Baz deals in stories and as a football fan appreciates the need to keep the local community informed. Unfortunately the HDM also has employees who deal in Clickbait and sensationalism. The 2 look very odd side by side but at least it does highlight those journalists who have sold their souls.
Baz also recently published an EXCLUSIVE on Acun being at the game Saturday despite Acun declaring that himself days ago. Don't be fooled, Baz doesn't mind a bit of clickbait when it suits him either.
He does indeed Sydney - although I feel there is a difference between enticing people in with a good news story as opposed to trying to lure people in with the intent to anger and drive wedges between people.
Angus is a decent reporter but this article, although factually correct but entirely one sided and worded, in my opinion, to stoke the hornets nest of those who hold a dislike ( hatred) of football and the Allams. Even the paragraph about HCC taking the Allams to the County Court over the Airco Arena......which was thrown out of court by the judge as no case to answer. So if he feels the need to rake over the names of those displaced from the area, then he should also point out the reasons why it came about ? It's a cleverly worded article to get peoples backs up. Or a higher level of click bait then we have become accustomed to on Hull Live.
I don't know why we'd care anyway. Because after all these years, wouldn't we have been proved right anyway?
To be fair even though it's not mandatory to speak to the Council, I'm a little surprised a prospective new owner hasn't even sounded out the Council to determine some sort of relationship going forward. Seems a little strange through this whole process to not even have a preliminary meeting.
I agree it’s **** stirring but I am surprised Acun’s team haven’t tried to engage with the council both as the leaseholder but from a wider stakeholder perspective. I’m very very surprised, it would be high up on my to do list if I was involved. We need better relationships with the council, the pathetic wars between the Allams & the council have been one of their biggest failings over the last 10 years
Who knows anything is anything because everyone who says anything could be lying? All we can do is take the word of anyone with some authority who comments on a situation, and representatives of the Council have consistently said they've had no contact.
For balance there’s also a number of posters suggesting a meeting did take place with the perspective new owners and the council (Cllr Hale) in early December.
The Allams met with senior members of the council in December. I'm sure it wasn't just to exchange Christmas cards.
The Airco fiasco was appalling from the Allams, from how it came about and their motives, to how it affected grassroots sports participants, to how Ehab made demands of the council that they do things they couldn't legally do in order to get him to stop, to them selling the local clubs' trampolines online. Every step of the way they were utterly abhorrent and I have no idea why you'd want to defend it.
Regarding the new people speaking to the council, I am not sure that they can until they have completed. The council have no authority in the sale and they could not be a party to any discussions about the SMC at all, with a prospective owner of the football club. They could of course discuss future plans, but the scope would be limited and it certainly would not hold any deal up. If Assem Allam had met with the council, before buying the club, does anyone think he would have actually gone through with it, because I don't. That said I do think that the SMC is and has been a stumbling block. The Allams do not want the football club, but they really do want the ability to develop the land and stadium complex at some stage. I have nothing to back this up, except one post, that was made on here sometime ago, but I do think that the shareholding of the SMC may well be divided between the Ilicali and Allam directors. I cannot see any legal means to prevent that. Acun gets the club and the Allams still hold an interest in the SMC.
Genuine question. Isn't the SMC a huge loss-maker? If so,why would anyone,especially the Allams,want to be involved?
I wasn't suggesting they speak to the Council as any official part of the negotiations, but surely a preliminary meeting to get to know the Council would make a smidgen of sense.
That would be a strange stance from the Allams, the SMC is a loss making entity, it’s a toxic asset. Any “hope” value of future development would be way out of balance to the ongoing losses & historic debt. A better way would be for Allams to insert an % clause on any increases of the land value / development in the future
