Oh come on, it has long been known that the club have been unhappy with the arrangement. Just because an agreement was made under previous owners doesn't make it right. SISU's biggest error was that they didn't put this issue to bed early on. That is their fault of course.
I'm all for taking the fight to SISU to save our club - but the fact remains that if we (the fans) had put pressure on ACL and had backed the club's stance once the rent issue came to the fore, we probably wouldn't be where we are now. I will never understand how so many people became so obsessed with ridding the club of SISU that they actually sided with a completely separate corporate entity, even at the point when it went to court to put the club out of business - unbelievable - I don't know of another club where that would have happened. Perhaps it would have, and football fans generally are stupid.
Here we go again . Facts are the rent was 1.2 million a year so for 5 years Sisu paid up which equates to 6 million. Then stopped paying , blamed the council / ACL saying rent has caused ccfc to be relegated etc . Needed a scapeoat for their failings and mismanagement on and off the pitch. Agreed a new deal then renaged on it. Then threw a strop and moved out , not thrown out , moved out .
They are a bunch of charlatans who should never have got involved in football. Yes I was happy when they took over, and thought it would be the start of our recovery back to premier league, but looking back maybe we should have gone into admin then and hopefully it would now be a long forgotten memory .
Do the math , lets say for instance that we got F&B revenue and lets be generous and say out of 10k fans half spent £5 each home game that equals 25k. Take out staff and food,drink costs and you would be lucky to see 10k profit per game. 23 games at home equals 230k per season. Now x that by 6 equals 1.38 million over the 6 years. It is nothing in the grand scheme of things they are trying to pull the wool over the fans eyes and trying to shift blame for their failings. IMO It was a get rich quick scheme that was sold to them by RR and it's all gone shit shape when we failed to make any impression in the championship.
SISU were hoping on a return to PL football then to sell club on at a tidy profit. It never happened and IMO never will under their tenure.
In the long run I think they would be better off going back to ACL and accepting the 400k deal that was on thd table and just getting on with it. It may be more beneficial to them to eat a bit of humble pie now than to alienate the fans to such an extent that the very future of COVENTRY CITY is in doubt.