Ellis in the Championship.

[pragmatic optimism]

If we carry on in the same non committal fashion one day the inevitable will happen.
Being the owner, what will Ellis do in the Championship?
His asset will obviously be massively de-valued but what are his options?
Obviously he has the option to hang around. If he wants to bale out though, how does he go about it?

Well he's the owner of the football club and we're lucky to have him, considering how Mike Ashley behaves to Newcastle up the road. Personally I think ellis has been a positive thing for Safc and most fans believe this. Head to head against the mags his reign has won more than lost and to many fans that alone is amazing.
However he's a business man and the custodian of the club so to answer your question, he would need to find a buyer if he decided to chuck it in.

Ftm

 

[G]

In terms of supporting the clubs debt and lack of ability to generate a bigger turnover then Ellis Short has been very good for the club and we should be thankful that he is here.

Unfortunately the flip side to that is that he probably hasn't released as much money as most would like in the transfer market. To be fair though when you paying 20m to cover debts and every manager has wasted what we've spent its hard not to understand why.

Serious question though. If this was a normal business is there anything to stop him as the owner from selling all of the assets including the ground and the land to get his money back and close the club down? Is a football club different to any other business? He owns it so theoretically can do what he wants I would guess? Over to the RTG branson's and sugar's to explain......

 

[PISTON]

You are correct he clearly needs an extrapolation plan.

I can plot Ellis's progress so far an easily extrapolate the graph to where he'll end up.

Well he's the owner of the football club and we're lucky to have him, considering how Mike Ashley behaves to Newcastle up the road. Personally I think ellis has been a positive thing for Safc and most fans believe this. Head to head against the mags his reign has won more than lost and to many fans that alone is amazing.
However he's a business man and the custodian of the club so to answer your question, he would need to find a buyer if he decided to chuck it in.

Ftm

Let's take Ellis out of the equation.
If an owner in a similar position couldn't afford to fund the operation and couldn't find a buyer what happens??
Edit:- I can imagine what happens, what is the process?

 

[the flying graysons]

In terms of supporting the clubs debt and lack of ability to generate a bigger turnover then Ellis Short has been very good for the club and we should be thankful that he is here.

Unfortunately the flip side to that is that he probably hasn't released as much money as most would like in the transfer market. To be fair though when you paying 20m to cover debts and every manager has wasted what we've spent its hard not to understand why.

Serious question though. If this was a normal business is there anything to stop him as the owner from selling all of the assets including the ground and the land to get his money back and close the club down? Is a football club different to any other business? He owns it so theoretically can do what he wants I would guess? Over to the RTG branson's and sugar's to explain......

Who would buy the ground?

 

[PISTON]

In terms of supporting the clubs debt and lack of ability to generate a bigger turnover then Ellis Short has been very good for the club and we should be thankful that he is here.

Unfortunately the flip side to that is that he probably hasn't released as much money as most would like in the transfer market. To be fair though when you paying 20m to cover debts and every manager has wasted what we've spent its hard not to understand why.

Serious question though. If this was a normal business is there anything to stop him as the owner from selling all of the assets including the ground and the land to get his money back and close the club down? Is a football club different to any other business? He owns it so theoretically can do what he wants I would guess? Over to the RTG branson's and sugar's to explain......

Good post.
That's what i meant. Not specifically Ellis himself, but the mechanisms in place for this type of event.

It's quite a strange business model is football. Most normal companies would fold. Assets would be sold off etc etc.
It'll happen to one club sooner or later, just as certainly as relegation will come to Ellis.

 

[G]

Who would buy the ground?

The council could so they can build a huge car park to mirror what they've done to the old Vaux site. Seriously though a supermarket, although there's already a few. Prime site near the city centre and decent transport links nearby both locally via the metro and trains to London, I'd imagine plenty would be interested.

 

[the flying graysons]

The council could so they can build a huge car park to mirror what they've done to the old Vaux site. Seriously though a supermarket, although there's already a few. Prime site near the city centre and decent transport links nearby both locally via the metro and trains to London, I'd imagine plenty would be interested.

A quick Google search show's brownfield land going for for about 350 k per 1000 m2 so less than 2.6 million there

 

[PISTON]

A quick Google search show's brownfield land going for for about 350 k per 1000 m2 so less than 2.6 million there

In many parts of the UK that amount of land in that location would be worth a fortune.
There's already empty buildings, many derelict, and spare land in Sunderland which keeps the price down.

 

[the flying graysons]

In many parts of the UK that amount of land in that location would be worth a fortune.
There's already empty buildings, many derelict, and spare land in Sunderland which keeps the price down.

And ?

 

[Unashamedly Handsome]

Do you really expect people to take the time to go into an in-depth analysis of what policy they think Ellis Short will take if were relegated?

Yeah. Better than doing an ostrich.