Doug King Takeover (66 Viewers)

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Coventry City takeover: Doug King plans Mike Ashley stadium talks

Coventry City takeover news from CoventryLive as prospective Sky Blues owner Doug King gives his reaction to the club's failed bid to assume control of the CBS Arena, which has instead been bought by Mike Ashley's Fraser Group

www.coventrytelegraph.net

 

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[Sky Blue Pete]

The opportunity was missed November 1st mate.

Yep agreed sounds like it wasn’t possible without the money back then but we shall see

 

[Deleted member 5849]

No opportunity missed today, as it was rubber stamping what had been agreed earlier.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

Do we reckon mental beardy energy drink guy was one of the bidders?

Dont know, were you?

 

[the rumpo kid]

2. They'll have no say on making a massive bid as King owns the club now, he may of given them a pound for all we know

Does he ?

 

[David O'Day]

I feel with the stuff that keeps being leaked and them being thrown under the bus it is only a matter of time before they are ousted. I hope so anyway.

not so sure, the football never seems to effect people on voting day

 

[clint van damme]

The way I see it now, sisu have three options.
1. Sell to Mike Ashley
2. Use the Doug king money to make a massive bid for promotion, then sell a premier League club.
3. Assets strip, sell anyone they can get a £ for and offer what's left to the highest bidder.


Guess which one I think the vindictive hedge fund will go for ?

Surely the sensible option would be to see this season out and hope we fluke a promotion then sell n the summer whichever league we're in?

 

[shmmeee]

Dont know, were you?

I don’t drink energy drinks thankyouverymuch

 

[SkyblueDad]

2. They'll have no say on making a massive bid as King owns the club now, he may of given them a pound for all we know

He doesn’t own the club yet

 

[shmmeee]

Coventry City takeover: Doug King plans Mike Ashley stadium talks

Coventry City takeover news from CoventryLive as prospective Sky Blues owner Doug King gives his reaction to the club's failed bid to assume control of the CBS Arena, which has instead been bought by Mike Ashley's Fraser Group

www.coventrytelegraph.net

we have a transfer window coming up where we’re able to participate, or not, as the case may be, but that will be the focus that we’ll adopt on the team and our push for promotion this year.

Really not sure how to take that

 

[SBT]

I did liaise with Joy last night.

 

[shmmeee]

Mrs Pete needs to look out, liaising with Joy, flirting with Trish…

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

Really not sure how to take that

I’m sure he mentioned that this morning, didn’t he mention something about getting approval affecting whether we can do business?

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

I don’t drink energy drinks thankyouverymuch

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

Does he ?

Well no, yes, err I don't know

 

[Winny the Bish]

I’m sure he mentioned that this morning, didn’t he mention something about getting approval affecting whether we can do business?

If football manager has taught me anything it’s that clubs get hit with an immediate transfer embargo while in the process of a takeover.

 

[Samo]

I'd have thought being without a chief executive for a year would be a literal benefit to the city, especially given we're paying a massive amount for the privilege and that the current holder clearly isn't capable of doing the job properly.

Yup, its a bit like saying 'How are we going to cope without that useless c**t?'

 

[ProfessorbyGrace]

Ok…so, without having to trawl through everything (it’s been a long day so far), can I please have clarification:

Does Mike Ashley own the CBS now?

If so, why on earth does Doug King want the club?!?! Surely we need the club and the stadium in the same hands?

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Surely we need the club and the stadium in the same hands?

Why?

 

[tisza]

The notion that elected officials will be "come after" by an employee is absolutely appalling. What sort of tinpot dictatorship is being run at the Council building?

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

Ok…so, without having to trawl through everything (it’s been a long day so far), can I please have clarification:

Does Mike Ashley own the CBS now?

If so, why on earth does Doug King want the club?!?! Surely we need the club and the stadium in the same hands?

Who knows, if Ashley was to purchase the club would it be just Kings 85%, does Seppalla want to keep that 15% holding in the case we get promoted to the PL

 

[Deleted member 5849]

The notion that elected officials will be "come after" by an employee is absolutely appalling. What sort of tinpot dictatorship is being run at the Council building?

It is slightly bonkers, isn't it!

Equally worrying mind you, that those elected officials have enough that's worth coming after, really. In itself, that quote / threat should be enough to vote to bring him down.

 

[clint van damme]

Ok…so, without having to trawl through everything (it’s been a long day so far), can I please have clarification:

Does Mike Ashley own the CBS now?

If so, why on earth does Doug King want the club?!?! Surely we need the club and the stadium in the same hands?

Yes.

Fuck knows.

Would be nice.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

The notion that elected officials will be "come after" by an employee is absolutely appalling. What sort of tinpot dictatorship is being run at the Council building?

If Reeves was sacked for gross misconduct he won't receive a penny but could dish the dirt on other councillors, he'll want paying off same as the last guy and then keep quiet. Don't think we'll ever know what went on previously

 

[duffer]

The funny thing now would be if Ashley turned up in the media the night before King was due to take final control of CCFC, saying that he was willing to offer more for the club but had been kept out of the bidding process.

 

[duffer]

If Reeves was sacked for gross misconduct he won't receive a penny but could dish the dirt on other councillors, he'll want paying off same as the last guy and then keep quiet. Don't think we'll ever know what went on previously

Shows how bent it all is...

 

[SkyblueDad]

If Reeves was sacked for gross misconduct he won't receive a penny but could dish the dirt on other councillors, he'll want paying off same as the last guy and then keep quiet. Don't think we'll ever know what went on previously

There’s redundancies about at the council would be a nice little, well not so little pay-off.

 

[Broken Hearted Sky Blue]

Really not sure how to take that

Easy he hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing or what he’s going to do. We are back to the fun again I love it

 

[Happy_Martian]

the football never seems to effect people on voting day

Unlikely to. Voting day tends to be on a Thursday and we rarely if ever play on that day

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

The notion that elected officials will be "come after" by an employee is absolutely appalling. What sort of tinpot dictatorship is being run at the Council building?

This one

 

[fernandopartridge]

not so sure, the football never seems to effect people on voting day

It's more because most people don't vote in local elections?

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

It's more because most people don't vote in local elections?

Maybe different this time

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

This is like a lidl version of Dominic Cummings and Boris ain’t it

 

[olderskyblue]

I listened! He does not feel embarrassed one bit by the WASPs fiasco? Trisha Dodo did not phrase the question right! She should have said that a council employee stated at the time there is no way the stadium would be sold to a hedge fund for them to load all their debt on the stadium so that’s why we chose the WASPs bid over SISU

And he says he’s got nothing to be embarrassed about, yet no one mentions the £millions unpaid to local business‘ that could lose people or fold, all because he brought Wasps to Coventry.

 

[Danceswithhorses]

Sadly Trish is a poor interviewer, especially as regards football.
You could tell she knew little of the background info when chatting with Pete.