press release relating to company name (which we all knew anyway) or football club name .. be careful because he will be looking and laughing at this without a doubt he is taking the piss .. no matter what you think or think you can do .. it will happen .. sorry to say but it comes down to one fact .. money .. do you have 66 mill spare ?
And what's wrong with cheerleaders? Wouldn't mind having the Crystal Palace girls jigging up and down at half time rather than watching some fat **** push a giant football around for a legalised loan shark company.
The Hull City money came out of Egypt, as you already know having read David Conn's Guardian article. The club statement says the club's name is Hull City Tigers. If what you say is true I'm surprised our football club doesn't know the difference between the company name and the club name. It does come down to money Assem Allam hopes, on the back of no research, that changing the name will have millions pouring into Hull as if by magic. Even if I did have £66 million he wouldn't sell because he wants to be the first owner that gave us European football. He's not going to sell unless he's forced to. Finally I'm sure he's not laughing at what I write because he wouldn't care enough to read it.
Bates got burned messing with the football share, and it was more because of time restraints he got away with it. Hull City Tigers have no automatic right to play in the league pyramid. Hull City AFC do.
I think mountains are being made of molehills with regards what Allam said. If what they said in the statement was factually incorrect and punishable, the clubs legal team would never have let it be published. By all accounts anyway, we are already known as Hull City Tigers abroad, as anyone who has watched us on a foreign stream this season will be able to testify. As for the money, assuming EPL survival there's £60m TV money for next season, whatever prize money we win this season and players to sell on top. He can recall his cash in one go, or make a small loss at the very least, if he so wishes.
It's madness though. He could just squeeze it through before he has to hand things to Ehab, who seemingly doesn't like the idea and is liable to sell up anyway. A lot of effort to go down in club history as a fruitcake, especially after all the good work he's done.
Don't be silly, a rename doesn't make it a new club. It makes it the same club under a new name. If what you say was the case, any company who falls into a spot f bother would just change their name and free themselves of any thingymajigs.
Smug, The one thing that is really hard for us as supporters is that we owe the owner a great debt of gratitude and at the same time many oppose a change to the clubs name. Like Darlington we do not own our stadium and that is the bigger issue.
Not really, that would be the Company name and, closing and renaming to avoid debts and liabilities is what some companies do as a matter of routine. The so called 'golden share', which sounds Wonkaesque, is the bit that the club the company owns needs to be part of the football pyramid. In Bates case, for a period of time he had all the players and assets in a company with no golden share, and nothing at all in what is effectively the football club. It's why the got docked points for exceptional circumstance, or whatever the term was.
We're not doing as you say though Dutch, were not closing and renaming, were just renaming. Closing and renaming would be akin to what's happened at Rangers, we'd have to start from the bottom.
