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It's all guess work and it's not helping anyone or anything, too many variables and unknowns. Only worth discussion when the official accounts come out.
FACT

A guess is different to an estimate. As I said, I actually think the debt could well be higher than 45m in the next accounts so you could be right, it could be an under estimate. :)

EDIT: I actually underestimated the net debt position. My fault for just looking on the balance sheet not the notes. Whilst not quite 45m, as of the 22/23 accounts we had a net debt of 38m:

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So even just dealing in FACTs and not projections to the next set of accounts, we had a 37.6m debt as at June 2023.
 
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Don't have time to read Acun interview, so asked chatGPT to summarize, bold part is same old story that I don't buy anymore, every interview same bullshit:


Hull City owner Acun Ilicali has reaffirmed his support for head coach Tim Walter despite a challenging start to the season, with Hull 19th in the table. He attributes the team's struggles to injuries, bad luck, and refereeing errors. Ilicali acknowledges fans' frustrations but urges them to back the young squad and manager. He remains optimistic, focusing on potential improvements after January transfers and players returning from injury. Ilicali emphasized his commitment to Hull City and dismissed rumors of selling the club, calling for unity and stability.
 
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And one more thing, in Turkish football we have a word: If president says that he is supporting you, that's the moment you are being fired.
 
Acun has often said he doesn't run the club to make any money, so I wonder if baz could ask him if he intends to eventually write off the debt when he sells. If he is then the debt is irrelevant.
 
If we are badly in debt, we will sell Hughes and Pandur, they're our two most valuable assets at the moment.

Debt isn't the issue in the context of player sales, that's more if our losses are looking too big. Debt is more an issue in any eventual sale. Even the Allams wrote off a huge chunk of debt to help the sale go through.

As someone above said, the debt is directly to acun as things stand, the concern is if he refinances to a third party to "get his money back".

The discussion about debt only arose because someone suggested a "worse" owner could get us into 40m worth of debt when the point is a "good" owner will too.
 
I'm ****e at numbers, operating losses/gains or whatever, i'm not an accountant. That's why I don't quote figures on here or guess them because I haven't a clue. I don't know what working profits/ losses are, all i'm asking for is irrefutable proof that our great Club are £45 million in debt.

No. Though Syd will do his best to **** his pants on behalf of all of us like usual.
 
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Who said precisely? I very clearly in my first reply to you said it wasn't a precise figure but would be roughly around that mark based on our operating losses and no significant player sales last year. Why are you splitting hairs? Do you feel better if I say we're between 40-50m in debt? Why does it make a difference to you?

If you knew someone who spent 100 quid a week on betting, and one week told you he'd lost 500 quid for the year, then the next week you asked him if he won any of his bets and he said no, do you need him to tell you he's now lost 600 quid for the year or can you work it out from the facts you have in front of you?

We spent 20m in 22/23 on operations, but offset with the sale of KLP, and were 25m in debt. We then added to the squad and increased our operations spend in 23/24 but didn't make a significant player sale. How could our operating loss have been smaller? As a result how could we not be in debt for roughly 45m?

The accounts will be out in February for us to look at it in black and white. I actually have a feeling it could be more than 45m as the final figure as Acun really pushed the boat out and we accepted unders on Greaves and Philogene to get them sold, which tells me he really had to get the losses down over the three year period.
***Whistle***


***Tumbleweed***

The hills have eyes. Don't you know?
 
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Debt isn't the issue in the context of player sales, that's more if our losses are looking too big. Debt is more an issue in any eventual sale. Even the Allams wrote off a huge chunk of debt to help the sale go through.

As someone above said, the debt is directly to acun as things stand, the concern is if he refinances to a third party to "get his money back".

The discussion about debt only arose because someone suggested a "worse" owner could get us into 40m worth of debt when the point is a "good" owner will too.

It's probably not directly to Acun.

Probably Acun Medya.


Which is pretty much the same thing, unless he decides to do a Mel Morris.

Is he about to do that Syd? Administration and a bruised reputation to get pennies to the pound out?

If so, what's your thinking?

Perhaps elaborate?
 
The issue with debt is that PSR/FFP/whatever you want to call it limits owners losses, but it still means over time that owners are encouraged to 'push to the limit' and thus rack up debt. If they aren't pushing to the limit, they're called out as under-investing by the fans. If we had a summer under Acun where we sold players for 20-30m and only brought in some cheap replacements, there would be howls of derision and criticism of him, even though long term having a summer of consolidation like that would actually be in the best interests of the club. Modern football doesn't encourage that though, and outside of Brighton, every club is pushed to reinvest whatever they recoup from sales. It's an unintended consequence of FFP, where the loss limits aren't a cap so much as they are a target for clubs to spend to.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE will you stop ****ing up every thread with ****ing FFP ****
 
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE will you stop ****ing up every thread with ****ing FFP ****

Unfortunately it's a pretty fundamental element of football these days for better or worse (hint: worse). You've also picked out the only post in the entire discussion to mention ffp.
 
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It is. Our owner can spunk 40 m over 3 years except he's done it in 2.

I'm still waiting for Syd to tell us how that's so terrifyingly different to most of the championship, bottom 14 of the premier league and practically the top half of league 1.

So where's that 45m "debt" mentioned in the accounts?

Do tell...

I implore you. We're all ears....?!?
 
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A guess is different to an estimate. As I said, I actually think the debt could well be higher than 45m in the next accounts so you could be right, it could be an under estimate. :)

EDIT: I actually underestimated the net debt position. My fault for just looking on the balance sheet not the notes. Whilst not quite 45m, as of the 22/23 accounts we had a net debt of 38m:

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So even just dealing in FACTs and not projections to the next set of accounts, we had a 37.6m debt as at June 2023.

No. We had losses.

Where does it mention debt and what is the rate we are servicing that debt at exactly?

Surely if we are servicing debt we would be paying interest?

You know **** all Syd.
 
Don't have time to read Acun interview, so asked chatGPT to summarize, bold part is same old story that I don't buy anymore, every interview same bullshit:


Hull City owner Acun Ilicali has reaffirmed his support for head coach Tim Walter despite a challenging start to the season, with Hull 19th in the table. He attributes the team's struggles to injuries, bad luck, and refereeing errors. Ilicali acknowledges fans' frustrations but urges them to back the young squad and manager. He remains optimistic, focusing on potential improvements after January transfers and players returning from injury. Ilicali emphasized his commitment to Hull City and dismissed rumors of selling the club, calling for unity and stability.

You don't have time to read a HDM article and need AI to do it for you?

Really?

You absolute ****ing clown shoe.

**** off. Literally. You're probably Vern's burner account.
 
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We have 37m net debt, I posted the snip from our accounts above. Sad ranty man.

No, you posted losses.

To whom this debt do we owe and at what rate is it repayable?

Or are you assuming to know the mechanism by which the losses are underwritten?

And of course the main question is - what in our accounts is particularly novel in the way we record losses in comparison to the rest of the division, half of the one above and half of the one below?

Seems like you're calling scandal so where is it?
 
I posted our net debt as taken directly from our accounts

Where on earth have I called scandal? I've literally said it only matters when the club is sold and acun can wipe the debt. The only reason it came up was someone saying a "wrong un" owner could rack up the debt and I pointed out the good owners do too.

Some just want to see outrage and controversy in my posts in order to justify getting worked up.

The only reason this discussion has gone so long is people doubting our debt levels, not because of any supposed criticism. I even said it's a symptom of ffp (sorry mauled) that owners target maximising losses which contribute to higher debt.