All those reasons you cite why someone wouldn’t want to buy, are also reasons why the Allams would want to sell. It’s how deals get done and values get agreed - market forces.
Until there’s a deal signed, there’s no deal, there’s always been interested parties, there’s just never been a genuine desire to sell at a realistic price. Whether that’s changed, we won’t know for at least a couple of months, so it really doesn’t matter what ****’s posted on this thread, there’s 591 pages of it already.
Repeatedly taking a pop at someone has nothing to do with a having a different opinion, it’s just been a ****.
That's your glass half empty view... A potential owner may see a debt free club, huge potential to over night win over 99% of the fans and increase imcome from them, club in no danger of breaking financial fair play, a ex prem club that he would have a clean slate to build a team to get back there etc... Some people will always see the negative but those who can look past it will see a pretty good investment opportunity. Just my opinion
Sorry if you think I've repeatedly taken pops at you, but the language you use towards me is irrationally out of step.
They might see a club with no ground and assets that would cost them the same or more than a club with their own stadium. Charlton Athletic whose stadium holds 30,000, 5,000 more than ours, in a city where land is more expensive is on the market for £20million. A club with its own stadium inthe capital with a 30,000 stadium for £20 million or a club without its own stadium in an apparently poverty stricken city for £50 million?
All very glass half full. Club sold? Not this week, not in January. Maybe next summer depending on which league we are in.
Charlton’s for sale for £30-35m, they’re £30m in debt and currently losing £10m a year, they’re also in League One. Obviously there’s a lot of potential there, but they’re in a worse state than us. Not owning the Stadium isn’t such a big deal when it’s rent free and the owner is happy to see the site deveped (though development would obviously be limited by it being a fairly small site).
The old development bollocks. Just what would it be developed into? The council dont want anymore shops.
I read £20 million. Add the debt and you get a club with a team and a 30,000 stadium for the same price as our team and no stadium. Not much development possible at the KC. Mustn't interfere with the iconic Walton Street Market and the iconic Hull Fair with its iconic Bob Carver's.
And that would make money would it or you want the club to subsidize it? Hull city council sold off that sports centre on boothferry to a private company as they couldn't afford to run it. As they don't make money. Loads of kids got kicked out of there too.
The only shops in the proposed development were new club shops outside the existing stadium building, it was decent proposal and would have made the SMC profitable.
