Stadium after May? (1 Viewer)

[shmmeee]

I wonder if we will know ?
You have a strange sense of humour.

I do.

 

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[shmmeee]

*depressing

Got to laugh or you’ll cry

 

[Robinshio]

But that is still less than the interest we were paying to sisu

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

I think we have a few players that could make the step up

O'Hare
Hamer
Vik
Palmer
Sheaf
Eccles (as a squad player)
If we were able to sign and McInally I think he would be decent in the Premier

I don't agree with that at all I'm afraid. I think Hamer and Vik would be alright, but that's about it. Eccles, Sheaf, and Palmer no way. O'Hare needs a significant improvement in his end product.

If we got promoted (which still seems to me like a very dreamland idea at the moment) we would need a serious squad overhaul to have any remote chance of surviving.

 

[SBT]

Fraser Group do not need the bad publicity around a new lease plus all the Fraser branding at the CBS is linked to TV viewers.
As mentioned by many Fraser Group will be our owners with the investment that takes us back to the Premier League.

How is the Fraser branding linked to TV viewership?

 

[shmmeee]

How is the Fraser branding linked to TV viewership?

Well if there’s a really low crowd but a guy in the directors box is wearing mirror shades…

 

[bawtryneal]

How is the Fraser branding linked to TV viewership?

Do you really want me to answer that ??

 

[DownUnderDingo]

The reality:

Wasps were in the financial mire when they agreed to let CCFC back.

They were in negotiations with HSBC to refinance and having the CCFC revenue stream was probably vital.

Wasps needed the CBS sponsorship income and it was a condition that CCFC play there.

In turn CCFC could to a degree call the shots with Wasps.


Different story now.

MA has purchased a stadium that would cost over 100£m to build for about 15m plus 10m refurb or whatever.

MA isn’t in a position where no rent from CCFC or no CBS income will dent his pocket.

Even any kind of rent tribunal (if there is a legal protection of some kind for CCFC and I’m not sure there is) would struggle to pin the rent as low as it is now IMO.

Can’t see CCC having much sway either.

MA would have had Joy by the b**** (ok, well not) and unless DK is mad he surely has some kind of understanding with Frasers else why take on so much financial liability?

This is my exact worry. The blokes a billionaire and the only way to become one is by being an absolute negotional shark. He's rich enough to let the stadium be empty for years if Doug with zero negotional leverage turns down any deal, which he'll be in no position to do.

It's basically, if MA wants us, he'll take us and they'll be zero Doug can do. It's exactly why Sisu got out, why would they jump ship when we are reasonably close to the PL. We all know Sisu came up with this plan to put Doug in as cover to try and get he stadium, and when that failed they even sold their last 15% out of the blue which was very strange.

 

[Sick Boy]

Maybe, just maybe, Ashley isn’t actually interested in buying us.

 

[SBT]

Do you really want me to answer that ??

I just mean that Frasers obviously aren’t being charged to put up ads inside the stadium, so TV viewership doesn’t directly impact their advertising costs as it would for other brands.

 

[bawtryneal]

I just mean that Frasers obviously aren’t being charged to put up ads inside the stadium, so TV viewership doesn’t directly impact their advertising costs as it would for other brands.

But they paid £20 million on the basis of making it a Fraser dominated advertising board on the basis of TV viewership. Without a high profile tenant they have no viewers plus no rent and casino and food and beverage income.

 

[SBT]

But they paid £20 million on the basis of making it a Fraser dominated advertising board on the basis of TV viewership. Without a high profile tenant they have no viewers plus no rent and casino and food and beverage income.

I agree that, on the face of it, it would be crazy and self-defeating for the stadium owners to evict their most high-profile tenants. And yet…

 

[NorthernWisdom]

I agree that, on the face of it, it would be crazy and self-defeating for the stadium owners to evict their most high-profile tenants. And yet…

I'd be a lot more reassured if King had given the slightest impression of considering the stadium issue when buying the club. He wouldn't be the first owner to be brought down by ground issues - Palace managed two of them in quick succession in Goldberg and Jordan!

Lets hope it all works out, as I'm quite liking having a non-suey owner...