Still don't buy it though, good business leaders allow management to do the tasks they can't but always expect full reports on everything that goes on and with business it is never the here and now, it is always what about a few years down the line and I'm sure that someone in Sisu would have eyed up the Ricoh.
This top-end management isn't just involved with CCFC though. They might be important to us but, much as we're often told nobody else in Coventry much cares about the club, so for SISU it's just one of many speculations. I'd be fairly sure the idea was big return in 2-3 years and out. nice and simple, little lost really (relatively speaking, anyway!).
It's to their, errm, credit(?) that they didn't take the option of winding the whole shebang up when that didn't work. We'll see, a nice long lease certainly makes the Ricoh more attractive now, but I'm not entirely convinced it's the golden goose many have it down as. What it is handy for, of course, is if you buy a football club for zip and a stadium for zip, you can probably shift the both combined for 'something'. I'd be surprised if it's ever been about turning the Ricoh into a long term profit return though, that just makes little sense to me given previous track records. Streamline it, make it efficient, sell on something that has value where once it had none is the bog standard way of doing such things.
