I think they were more to do with what the loans were used for - if used to cover wages not allowable - if used to fund the stadium allowable.
There appears to be some disagreement as to the use of the loans in some instances.
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I do sometimes find myself thinking we should have tried to be more underhand with our finances. We'd probably have got away with it (Chelsea hotel) or at least turned it into an extended investigation (City, Everton, maybe Bournemouth).
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Depending on the details, that may have been what we attempted to do with Covid losses and promotion bonuses. And the league just said nah.
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We didn't do that much with COVID did we?
Everton put through £170m...
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Maybe dodgy but we went for about £10m on our £20m championship revenue
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Percy reported a few weeks back a 1 year extension had been triggered. That article suggests Aina may not be aware of this.
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Presumably the contract offer is in the same drawer as that lease we signed with the council a couple of years ago.
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City Council hits back!
Highlights:
Nottingham Forest are being offered the chance to buy the land where their stadium sits for a figure in the region of £10million,
Mellen extensively quoted:
"We’re not asking for anything more than the market value. We’re not seeking to exploit the club and get more than the market value."
Behind the scenes, some suspect the Toton idea is more advanced than has been stated.
“The county council’s leader, Ben Bradley (the Conservative MP for Mansfield), is very close to the club. The county council has a big piece of land in Toton, which was earmarked for HS2, and Councillor Bradley’s government has pulled the plug on HS2. So there’s a big piece of land going there."
“But is that a suitable place for a football ground? Would people be able to get there other than in their cars? The trams go there and you could maybe, at a squash, get 100 people on a tram. But how the hell is that going to get 30,000 people, or more, to the club? There will be lots of people in cars causing congestion."
“We want Nottingham Forest, our successful Premier League club, to do the best it possibly can. We want them to stay in the city. We don’t want them to go halfway to Derby." -
Let's face it we are going to move to Toton.
It's the Forest thing to do.
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Were I still in Nottingham, I would join every protest against a move to Toton, and if such a move happened I would most certainly vow to never attend a game there.
I’m struggling to think of a shitter idea, and there’s really little else to say about it.
Whilst I don’t think there is a case to expect public money/assistance with all of this, I do look at those pictures of the Trent Bridge area and sigh at the untapped potential to have something pretty remarkable… like wot we have here in Melbourne… but that does need councils and governments with funding, vision, and support. This is not the English way…. we just trust the billionaires to sort it all out.
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It's such an obviously terrible idea - when it wasn't treated as a joke from the outset and has now come back into the news every few weeks, it feels like either it's a done deal and they are just trying to sell it or there's a third option that's not quite as bad (Eastcroft?) that's the real plan and they can say, "well it could be worse - it's not Toton".
Did occur to me that, from the club's perspective, while the people in the ground made their feeling clear on Saturday, they could argue there are another 20,000 who aren't able to get into the CG and aren't able to get their opinions on TV...
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For me the biggest challenge with the stadium issue is not the council and permissions, I'm confident that can be resolved and clearly Trent Bridge is a remarkable site and an ungraded/new stadium there could be amazing for Nottingham. The problem though is where we would play while that's being done, or, if we stayed, how we would be impacted by a year or more's worth of construction in terms of its impact on capacity, revenue, and support. We are so so dependent on the psychology if home advantage, it could quite likely be the difference between relegation from the PL and staying up. One benefit of a new stadium is you get your 50k all seater designed for maximum noise etc, and you can have a seamless transition from the City Ground to that. Obviously a forever change to a soulless out of town site is an expensive price to pay for that though.
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They are in Rushcliffe, thank you very much.
They can go fuck if they go to Toton.
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It's not just Melbourne. Land in a major city with water frontage is gold. I'd be biting their hand off at 10 million.
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Both sides are spinning like a very spinning thing at the moment - but surely those numbers are plucked out of his arse?
The current lease has 33 years to run & the Council are (allegedly) asking for £1m p.a. on a 250-year extension... but suddenly they're willing to sell the freehold for 10 years' worth (or 40 years' worth, at current rent)? If it's true, we should be snapping their hands off - but if it's true, it also explains why the Council's finances are in such shit order; from their perspective, that's an absolutely terrible deal.
From the club's, we'd be talking finally acquiring the land for less than an Omobamidele. [I like Andy O, but no-brainer].
There's a strong smell of BS around here...
