I hope it doesnt end up making dundalk worse
In anyway
Ofcourse it's good if it benefits city but not if its to the detriment of another club, hate all this multiple owner bullshit, football clubs should be hearts of its local community
Dundalk can do what it wants, and ideally you could say every owner of every football club would be local. Would be nice if Hull City was I guess, but if you want any ambition that's often not likely now.
By all accounts their club is in a terrible condition Their floodlights are very old, the surface there is terrible and there are plenty of injuries to players through it. And they've also had several takeovers in more recent times that haven't really had an impact. So obviously Hull City could help it, even though some likely only think in terms of a brief ownership before they take it back over in improved condition for some local person (who couldn't do much on their own). They can be proud of their history while still looking to move forward and be open to outside investment. If not Dundalk we might find another club that's amenable to us, maybe in a comparable or better league, maybe even with better facilities.
As is the norm I suppose some of them are talking down Hull City like they don't think we are that much of a club. Historically we are a second tier team, our record attendance being 55,000, our record buy 15 million, our record sale 21 million. They seem to consider themselves third tier of English league standard, I can't say how accurate that is. It has a relatively small population of 35,000 while Hull's properly estimated would be about 323,000. Fleetwood, a recent non-league club, have taken over another Irish team and I guess there hasn't been problems with that. Someone here said Dundalk went toe to toe with Arsenal, we've beat Arsenal in the league and frightened them to death in the FA Cup final. So Hull City is not 'bang average'. Even in the past we had our own railway station and the biggest floodlights in Europe. We may not be fashionable but we underachieved in the past.
We've had a Turkish owner take over us and few complained. And he did bring in players he knew, and a manager he knew as well. Some even said he did it to help Fenerbahçe. He said he wanted a specific style of play (that most likely has been modified now). But people bought into the vision and had hope than pessimism, that he would learn and help the club, even though we have also had some questionable owners at times in our history.
