New Manager - Welcome Derek Adams

We hold no aces. As long as Gibb owns the ground, we are screwed. He and his pension fund will continue to pump money out of the club. When the rental comes up for renewal, unless we have a buyer for the ground and its footprint, he'll continue to leach yet more money out of the club because we'll have no alternative, unless we choose to relocate to some new fairytale stadium in Bradford neverland. Let's get real folks.

 

Gibbs pulled Rhodes, Lawns, Rupp and now Sparks pants down. Does a right job on them.

 

Fordy why aren't people getting this? You don't own your stadium, your training facilities, your players have virtually no value - your club has no assets! Gibb is a happy man, making plenty money from us.

 

Unless WE have a buyer?
Not ours to sell surely?

 

A buyer for what

 

That’s exactly what this means.

 

I don’t get this
“unless we have a buyer for the ground and its footprint”

I think you need to rephrase this, who is WE? It’s not our to sell. You know that clearly but this doesn’t make sense.

 

Stop stating the obvious Mr Ford.

You know the alternatives but how and who will fund it?

 

Because if they thought about it and accept it then they would have to admit that Bradford City is a failure of a football club.

I can see Bradford City for what it is. I still love the club but understand that off the pitch the club is a joke and on the pitch its been a embarrassment.

Gibb laughs in our faces everyday and rightly so.

 

Read the comment I quoted.

 

We, meaning our club. And no, we don't currently have it as ours to sell because clearly Rupp owns it. My point is that until we have a new owner/conglomerate/partnership that is prepared to buy the ground and all other facilities outright, then we will remain in shit financially, paying out hundreds of thousands every season to Gibb.

 

Ditto Fordy. It continues to chuff me off the people aren't seeing this. Sparks better get on his bike to prove us wrong. And that's all I want.

 

It didn't stop Stefan from investing in the club the fact that we own neither our stadium or training facilities, look no further than Leeds United who have had several changes of ownership when they didn't own Elland Road, Andrea Radrizzani repurchased the ground, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40433193.
I don't think he bought Thorp Arch training ground as they are talking about a new training facility at the old Matthew Murray High School Holbeck not far from Elland Road
https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/sport/leeds-united/leeds-united-training-ground-elland-19257546

 

Hasn't stopped Man City either

 

Unless I'm mistaken I think you'll find it was Julian who was the guilty party and Gibb could not work with him, when push came to shove Gordon Gibb save our bacon by buying the ground and renting it back to the club.

 

Our your club, not sure if the likes of Spurs new ground is owned by the club or is it Joe Lewis and also The Emirates Stadium is that Stan Kroenke (Kroenke Sports& Entertainment) ?.

 

Plenty of examples
AFC Bournemouth pay 300k to a property company for Dean Court
The AMEX freehold is split between the University of Brighton and the Brighton & Hove City Council. The leasehold belongs to the club through its company Community Stadium Limited.

 

This is true but now laughing.

 

Something we are stuck with

 

I take that as a given, but until......