If any bid did come through, no matter how small or big, it will surely have to go through a voting process of whether to accept or not ... The council leadership has change recently, and a lot has happened since... I can imagine a many of the councillors from all cross parties may have had a change of opinion since.
Guess time will tell... I personally feel they would probably hold on to there half share as a caution but may put it through a vote and reconsider it if they feel the football club and the City of Coventry have benefitted from the new owners.
I would be quite happy for the council to retain its half ownership of the bricks and mortar of the Ricoh, but not happy for it to cling on to its right to a half share of all the (non footballing) revenues, as I believe the council should be prepared to sell these rights to the football club (not a holding company) at a reasonable market price. This would help the football club to more sustainable going forward for any new owners.
Well at least he'd be an arrogant prick who is less likely to screw a charity over, then
If he didn't appoint Brian Laws they might have had a chance of staying up. Masterstroke that one.
Burnley chairman Barry Kilby appoited Laws..
i thought you only commented with "verifiable and documented facts"
I would be quite happy for the council to retain its half ownership of the bricks and mortar of the Ricoh, but not happy for it to cling on to its right to a half share of all the (non footballing) revenues, as I believe the council should be prepared to sell these rights to the football club (not a holding company) at a reasonable market price. This would help the football club to more sustainable going forward for any new owners.
I think your getting yourself all confused. I know nothing, I don't have all the verifiable and documented facts as previously stated.
He was only assked for some advice anyway, doesn't say anywhere he's involved beyond that.
just to be clear, im not pro paul fletcher or anti elliot etc etc etc..
i just found it ludicrous that people were outraged that PF might be coming back in some form.. yet they were happy enough for Elliot to be fronting up a take over again. so for balance & arguments sake i was simply pointing out PF previous success ( which for some reason, known only to them, seemed to rile some).
I stopped short of pointing out Elliots failed associations.. as im sure he had the best intrest of the club at heart, and im sure he loves the club.. but really. there needs to be some level of sense & ability to offer balance in any debate without it being brought down to the whole "you SISU lover" .. "you think PF is the messiah" level.
Just to be clear, I'm not anti Paul Fletcher. He's clearly done well for himself and made some good sponsorship deals for stadiums, I just don't think he is the messiah that some people are making him out to be. If 'due diligence' is taking bits of information from his biog then best of luck with that, lets just hope to god our potential new owners don't follow the same process.
But peace and love and all that my friend :wave:
It's amazing how people twist things. Nobody has claimed he is the messiah, what gave you that idea?
PF is/was being as a consultant by this this consortium. Nothing more, nothing less. That is all we know. This then led one individual to dismiss the bid altogether and declare "I'm out". In response to that people recalled some of his previous achievements and questioned this extreme reaction, especially when it was pretty clear he was not fronting the bid.
Some people, ahem, then seemed to take umbridge with the fact others were complimentary about PF's CV. Countless posts later and here we are, and amazingly it is now been suggested that those who took a reasoned, non-reactionary position on this development are somehow being unreasonable and are taking a PF is the 'messiah' stance. I really don't know what is the matter with some people.