No offence mate, but you don't know what you're talking about. They spent £50m on a club worth £15m, I'm not sure what sort of investment opportunity that was, but if you're ever after a loan, don't come to me.
Here here excellent post, our transition from the shambles we were 18 months ago is incredible and a transition we should all be grateful for.
I understand that the preconception of clubs with foreign owners isn't a great one, but we are fortunate enough to have owners who have lived in the area for many years, have an affiliation to the club and the community and are understanding of the supporters and the community's needs. If Assem Allam didn't have the club at heart he wouldn't have touched the club with a barge pole given the mess we were in, but he was willing to take that risk to give the club a bright future and the city and the area to have a club to support and be proud of.
The Allams really got us out of the **** we were in. Forever greatful to them, I don't think we would be where we are without them to be honest.
You really know your onions, don't you matie? You know, I regularly disagree with folk on here but I always try and respect people's right to comment and air they opinion. However, in your case, I'd advise keeping your mouth shut. With each post you just manage to make yourself look a bigger nob.
Don't think what PattyandChips has said about the people who saved from extinction the Club I have supported for 40 years, could ever be regarded as goodwill.
The Frasiers!! Speaking of Frasier i think you need a shrink mate. Giving you the benefit of the doubt a little you posted the other day and got stepped on then. Maybe its your posting style i dont know but its getting peoples backs up.
To be honest mate I see where you're coming from, and I wonder too why anyone would plough £50,000,000 into a football club when it's unlikely they'll ever see a return on that, and even so it would probably end up taking the club with them when they pack in. But they have done, and to question the alleged 'lack of emotion' is bizarre. It's there for all to see, in every interview and most noticeably on videos of the man. They obviously care about the club and their ambition is easily judgeable on what they have already done and achieved here, nevermind this January. I'm certain that if anyone is sold in this window it will be down to Nicks decision that we can improve the squad more with the money than we're damaging it by selling a player, I don't think it will be due to Allam sticking his nose in, although that would more likely be the instant conclusion of alot on here and an Allam out crusade would probably begin. I think their initial plan to return the money they've invested was through the sports village, in which case everyones a winner. The club is better off owning the ground, the area and people of Hull are better off with fantastic sporting facilities, and the Allams are better off with profit coming from the sports village and a whole new business venture. Sadly it looks like that's dead in the water at present, maybe they're waiting for a chance at some movement with it, maybe they're looking elsewhere at other investments, but I'm almost 100% sure it's not in their intention to sell half the team and drain money from the club. For the sports village project (which I do believe they are waiting patiently on) they need the people of Hull on their side, and no one will be if the Allams go and sell our best players and turn into another bunch of bandits in charge of us.
So, pretty similar to the stuff you've come up with already then! By the way I've never particularly like The Frasiers. I did like The Cheers though! Muppett!
I find the sheep comment a bit patronising to be honest, everyone is capable of forming their own opinion themselves even if they do conform to the majority. We've been ****ed over before by owners, I think we're capable of spoting a decent owner when we see one. To call him an opportunist seems pretty cynical. Yes, he's a businessman and the club is treat as a business, but what football club isn't? But alongside this there is the affiliation he has with the club and its supporters, a man who appears determined to do his best for this club.
Huh? The word opportunist doesn't exactly carry positive connotations you know! And I don't see how it is meant to apply to me?
The Allams are businessmen but they have done nothing but good to our club, so they are highly regarded for that reason. You don't need to call people sheep for being great-full to those that saved our club in a difficult and trying situation.
But you're only speculating, unless you're a fly on the wall watching the Allam's conduct their club business? Plenty of us follow the club well enough to know that the Allam's are at the club for the right reasons. Just beacuse most people conform to an opinion doesn't make you a sheep for crying out loud, people are capable of making their own opinions!
I'm still wondering about the return they expect to get from the wing they built at Castle Hill, there must be an exit strategy, maybe the heart monitors go up in value?
What's Castle Hill? Reading between the lines I'm guessing it's a hill where there used to be a castle, or still is?
