"No more spending until it's Hull Tigers"

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Jack Lesterfan

Jack Lesterfan

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Everything I see/hear/read about every other owner, makes me appreciate our owners more and more...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29460187

Assem Allam: Hull City owner prepared to stop spending

Hull City owner Assem Allam says he will not invest a penny more in the club unless he wins an appeal to the Football Association to change their name to Hull Tigers.

Allam, 75, believes a name change will improve the club's brand, helping it "to go global".

"That [the spending] stops now. It has to stop," Allam told BBC Sport.

"I won't pay out if I cannot create income. That is called 'throwing money at it'."

Allam, who lost his original case to change the name in April, added: "I won't throw money at a problem. I want to deal with the problem."

Hull spent more than £30m in the summer, with striker Abel Hernandez arriving for a club record fee. It remains to be seen if the issue over the club's name will be resolved before January, although a verdict on the appeal should be reached in November.

Allam was not able to comment on the appeal, but it is understood Hull believe the FA's decision to introduce a consultation with fans may have prejudiced the case. All previous cases lodged with the FA had not consulted with the views of supporters.

In the short term, the club is up for sale and Allam said there had been a number of interested parties.

"We have had interest but it was not from what I would like to call good homes," he said.

"This club means a lot to me. I will do my best to sell it to a good home."

Allam admitted he did not want to sell a club he saved from administration in 2010, but felt he had no choice.

"To take the club global, you need a strong name. I don't want to create a new name. I do not want to change it from Hull City Tigers to Hull Viking, or Hull Allam or Hull whatever.

"For 110 years, the club has had City and it has had Tigers in the name.

"Now we want to shorten the name to go global - like Coca-Cola, like Twitter, like Google. You will never make it if your name is Hull City Association Football Club Tigers Ltd. You will never make it."

Allam admitted one sponsor had agreed a deal on the basis that the name was shortened to Hull Tigers.

"One of the sponsors offered, in writing, without mentioning names," Allam said. "The day we lost the FA ruling, they withdrew their offer.

"The replacement bid was £1m a year less for the first two years. Am I supposed to pay this? To cover this? The answer is no."

The Egyptian estimates he has invested more than £70m of his own money into the club since he bought it in 2010.

"I have never been a football fan," he added. "I am still not a football fan. I am a community fan.

"I got involved only because the media started to talk about administration for the club, going under, whether it would survive or not. I thought 'football is a big, big thing for the community here'."
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Another clown of an owner. We are truly blessed to have the wonderful owners we do
 
MIAMI_FOX said:
Another clown of an owner. We are truly blessed to have the wonderful owners we do
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... you say that now... but things can change ... given the cultural influence it may not be that long before we have to adopt a completely different set of terrace anthems:

e.g "Singha when you're winiing ..."

"When you're thai and weary, your heart may skip a beat ..." ... and god forbid ...

"And it's Lecicester Lady-Boys, Leicester Lady-Boys, trans-G ..."

... you just never know <whistle>
 
Empty threats, hes going to spend to keep Hull up so he can line his pockets before selling.

Didn't he stop Hull going into administration? hes certainly made them a more viable acquisition now for someone to come in and take over, like him or not, hes done the club a huge favour.
 
He's a broken record. He was meant to be walking away within 24 hours of the "No" vote in May :D
 
It's just his weekly rant, we're rather getting used to them.

He never does the things he says he's going to do, he just looks a little more ridiculous each time he comes out with these utterances.

Particularly as he doesn't seem to know what his own football club is actually called. <doh>
 
Its all hot air

If he is serious about selling why would he keep making negative stories about the club?

All its doing is weakening his position as the seller and potentially damaging the club
 
I remember back in the days when we were having a barney with the Hull lot, them going on about their owner is a local lad that bleeds black and gold and would never betray the club like our flash in the pan owners would undoubtedly do... <whistle>
 
BigFox said:
I remember back in the days when we were having a barney with the Hull lot, them going on about their owner is a local lad that bleeds black and gold and would never betray the club like our flash in the pan owners would undoubtedly do... <whistle>
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I was thinking the same this morning BigFox <laugh>
 
It may be hot air and empty threats, but it's an unnecessary distraction for the team. I wouldn't be happy if this was happening at my club.
 
Don´t think there´s much chance of us becoming Leicester Tigers so no need to worry there. Seriously though I see the fans point but it´s his club & he´s cashed out 70 mil, so it says, so he may have a point too ?

How many of you would be pissed off if Top changes our name to Leicester Foxes or back to Leicester Fosse ? I like them both tbh... :emoticon-0102-bigsm
 
Fred Pontin bought a racehorse called Specify which went on to win the 1971 Grand National.
He had tried to change its name to Go Pontinental which was his advertising slogan for his european holiday camps but was refused permission by the jockey club.
You cant just rename a sporting institution and steal its history unless you are MK Dons
 
glynnak said:
Fred Pontin bought a racehorse called Specify which went on to win the 1971 Grand National.
He had tried to change its name to Go Pontinental which was his advertising slogan for his european holiday camps but was refused permission by the jockey club.
You cant just rename a sporting institution and steal its history unless you are MK Dons
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The Jockey Club let some right bloopers through mind ... Julie Cecil (ex-wife of the late Sir Henry..RIP <rose>) trained a couple of corkers 'Mary Hinge' and 'Betty Swallocks' <laugh>
 
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