[Mr.Sidewalk]

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[martatcross]

Can't see what can be done. If Clubs don't own grounds then landlords can do what they want with their property sad state of English football when premier clubs take all the money and filter nothing down for clubs to run

[60s 70s Spireite]

martatcross, on 13 June 2018 - 05:26 AM, said:

Can't see what can be done. If Clubs don't own grounds then landlords can do what they want with their property sad state of English football when premier clubs take all the money and filter nothing down for clubs to run

They can ban in future clubs from ever separating current ownership of the stadium from the club.

[Siberian Spireite]

60s 70s Spireite, on 13 June 2018 - 07:15 AM, said:

They can ban in future clubs from ever separating current ownership of the stadium from the club.

How would that work, in practice? There must be ways of owners legally disguising any separation, and if they then wanted to sell the ground (stating the club would go bust otherwise, for example) would it be legally enforceable to make them sell the club too (which in the case of financial problems would be worth nowt anyway)?
Don't some clubs play at council-owned grounds?

[DIFH]

martatcross, on 13 June 2018 - 05:26 AM, said:

Can't see what can be done. If Clubs don't own grounds then landlords can do what they want with their property sad state of English football when premier clubs take all the money and filter nothing down for clubs to run

Port Vale chairman is bidding to purchase Solihull Moors ground what does that signal.

[60s 70s Spireite]

Siberian Spireite, on 13 June 2018 - 08:06 AM, said:

How would that work, in practice? There must be ways of owners legally disguising any separation, and if they then wanted to sell the ground (stating the club would go bust otherwise, for example) would it be legally enforceable to make them sell the club too (which in the case of financial problems would be worth nowt anyway)?
Don't some clubs play at council-owned grounds?

Of course it couldn’t happen under Company Law, but the EFL and/or NL could make it a condition of continued membership of the respective leagues. A bit like the ‘fit and proper test’.
I’m just flying a kite, but, unless as you say the stadium is owned by a local council, it never seems to work in favour of the football club, except perhaps where the shareholders of the company stadium and the football club are one and the same, and in a single ‘group’ of companies

[moondog]

DIFH, on 13 June 2018 - 08:20 PM, said:

Port Vale chairman is bidding to purchase Solihull Moors ground what does that signal.

Are you sure you don't mean Nuneaton ?

https://www.thestar....edule-1-9203617

[BoroSpireite]

moondog, on 13 June 2018 - 09:40 PM, said:

Are you sure you don't mean Nuneaton ?

https://www.thestar....edule-1-9203617

It is Nuneaton and it's gone through the last I heard.