SUFC: The Future SUFC up for sale

[kentblues]

I may be missing the point, but this seems like an excellent deal given the circumstances...

Sherif it is … but some on here are now so addicted to misery and negativity they are determined to find ways in which it is in fact a terrible deal however tortured the argument. It was ever thus.

Thing is you are able to imagine the possibilities as it’s your day job, others only image the problems :-)

 

[old leigh shrimper]

The money Ron is asking is peanuts to some people. ..... a few hundred grand here and there wouldn't raise an eyelid.
Just need one of those people to want to back the Blues.

 

[tommy tucker]

I bet to yanks that brought wrexham wasnt sure if it would work .Yes thay said they lost two millons in the first season .The club didnt get promoted in there first season . There fans stuck with rthem .Parts of there ground are having toi be revanped because it was derlict .So what they did someone could do the same at the hall .As i have said no new stsdium Will help a new owner get some work do at the hall .If ron sells the hall as he said he was going to .Then he cant stop and new owner tarting the hall up .

 

[Holy Joe]

If they get relegated they're not! Doesn't pass the sniff test this one!

Apologies probably off topic - but actually the more I think about it the worse this gets - it's replaced a commercial facility - it's not even going to increase exports, create jobs or anything. It's just allowed the company to bin off a bank and borrow at a lower rate from the Govt. Terrible deal for the taxpayer

 

[Whispering Bob]

I think we will get some public activity in the next 24-48 hours. With people openly talking from the side of an interested buyer, RM NDA is now out the window! The protest worked

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[shrimpereeee]

RH has planning permission for 500 flats.

The value comes from how you realise that or how you can repurpose RH to get sufficient non matchday income.

The danger for fans is that we get a purchaser that just wants to build the flats and sends the club under pdq.

That could be said for any owner, historic, present or future.

As things stand however, and please correct me if I’m wrong, planning permission for RH is conditional on FF being built.

 

[old leigh shrimper]

Luton Town ....let's do whatever they are doing but better. They have managed a fantastic rise after years stuck in the NL.....and they are still at Kenilworth Rd....

 

[Supa Shrimpa]

I would suggest, this opens up doors to all kinds of investors.

4.5M for Roots Hall is pennies. The right developer could get planning to build all around the stadium and the profits funding the club and redevelopment of Roots Hall.

But...is all around stadium included ? The car park ? The houses on Vic Ave etc ?

 

[NG_Shrimp]

Apologies probably off topic - but actually the more I think about it the worse this gets - it's replaced a commercial facility - it's not even going to increase exports, create jobs or anything. It's just allowed the company to bin off a bank and borrow at a lower rate from the Govt. Terrible deal for the taxpayer

wait till you hear about West Ham's stadium!

 

[Supa Shrimpa]

Sherif it is … but some on here are now so addicted to misery and negativity they are determined to find ways in which it is in fact a terrible deal however tortured the argument. It was ever thus.

Thing is you are able to imagine the possibilities as it’s your day job, others only image the problems :-)

I'm very pessistic, because the guy has history of lying. He's waiting until the 11th hour to offer something that the experts say is a good offer. If he had done that months, even years ago, we wouldn't be in this mess !

 

[bazzashrimper]

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You heard a whisper Bob?

 

[tommy tucker]

Sorry i will neve understand the fickled fans .Pepole righly said they want to know what is on the table .So he puts out a statment that he will sell the club for 1 pound .And he wants the 4.5 millon back he brought the club for .Kamran said they wanted ROOTSHALL ok he has offered it to them .He also wants 1.5 millon for the new training ground Tne amount of money can be sprad over time .If i had the money i would bite his had off to save my club .What about fossetts well it has not ben passed by the council And i have a strange felling it will be years before it is ..so they cant build on the hall untill that stadium is built .So we could end up staying at the hall for quite some time .

 

[Booma]

Time, that’s our biggest issue right now, we’ve got two and a bit weeks until the start of the season….

 

[Ex-SouthendUnitedEmployee]

If the club was run properly it wouldn’t lose £2m a year. Could have a very good NL squad and break even.

Isn’t it getting the safety certificate for each game, one if the reasons what’s ******* money out the clubs coffers? £40k each game, so close to £1m a season in repairs and certificates to get games on?

 

[Westcliff DGS]

I would suggest, this opens up doors to all kinds of investors.

4.5M for Roots Hall is pennies. The right developer could get planning to build all around the stadium and the profits funding the club and redevelopment of Roots Hall.

Not sur eat you would get permission to build up on the south and west stands due to the residential properties on the border, maybe the north you would and probably the east

 

[SuperBlue]

So the council say no to fossetts .Some one comes in a buys the club for 4.5 millon No new syadium mean no demolition of rootshall so we could end up playing there for some time yet .So rootshall needs work Anner firth said a safty certificate is possable How many fans have a trade in pluming and building or painting that could give up some time to tidy up some of the hall . Iwould pitch in if needed.

Planning is as per current plans and that’s approved. What’s not approved is a smaller stadium and more housing. Yet.

They haven’t agreed the purchase yet, they talk about using pension fund investment. That is linked to gilts which have changed massively over the last 6 months.

Even if they do agree a deal it will be vastly different today than what it was previously.

 

[Ron Manager]

Still very cynical and sceptical about this.

Why make official statements on the website now when we have had radio silence for months? What’s in it for him?

I want to be optimistic but sorry, I don’t trust a word Ron Martin says. And hate feeling like that, would love nothing more than being hopeful and looking forward for better times so hope I’m wrong.

But the man is a liar.

 

[Shrimper44]

Doesn’t sound to good. Shocking! Us fans being left in the dark YET AGAIN! RON I HOPE YOU GO TO PRISON FOR THIS!

Joshy Boy, I would listen to her interview for yourself. I thought she was very positive on what she had to say.

She was very complimentary about the support from the fans and the football played by the team.

Said it is unthinkable that Southend doesn't have a football team going forward.

I got the impression she is working extremerly hard to get this sorted. She will put pressure on Southend Council to work quickly to help us get the safety certificate for Roots Hall and will lobby the relevant minister at Westiminster to aid with support for us.

Well worth spending 9 minutes to listen to her interview...it will cheer you up..it did me

 

[SuperBlue]

Oh - got a link? Pretty certain there is an agreement - at least in principle. The last statement I saw from council was this

Update on Roots Hall and Fossetts Farm developments – Southend-on-Sea City Council

Update on Roots Hall and Fossetts Farm developments general summary.

www.southend.gov.uk

Yes exactly. They are just proposed arrangements. Planning is agreed already.

They would purchase the houses, but haven’t agreed anything yet. As I mentioned on another response pension fund investment is tied to gilts which have vastly changed since that announcement.

 

[old leigh shrimper]

We will never ever play a match at a stadium at Fossetts Farm. It would have happened by now if it was going to.