Stadt

8 minutes ago, 1972 Fox said:

Sadly he's too thick skinned.

He couldn’t look somebody asking the most softball questions in the eye after the Hull game. People getting chucked out for

minor discontent suggests otherwise too.

1 minute ago, AjcW said:

Just using what i've just paid a football 'celeb' who i'd consider to be affordable as an example.

You're looking at 200k there for the 18

 

Our 6000 ticket sales so far equates to about 120-150k......

 

Charities are going to do well out of this  

Then the cost of stewarding, hospitality staff, caterers and other sundry cost of sales stuff. It will be a net loss of a few hundred thousand - already looking forward to next years' exceptional items in the accounts .

Had a day out in Birmingham yesterday for my brother’s birthday. It’s a great city for boozers when you know where you’re going, not unlike London - otherwise it can be a disparate and disjointed outing.

Did the Woodman, the Bull, Queens Head, Wellington and Waterside Tap, some shit generic bar before having a curry at the Hen & Chickens.

The Woodman is fantastic looking, nice selection as well.

43 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

many teams playing in London stay an hour away from the stadium given London traffic 

the benefits of being at seagrave are strong 

 

why do you think that occupancy at a five star hotel in that area would be low ?  Golf course on site - how many top quality hotels are there.  I still think that 30m valuation for seagrave is decent security. 
 

The stadium must be able to be demolished and be built upon?  Alternatively the tigers could sell welford road and buy the stadium. 

Leicestershire isn’t a massive tourist hotspot (although numbers are growing) there would big operating costs for a five star hotel - way greater than Seagrave already costs plus the capital to convert it. What do you do with 15 pitches?

The Tigers wouldn’t want to leave Welford Rd (a guess) or go through that upheaval especially after redeveloping recently for an higesde of what - 6k in capacity?

3 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

The training ground must have a value circa £30m.

you could make it into a 5 star hotel and also have all clubs playing at forest and villa (and some at derby) staying there with those facilities. 
 

the stadium is surely worth a similar figure. 
 

so you could invest £60m cash with those assets as security or straight take ownership of them if you wanted to force a deal where you took some equity in addition to the assets. 

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The occupancy rate for a 5 star hotel wouldn’t be great and teams playing away at  Villa would stay in Birmingham rather than being an hour away.

The stadium is worth that only if you have a tenant (i.e LCFC) so to maintain the asset you’d need to spend £40m p/a to keep the club alive to protect a £30m asset 

Some on here fine with the signing because he was “experienced”, “won lots of fouls” and “Palace fans liked him”.

I don’t think it’s a total coincidence Palace have had their two best ever seasons as soon as they were rid of him.

Horrible to watch, selfish, slow, terrible out of possession and some of the worst decision making I’ve ever seen. Good riddance.

P.s oh and he had the temerity to take the no. 9 shirt after our greatest ever player just left.

11 minutes ago, st albans fox said:

 

If there’s anything in this then my guess would be that king power cannot finance season 2 if we don’t bounce back.  And even then, no para payment in the championship will be unworkable with our overheads. 
 

so the club may be looking for investment and a local consortium would be more likely to be relaxed on controlling ownership. Hence they take the stadium and training ground as security against their investment. 
 

if it happens then it’s possibly just trying to put more fingers in the holes as they appear in the dyke. papering over the cracks rather than fundamentally changing anything. 

The training ground and stadium aren’t great collateral though because besides the land they’re awkward assets without tennants.

If we don’t go up, there’s very few players left to sell for a fee any minority shareholder are then deep into a club with a huge insolvency risk - unless they put lots of cash in. 
 

The savvy thing (at least in my view, unsurprisingly I’ve never purchased a multi million pound asset) would be to wait for admin if you were a buyer 

3 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

All the clues and financial data point to the fact that the club needs 100m or so deposited as cash just to stay alive for the next two seasons. 

 

Anyone sinking that much in will want equity. If not the entire club. 

 

The flip side is, the current owners get nada if that was the deal. It would be KP giving away the club for free and having no return on the hundreds of millions they sunk in between 2012 and 2019. 

 

I can't see it. Maybe the only viable deal I could see is performance based; new investors get full control of the club in two years if we flat line in league one, or if KP managed to turn it around, KP keep their shares and the investors remain with a partial stake. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only hope I’m holding out is they’re liquidating their assets in boats/planes etc. Chansiri’s negligence/belligerence will alerted the Thai Regime to financial catastrophe of admin and receiving pennies on the pound. The less thick/obtuse family and advisors will see what’s coming - like ex airport authority chief exec.

Getting out now for some notional £30m sale whilst retaining the ground/Seagrave stage manages a less embarrassing exit, it’s a greater Loss of Face™️to be forced out through admin.

23 minutes ago, dmayne7 said:

An 82 year old who'd probably be leaving it to his children. Sounds great...

Adrian Bloor is very capable 

51 minutes ago, Silebyfox_89 said:

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

Top won't sell unless he receives a crazy offer, which local consortium could offer that kind of capital?

Walkers, PepsiCo, CAT?

 

Outside investment maybe but can't see a takeover yet imo.

Anybody sane wouldn’t take up a minority ownership position up with a liability like Top involved. Taking on a hell of a lot of risk for what reward?

4 minutes ago, Mark 'expert' Lawrenson said:

Dreadful memories of one game in particular which we were cruising and then Dearden and another batter whose name escapes me couldn’t hit it off the square, they were in for ages and lost us the game. 
Can someone name the other batter please? 

Rhodes?

Got Dearden flashbacks with the pace some scored at 

57 minutes ago, Corky said:

His family have been very vocal about his omisson. Not saying they are wrong but it is never a good look when relatives get involved.

If his stupid brother just shut his mouth when Maguire left us he wouldn’t be disliked so much 

Arsenal have been undeniably smart but their min/maxing whilst spending inordinately only to grind a title out as if they’re a minnow rankles a little bit.

Its like winning the lottery and upgrading your dishwasher and having your bathroom re-grouted as a point of priory.

We couldn’t have won our title any other way, this Arsenal team are almost deliberately obtuse, as if they win 1-0 on purpose. The Burnley game the other night said it all.

It doesn’t feel all that sustainable to me either.

3 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

I looked up the other week, if we won the group, we’d have played Leipzig or Atalanta, I wouldn’t have backed us against either of those. 
 

People are forgetting the loss to Slavia though. That was a disgrace really. Our run would have been Rangers, Arsenal, Villarreal and Manchester United from there. 

It’s hard to say but we had the better players than both. 
 

With the talent we had, we ought to have finished third at least once. A completely average DoF would have had us at 8th as the floor.

1 hour ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

There's a bloke on Instagram called James Demitri, great food recommendations, loads of greasy spoons and chippies, seems a nice bloke but his delivery is insane. Like sleep inducing

He’s probably the only one I do like but yeah he’s so monotone - some variation in his diction would go a long way 

On 19/05/2026 at 00:23, foxile5 said:

People who film themselves eating something and don't one of the following - 

 

- Looking at someone else and nodding making a uh hummm sound or saying 'oh yeah'. 

- Amplifying the sound of their chewing. 

- Shaking their head and making loud sounds.

 

Infact, any weird and demonstrative eating that's been filmed. 

 

I wouldn't mind if these people were terminated. I ****ing loath them. 

Most viral tiktok/insta food content is grating. The breathy 'what I ate in a day in _____' is particularly irksome to me.

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Smacks off the EFL trying to bring clubs to heal after the mess of deductions being rushed out this season.