Cov Arrears

[spionfox]

over land and sea

...and Leicester!

 

[Cate Fox]

over land and sea

whoooosh?

 

[Nottingham Fox]

Could be on the move.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20681423

Coventry City are prepared to consider finding a new home in a bid to resolve their rent row over the Ricoh Arena.

Arena Coventry Limited (ACL) claim that the Sky Blues owe £1.1m in rent arrears and have given them until Boxing Day to pay up - or face a winding-up petition.

The Sky Blues, who claim the rent is too high, are still keen to negotiate - but also have contingency plans.

"The club has commenced the sensible process of making contact with other clubs," said a club statement.

"To evaluate if their stadiums meet our requirements should negotiations with ACL fail to reach a mutually agreed position on the rent, with the result that CCFC is forced to move away from the Ricoh to a new venue.

"Following the issuing of a statutory demand by ACL last week the board of directors of CCFC will, first and foremost, continue to work hard at bringing about a resolution regarding the rent dispute with ACL that will enable the football club to remain at the Ricoh Arena.

"However, in the interim period, they must consider other alternative and appropriate venues which are affordable for a football club to ensure CCFC fulfil their future fixtures."

One report has suggested that Coventry, who averaged 15,000 gates in the Championship last season and are still bringing in almost 10,500 on average in League One, might even consider a 90-mile round trip for home games at the 6,500-capacity Nene Park, home of the now disbanded Rushden & Diamonds and latterly Kettering Town.

The heart of Coventry's dispute over their rent is that, at £1.28m a year, they believe it to be the highest outside the Premier League and that it should be renegotiated.

Coventry claim that, on average, other clubs pay less than £170,000 a year and, unlike the Sky Blues, make revenue from matchday parking, as well as food and drink sales.

The club were taken to the High Court in August in Birmingham after they stopped payments of £100,000 a month in rent to ACL in April - but they were told to top up a deposit fund to cover ACL's unpaid invoices.

 

[manxfox]

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/ne...plan-move-to-northamptonshire-92746-32403936/

 

[Mawsley]

Nene Park is recognised as one of the finest grounds in non-League football

No it ****ing isn't, not any longer.

The roof, heating, water, pitch drainage, grass, foul water drainage and lighting is ****ed.

 

[Macky]

We should offer them a ground share and charge them an extortionate rent. Then we could spend all the money on the 11 best strikers from Strikers-R-Us, then we'd win everything 69-nil and eventually win the World cup. Simples.

 

[Blue Maniac]

We should offer them a ground share and charge them an extortionate rent. Then we could spend all the money on the 11 best strikers from Strikers-R-Us, then we'd win everything 69-nil and eventually win the World cup. Simples.

We can't spend it all on strikers, we need pies at the food kiosks for ****'s sake.

 

[Mawsley]

We can't spend it all on strikers, we need pies at the food kiosks for ****'s sake.

Sell the chains on eBay

 

[spionfox]

Sell the chains on eBay

Use them as tyre chains so the players can still get to training when the snow comes.

 

[SJN-Fox]

No it ****ing isn't, not any longer.

The roof, heating, water, pitch drainage, grass, foul water drainage and lighting is ****ed.

Yes, but apart from that it's ok.

 

[Lako42]

Yes, but apart from that it's ok.

It's perfect for a club like Cov really.

 

[Motown Fox]

It's perfect for a club like Cov really.

How about Hinckley

Coventry City have held provisional talks with Hinckley United over playing at the Blue Square Bet North side's Greene King Stadium.

 

[Motown Fox]

It could have all been different for Cov

Of course he could still get them at a big discount

 

[Macky]

How about Hinckley

Coventry City have held provisional talks with Hinckley United over playing at the Blue Square Bet North side's Greene King Stadium.

Can't see it meself. They'd struggle to fill Hinckley's ground

 

[pork pie fox]

It could have all been different for Cov

Of course he could still get them at a big discount

He's a life-long Coventry fan and he didn't know they had financial problems? Sounds plausible.

 

[Matt_B]

He's a life-long Coventry fan and he didn't know they had financial problems? Sounds plausible.

And he'd never heard of Port Vale? Strange

 

[Blue Maniac]

He's a life-long Coventry fan and he didn't know they had financial problems? Sounds plausible.

And he'd never heard of Port Vale? Strange

Both of these facts caught my attention. Very odd.

 

[Ike O'Noclassed]

Both of these facts caught my attention. Very odd.

Lives midway between Cov and Leicester, yet buys a club who own their own ground. Not odd in the slightest.

 

[Blue Maniac]

Lives midway between Cov and Leicester, yet buys a club who own their own ground. Not odd in the slightest.

I didn't say it was.

 

[Lako42]

Seems like he got one hell of a deal with Vale, the ground and the land for £1.8m is a fantastic move.