We haven't got £66m worth of assets and if he cashes in on the players, we go down and he never has a chance of recovering his money. He desperately needs us to stay up.
Well it was nice while it lasted. Great to see so called 'supporters' hound away the best thing that ever happened to this club. It'd be good if you throw your passes away, let the club prosper in modernisation without being held back by a bunch of ****witted dinosaurs. 104 years of underachievement, there was always one constant, a bunch of morons who treat each owner like the antichrist. Go support Blackburn instead.
I have no axe to grind on either side of this argument but am I right that all this bile directed towards AA mean some supporters long for another David Lloyd situation or has that episode been forgotten already? For those too young to remember we were close, very close to having no Hull City AFC, Tigers, Black & Ambers or Hull Tigers or whatever you want to call it, we were then dumped in the then Div 4 for goodness sake. Mind you I remember the fuss when Mansfield Breweries bought out Hull Breweries, Hull Brewery mild and bitter disappeared overnight nearly and all beers re-branded Mansfield, boycotts, protests, sound familiar?
If something is liquidated then the assets become worthless surely? Or is this another special rule for football?
I think you'll find that what damn fools do is add fuel to the fire by making rash personal statements about AA in public forums, whether they are accurate or not they are simply lighting the blue touch paper. Did I say, or even suggest, that people should, in your words, 'shut the **** up'? I think you'll find the answer is no. What I maybe did suggest was that some should return their pitch forks to the shed and allow those of the '1904 group' to go about their business in a more discreet and professional manner, mate.
Personal loan to you, and you buy the club. You then run it as you would like. With all the advisers there are on here you'd make a killing and could no doubt pay him back within a season or two at the most.
That's been discussed before and I've been told that he was approached by Adam Pearson (I could be wrong, it might have been before his time) when we were in a perilous position and he said he wasn't interested.
not quite. if something is liquidated it is the responsibility of whoever is doing the liquidating to raise as much from the assets as possible to distribute to creditors (there are frequent auctions in which assets of liquidated companies are sold off). if a football club is liquidated the players become free agents and are no longer assets, aluko being a case in point.
Philip Buckingham ‏@PJBuckingham Spent the last hour with Assem Allam. He believes only a vocal minority against the rebranding of the club. He's completely out of touch.
I agree, as this is what I have said all along! I can understand folk being doubtful at the start of all this nonsense, but I wish they would answer me this: If the name-change is destined to make the club prosper in place of the commercial development of the stadium, why would he not do both if he is adamant they are both so commercially attractive?
60,000 followers on Twitter, 4,500 on the petition against the name change, that's only 7.5%, so maybe he's right?
I am sorry if this has been done but this is the radio interview ..... https://audioboo.fm/boos/1723049-hull-city-owner-assem-allam-on-the-tigers-name#t=5m16s
I’d like to offer some advice to Hull City AFC owner Dr Assem Allam. I’m not an international businessman – just a run of the mill football fan – and he won’t listen to me because he doesn’t listen to anyone. But rather than bash out another angry rant, I’d like to offer some genuine, heartfelt advice 1) Leave the name alone There is nothing wrong with a name that reflects the home of a football club and that is steeped in 109 years of history. The name of the club is not the key to unlocking the mystical door of the global business community. The success of the club is the key. Hull City has achieved success. Our club, along with 19 others, is the focus of worldwide attention including hundreds of column inches and hours of TV time. In any other business, that sort of reach would cost you tens of millions of dollars. And yet Hull City gets paid for this attention. Leave the name alone, get proper advice from industry experts and present the case to the supporters and the local businesses that have supported the club from the bottom to the top and are the lifeblood of the city. 2) Get a better marketing team Hull City has what is, in my opinion, the best and most marketable nickname in English football. It’s powerful, memorable and historic. Dr Allam is desperate for additional income. The club owes him more than £60m and before promotion, showed no sign of becoming the self-sustainable model he craves. The club now has global reach. There are ample opportunities to make more money from sponsorship deals and partnerships. It doesn’t need a change of name; it needs thought, creativity and expertise. Rather than clinging on to one desperate idea – go out and find that expertise. Invest properly and reap the rewards. 3) Make up with Hull City Council At the heart of this matter is the fact that Dr Allam was unable to extract the KC Stadium from local government ownership and exploit the potential in developing the surrounding area. This has long been suspected by the club’s supporters but it has now been confirmed. Dr Allam was mortally offended by council’s attitude during negotiations and now refuses to deal with them. This is not an acceptable situation for the club’s supporters. We shouldn’t have to suffer this laughable re-brand because of circumstances beyond our control but within someone else’s. Mediation is possible if Dr Allam and the council swallow their pride. Investment in the stadium would help the fans, the club and the city. This must be done. Dr Allam has not helped himself throughout this debacle. Public relations have been disastrous. As such, fans now feel that they are not valued by the owner. Hull City is not a club that can survive without fans. It is a club that always has and always will have ups and has downs. If nothing else, Dr Allam should remember the old saying: ‘Be nice to people on your way up…’ http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/12/three-things-hull-city-owner-dr-assem-allam-should-do-today-4183527/
