They have decent legal advice, they've shown that in the past with the termination and dismissal of certain individuals.
They gave in to RBS though. Bullard signed a confidentiality clause, as did Barmby, so we don't know how much they walked away with. It was enough for Bullard to sign the agreement and joke about the clause when he launched his autobiography.
What on earth makes you think that? I'm no expert at all, but the Council look to have a good case to me. Also unlike certain businessmen Councils don't tend to decide to pursue a course of action, particularly an expensive one, without at least a reasonable chance of success. They don't normally take the "it doesn't matter if the chance is slim, it's the right thing to do" approach Good luck to the Council
On the face of it, it does seem that the SMC are in breach of the lease terms and as dennisboothstash says, a council rarely takes action unless it's fairly confident on success. I think there's a good chance they'll win. though I don't know where that really leaves us, as most of the Airco tenants have found new homes now and pulling up the pitch is going to require a new floor to be laid in there and we'd also still have the issue of sorting an indoor pitch for the Cat 2 academy status. It's a mess.
Did we ever get any official statement from Airco on their opinion of all this ? Their name has been linked in every report and will continue to do so for as long as the legal action continues.
This is hardly knee-jerk by the council. For all the good advice people seem to think the Allams have had, it seems the council have spent the last few months taking advice of their own. If papers had been served in May, I would have thought it was Allams to lose. The fact that we're now up to the end of June before the ball gets rolling makes me think the council must have a good case.
I imagine the Allams are going to open a can of worms that the council have let pass about the stadium and Airco. They've offered the smc back for a quid, there's summat in that as a threat.
What threat? The SMC have a fifty year lease on the Airco and the KC, they can't just walk away, they're stuck with it.
Well they did offer it and the council did say they would consider it so they must be able to get out of it. The threat is the council cant run it or subsidise it I imagine
The council aren't going to take it back, even they're not that daft and the Allams certainly can't make them, they could declare it insolvent but it wouldn't look very good on that famous cv(not that it would be the first time) and they's lose the KC deal at the same time(which the council would love).
Do you have a copy of the lease to show us where they're in breach of it please. I wouldn't have thought they'd breach it as they'd have sought legal advice before doing what they did?
A copy of the lease has been posted on here before, along with various other places, but you can do your own searching.
It's been posted before As a layman it looked like they breached fairly clearly Obi is probably the most clear on that subject? ( or certainly explains it the best!)
