FC United thread

[Platt Lane 59]

Reading between the lines, it's obvious that someone at the council has been given a brown paper bag or two. It's the only logical reason why this loan would ever get given and then be allowed not to be paid back. It fuckin stinks like them rotting pallets.

Consider the massive increase in the amount of people (not sure how many) who have moved into the City centre in the last decade.
Where has the increase in Council Tax income gone ?
Has there been any/much increase in social housing or schools or Manchester City Council outlay ?
It would appear that the "old guard" of City council leaders are still in the senior positions.
Manchester has far more building projects than any other UK city I have visited in the last few years, yet MCC seems to be potentially in financial trouble ?
Doesn't seem to add up ?

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

I'm not sure. I think it's quite possibly enough that certain key figures on Manchester City Council gave enthusiastic backing to this clearly doomed ventures with a bunch of no-hope wannabe clowns, so would suffer severe political embarrassment if the venture fell apart. Whatever the reason, though, it's disgraceful in the current difficult economic climate that public money should be wasted in this way.

Hard to think of any suitable club, whether in football or another sport, who'd want a ground of that size in that location. Perhaps, if MCC were to see sense and repossess it, City could take a lease, paint it all blue and white, and run it as some sort of City in the Community hub? Probably pie in the sky, but surely better than letting these mugs limp pathetically on.

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole. Dirty scruffy bastards. It'd need fumigating before they did anything with it.

 

[Mostonisblue]

The council lent them the emergency extra £150k as they were well aware that nobody else would loan to them and the alternative was they went bust & the council lost all their investment. Here’s the update from November 23 confirming that also confirms they wouldn’t ask for anymore. Confirms the council deferred the interest payments due on the loan as mention above & also the council dropped a lot of lease restrictions that the club agreed to but were beneficial to the council that would have seen the council coffers gain a lot of extra cash. The talks are still ongoing 2 years later and the suspension of interest payments continues

 

[Gone for a Burton]

This matter is simply an unacceptable mis use of tax payers money....end of.

An independent public enquiry should be campaigned for with all the MCC decision makers/splitters executives subpoena to give evidence under oath.

All and any inappropriate financial or material gain should be recovered under the proceeds of crime legislation along with fines and sentencing.

The good name and reputation of Manchester is being traduced by this raggy bunch of charlatans.

A 'friendly' MP should be briefed for action.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Can somebody who's got a good idea how these things work start a petition and send it to parliament. Mismanagement of funds etc.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

This matter is simply an unacceptable mis use of tax payers money....end of.

An independent public enquiry should be campaigned for with all the MCC decision makers/splitters executives subpoena to give evidence under oath.

All and any inappropriate financial or material gain should be recovered under the proceeds of crime legislation along with fines and sentencing.

The good name and reputation of Manchester is being traduced by this raggy bunch of charlatans.

A 'friendly' MP should be briefed for action.

Isnt Lucy Powell a blue whose constituency covers or borders the area of the stadium. Perhaps she could make some enquiries to MCC.

 

[petrusha]

Just looking at the National Audit Office website for guidance on complaining about a local authority wasting public funds. Not got time to go through it properly now as I'm due to have a few beers with a mate, but it looks as though the first port of call has to be contact with the local authority in question.

This really should be pursued. Looks as though the Council want to sweep it under the carpet, but what @Mostonisblue is revealing is outrageous, and far more important than just our antipathy to this hapless mob's football allegiance.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Just looking at the National Audit Office website for guidance on complaining about a local authority wasting public funds. Not got time to go through it properly now as I'm due to have a few beers with a mate, but it looks as though the first port of call has to be contact with the local authority in question.

This really should be pursued. Looks as though the Council want to sweep it under the carpet, but what @Mostonisblue is revealing is outrageous, and far more important than just our antipathy to this hapless mob's football allegiance.

We should wait until the Freedom of Information Request has been replied to.
Then the hard facts of how much and timescales set can be assessed and further questions then can be worked out.
Do Private Eye still have their Rotten Borough feature?

I’m surprised a journalist who specialises in reporting on clubs being mismanaged hasn’t covered this, someone like the renowned journo David Conn for example….

 

[JASR]

Do Private Eye still have their Rotten Borough feature?

yes

 

[Blue Mist]

The council lent them the emergency extra £150k as they were well aware that nobody else would loan to them and the alternative was they went bust & the council lost all their investment. Here’s the update from November 23 confirming that also confirms they wouldn’t ask for anymore. Confirms the council deferred the interest payments due on the loan as mention above & also the council dropped a lot of lease restrictions that the club agreed to but were beneficial to the council that would have seen the council coffers gain a lot of extra cash. The talks are still ongoing 2 years later and the suspension of interest payments continues

Would a small business, employing a similar number of people, get such preferential treatment, not a chance.

 

[petrusha]

We should wait until the Freedom of Information Request has been replied to.
Then the hard facts of how much and timescales set can be assessed and further questions then can be worked out.

Yes, I agree. I'll carry on doing some research in the background, but it makes sense to await the result of the FoI request before looking at where we go next.

 

[ancoats]

Enough is Enough.. It is only going to end badly for Manchester City Council and will end up costing more money to put Boardhusrt field back to green fields, I heard something that the land has to be put back to green fields if FUCM folded

 

[Brooklands Blue]

Enough is Enough.. It is only going to end badly for Manchester City Council and will end up costing more money to put Boardhusrt field back to green fields, I heard something that the land has to be put back to green fields if FUCM folded

I'm sure for the right sort of money that the restrictive covenants on the land on which Pallet park stands could be navigated.

 

[Brooklands Blue]

We should wait until the Freedom of Information Request has been replied to.
Then the hard facts of how much and timescales set can be assessed and further questions then can be worked out.
Do Private Eye still have their Rotten Borough feature?

I’m surprised a journalist who specialises in reporting on clubs being mismanaged hasn’t covered this, someone like the renowned journo David Conn for example….

As my mother would say 'you've more chance of seeing Moses having a paddle in the Mersey' than hearing a peep out of Conn on this matter now!

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Enough is Enough.. It is only going to end badly for Manchester City Council and will end up costing more money to put Boardhusrt field back to green fields, I heard something that the land has to be put back to green fields if FUCM folded

The opposite.
FCUM have it in their manifesto / constitution (or whatever it is called) that if / when they go tits up, the land has to remain a sporting facility that benefits the local community - which is ironic seeing as it has rarely done that in the years it has been standing. *

 

[ancoats]

The opposite.
FCUM have it in their manifesto / constitution (or whatever it is called) that if / when they go tits up, the land has to remain a sporting facility that benefits the local community - which is ironic seeing as it has rarely done that in the years it has been standing. *

What other sporting facility other than rugby or another football club would benefit from using it

Maybe City fans could form a breakaway club and call it the 115 Mancheaters

 

[Platt Lane 59]

We should wait until the Freedom of Information Request has been replied to.
Then the hard facts of how much and timescales set can be assessed and further questions then can be worked out.
Do Private Eye still have their Rotten Borough feature?

I’m surprised a journalist who specialises in reporting on clubs being mismanaged hasn’t covered this, someone like the renowned journo David Conn for example….

A huge chance for David Conn to admit he has got things badly wrong with FCUM.
I'm amazed how they got away with the previous mismanagement of funds under their old regime ?
Surely Manchester City Council and the media should have leapt on this corruption...

 

[Brooklands Blue]

Reading this really makes me want to question who and why at MCC have ploughed so much money into this doomed vanity project!!

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

4 days unbeaten now. Their longest unbeaten run this season

 

[.db.]

Reading this really makes me want to question who and why at MCC have ploughed so much money into this doomed vanity project!!

Astonishing to think that from that £50m shortfall, the money they’ve dished out to these turncoats comes to 3.84% of it.

Someone a few pages back said that Soccer Club United Manchester have had £1,918,855.85 off MCC.

Manchester City Council; STOP GIVING THESE FUCKERS MONEY!