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Thread: Ruling that allows SUFC to continue to trade

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    Ruling that allows SUFC to continue to trade

    My lad rang me just after the ruling that gave the club £10m for running costs but only £7m for new transfer and wages.
    He told me this was available to view and this including any clubs who might want to trade with us. (This was before the Brooks deal).

    From what he read to me, I don't like the business set of UTB by the Prince and hope that Mr McCabe is successful in his desire to severe the deal. But, either way this si going to cost them both and that has a knock on to us all,

    Anyone seen this?

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    This is all going over my head.

    Can someone put what's going off into simple terms for idiots like me?

    Are we worried or is it something and nothing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DannyRotten View Post
    This is all going over my head.

    Can someone put what's going off into simple terms for idiots like me?

    Are we worried or is it something and nothing?
    Having read most of the judgement (it is rather long) it appears that this preliminary case was KM wanting to loan £2.5 million to the club and therefore the Prince, through his company to do the same. This was to cover current expenditure and to provide a fund for new players. The Prince refused, but offered to donate £2.5m if KM did the same. KM refused because the ultimate ownership is in doubt, so if he lost, he would be unable to get back his donation. The Prince argued that the loan was currently not needed as the club had enough funds for the time being. The judge found in favour of the Prince’s arguments.
    After KM made his original application to the court, the Prince had transferred 80% of his shares from UTB to UTB(2018). As I am a simple old soul and not an international corporate lawyer, I have no idea what is the relevance of this move - but I doubt if it was simply done for fun.
    In the end, I suspect that the only real winners will be the lawyers and one of the losers will be us lot, the fan base.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DannyRotten View Post
    Are we worried or is it something and nothing?
    Yes, and no...

    Think of it as a case where a married couple want to divorce, both want custody of the kid, but it can only be one or the other. The judge has told them that they have to pay the mortgage and feed the kid while they get it sorted out. Coming to an amicable settlement seems to be out of the question, neither are willing to back-down or compromise, so they will put their case and the judge will decide.

    One will win, one will lose. The outcome will be grossly unfair to the losing partner, but that's that. Unfortunately, like marriage, you go into it with the very best of intentions. Sometimes it goes great, and happily ever after. Sometimes it turns to shyte and what used to be love becomes the deepest, deepest hatred and enmity. C'est la vie.

    So who will win out, and what does it mean? Well, we just don't know. King Kev could win out, but there's then doubt that he can afford to keep funding the club, and in any case he's 70's now and been looking to get out for a long time. HRH could win, and that's even harder to predict. Has he got money to put in, would his cousins put money in, what happens with the ground (which is effectively McCabes...), tbh, we haven a feckin clue about any of it. The best plan would seem to be 'don't panic, sit tight, wait for developments'.

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    No doubt this is another example of the 'bad luck' that plagues our club like no other. It's of course nothing to do with jumping into bed with some random bloke after a chance meeting in an airport and not properly planning how the relationship would work moving forward.

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    Thanks for the explanations.

    I only hope things don't drag on and hinder any recruitment.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carpe_diem View Post
    No doubt this is another example of the 'bad luck' that plagues our club like no other. It's of course nothing to do with jumping into bed with some random bloke after a chance meeting in an airport and not properly planning how the relationship would work moving forward.
    Yep, poor old Kev, let’s not blame him. Tries his best but somehow where football’s concerned everything he touch’s turns to crap.

    The Hollies had a top 20 hit that sums him up. It went...

    ‘King Midas in reverse
    King Midas with a curse’

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    Quote Originally Posted by Carpe_diem View Post
    No doubt this is another example of the 'bad luck' that plagues our club like no other. It's of course nothing to do with jumping into bed with some random bloke after a chance meeting in an airport and not properly planning how the relationship would work moving forward.
    I think its more like, after being on your own for ages and struggling to pay for your flat, you happen to meet a lady in the Maggie Mays Motown night. It goes well, its not magic, but its okay, and if you can get her to move in that's all your immediate money worries gone. But three years later, she never cleans or cooks dinner, she'd rather be on Facebook than talk to you and you don't even get your leg over anymore. Its going nowhere, so you politely suggest that she takes her stinking carcass and gets it out of your life, which is when she digs her talons in and claims ownership of all your possessions, tells all her friends what a b'stard you are (you're not...), and after the lawyers have been all over it, you have to give her everything you own, and end up in abject poverty, while she has nights out on your money and flirts outrageously with another mug.

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    The point of my thread was that the ruling only gave £7m for transfers......seems limiting to me and will be known by other clubs who deal with us. Is it more or less than we need in this window?

    In the great scheme of things perhaps we have no need to worry at this time but I don't like the Price's action re the set up of UTB

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    Quote Originally Posted by FatherKnowsBest View Post
    I think its more like, after being on your own for ages and struggling to pay for your flat, you happen to meet a lady in the Maggie Mays Motown night. It goes well, its not magic, but its okay, and if you can get her to move in that's all your immediate money worries gone. But three years later, she never cleans or cooks dinner, she'd rather be on Facebook than talk to you and you don't even get your leg over anymore. Its going nowhere, so you politely suggest that she takes her stinking carcass and gets it out of your life, which is when she digs her talons in and claims ownership of all your possessions, tells all her friends what a b'stard you are (you're not...), and after the lawyers have been all over it, you have to give her everything you own, and end up in abject poverty, while she has nights out on your money and flirts outrageously with another mug.
    Ha ha... it's not like that at all, even slightly. Nice story, though.

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