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  • Start date Aug 23, 2025
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Shannerz

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #141
Well.
 
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #142
Anyone else feel Doug is priming to sell us? All of a sudden we’re an attractive proposition for investors.
 
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Sky Blue Goblin

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #143
Telegraph reporting it includes all of it. Mentioning the money we’ll make on the hotel
 

MacReady

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #144
Now we can shut the doors on the council.
 
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Trueskyblue20

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #145
Ccfcisparks said:
I for one can't wait to hear @GIMOC reaction
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“Yeah it’s great he bought the stadium and all that but there’s massive rift behind the scenes. Doug has been shagging the players wives and Haji is homesick and wants to move to Skegness “
 
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You'll Never Beat McPake

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #146
This is bit of a "Dallas, Bobby in the shower moment". Did the last 20 years really happen. Did we almost go out of existence only to be saved by SISU. Did we really end up playing home games at Northampton, Birmingham and Burton. Did we endure all of this with no real hope of an end to the pain and distress of being homeless.
So today, 20 years on we play QPR again so I predict a 3 - nil win with a diving header to start things off.
Thank you Doug King and your team. Thank you for saving our club, thank you for bringing back the hope. This is a massive day in the history of the City of Coventy and CCFC.
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #147
HuckerbyDublinWhelan said:
Anyone else feel Doug is priming to sell us? All of a sudden we’re an attractive proposition for investors.
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Yep smells what its like to me. He's more than entitled to now, fair play to him.
 
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Kubrick

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #148
 

stay_up_skyblues

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #149
Only drawback is Ashley insisted Doug purchased it through Frasers Plus. 29.9% apr but we do have 36 months to pay.
 
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covcity4life

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #150
Wow I'm genuinely in shock. Still part of me things some sort of practical joke

This is just huge. It doesn't mean we will become a champions league club or anything but it feels like a massive weight holding us down has been taken away

The sky is the actual limit now for us sky blues! Let's go smash QPR

Thank you to

Mark robins and Doug king in particular. Although don't wanna make it about sisu you do wonder if this could ever shave happened without them making councils life hard too.

Everything happens for a reason I guess

PUSB!
 
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Martw

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #151
This will presumably have cost several tens and tens of millions of pounds. I wonder how it has been financed? Also he might want to open up bidding for a new main sponsor as well when it’s next due for renewal I reckon but it is simply amazing news
 

ccfc1234

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #152
Amazing news. I wonder if Doug has given Mike Ashley or Frazers some equity in the club to help facilitate the deal? Being pragmatic having the assets combined makes us a far more saleable entity in the long run and all parties will know that.

Either way excellent for the club and fans.
 

Evo1883

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #153
Ashley fair play has just flipped the stadium i imagine for a tidy profit and we finally get our football club back .

It closes the door on whats been a miserable period at ownership / board level .

Doug King , the supporters Knight in shining armour all along
 
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Dhinsa's_Millions

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #154
 

SeaSeeEffCee

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #155
Finally earned the song I think

I think it’s good be skeptical of new owners coming in and don’t really regret it in regards to King but he’s certainly earned the trust now. What a day for the club and for our future 🩵
 
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oneofourown

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #156
I think it was a scenerio that Ashley and fraser can't do anything with the stadium without owning the club and after Newcastle possibly doesn't have the ambition for another club ownership. Likewise, if Doug wants to grow the club and then at some point sell it he has to own the ground too. They must have worked on a business plan where both will make some dosh when we reach the promised land and if/when we sell.
 
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RoysterE17

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #157
We finally have a home that is ours!!!
 

Sbarcher

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #158
WOW just WOW!!!!!!
 
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Woodster

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #159
Good job they sacked the kitman, if this had gotten leaked then Sheffield United or Ipswich might’ve beat us to it.
 
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tisza

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #160
Martw said:
This will presumably have cost several tens and tens of millions of pounds. I wonder how it has been financed? Also he might want to open up bidding for a new main sponsor as well when it’s next due for renewal I reckon but it is simply amazing news
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Doubt it's that bad. King did offer 25 million before it was flogged to Ashley for 17m. Plus it has been running at a loss under Fraser.
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #161
"Wise men say, Only fool love Bling
But I can't help, falling in love with you"

Get that on repeat this afternoon.
 
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ptr

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #162
oneofourown said:
I think it was a scenerio that Ashley and fraser can't do anything with the stadium without owning the club and after Newcastle possibly doesn't have the ambition for another club ownership. Likewise, if Doug wants to grow the club and then at some point sell it he has to own the ground too. They must have worked on a business plan where both will make some dosh when we reach the promised land and if/when we sell.
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Or more than likely that Ashley has done exactly what he wanted. Held on to the stadium until we had the funds and made a decent profit with a quick turnaround. He isn’t stupid.
 
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Deity

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #163
Ccfcisparks said:
I for one can't wait to hear @GIMOC reaction
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You and @shmmeee are Kings biggest critics with @Saddlebrains not far behind ….
 
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shmmeee

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #164
MacReady said:
Now we can shut the doors on the council.
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They haven’t moved out of Coventry.
 

Evo1883

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #165
Ccfcisparks said:
"Wise men say, Only fool love Bling
But I can't help, falling in love with you"

Get that on repeat this afternoon.
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We cant give sunderland more ammunition
 

hill83

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #166
Can’t believe it.
 
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #167
Deity said:
You and @shmmeee are Kings biggest critics with @Saddlebrains not far behind ….
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Utter nonsense.
 

biggymania

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #168
I’d expect this cost somewhere around 25-30mil but total guess.

Frasers bought it for 18mil including transaction costs.

I guess we’ll find out when the respective accounts are published.
 
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jto123

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #169
Honestly bouncing at this news! Almost in tears!
 

Grimetime

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #170
shmmeee said:
They haven’t moved out of Coventry.
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We're gonna be like London now, you've got Coventry and then the City of Coventry out in CV6.
 
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Liquid Gold

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #171
Deity said:
Incredible news

although no doubt the bedwetters will find fault …
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Some of the best news in the club’s history. Perfect time for forum point scoring.

Melt.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #172
Unless it’s to sell the club I don’t see the point here. Costs loads to maintain and makes no money, that’s why it’s been a hot potato from day one.
 
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Grendel

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #173
shmmeee said:
They haven’t moved out of Coventry.
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You sound ecstatic as ever
 
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covcity4life

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #174
If king doesn't take us up some foreign investor might now. For once @hill83 can actually do his CL in 3 years prediction!
 
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SwanLane

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  • Aug 23, 2025
  • #175
Still pinching myself
 
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