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PostPosted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 1:31 pm 
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after Cardiff this guy seems positively sensible, but still...

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The Guardian, Tuesday 14 January 2014 15.06 GMT
Assem Allam, the Hull City owner, has formally applied to the FA to change the club's name to Hull Tigers. Photograph: Craig Brough/Action Images
The Hull City owner, Assem Allam, has threatened to walk away from the club if the Football Association refuses to grant his application to change the club's name to Hull Tigers.

Allam has formally applied to the FA for the name change, which he believes will symbolise "power" and be key to making the club attractive around the world and earning fortunes from selling merchandise. The change, whose projected impact Allam told the Guardian he had not yet researched, is bitterly opposed by supporter groups campaigning to keep the name City have had since 1904.

Speaking to Sky Sports News, Allam, who made his money building up a generator business, Allam Marine, said of the opposition: "No one on earth is allowed to question my business decisions. I won't allow it. I can give you my CV to give you comfort, for what I do in business, what I have achieved, but for someone to come and question me is not allowed."I'm here to save the club and manage the club for the benefit of the community. It will never, never be the other way round – that the community manage it for me. But if the community say go away, I promise to go away within 24 hours."

Allam added he would also go away within 24 hours if the name change is rejected by the FA, whose council has absolute discretion to decide.

"Still the same thing. It's a free country. No two ways about it. Have I ever said something and went back on it? No," he said.

Allam did not explain the terms on which he would walk away, given that the club is heavily indebted to him. Having taken over with the club in financial difficulties in December 2010 and lent £41m immediately, Allam's company loans – charged at 5% interest – were up to £72m by 31 July 2013, the date of the recent accounts. Allam ran a wage bill of £26m in the Championship, despite the club's income totalling only £11m, so achieved promotion to the Premier League making a loss of £26m.

There are fears that if the FA does reject his name-change application he will withdraw financial support. City Till I Die, the fans' group coalition opposing the change, have said in a statement that they: "Remain confident that the FA will make the right decision, and protect the heritage and traditions of Hull City AFC, and those of other clubs whose identities may come under threat."



running it at a loss, huge loans at 5%... if he decides ot "go away" inside 24 hours what would be the odds of Hull folding in 48 hours?

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the guy is a utter prick..

A compromise, would be 'hull city tigers' not just hull tigers..
Changing shirts from blue to red at cardiff, and changing your identity..

Allah praise our sheik , as he has done us proud...
Honestly i feel like "thank fuck", we got him. It could have been soul destroying..

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    We've bagged the best sugar daddy by far. He doesn't just use us for his fun, he actually respects us too, and wants us to be happy. All the other clubs being butt fucked by insane foreign owners must be soooo jealous. I'm proud that he chose us, but I do have a nagging fear that he'll wake up one day and want a younger, more attractive club :(


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    even abramovich and chelsea have seen a less than perfect relationship. the sheikh is wonderful, the amount of effort that seems to go in to engaging with the supporters is unmatched.

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    South East Citizen wrote:
      We've bagged the best sugar daddy by far. He doesn't just use us for his fun, he actually respects us too, and wants us to be happy. All the other clubs being butt fucked by insane foreign owners must be soooo jealous. I'm proud that he chose us, but I do have a nagging fear that he'll wake up one day and want a younger, more attractive club :(


      I don't see a cat in hell's chance of that happening - not with the amount of money and forward planning that's gone into it so far.

      So long as everything keeps going along as planned, I just see it getting better and better.

      To think we doubted the validity of getting rid of Bobby Manc and hiring a sixty year old, who's never won a European trophy! Just because they had a fixed idea about the way they want the team to play.


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      The media very conveniently ignore the positives of having a foreign owner in all of this. Listening to 5Live last night and Alan Green and that twat chappers reporting from the Etihad continued to stick the boot in regarding this issue, and not one mention of sheikh mansour and his contribution to this club and the surrounding area.

      I can only guess they didn't have a strong enough argument against it if challenged - so avoided the subject.


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