Will this not require around 5,000 Hearts supporters to commit, to an average of £20 a month, for the next 8 years of their lives?
Do you know what .. if they can pull that off, I think they they deserve to get a CVA accepted.
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Will this not require around 5,000 Hearts supporters to commit, to an average of £20 a month, for the next 8 years of their lives?
Do you know what .. if they can pull that off, I think they they deserve to get a CVA accepted.
So which Companies/individuals are behind Bidco?
That's £9.6m.
I don't think they will need as much as that, but yeah, fair play to them if they do it.
No-one knows for sure.
Ann Budge is the name most quoted, but FOH have been very cagey about who is actually in. That's probably a choice on the funders' part.
So if this comes off for say 5m and then add in the football debts, debt free hearts will be around 5.5m in debt
So all this does is make the process slower and more painful.
Excellent.
There's still the initial problem of satisfying the Liths with their final and best offer.
How much do people think BIDCO have managed to raise?
My guess £5.5 million
Ach it's all just a sham to get out of paying 29M debt back.
Pull the plug on them now. Chancers.
It seems to me reading through all this it's went from 99.9% liquidation to they are going to walk away still at Tynnie still in the SPFL, still avoid paying any real debt and they will be pretty much debt free!
But I'm not to clued up so all this I'm thinking may be wrong :D
Of all the uncertainties about this soap opera unfolding across the city, I'm as certain as can be (without hard evidence) that Murray won't lose a brass farthing if things go pear shaped. One, he's a politician. Two, like nearly all politicians he talks in unsubstantiated soundbites. Three, Murray is your classic slimy, self-serving, egotistical shyster of a politician who wouldn't understand how business really works if it bit him in the backside.
He has his bad points too.
If the Liths see all the dosh coming from an outside source, what is to stop them asking for more?
And more?
Not according to this:-
4. BIDCO’s purpose is to deliver fan ownership and will therefore not seek to make any personal gain on this agreement with FANCO
At worst, they would charge FANCO the interest that they (BIDCO) are losing out on by not investing it elsewhere.
If there is silence, it is because nothing of note has happened recently.
Yes you're probably right on the first point - but on the second I can see no way any institution is going to lend them substantial six figure sums for several years interest free. If I could get 2% pa on my million in a bank account - why would I lose £200,000 over ten years. I think there is a difference between 'not making any money' and 'not losing interest'. Murray is spinning a line here.
We agree - just seen your post above
A pal of mine says he worked beside Ian Murray at the old Scottish Equitable in St Andrew Sq. before they were bought by Aegon.
Says he was an ignorant, bone-idle shyster, that spent his entire day skiving.
He only got the MP gig by default. Nigel Griffth, the sitting MP got caught sh***ing some bint over the Wool Sack and had to stand down and the chief opposition Lib-Dem got caught with his pants down too IIRC.
Safe to say it will be a single term appearance for little Ian.
That's my take on it, whilst not profiting as such, you can't expect them to just get the capital amount back which would be an actual loss in real terms. I can't see anyone putting money up front in that scenario.Not that it changes the game in any real way.
I was thinking £6m to secure a CVA and purchase Tynecastle.
£1m funding gap for current season.
£1m, over the next couple of years, for the upkeep of a stand that is falling to bits.
... and I'm pretty sure the remaining £1.6m left over wont be long in disappearing.
Had a sly look on brokeback and noticed that FOH at a recent meeting in the borders have stated that discussions are underway with CEC over building a new stand.Impressive given they dont have any money yet. I suppose that this is what being a big team is all about
With this financial genius I reckon FOH may remove the Third World debt by 2016. Once again the yams may be about to save the world:aok:
That depends on who is lending the money, how much they are lending, and how many supporters tie themselves in to a legally binding repayment plan.
It is a huge risk for the lenders, because the only security they have is Tynecastle .. and look where that has got UKIO!
If you were "Hearts minded" would you really want to be the one that pulled Tynecastle out from under the support when they started defaulting on their payments?
So it's basically trying to find a number of investors that can collectively come up with over £7-8m, for an unsecured (non-profit) loan, over 8 years, for an untried and untested supporter led venture .. on the back of a failed business venture.
Like I said above, if they can pull this one off then they fully deserve to get their CVA accepted.
My take is that they already have the funding in place from local businesses / wealthy individuals but its not enough to satisfy the Liths yet.
So all they need to do is up their 'investment' to secure the club and presumably Tynie too.
They then get paid back from pledges over a number of years.
Seems like a not too bad plan really.
The only stumbling block could be how much the Liths want but I reckon they can't be too far away from agreement or they would never have gotten as far as preferred bidder status.
Liquidation appears a long way off.