The breaking News thread...

[Bruce Rioja]

£20 million for a car park? Where is this, Belgravia???

Well, it's a car park at present......

Have been thinking which multiple retailers who currently have no presence on Middlebrook might me interested in chucking something up on our car park. I can only think of B&Q.

[Worthy4England]

£20 million for a car park? Where is this, Belgravia???

Well, it's a car park at present......

Have been thinking which multiple retailers who currently have no presence on Middlebrook might me interested in chucking something up on our car park. I can only think of B&Q.

IHG were mentioned in dispatches at one point (Argos)...

Edit: HRG of course...

[Bruce Rioja]

£20 million for a car park? Where is this, Belgravia???

Well, it's a car park at present......

Have been thinking which multiple retailers who currently have no presence on Middlebrook might me interested in chucking something up on our car park. I can only think of B&Q.

IHG were mentioned in dispatches at one point (Argos)...

Edit: HRG of course...

Well, if the Sainsbury's deal goes through then they'll be shutting down all the Argos stores that lie within a half a mile of their supermarkets. Of course there isn't a Sainsbury's on Middlebrook but there is already an Argos. Can't see them wanting to whack up a new one in those circumstances.

[KeyserSoze]

In a bizarre twist, Iles is tweeting today that Dean Holdsworth actually IS and always has been Roger Tamraz...

Surely not! Doesn't even work as an anagram..

Should have taken inspiration from Mr Snrub.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I'm not getting this. Maybe I need to see plans. But, anywhere that can be built to attract customers in, will need a car park. So we can't be selling a car park so somebody can build a store with no car park. And we can't sell a car park to somebody with no store. Not at twenty fxcking million.

[bobo the clown]

£20 million for a car park? Where is this, Belgravia???

Well, it's a car park at present......

Have been thinking which multiple retailers who currently have no presence on Middlebrook might me interested in chucking something up on our car park. I can only think of B&Q.

IHG were mentioned in dispatches at one point (Argos)...Edit: HRG of course...

Well, if the Sainsbury's deal goes through then they'll be shutting down all the Argos stores that lie within a half a mile of their supermarkets. Of course there isn't a Sainsbury's on Middlebrook but there is already an Argos. Can't see them wanting to whack up a new one in those circumstances.

A GIANT Greenhalgh's.

I'd still be banned but nonetheless it'd be a proper local addition.

[thebish]

are we worth less money now we're out of the cup?

[BWFC_Insane]

Oops.

[Enoch]

Be reet.

[thebish]

Be reet.

so it's not actually a "sale" of the car park as much as an advance on a future joint-venture development opportunity??

[Enoch]

Be reet.

so it's not actually a "sale" of the car park as much as an advance on a future joint-venture development opportunity??

Fannies, the lot of 'em!

In what proved a surprising twist at the weekend

That bit made me smile.

[Lord Kangana]

An advance of around £6million has now been secured against development on the land – which is expected to come to light in the next few month

New Normid.

YHIHF.

[Peter Thompson]

An advance of around £6million has now been secured against development on the land – which is expected to come to light in the next few month

New Normid.

YHIHF.

No I heard yesterday that the land has been purchased for our saviour 'Roger Tamraz's' new UK offices

[bobo the clown]

Be reet.

so it's not actually a "sale" of the car park as much as an advance on a future joint-venture development opportunity??

Fannies, the lot of 'em!

In what proved a surprising twist at the weekend

That bit made me smile.

Finger on the pulse.

[Gravedigger]

It's a £6Million "Advance" on a joint project. So possible ED hiding a £20Million asset before the Administrators can get their hands on it. It'll all become clearer after 22nd Feb.

[thebish]

An advance of around £6million has now been secured against development on the land – which is expected to come to light in the next few month

New Normid.

YHIHF.

No I heard yesterday that the land has been purchased for our saviour 'Roger Tamraz's' new UK offices

even better!

[squares641]

I am a bit confused or maybe stupid. I don't quite understand how the club can or maybe should be entering into a joint development project when we don't know who will own the club in the near future. Shouldn't any new owners make such decisions or at least be consulted on them. Does this imply a new owner has been agreed but not made public yet or that Eddie has now decided not to sell the club.

It just seems a bit strange to me. Sell off the land to raise some capital, yep I understand that even if it isn't the best long term solution. Enter into an agreement even though you don't really want to own the club anymore and you might be entering into something new owners will not agree with. Not sure how that works.

Just my thoughts

[BWFC_Insane]

I am a bit confused or maybe stupid. I don't quite understand how the club can or maybe should be entering into a joint development project when we don't know who will own the club in the near future. Shouldn't any new owners make such decisions or at least be consulted on them. Does this imply a new owner has been agreed but not made public yet or that Eddie has now decided not to sell the club.

It just seems a bit strange to me. Sell off the land to raise some capital, yep I understand that even if it isn't the best long term solution. Enter into an agreement even though you don't really want to own the club anymore and you might be entering into something new owners will not agree with. Not sure how that works.

Just my thoughts

I'm not sure at this stage we know who owns the car park and what the terms of that deal really were.

But we needed a cash injection and seemingly the car park was the best way to raise it.

End of the day if the club still owns the asset that will be beneficial only for any new owner.

[thebish]

It looks to me like we are being creative and trying to maximise the amount of cash we can raise to make a sale happen without selling off all of our crown jewels... I'm glad Trev is on the inside pissing out rather than on the outside pissing in - I reckon he knows a thing or two about this stuff...

[thebish]

just spotted that a couple of days ago, Nixon tweeted the following:

Bolton. Tamraz 'move' being orchestrated by well known football figure who used to run a couple of clubs and has fingers in a lot of pies...

oooh - another name to be revealed...

who has run a couple of clubs and has pie-fingers?