I make no claims to accuracy, I lifted this straight off another site. @MeehanMedia: #Hull City Council has written to @premierleague asking for £20m for 10,000-seat KC Stadium expansion, @hulldailymail reveals. #hcafc #UTT The Premier League rejected the request. Hull City Council have said that they agree with the Allams that the stadium capacity needs to increase.
With another Season in the Premier league, most likely. Allam's wish in 2008, was to increase capacity to between 30,000 & 45,000. Sooner the build, the better, rather than later.
I see this act as going some way to rebuilding the burnt bridges between the council and the Allams....
Applying to the FA without informing the SMC is going to rebuild bridges? Yes, I am sure Allam will appreciate the council looking like clueless idiots.
City were unaware of this application, were F.C, HCC knew they had a cat in hell 's chance of getting the funding, done just to piss AA off.
I read this earlier on the HDM site - How stupid are the council? Isn't the Liberty Stadium council owned? As they are also looking to expand, it will be interesting to see how they are funding it?
All I think this has done is made the subject of the relationship between the Allam's and Hcc even worst. Look at it this way they have gone to the PL asking for a loan to increase capacity, without informing the resident PL club. All I think this has done is cause embarrassment to city, and make Hull look silly, and reinforce's what all ignorant outsider's think of Hull is right.
Council asked Premier League to fund £20m KC Stadium expansion HULL City Council has written to the Premier League asking for £20m to fund a 10,000 expansion at the KC Stadium, the Mail understands. In a letter to Richard Scudamore, the chief executive of English football's top-flight, the council outlined plans to raise the capacity at the £43.5m venue from about 25,000 to 35,000. It is understood the request was rejected out of hand by Premier League officials, who said they must abide by their own competition rules and allocate funding to shareholder clubs on an individual basis so they are free to spend it how they wish. But the council's correspondence, which was signed by chief executive Darryl Stephenson, shows the authority still harbours hopes of developing the ground, which is shared by Hull City and Hull FC. The letter, which has been seen by the Mail, was dated February 17 – exactly a week after the Premier League announced it had secured a record £5.136bn TV rights deal. The request to the Premier League is the latest chapter in an ongoing stadium saga that continues to rumble on between the council and City's owners, the Allam family, who also control the Stadium Management Company (SMC) responsible for running the venue. The two parties saw their relationship suffer a complete breakdown in 2011, when Assem Allam's bid to build a £114m sports village was flatly rejected by the council. The SMC, which is owned by Assem and his son Ehab, has since continued to operate the KC and the adjacent Airco Arena as a business in its own right under a long-term lease with the council. That means the authority effectively has no say whatsoever in the way the stadium is run until that deal expires in 2052. When contacted by the Mail, officials at the SMC declined to comment but said they could not understand why the council would have made such a plea to the Premier League without their knowledge. A spokesman for Hull City Council said: "Hull City Council agrees with the Allams that the capacity of the KC Stadium needs to be increased and, in a show of support, wrote to the Premier League to explore if funding might be available to achieve this. Regrettably, this isn't the case." 'Venue is an asset of community value' THE KC Stadium has been in the headlines a lot in recent months after fans successfully applied to have it labelled as an "asset of community value". As the home of Hull City and Hull FC since 2002, any deal agreed regarding a possible sale of the stadium in the future will now be made public after Hull City Council backed the fans' application. The application was made by the Hull City Supporters Trust, which is an amalgamation of supporters' groups City Till We Die and the Tigers Co-Operative. If the council ever decides to put the KC up for sale, which cannot happen until the current lease ends in 2052, the trust would have the first opportunity to buy the stadium. The stadium is currently controlled by the Stadium Management Company, which is owned and operated by Hull City vice-chairman Ehab Allam. http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Coun...tory-26071052-detail/story.html#ixzz3Seer6VYT That really is embarrassing, utterly clueless.
I must have missed this fact previosuly....or is it unless there is agreement to sell by all effected parties?
The more I read it and think about it, I don't think it is a shambles, I think it was a deliberate act to cause as much mischief as possible, by a selected few.
