I have been reading an article about the sale of Newcastle United. A paragraph within the article made think a little, it read “The thing about the Premier League at the moment is the barriers to entry are quite high and getting higher. Chelsea was recently valued at £5billion. The universe of clubs you can buy is shrinking and that’s why you see investors going to the Championship and trying to bring a club up.“ If this is true, how much would it cost an owner to get Hull City promoted ? Much more now we have had a poor January transfer window from a fans point of view. Clearly our current owners didnt fancy the gamble and have not for a while. Would £50m be enough to assemble a good enough squad ? I would think so. Although that sounds quite alot we are pretty much at ground zero at the moment. Any thoughts ?
£50m would be more then enough, I'd say closer to 30m should do it! Imo it's what makes us such an attractive proposition, all the room in the world to play with on the FFP front, no huge long contracts on aging players and no debt (once sold) so let's say an investor invests close to £70m including buying us and getting us up... It's a pretty good return even if they just took one seasons money and ran! Obvs that's a very simplistic way of calculating etc but put it all together and we "should" be attractive now the selling price "should" be £30m or below
In all honesty, couldn't give a crap about promotion right now. The main thing is getting new owners and to make supporting city enjoyable again. I'd be quite happy if new owners came in and showed little ambition but concentrated on the atmosphere and the fans.
Where’s Adam Pearson these days? He always seemed to know people who were interested in us, maybe relegation & he’ll pop up again?
Look at Norwich and Shef Utd last year, transfer and wage outlay both low and they pissed it. Any club with sensible management, superb recruitment and a good manager (Brentford this year) has a good shot at promotion
And that's down to shrewd and proper management from the owners down through the manager picking the right tactics formations and players he wants in his squad ..knitting them together and getting them to play as a unit all pulling in the same direction.. queue Phil Brown 2008 .. the difference being Wilder hasnt lost the dressing room
But it hasnt hampered the correct investment in the squad or the recruitment has it ... wish our lot would bicker with each other if that was still the case !
I’d like us to fall a bit further, get rid of the Allams and start again, almost from scratch, with a basically decent honest owner, with or without money. Grow slowly from a low base and get some momentum. A club in renaisance (no spell check) is surely better than hoping that the Allams change their ways. I’ve not seen city for about 4 years now and it’s starting to get to me, I just want to get back to it.
Even in the lower leagues there’s ****, dodgy owners, unfortunately, I hate to say it, but I think we have better owners than some!