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Grendel said:

Just out of interest from a Coventry City Football Club angle -- why do you care?

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Because the last time we owned the ground we ended up 60 million in debt with no ground sold our best players got relegated so tell me whats changed?
OK so we own the ground so we make £10.000 every 2 weeks in sales of pies and beer plus 2 concerts a year and a few conferences lucky to get a million pounds a year (on a good year) wouldn't even pay the wages then there's repair costs etc etc
Wouldn't sell to SISU for a billion

BACK ON TOPIC

This is an important and highly valuable point. Just why is it that the CET is allowing itself to be used as a lever to pressurise the relevant parties today when the club is actually in the hands of the administrator

As the CET is being contacted to spout this stuff is there anybody there who has the wit to say something like;
"Oh, and while you're on the phone could you shed some light on why the Council had to bail out the club in the first place AND what is your recollection of the original rental agreement?

These are questions that the good citizens of Cov deserve to have answered on their behalf. After all it was their council tax that was used to help build the god forsaken Ricoh in the first place! WHy was this necessary?

Isn't it a bit rich of someone who now berates the council over legal bills to not provide answers to these questions?

You cannot and should not be allowed to have it both ways.:welcome::guitar2:

rupert_bear said:

Interesting comment in the C.E.T. advising again for all parties to get around the table and talk, it's a shame you wasn't so advisory in the early years when you were part of the Richardson board which sold HR for a song, left us in the lurch regard a football ground, resulting in a ground being built for almost double the cost of any other similar ground the results of such decisions contributes to the mess we are in today. Perhaps you could ignore the confidentiallity agreements set in those days and enlighten us mear supporters why such ridiculous decisions by so called business men were made and what happened to the money.

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Makes no difference who paid what. The council should disband ACL and offer the stadium up for tender. They could realise upwards of £100m.

OR

Council offer a new 125 year lease to new football club owners who would own the entire leasehold and all it's potential at a sensible incremental rent. It's a win win.

Hell they could offer SISU a deal out of it to step aside. Problem is everyone is too greedy.

Mmmmm, "keep the heat on" GR vis a vis who else wanted in in 2007 is also putting the heat on Council who - according to GR - favoured Sisu.
Are you suggesting that this interested party might still be out there?