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What’s gonna happen

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  • Complete ****ing collapse

  • It’ll all be ok

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PLT said:
As far as I'm aware, there still isn't any explanation for the key issues at the heart of this:
- Why the club couldn't meet its payment obligations for Louie Barry, but then could do almost immediately once it became a story
- Why we then failed to make a payment for Fin Burns after our payment issues had become a story; and therefore:
- How we can trust the club to consistently meet its obligations over the next year and beyond.

These are the most important questions for me, currently we have no real idea of the answers and we maybe never will. The accounts probably won't even tell us much. So there's probably always going to be this doubt hanging over the club under Acun that it could happen again.
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I have serious doubts that we won’t accrue 7 days late for payments between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026, which is the threshold for the suspended transfer window restriction to kick in.

He needs to go sooner rather than later. His ownership has significantly more negatives than positives.
 
Kalman II said:
I have serious doubts that we won’t accrue 7 days late for payments between 1 July 2025 and 30 June 2026, which is the threshold for the suspended transfer window restriction to kick in.

He needs to go sooner rather than later. His ownership has significantly more negatives than positives.
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The only genuine positive was that he wasn't Ehab.

We've spent a lot of money awfully.
 
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Amin Arrears said:
Agree. I would like us to try and get someone like Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos that can actually afford to run a football club and just buy proper proven quality players and managers instead of gambling on foreign ****e and rookies.
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That's a terrible suggestion Amin. We dont want the Amerian ownership model. We need a trillionair from Walton Street, or at a stretch Hessle Road....
 
Blaknamberblood said:
Youd have better luck with Gates or Bezos !
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I was taking the pee. That's the usual line trotted out when we have needed a new owner at any point in the last 30 years!

Fact is good ones, eg local or emotionally involved multi millionaires, tend not to come around very often in the whole of football never mind for City. The way the sport is going even if Acun is replaced it will be by another foreign owner who, like many before him, will have his or her own agenda for doing it. Be that 'get rich' or 'fantasy football manager' but the risks for the club will be there.

As a supporter, and itnis obviously hard for some, you just have to try and enjoy the ride. My favourite moments of supporting City all came when we were rubbish. My dad taking me to places like Macclesfield and Rochdale, night games at Lincoln and then racing back to hull for last orders at his pub.

As long as we stay solvent nothing worries me about the club, what will be will be and if we get beat on a Saturday I will go home and sulk.
 
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originallambrettaman said:
The only issue you’ve got, is that your reality, differs from almost everyone else’s.

And your claims are not accurate.
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Another stupid response that adds literally nothing to the discussion.

My reality is based on exactly what has been happening and what the EFL report states, not on rumour, hearsay, drama, BS.

- the owner is still here and hasn't walked away. In fact he appears more focussed than ever.
- the owner hasn't been declared bankrupt. His businesses haven't gone into receivership or liquidation.
- the club hasn't gone bust, nor gone into administration
- we haven't been sold
- the EFL report confirms that cash flow and administration errors were made (resulting in the club breaking the rules and being punished).
- debts have been paid
- the club have continued to spend on infrastructure, players wages, pushing the FFP limits, academy, no fire sale, etc

There is nothing that I am nor that I have been claiming that is inaccurate.
On the other hand, I can list loads that others have been claiming that has been proven as inaccurate.
Go on, please enlighten me if you disagree.
 
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Gone For A Walk said:
Another stupid response that adds literally nothing to the discussion.

My reality is based on exactly what has been happening and what the EFL report states, not on rumour, hearsay, drama, BS.

- the owner is still here and hasn't walked away. In fact he appears more focussed than ever.
- the owner hasn't been declared bankrupt. His businesses haven't gone into receivership or liquidation.
- the club hasn't gone bust, nor gone into administration
- we haven't been sold
- the EFL report confirms that cash flow and administration errors were made (resulting in the club breaking the rules and being punished).
- debts have been paid
- the club have continued to spend on infrastructure, players wages, academy, etc

There is nothing that I am nor that I have been claiming that is inaccurate.
On the other hand, I can list loads that others have been claiming that has been proven as inaccurate.
Go on, please enlighten me if you disagree.
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The EFL report didn’t mention administrative errors at all regarding our fee restriction. We intentionally shirked paying Villa based on a single email that wasn’t legally binding.
 
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Jim the Tiger said:
I was taking the pee. That's the usual line trotted out when we have needed a new owner at any point in the last 30 years!

Fact is good ones, eg local or emotionally involved multi millionaires, tend not to come around very often in the whole of football never mind for City. The way the sport is going even if Acun is replaced it will be by another foreign owner who, like many before him, will have his or her own agenda for doing it. Be that 'get rich' or 'fantasy football manager' but the risks for the club will be there.

As a supporter, and itnis obviously hard for some, you just have to try and enjoy the ride. My favourite moments of supporting City all came when we were rubbish. My dad taking me to places like Macclesfield and Rochdale, night games at Lincoln and then racing back to hull for last orders at his pub.

As long as we stay solvent nothing worries me about the club, what will be will be and if we get beat on a Saturday I will go home and sulk.
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I don't sulk, but as good as the days when we were rubbish were, nothing has bettered Wembley, Arsenal, Spurs, et al. :emoticon-0138-think


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
 
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Kalman II said:
The EFL report didn’t mention administrative errors at all regarding our fee restriction. We intentionally shirked paying Villa based on a single email that wasn’t legally binding.
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It did.

They explicitly found it was not administrative error and a deliberate ploy to delay payment as long as possible.

And (paraphrasing) that we made a straw argument to justify it that did not withstand even the most basic scrutiny.

Some of that report is pretty brutal.
 
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TwoWrights said:
I don't sulk, but as good as the days when we were rubbish were, nothing has bettered Wembley, Arsenal, Spurs, et al. :emoticon-0138-think


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
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Wembley was amazing. I didn't go during the Premier League years. Annoyed me all the glory hunters turning up and me not having a pass meant getting a seat very difficult at the time. I don't actually regret it, maybe I'm weird but I quite like life outside the Premier League.
 
Jim the Tiger said:
Wembley was amazing. I didn't go during the Premier League years. Annoyed me all the glory hunters turning up and me not having a pass meant getting a seat very difficult at the time. I don't actually regret it, maybe I'm weird but I quite like life outside the Premier League.
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You're weird. :emoticon-0103-cool:


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
 
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Jim the Tiger said:
Wembley was amazing. I didn't go during the Premier League years. Annoyed me all the glory hunters turning up and me not having a pass meant getting a seat very difficult at the time. I don't actually regret it, maybe I'm weird but I quite like life outside the Premier League.
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©Steverico, I was stood next to him.
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The administrative errors included not understanding & taking seriously enough the rules, thinking we could get away with an agreement and situation with Villa that they themselves were ok with until very late June when we tried to buy Barry (and thankfully didn't). Yes, the club were trying to delay paying (cash flow management). Our owner wasn't and isn't skint, proven by how money magically appeared within days of having to pay it and how the club kept and keeps spending on all sorts of stuff. The EFL have their rules and I can see why they had to apply them, as should have the club. If you have a narrative against the owner, you can try to rewrite it all as you want, but the facts are the facts, as I have listed them and which I continue to wait for anyone to disprove.
 
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