The Virtual Terrace • Re: Reserves
supersuperfc wrote:
Can you please define ‘extremely wealthy’ to me. Do we get more funding than you?
We probably get roughly double your home attendances. But i’m quite confident that our ground rent is more than double what you pay. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me if our rent is somewhere near to what you where quoted to pay at your new ground, which according to many of your fans, would cripple the club.
I don't know whether it was true without looking myself but a poster had said he looked at previous accounts in the thread about the supposed redevelopment of Belle Vue and the numbers mentioned were that Wigan paid under £400k and Hull paid £350k P/A if I remember right.
I also think you'll be surprised how much this guy who now owns Belle Vue is wanting in rent, especially considering what we get for the money and it's probably the reason why things are taking so long to finalise. When the Bank of Ireland owned it I believe we were paying around £250k.
Also, it wasn't just the crazy £500k for a tarted up Belle Vue that would cripple us, but the fact they wanted a Capital investment from us to help them redevelop it which would have been the killer, especially when we still wouldn't have owned a bit of it and would have only got income from home games.
Statistics: Posted by Shifty Cat — Fri Dec 22, 2017 11:21 am