He has made all of the profits out of the site.If that's the case he should be more willing to sell at a fair price although I'm not sure how he can have taken all the profits without disposing of the assets to crystallize a book gain.
This is FK we’re talking about. I think you might be confusing him with someone else..?If that's the case he should be more willing to sell at a fair price although I'm not sure how he can have taken all the profits without disposing of the assets to crystallize a book gain.
I’ve often wondered how the local councils view the football club?
Do they view the club differently now the lease is running down. Are they now more sympathetic to the clubs situation, particularly in relation in its attempt to being more sustainable?
Do they suddenly view the club in a different light with success on the field?
What is it worth to the local economy to have a successful local club playing at a high level.
How would they react if the club and Kassam fell out big time, with the lease running down and serious noises about leaving the county started to resurface?
Please note I’m definitely not ITK, just thinking aloud!
Call me a cynic, but it seems like the council cares now that we're a third-tier club instead of a fifth, and that we're regularly playing the likes of Man City, West Ham, Newcastle and Swansea and creating national headlines by beating those teams or running them close.
Have got a link for us exiles?wonder if there's room for a stadium etc in this new north Oxford development announced today?
Oxford North: Major new housing scheme given the go-ahead
A MAJOR development will be built in the northwest of Oxford despite concerns about traffic and affordable housing.www.oxfordmail.co.uk
houses houses houses = people people people. In one of the worst areas in the country for leisure. Bristol wave, Snowasis in Swindon, coral reef in Bracknell. Blimey even the old oasis centre is better then anything we have in Oxford! We don’t even have a pool with a diving board let alone some decent slides. Trampoline park anyone? Skate park, BMX track, cycle trails? Oxford might be a nice city with all its old buildings and uni history to attract nearly six million visitors a year but for leisure it’s a s**t hole!
I would love to see a stadium with all kinds of great leisure facilities. making money for OUFC and oxford far more exciting.
That’s funny, I’d never think of doing any of those things, but they’d be good for kids. They take up a lot of space so would work well in an out of town developmenthouses houses houses = people people people. In one of the worst areas in the country for leisure. Bristol wave, Snowasis in Swindon, coral reef in Bracknell. Blimey even the old oasis centre is better then anything we have in Oxford! We don’t even have a pool with a diving board let alone some decent slides. Trampoline park anyone? Skate park, BMX track, cycle trails? Oxford might be a nice city with all its old buildings and uni history to attract nearly six million visitors a year but for leisure it’s a s**t hole!
I would love to see a stadium with all kinds of great leisure facilities. making money for OUFC and oxford far more exciting.
Er no.Can see us having to ground share with someone like Coventry are presently when the lease runs out.
Yes in theory that is my understanding.Because (AFAIK) if we sign up then it's for the full 25 years.
The only way of avoiding that is to either build a new stadium and either move before that or to play elsewhere if there is maybe a year where the new place isn't ready. Of course we *could* try to renegotiate with Uncle Firoz to have some sort of rolling contract, but I have a sneaking feeling that would not be cheaper than the current deal! That's presuming that a new stadium is actually in the offing and that we don't buy 'Grenoble Road' . If it isn't we may indeed have absolutely no choice but to sign up for another 25 years of this untenable situation.
As the guardian of the club I am sure he would be delighted to do that. Or (once we were building a new stadium and were committed) he might feel he has us and more specifically the investors over a barrel and try to get some sort of compensation for the lost 24 years of earnings if we left. But he'd never do that. Would he?I suspect however that if the club signed up for another 25 years, then Kassam would let the club get out of the licence if they wished to do so as the land is potentially worth a lot more to him as land for housing.