Mike Ashley buying another stadium? (4 Viewers)

[Skybluedownunder]

Mike Ashley is in detailed negotiations with Yorkshire about buying Headingley Stadium in a £22m-plus deal.

Maybe he really isn’t actually interested in buying us and is now just buying up stadiums… bit odd


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[duffer]

Apparently, once you get all of the stadiums you can start building hotels. Then if anyone lands on them they're screwed.

 

[Skybluedownunder]

It just not Cricket m8

Fair dinkum cobba


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[Skybluedownunder]

Apparently, once you get all of the stadiums you can start building hotels. Then if anyone lands on them they're screwed.

Sounds a very Mike Ashley thing to do


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[Terry_dactyl]

Maybe he’s planning to relocate us?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

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[Terry_dactyl]

It’s a shame Ndlovu isn’t still playing for us, I hear he bowled more than one maiden over…

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

Yorkshire are crickets version of Wasps, they’re £15m in debt to their former chairman (who overseen the racism scandal)

 

[SkyblueDad]

Interesting, I don’t think Yorkshire are the only county up to their ears, selling grounds possibly a way forward for some.

 

[Captain_Slackbladder]

Sounds a very Mike Ashley thing to do


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You can't put hotels on stadiums, it's just the more of them you own then the more ridiculous rent charge you can inflict on anyone who goes/stays there. From time to time clubs will get a directive to "take a trip" to stadiums such a Sixfields and St Andrews usually meaning a walk-out by some during the game over the legitimacy of such a move.

 

[Covkid1968#]

Yorkshire are crickets version of Wasps, they’re £15m in debt to their former chairman (who overseen the racism scandal)

They are on a bit of a sticky wicket and he’s Looking to bail them out then?

 

[Kingokings204]

I’m stumped

 

[Kingokings204]

I remember on talksport a month or so back saying that he is a massive cricket fan maybe even more so than football. And even went on to say don’t be surprised to see his involvement in cricket soon. This could be it then.

 

[Gynnsthetonic]

They are on a bit of a sticky wicket and he’s Looking to bail them out then?

That creased me up

 

[Sick Boy]

Maybe he really isn’t actually interested in buying us and is now just buying up stadiums… bit odd

I don’t he or anyone connected to him has ever said he’s interested in buying us.

 

[SBAndy]

Interesting that Ashley is purchasing another asset that Stephen Vaughan is involved in…

 

[Grendel]

Yorkshire are crickets version of Wasps, they’re £15m in debt to their former chairman (who overseen the racism scandal)

Same CEO as Wasps as well of course

 

[Skybluedownunder]

You can't put hotels on stadiums, it's just the more of them you own then the more ridiculous rent charge you can inflict on anyone who goes/stays there. From time to time clubs will get a directive to "take a trip" to stadiums such a Sixfields and St Andrews usually meaning a walk-out by some during the game over the legitimacy of such a move.

We were on about Monopoly


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[Hobo]

He has made it known for sometime he was looking to get involved in a cricket club.

 

[MalcSB]

We were on about Monopoly


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So was the Captain.

 

[Gibbo]

Read my lips. He...was...never...interested...in...buying...us. Why on earth would he? He's been there, done that, got the T shirt and the scars. The ground is an asset he can exploit, a club is a money pit. He quite likes money.

 

[Hobo]

Read my lips. He...was...never...interested...in...buying...us. Why on earth would he? He's been there, done that, got the T shirt and the scars. The ground is an asset he can exploit, a club is a money pit. He quite likes money.

Absolutely. A few of our fans still don't understand he didn't put any of his own money into Newcastle.

 

[pusbccfc]

Mike Ashley will buy anything that's distressed.

 

[Gibbo]

Mike Ashley will buy anything that's distressed.

...if it has the potential to make money. Some things are distressed for a reason, so not 'anything'.

There must be unfulfilled revenue opportunities that can be released relatively easily. Nobody ever said that about a football club.

I suspect he quite fancies the idea of 'The Fraser Arena Coventry' as being a marketing tool that actually makes money rather than just being a cost, but it is not uppermost in his thinking. But who knows?

 

[MalcSB]

Mike Ashley will buy anything that's distressed.

I’d better cheer up then.

 

[Captain_Slackbladder]

We were on about Monopoly


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So was I...

 

[Alan Dugdales Moustache]

Mike Ashley will buy anything that's distressed.

Hell be buying Birmingham City Council and rebranding it .

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

Hell be buying Birmingham City Council and rebranding it .

Return to St Andrews confirmed?

 

[MalcSB]

So was I...

Yours was quite Monopoly logical.