Better get cracking then Champions League here we come.
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Need to use this opportunity to buy the stadium.
Been said on here the council are motivated to sell.
Been said on here the council are motivated to sell.
I thought the stadium was designed so that they could add on the top tier to the East stand as it is (not suggesting they wouldn't need a lot of paperwork doing first). But anyway surely the first step is adding on the 3-4000 seats at the top of North and South that we also allowed for in the original design.
Mate of mine said when it was built it was achievable. He was in construction.
Did it have live / valid planning permission & safety assessment??? Even if it did….it lapsed decades ago, putting extra concrete in the ground does not change the process
Unless it's changed with the new rules, spending on infrastructure is excluded from FFP calculations, so if theoretically you have lots of money coming in from wealthy friends of Acun but can't spend it on players without breaching FFP, you can still spend it on a training ground or academy complex.
Last time these questions were asked under Allam, I worked at HCC and eyed up their asset register. Valuation surprisingly close to what they paid
. Can't imagine thats gone down much since, and unlikely to lower it, given it's "our" money
Urban myth, we could add another tier on the East, but it would have to be done from scratch, it wasn’t planned into the original design.
Brooking
The McVities CEO wanted to call the stadium The McVities Biscuit Bowl and got laughed at by the Hull City staff on a commercial trip to Turkey. The same CEO (not the owner) didn't approve of any sponsorship of the club but was following orders from their owner. He couldn't see the value in it or any need for it. They feel they have already dominated the British market. That may change now we're on the global stage though.
Hull FC Voices. Repeated almost parrot fashion in the Fc fanzine and repeated again in their weekly Hull Daily Mail column. The only way we would fill it, according to them, who have never filled it, was to invite Leeds Utd to play there.
He didn't say we couldn't fill it he said we didn't need a 30,000 capacity stadium. This was based on and backed up by Terry ****witt Geraghty who said we hadn't had a crowd over 30,000 since the early 1970's, when unknown to Geraghty, Trevor Brooking last played here for West Ham. He also didn't know we couldn't get a bigger crowd then 30,000 because his council cut the capacity for health and safety reasons.
The council took Brookings advice thinking if we didn't they wouldn't get a one million pound grant from Sport England, which Brooking chaired.
I don't think we ever did receive the grant and the stadium came in under budget anyhow.
4 promotions to the PL now and still no extra capacity, needs to change.
Here’s what AI says on the matter…
The exact promotion deadlines in the Hull City sale agreement (Allam family to Acun Ilıcalı, completed January 2022) were tiered as follows:
Promotion in any season after 2023–24 (including Hull City’s actual promotion in May 2026 for the 2026–27 Premier League season) triggers no additional payment.
These terms come from the most detailed contemporary reporting on the deal. No later updates or reports have indicated any extension of the clause.
Link to original Phil Buckingham article below…
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/29...ars-for-sale-hull-city-search-for-new-owners/
The exact promotion deadlines in the Hull City sale agreement (Allam family to Acun Ilıcalı, completed January 2022) were tiered as follows:
- £30 million extra if promoted in the 2021–22 season
- £20 million extra if promoted in the 2022–23 season
- £10 million extra if promoted in the 2023–24 season
Promotion in any season after 2023–24 (including Hull City’s actual promotion in May 2026 for the 2026–27 Premier League season) triggers no additional payment.
These terms come from the most detailed contemporary reporting on the deal. No later updates or reports have indicated any extension of the clause.
Link to original Phil Buckingham article below…
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/29...ars-for-sale-hull-city-search-for-new-owners/
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I’ve got a mate that could do it in 6 months for £10m.