No, just a bit of experience with middle eastern investment portfolios. You are probably going up, don't get me wrong. Just don't expect it to be a permanent thing. That's just the simple nature of 99.9% of these acquisitions. If you don't go up then expect some of your key assets to be poached. Do yourself a favour. Do some digging. P.S. - you won't come down in anywhere near as good financial shape as you went up either! Oh, yeah - the knochaert prediction is just a no-brainer from 25 years of watching English football - at all levels. Lovely little player, mind.
I don't know what you're getting at. Are you saying it's best to stay in this division rather than go up and come back down? Our owners are in it for the long haul. They've not done anything in the two and a half years that they've been here to suggest anything otherwise. But you know, just look at the 'foreign owners' tag and squash them into that stereotype. It's probably wise... I tell you what is wise, some freaking sleep!
What I'm saying is that they are here for a profit. They have spent big and they expect a big return. They will take more money out of the club than they put in and don't expect it to be a nice process when it happens. It will happen. The best you can hope for is someone else sees more investment potential in your club once Kingpower pull out. They will do so when they feel that they can no longer add value to their investment. Of course it is better to go up. It is not better to go up however if your ownership has a business-plan that cares more for dividends than the fans and the city of Leicester. That would be the one thing nagging at the back of my mind if I were a Leicester or Cardiff fan at this moment in time. The nature of football is to enjoy the good times though, so enjoy them while they last - I know I would. The fact you spend so much time on here though suggests to me that you are for some reason not getting enough out of your own team's current success and are looking for some kind of validation. Of course that's your own business though. G'night. I hope you sleep well before work in the morning
This could happen to anyone. I remember when Don Robinson sold up, wasn't a pretty sight, this is why we are in the situation we are now, not because of DR, but it started the ball rolling, sold on, then sold on, then sold on.
Yup - that's the depressing cycle of what British football has unfortunately become. Even Pearson sold our top scorer and fooked off in a relegation battle because he "couldnt take the club any further" if you remember correctly. There is a difference though between those who have local connections taking on a club and trying to run a club in a sustainable way with a philanthropic mandate, and outside investors of the Lloyd, Bartlett, Glazier, Sheikh Mansour, John Henry, Chainrai, Short, Venkys et al. type of which Leicester and Kingpower have to be included. Believe you me - Adam Pearson is a City legend, but made his money from the club - almost certainly taking out more than he put in - he did make it a profitable business again and attract significant investment though for which we all should be eternally grateful, but even he has to be classed as an outside investor in the cold hard light of day. Even took his City profit and stuck it in Derby, then Gateshull FFS! My (and your ) point is that this is the nature of football. Great when it all goes well, not nice when it goes bad. We are fairly unique by having a benefactor rather than an investor (though in reality he's both) at the helm for the time being and the plan is to run it at it's maximum sustainable potential, and not put the club at risk for personal gain. Modest year on year improvement is my expectation, though there has been a definite increase in both investment and promotion prospects this year when they have taken full control. International investors are here simply because the BPL is the biggest casino in the world to them and a tax-dodge to boot, despite their efforts to be accepted as genuine men of the people and have the club interests at heart. I don't need to be convinced that Allam has the club and city at heart as it is a simple fact that a sensible business decision would have been to let the club fold, buy it for £1 and then build from the bottom again. We could have filled the stadium challenging for L2 promotion - we have before and Allam would still have been a local messiah. Not enough credit to Allam for the responsibility he's taken on and the backing he's given us. It wouldn't have cost 40m to buy the club out of admin and build from the lower leagues but he did it to retain competitive status. The ****ers whinging about not signing a striker (despite signing one with a record of 17 in 31 at international level) are just twats in my book, especially considering the fact we got to the Automatic spots in December with less depth than we have now. On paper we are stronger for the second half of the season and some fans are bottling it! Can hardly blame the players if the fans are bricking it at the first unexpected defeat! No ****ing wonder Leicester trolls are more at home on here that they are their own ****ing board. Some city fans are as much pillocks as they are in my view. All things considered like!
Duh of course they are here for the profit as is any owner of any business, what's the point otherwise, no owners including the Allams put money into the club for the fun of it. They want to see a return. Not rocket science!!
I think if you looked at Allam's donations to other Hull sporting, educational and cultural ventures then I think you would revise that Viewpoint. I don't think he's in it to loose money, but he is fantastically rich and his motivation is legacy rather than profit per se. Of course a successful Hull City, and Hull being a higher profile city as a result of sporting success won't do his genuine business interests any harm, and there are probably tax breaks, but he has donated millions to various causes in the city, often where there is no obvious financial return. Believe me, I'm a cynical bastard. I find it hard to believe but nothing I can find casts doubt on the above.
Well, since leicester city has more letters than Hull City, make that 5 points! In fact, why not make it six points, just because.
The Allams have put money into Hull Truck Theatre, a hospital Oncology Unit, a Hull University Research project (medical, by the way), schools football, Hull Kingston Rovers RLFC..... Where's your KP equivalent?
I keep reading these type of comments, but can find very few examples of it happening in reality, and even the ones I did find tended to be replies to some Leicester bod giving it billy big bollocks. It smacks of a desperate need to justify nervous gloating.
You can't find any examples of your fans being cocky about being ahead of us in the table? Here we go... Just from one or two pages on a thread on the Leicester board...
As Dutch has suggested, the comments mean nothing unless you know what they're responses too. If I remember correctly, these comments are from a piss-take thread called 'Will The Hun Ever Score Again', so you got what you deserved. I notice that Fallen's moved on from Hun and Kraut threads and is on about Camel Jockeys this morning, the racist ****.
It doesn't matter what it was in response to, you just acted like there was no way we would catch you, and now we have, so here we are Half the fun of a multi-club forum is to take the mick a bit when people are wrong, just like the Proschwitz situation, and just like us last season when we all got a bit carried away with our spending and thought we would win the league For the record, I am not here to gloat, but you can't make comments like the ones made and not expect some sort of reaction when they come back to bite you. And, I am by no means getting carried away, I am not silly enough to think second is ours, the gap is still only 3 points and anything can happen between now and the end of the season. Ideally I would like both of us to go up to be honest with you, but I can't see one team overtaking Cardiff, let alone two!
Lucky Lucky Foxes last night. FFS, Wolves wardrobe defending was not even upto sunday league standard. What with that and Emnes missed penalty for Middlesboro 2 weeks ago, Lesta really have had some luck the last 2 games. 4 points more than they should have. Enjoy it whilst it lasts like.
I even took the time to mention context and didn't deny some claims had been made, but it's a good bet the lions share are in response to Leicester getting billy big bollocks, pretty much as they're doing at the moment. There's none so blind as those that will not see, or are too ****ing thick to face the truth.
