Clifford

Not sure why the club would feel the need to make an announcement on hospitality not being in the North Stand?

This is how they will end up owning the club. He can't pay his bills, simple as. Unlike Corney AL wont be able to ask the landlords for help. We get the club back in one piece. Win.

The owner has decided to not allow the fans to use a stand he's sold them a ticket for. I'd say they should ask for a refund. Head out of the sand time.

I hear they'll not be offering refunds. Hilarious if true. No more money to the lemmys.

It could well be that if he opens the ground that the FLG can allow people into the boxes. If the stand is closed then it may be no one can watch the game. Total guess but it may be the case that the whole stand is available and if he wont sign the deal then the landlords may use it. Only financial punishment will push AL to sort this. All this 100% the budget will be bigger is just total bollocks and the club is being rinsed for all it's got IMO.

They'll still be getting money from functions, the gym, the fans bar. OAFC will lose more in lost corporate tickets, season ticket refunds and possible ticket loss (should we draw a big side in a cup). If he is trying to smoke them out after they have agreed a 7million deal to buy it then he has less brains than a pork pie.

It is a bit odd we are willing to upset fans over such an issue with us having a bigger budget. But eh up lads, no matter what stands are open the players on the over inflated 2 or 3 year deals will still be getting paid by the OAFC current account. They will then still be giving a cut to their agents, who knows what % that may be, who knows what agency that will be. Makes you think.

It is similar, 4% higher but more avenues for the club to make money according to the FLG. I would ask anyone with a North Stand ticket should they be moved to ask for a full refund. This is the only way this will be sorted out.

442 have us 2nd bottom.........

You talking about AL or Big BB80?

He'll be crying into his chippy tonight

Not a fan of JC myself big lad. I think the language you quote is usually used by the younger generation. Suprised you don't like it's use.

Nowt as blind as a man with gammon in his eyes. Come on big lad, even you can't really think AL has done a good job.

How many boxes has he sold recently?

Seems like the landlord wants the rent paying now. I'd guess they may have moved into the VIP payment list in the last month or so. Hopefully behind peoples pensions, what with that being illegal. Not sure AL is even trying to become self sufficient when he is cutting off one of the clubs bigger match day revenue streams. He does not make smart business moves that suggest he really knows the business side of things that is so essential. Some of his PR is terrible. If the FLG can get this income from the stadium to the levels they talk about the club could very well become self sufficient. Given AL has neither the ambition or finance to own the stadium (lol when he pretended he didn't know he'd not bought the ground but had already confirmed he hadn't in his first interview) then the only way to unite the club and the ground is for him and his highest paid employee, sorry brother, to go back to the football agent business. I can get people not trusting the FLG, really can. No idea who they are bar the 3 life long latics fans so until that is confirmed I can see some will be suspicious, I see the odd bit of jealously on twitter, particularly from other sponsors / business people mind. Once they come clean with who they are then people can really start to back them. I cannot get how people can back a Moroccan football agent who has seen us relegated, filled the squad with horseshit, sacked respected and loyal staff, treated those that remain with contempt, employed his brother to overrule managers and will not even engage with the new group of fans running the stadium. I cannot see one positive from his tenure, bar perhaps Nepo. Yes the wages issue seems to have calmed down but that will have been helped by the cup run so I would expect us to have been ok on that front. We still since then have released laughable 12 month old accounts and been removed by the credit agency. If he can clarify that he has paid off debts then I would applaud him, really would. His plan of bring in talent to showcase here is not working and he does not have the finances to change that plan. This is the worse squad we have had for 30 years and is a real contender to be relegated yet they talk of promotion. It is all bullshit to me. I really fear the club will be screwed financially even when he goes as his boys get 2 or 3 year deals that do not reflect their talent or the clubs monetary situation. This is why I am glad that whatever division we are in when he goes (I believe he will be gone in 12 months time) the main assets of the club, the ground, will be in the hands of people who love OAFC. To quote Craig Davies (a 2 time player and someone who would walk into our current side) "“With all the good at the club, I wish it well in an unclear future because I can honestly say in the 14 years I’ve been a professional footballer, I’ve never worked for someone that thinks it’s acceptable to treat his staff and players in such a bad way,”

Given what's gone on both on and off the park I'd think you'd have to be quite poorly to believe things have improved.

That is almost certainly the case in terms of TTA finding someone daft enough to take on the club. The rumoured wages of some players makes me certain the next accounts won't be so pretty.

Can people please stop saying he's reduced the debt. The edited and unchecked accounts you are working off are over 12 months old. Since then we've gone down, sacked several staff, paid off players, paid off potential unfair dismissal claims, lost our credit ability, pension issue and lost revenue from the North stand. There is not telling how much debt is attached to the club now.

Eh? He bought the club knowing he didn't own the stand would have to rent it? Why is this an issue now? He has magically cleared so much debt a 4% increase in rent should be more than affordable.

He bought the club knowing the cost of the rent, he has just not been too good at paying it. New (to be confirmed) landlords want the rent paying promptly. The blame is entirely his. Given we could afford a tour of Morocco I am sure we can afford the rent on the stand for some time.

It's the excuse given for the trust being spineless.

If AL doesn't pay his rent then he will end up owing the owners of the North Stand money. It seems the FLG will be enforcing this rent more readily than the previous / current owner. I believe they may be wanting to call in already owed rent if such sums exist, certainly enough reading on here about that and the need for GE's fee to come in asap. If he owes enough he may have to hand over assets to cover his debts as any of us would. We may hand over our Ford Fiesta ST, he may have to hand over his UK based assets. I'm going with that as the plan from the FLG. All AL has to do his pay his bills and run the club well and everyone will be happy.............................. IF someone owned the club and the stadium the club really would benefit from the stand 365 as stated when it was being built. I could get a gym membership knowing 100% that in some way OAFC were benefiting. If the owners of the stadium become the owners of the club it will be a massive benefit to the Latics and the fans. Many clubs with worse revenues do better than us and this may change things slightly for the better.

Not as fat as Lee Croft at Mossley pre season. No chance but yes Dunn didn't come fit. If he was fit and playing how would we have got him? I'd rather have an owner taking a punt on an unfit Dunn or Baxter over Syla or Omrani.

Yes. Not match fit but could control and pass a ball so certainly worth a punt as i said. He didn't pay off but he was a better punt than the shite AL has brought in.

I have seen him play yes. Not very good. I'm pretty confident he'll progress to the Bulgarian 3rd division when his contract ends.