Happy 3rd Anniversary Mr Allam

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Hull...ab-celebrate/story-20330971-detail/story.html


Together with his son Ehab, Assem Allam has transformed Hull City’s fortunes beyond all recognition. But as the duo celebrate the third anniversary of their family’s reign at the KC Stadium today, the 74-year-old philanthropic owner could be forgiven for wanting to step out of the limelight. Even if only for a moment.

If his first season was all about fighting financial fires which were not of his making, this campaign has seen the Egyptian-born businessman throw himself firmly into the spotlight.

Announcing his plans to call the club Hull Tigers on the eve of the club’s return to the Premier League was not a case of great timing, regardless of whether you’re for or against the idea. But although it has been an off-field distraction (attracting headlines from here to South Africa), fortunately, it hasn’t hindered the club’s on-field achievements.

With 19 points taken from their first 16 games, Steve Bruce’s side have taken to the top flight with ease. Looking on from the directors’ box, Dr Allam will surely afford himself a smile.


Because when most people his age are slowing down and planning their retirement, his biggest priority is ensuring he can bring in the strikers who will help to steer Bruce’s boys well clear of a relegation battle. Slowing down is not on his agenda.

Love him or loathe him, it’s certainly been an eventful three years since Allam took control of the club. Before his name change proposal, you’d have been hard pushed to find too many fans with a bad word to say about the City owner. Even the infamous decision to get rid of home-town hero Nick Barmby had been forgotten by the masses after the proved to be the masterstroke needed to inspire a return to the Promised Land.

When former owner Russell Bartlett stepped aside on December 17 2010, City languished 18th in the Championship with just five wins to their name from 20 games. Today, exactly three years later, City can look down on 80 teams below them from the dizzy heights of 12th place in the Premier League.

Suffocating debts have come and gone, thanks to £72m of Dr Allam’s personal fortune, and where City once stood on the financial brink, they now stand on the brink of an historical season. Keep amassing points at the current rate and the Tigers will remain on course for the greatest ever finish in the club’s 109-year existence.

One look at City’s current squad, estimated to be worth just over £14.3m in the club’s latest accounts, shows exactly why that’s the case. Of the 22 senior professionals inherited upon their purchase, only three remain involved in this season’s top-flight campaign – Paul McShane, Robert Koren and Liam Rosenior.

Having spent £5.25m to bring in club record signing Tom Huddlestone, loosening Jimmy Bullard’s grip on that mantle, the Tigers’ recruitment process is a whole new ball game. Where Dr Allam’s first January transfer window saw him splash out over £3m back in 2011 to recruit Aaron Mclean, Matty Fryatt, James Chester and Cameron Stewart, the one which lies ahead will surely command that sort of figure (or more) to bring in just one goal-scorer.

City are known to be monitoring Serbia international Filip Djordjevic, 26, the Nantes striker, who is in the final year of his deal. West Brom striker Shane Long is also another long-term target who will surely be in the frame again after his deadline day deal collapsed.

With managing director Nick Thompson set to leave the club before Christmas, responsibility for getting deals over the line will again fall to City’s outspoken owner, who will be assisted by his son, Ehab. Reducing their day-to-day roles at Allam Marine, and with plans to rename the club lying on the desk of officials at the FA, the Allams’ immediate focus is on making the transfer window a successful one.

Judging by their track record over the past 36 months, whoever does eventually sign, it is sure to attract plenty of headlines.


A fantastic achievement.

 

This fills me with apprehension.....

 

Hail to the King, baby!

I can't imagine what the last 3 years would have been like without his generosity and willingness to dare to do what no one else was prepared to do.

In fact, in celebration of the great man, this thread seems a good place as any to ask the following:

If Dr Allam hadn't stepped in and saved the club 3 years ago, who would you be supporting now and why?

 

Hull City you muppet, someone would of stepped in and picked up the pieces

 

You're not serious? We weren't going to be deducted some points, demotion then a valiant effort to claw our way back through the leagues. Hull City AFC,The Tigers, would have ceased to exist. Completely. Totally gone. No more club. No one was stepping in. We were genuinely ****ed. I can't even believe anyone on this forum would not know this simple fact. Are you in complete denial then over exactly what it was that Dr Allam did for us? ****ing hell.

So rather than just talking bollocks, imagine if you will, no Hull City, who you gonna support or what would you do?

 

Perhaps it's not so simple nor as certain a fact as you believe?

 

Oh? Who else was waiting to come in, with 1 day to go?

 

Maybe it was looked at before the supposed deadline?

 

I love the thread title - "Happy 3rd Anniversary Mr Allam". Very apt, as it's obvious he's acting like a spoilt 3 year-old in his 'Hull Tigers' obsession.

 

Do you actually believe half the bollocks you post on here or are you just trying to get attention?

 

You seem to be very knowledgeable about the Allam takeover, where does that insight come from? Are you an accountant for Dr Allam? a confident? Were you involved in some other way in the purchase of Hull City? Please tell?

 

No congratulations from me. He's holding the club back with his refusal to work with the council.

 

Genuine question - what is "bollocks" in that post?

 

The Allam Family are in my opinion our best owners ever with H Needler being a close
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I like Mr Allam for many reasons , and most reasons have nothing to do with football..

 

You can't quote Allam as a source, your a bloody muppet and I don't often resort to Insults on here.

 

Proof?

 

Has Mr Allam not got ghostwriters at the Fail?

infiltration..

 

And where is the proof that someone else was interested in taking our crippling debt's on? AA may be coming across as a grade A prat now, but whether people like it or not, he saved our club.

 

'Hull City AFC,The Tigers, would have ceased to exist. Completely. Totally gone. No more club. No one was stepping in. We were genuinely ****ed.'

Its complete speculation, how many times have we seen other clubs in a similar or often far worse situation and they still exist today, Portsmouth, Coventry, Southampton, Leeds...etc.