It’s a bit more tangible than that though. Average attendance 2019/20, 9,500, in 2024/25, 21,200. It’s legitimate to ask at what wider cost, but that is a true and positive achievement.
I’ve edited my post with some more info but basically, Arsenal, Everton, Brighton and Leicester received hundreds of millions in interest-free loans from their owners and Man City are arguing that if sponsorships have to be fair market value, then shareholder loans should have fair market value interest rates. Liverpool’s loans from FSG aren’t interest-free but they’re low-interest like 1.2% or something.
Fair enough but I think just about anyone could’ve bought us and attendances would increase. Acun is very good at propaganda so positioning himself as the saviour after buying the club was savvy by him. Then he promised us the world with promotion aspirations, transfers, free holidays, travel, subsidised tickets etc. and this increased his personal popularity. He arrogantly thought we could get to the Premier League in a couple of years. He banked on it last season by pushing the boat out for marquee signings and that’s probably why he spat his dummy out and sacked Rosenior because he knew it was **** or bust. He can’t afford to keep funding us when the club is losing £500,000 a week. He also can’t afford to write off the debt. He needs the interest payments from us to pay off the loans Acun Medya took out to buy and bankroll the club. The club’s knackered. We don’t even have any significant assets to put up as collateral, unless he’s put the club itself up as collateral.
It's angry bollox. What's not been right is the game plan, coaching, tactics. (plus as someone rightly added, others occasionally taking their chances whilst we don't).
Come on they are professional footballers they all know how the game works. At the end of every season there is a buying and selling time.
Even if we do a Jimmy Glass at Portsmouth, for me the only thing that keeps Selles in a job is the cost of getting rid of him. Acun's mantra is that he wants to be entertained. I can count on a couple of fingers when that has happened under him. The club has been unlucky with injuries, not helped by a suicidal last summer window, which affected TW hugely (and for me the football played under him was far more appealing than the garbage Selles is serving up) and Selles too. There is no way, no way on earth Acun can sit there and say he's enjoying watching, irrespective of the financial haemorrhaging. What decision will he make.
I’m sure Selles knows who he would keep and wouldn’t and has probably shown his hand like all managers on the training ground or with his subs . If some of those have been told then timing could be an issue . We go back did gruntled players not happy because they are not good enough .
I don’t think it’s Sellés’ decision who has been told they need to go. Like Howden said, apparently it’s not just fringe players but key ones and it’s not because we don’t want them but because we need to sell. Expect a fire sale and not just of fringe players but our main ones. Another summer where the spine of the team is gutted.
The keeper, the young, talented centre-half, the holding midfielder etc. Everyone worth something. Most of the players whose contracts end in 2026 might be sold in the summer too so we can get a transfer fee.
There always seems to be some looming issue in the shadows that is causing our downfall and conveniently always gives the players an excuse. It happened with both Rosenior and Walter. It’s never the players fault that they can’t ****ing score, it’s now because some bench warmer has been told to find a new club. No, the players are just not very good and neither is the manager. It’s as simple as that.
The players have been woeful all season but whoever decided to tell players in March that they need to go for financial reasons and expect their morale not to be in the toilet is a ****ing moron of epic proportions. The odd player like Amrabat, a veteran of the game who was brought in on a six-month contract, will put up a fight due to a sense of pride and duty. Other players who are young or in their prime years will respond to that news and will be thinking about the next step in their careers, not Hull City’s survival. You would expect them to all put up a fight because it’s their job but in the real world, a lot of people are fine doing the bare minimum at work, if that. Why would footballers be the exception to this, especially if they’ve already been told they’ve not got a future here?
Mcvities man keep restructring his debt, he is richest man in Turkey but he is not free to spend money around, creditors are on his back. I believe he restructured debts 3 times in last 10 years and last december 2024 he sold tourism and marina assets to cover debt so they won't force to sell food retail business including Mcvities. Moreover rumours say that 13m euro share sale of Fenerbahce 50% covered by him, so he is already splashing enough cash to basketball branch and other finances of Fenerbahce, we are least priority.