Coventry City FC need 11,000 fans at every home game.... (5 Viewers)
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Grendel
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Sky Blue Kid
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@ CCFC..... Where do you condone what SISU are/have been doing.... Let me see now! How about giving them money which hasn't been put back into the Football Club for starters. SISU said Coventry City FC. are self sufficient? What's happened to the money from Wilson and Clarke sales then? Certainly not been put back into the Football Club has it! The norm over the last 7 years have been, Sell a good player for (Hypothetical price of say £1m) Club given nothing to BUY another player. OR sell a player on 6k pw and bring in 5 (Shit ones) on 1k pw each saving 52k pa Where does that 52k go? Caymen Is perhaps? Would it make any difference if we filled the Ricoh every fortnight? Would it f**k! the money wouldn't go back into the Club... Caymen Is perhaps? It's fools and their money are soon parted. Does the cap fit by any chance?....... Grenduffy... Still waiting for that Micheal Doyle wage claim link.
Perhaps you should ask OSB to show you where in the Audited Accounts monies have passed OUT of CCFC into SISU
Doyle spent last season on loan at Leeds, where he was classed as not good enough for League One by some United supporters (Where, according to 'soccerbase', he played 52 times, and failed to score - though he did pick up ten yellow cards!), and obviously was rated as not good enough for the Championship by Simon Grayson too, who opted not to take him to Elland Road when they gained promotion.
Doyle, according to reports, left for no fee, and the rumoured £8,000+ weekly salary the club will be saving will hopefully go towards bringing in somebody more likely to help push the club into the top half of the table.
For instance, under the terms of the season-long deal that brought Michael Doyle to Elland Road from Coventry City, United agreed to pay half of the midfielder’s £10,000-per-week wage with his parent club picking up the rest.
SkyBlue_Bear83
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My money goes towards paying the wages of players and running of the football club. The 8,000 fans still going are the lifeblood of the club, without them we'd have no club.
Yes it would make a massive difference if we filled the Ricoh.
stupot07
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Not this bollocks again, OSB has been through the accounts many times and SISU have taken no money out of the club, accrued interest yes, but physically taken money out. No. The asset stripping like is a myth, the money for Clarke and Wilson went into funding the operating costs/covering losses of the club. Running a football club is expensive business and we've been losing £6-7m per annum for the last decade. Management costs are also a red herring, it's been explained its the movement of cash between the group of companies that are CCFC.
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Sky Blue Kid
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Many thanks to you oldfiver.......... No wonder Grenduffy wouldn't get back to me with the link to Doyles wage.... He said Doyle was on FIFTEEN THOUSAND(15k) pw Yet another "Estimated fact" eh Grenduffy?
SkyBlue_Bear83
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Sorta like your made up facts.
bringbackrattles
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Been down the club shop in Tesco's twice today and both times queues of fans buying tickets for Wigan game.
Not saying for season tickets but they reckon it'll be a decent turn out tomorrow.
Grendel
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There was an an article in the CET in 2007 where the accounts showed that the highest paid CCFC player was on £15,000 a week. It's been discussed numerous times on here.
The general assumption was that it was Michael Doyle.
His next contract was on a lower salary - clearly a measly £10 000 a week.
CCFC_Charlie
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Surely we don't need 11k at every game if we need an 11k average. The headline makes it sounds way less achievable than it is. Typical Telegraph exaggeration.
Sky Blue Kid
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Looks like your assumption was wrong then eh!
letsallsingtogether
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Well you wouldn't get out of bed for that.
SkyBlue_Bear83
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Yea but that means we would need a number of attendances over 11k, can't see that happening too often.
scouseskyblue
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It would help if it was easier getting to the ground. The train station being late and then apparently having one train per hour (?) is ridiculous. Taking it further, I realise that the Council are not our friends but subsidised buses and trains (completely free for under 16 maybe?) would also help. Anything to get people off their arses and up to the Ricoh.
Astute
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CCFC invested 1.7m altogether IIRC. For this we were given the 50% of ACL. This was held as security for the 6m we received from Higgs. So our club made over 4m profit. The only problem is that because of the SISU idea of negotiating it cost us our home
Astute
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Do you honestly think that people keep away because of the train or bus situation? It might be used by some as an excuse. To me it isn't much of an excuse. How many disabled/infirm/elderly would use the services? The rest have plenty of options on getting there if they wanted to.
blueflint
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like others was kind of hoping for them to change the fiasco over the RICOH proved different they got worse
letsallsingtogether
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Yes it was common knowledge.
I remember a Leamington businessman giving £100,000 for a percentage in Paul Telfers transfer.
He was expected to be sold on for a profit giving everyone who had a share a profit.☺
rupert_bear
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that scheme was introduced by Bryan Richardson it is called the Newmarket system used in horse racing,it's okay but cost us Robbie Keane too early once Milan offered £13 million the investors cashed in
Grendel
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No he was the highest paid player - see below;
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/michael-doyle-exit-frees-up-3077825
And there is an article that somewhere stated the highest paid was £15k a week. Given we has Stern John, Ward etc at the time those players would easily have commanded £10k plus salaries
While searching for that I found this -- looks like the Manhattan Group turned and fled once the outrageous price demands from Higgs and the council came to light
http://www.footballforums.net/archive/index.php/t-147945.html
fernandopartridge
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CCFC invested 1.7m altogether IIRC. For this we were given the 50% of ACL. This was held as security for the 6m we received from Higgs. So our club made over 4m profit. The only problem is that because of the SISU idea of negotiating it cost us our home
CCFC invested £6.8m according to the timeline on the a trust site and sold the investment for £6.5m to the 'charity'
Astute
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Would you like to show us then?
Certainly a mistake has been made or someone is pushing the truth to the limit. This is going back a couple of years when some people tried to say that CCFC bought the land or paid for the decontamination. So I posted up the official costs and who paid what...a few times. It was somewhere near 1.7m.
Or is it just another attempt to make CCC look worse than SISU yet again?
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Could always Google like I just did:
http://www.skybluetrust.co.uk/index.php/club-information/timeline/357-ricoh-arena-timeline
Sorry mate I know 4 people who don't go anymore since they stopped the direct bus from town, , for an old fella to get from tile hill on a night game , is just so hard, the point is both ccfc and the council should be taking the excusses away for not going not providing ready made ones
Astute
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http://democraticservices.coventry....08 - Arena Construction Completion Report.pdf
Page 16. CCFC put 1,758,000 towards the cost. And this wasn't guesswork as stated several times in the one you posted. This was more or less a legal document that couldn't be put as false.
Sky Blue Kid
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@ Grenduffy..... You've already been shown what Doyles wage was........... "For instance, under the terms of the season-long deal that brought Michael Doyle to Elland Road from Coventry City, United agreed to pay half of the midfielder’s £10,000-per-week wage with his parent club picking up the rest"..... This taken from "oldfiver's post.
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You'd best tell the Trust their timeline's wrong, and that they've quoted from the accounts wrongly.
You asked him where he got it from, I pointed out Google is an easy friend. Now get on with your :slap:
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Astute
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Evidence isn't enough for some unless you are making excuses for SISU or blaming CCC as much as you can. And on the occasions where you have the proof to show they are wrong they either go quiet or only post on other threads.
Astute
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Do you mean where they kept saying "but unclear if this relates only to Highfield Rd."?
Richardson sold HR then we rented it back whilst the Ricoh was built. It may have cost our club to rent it back, but it wasn't what we paid towards building the Ricoh. Richardson shouldn't have sold HR until we didn't need it. But we all know why he did.
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In the event of Leeds winning promotion, however, it was agreed the Yorkshire club would immediately cover the cost of Coventry’s contribution – meaning they were hit with a bill of more than £250,000 within days of the 2009-10 season ending. Shame
SlowerThanPlatt
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We agreed to pay £5k a week for a player who wasn't even playing for us? No wonder the money didn't take long to run out.
Grendel
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Where am I quiet? The CET said he was the highest paid player and in the accounts of 2007 said the highest paid was on £15,000 a week - have you even bothered to read his original post or are you unable to see above the xxxxxxxxl shirts that were the only ones stolen?
Grendel
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We paid more than that when lee Hughes was sold back to West Brom