want a clean break from these parasites once and for all though. No attachment or any linger of SISU going forward is the ideal that we should be going for.
 
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mark82

Super Moderator
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,577
oldfiver said:
It says "Chair" on SBT site
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Just had a look at the trust board. This isn't meant as a slight on anyone but they're not a particularly mixed demographic. Doesn't seem particularly representative of the fan base (again, not a slight on individuals, sure they are all very capable).
 

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,578
oldfiver said:
People keep saying "if" - I thought Moz Baker confirmed on Friday that was reason Hoffman could not go on CWR?
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I don't know him. He hasn't told me. That is enough for me to say if.
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,579
The presenter said that Hoffman had pulled out of being on the show as he was in process of corresponding with Seppala about trying to arrange a meeting and didn't want to say any more. Moz was asked what he knew and said he didn't know any more than that. I took that to mean that Moz had no more information, and that it was news to him that Hoffman was not going to be on the show. Hoffman had said he was trying to arrange a meeting not that there were talks so nothing has changed

I think people are putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,580
oldskyblue58 said:
The presenter said that Hoffman had pulled out of being on the show as he was in process of corresponding with Seppala about trying to arrange a meeting and didn't want to say any more. Moz was asked what he knew and said he didn't know any more than that. I took that to mean that Moz had no more information, and that it was news to him that Hoffman was not going to be on the show. Hoffman had said he was trying to arrange a meeting not that there were talks so nothing has changed

I think people are putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5
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I know it's just like some people putting 2 and 2 together and getting 60 million
 
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covcity4life

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  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,581
Broken Hearted Sky Blue said:
I know it's just like some people putting 2 and 2 together and getting 60 million
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sisu want 61m then
 

olderskyblue

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,582
oldskyblue58 said:
The presenter said that Hoffman had pulled out of being on the show as he was in process of corresponding with Seppala about trying to arrange a meeting and didn't want to say any more. Moz was asked what he knew and said he didn't know any more than that. I took that to mean that Moz had no more information, and that it was news to him that Hoffman was not going to be on the show. Hoffman had said he was trying to arrange a meeting not that there were talks so nothing has changed

I think people are putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5
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I thought with accountancy, 2 + 2 = 4 + the time taken to calculate it at £??? per minute... (15 minute minimum..)
 

clint van damme

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,583
right on cue - (2 days late!!)

CCFC takeover dialogue ongoing as consortium seeks price tag
 

Skyblueweeman

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,584
I wonder if the email communication mentioned is actually with Sepalla or one of her cronies. Hopefully more to come out soon.
 

covcity4life

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,585
Skyblueweeman said:
I wonder if the email communication mentioned is actually with Sepalla or one of her cronies. Hopefully more to come out soon.
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i have managed to get hold of the leaked email communications!


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joy.sepalla@sisu.net
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Astute

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  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,586
Skyblueweeman said:
I wonder if the email communication mentioned is actually with Sepalla or one of her cronies. Hopefully more to come out soon.
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Hopefully it wouldn't be with Fisher. All we would get from him is that he would construct an email in two weeks.
 
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ajsccfc

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  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,587
As we speak, Michael Byng's winding up his enigma machine to send a coded bid over the radio waves
 
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oldfiver

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,588
oldskyblue58 said:
Hoffman had said he was trying to arrange a meeting not that there were talks so nothing has changed

Coventry City takeover talks are still ongoing as the consortium headed by Gary Hoffman seeks a price tag for the Sky Blues from owners Sisu. ( from CT article )
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oldfiver

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,589
clint van damme said:
right on cue - (2 days late!!)

CCFC takeover dialogue ongoing as consortium seeks price tag
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Or 3 hours after the question was asked
 
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oldfiver

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  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,590
olderskyblue said:
I thought with accountancy, 2 + 2 = 4 + the time taken to calculate it at £??? per minute... (15 minute minimum..)
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3 £??? a minute - am in the wrong job
 
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olderskyblue

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  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,591
oldfiver said:
3 £??? a minute - am in the wrong job
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Depends which one of those is the decimal point....
 
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oldfiver

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,592
olderskyblue said:
Depends which one of those is the decimal point....
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Only work in round £'s these days
 
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dongonzalos

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  • Jun 5, 2017
  • #5,593
chiefdave said:
An amount at which SISU might realistically sell at. Anything else is just a waste of everyones time.
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Have they said what they might realistically sell at?
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 6, 2017
  • #5,594
mark82 said:
Just had a look at the trust board. This isn't meant as a slight on anyone but they're not a particularly mixed demographic. Doesn't seem particularly representative of the fan base (again, not a slight on individuals, sure they are all very capable).
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Don't know how much you look at the crowd at City, but old white dudes is very much our demographic. It's also the demographic of the Trust from the meetings I remember.

They can only elect people who join and run to be fair to them.
 
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OyJimmy

Member
  • Jun 6, 2017
  • #5,595
I suspect Joy Seppalla may not want to name her price as that may also force her to either confess to investors how much of a loss they will need to suffer or how unrealistic their price actually is. I suspect SISU are desperate not to name their price for this reason.
 
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Kingokings204

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 6, 2017
  • #5,596
OyJimmy said:
I suspect Joy Seppalla may not want to name her price as that may also force her to either confess to investors how much of a loss they will need to suffer or how unrealistic their price actually is. I suspect SISU are desperate not to name their price for this reason.
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But they could say anything. I would be very surprised if the investors didn't know anyway it's their money they have spunked.
 

oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • Jun 6, 2017
  • #5,597
Seems to me CT claims that dialogue continues are a bit tenuous. The "dialogue" seems to be very one sided, with Seppala responding with a blunt not interested. Sending Seppala three bids rejected as unwelcome or insufficient and emails asking to meet that are refused is not really constructive or even first step dialogue between two parties is it?

Is she willing to sell at anything like what has been offered or at all? Not at the moment it would seem.
 
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hill83

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  • Jun 6, 2017
  • #5,598
As soon as I read 'the telegraph understands' I immediately give up.

The Telegraph understands no meeting or phone calls have yet taken place, but email conversations have been ongoing.
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oldskyblue58

CCFC Finance Director
  • Jun 6, 2017
  • #5,599
As for crystallising the losses - which losses?

The original investment, £28m, made by the 5 private equity funds would have to be valued each year for the annual investment report. So its down grading has to have been known for years, Its just a question of when the loss is physically taken. What we don't know is if the £28m is all or a small part of the whole fund (- in any case I would argue the £28m wasn't all in cash, nearer to £18m in my opinion actually invested) so the loss could have been cushioned by profits elsewhere. The £28m is stuck in SBS&L not Otium which could be a problem for the investors if CCFC sold but is it new losses and unknown? The liability/loss to investors is already gone in reality, their only hope of a return is the legal actions by SBS&L because anything CCFC is charged to ARVO.

There is a possibility to consider that the original investors were repaid a pittance in the £ some time ago and that the actual purchase price is very little for the newer current investors in SBS&L (ie most of this loss already crystallised years ago so is not currently a big problem for SISU now). It could have been as simple as moving investors to more profitable funds. Due to the lack of transparency only SISU know the loss to come from any sale of CCFC that will hit the shareholders in SBS&L. It could be nothing like the £28m that we expect

The ARVO investment in Otium would also be assessed annually, but is secured on any assets in CCFC and on paper at least earning an income (interest accrued but not paid out). It would therefore have a value because of the assets it is secured on. I suspect settling ARVO is the key to any deal, their liability stood at £8m capital plus £4m interest 31-05-2016 accounts. However the group financial statements disclose that the amount put in by ARVO is around £16m in total over the years since 2012. A settlement well above any offer so far is required by ARVO I would think.

Ryton can be used to negotiate in any settlement but if there is already a presale agreement or it can be moved to another company then its value in a 3rd party bid is not a lot as ARVO already control it. Seppala could (but hasn't said anything) simply say we will sell you all the football assets but Ryton not for sale - that would leave the cash required for a sale still the same, more than the 2.2m plus uncertain add ons

It may be that the particular investors involved see these figures as pocket money - we don't know. They took a chance and this didn't turn out well but other "bets" have. In which case crystallising losses is not a problem. That leaves sheer bloody mindedness and stubbornness as the reasons for no sale - far harder to deal with if no financial hurt occurring

If CCFC through managing the cash flows does not require further funding from SISU, requires only a non binding letter annually to auditors that the loans wont be withdrawn and the owners will continue to try to source funding then CCFC has been parked to survive on its own resources and it is no longer hurting the owners. There is no need as yet to sell, and certainly no need to sell at a low value. It is really only promotion to the Championship that would cause the owners problems in terms of having to finance larger expenditure.

The only pressure point looming would seem to be having a home ground in Coventry. BPA if it ever were to be brought to fruition wont happen before the end of the Ricoh term so it is either a rolling deal with Wasps or pointing a finger at Wasps/CCC saying CCFC were forced out (grounds for legal action?) so EFL will back any alternative. Of course if MR makes the team successful then there is an element of comfort there for the owners they can utilise in any negotiations and probably a harder job for the Hoffman consortium or others to buy in and a price increase in Seppala's eyes

I would suggest nothing is going to happen any time soon to change the owners
 
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letsallsingtogether

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  • Jun 6, 2017
  • #5,600
mark82 said:
Just had a look at the trust board. This isn't meant as a slight on anyone but they're not a particularly mixed demographic. Doesn't seem particularly representative of the fan base (again, not a slight on individuals, sure they are all very capable).
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Why is that then they are all normal fans?
 
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