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by Isaac
Mon Jun 12, 2006 11:45 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Kassam drove the club into the ground
Replies: 100
Views: 61358

I don't think investing in the stadium is necessarily the same as investing in the club, seeing as the club doesn't own the stadium (or even benefit from much of it's income). After all, without the club he'd never have got to develop the Ozone. Of the 2million he's invested then, I suspect a large ...
by Isaac
Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:40 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Kassam drove the club into the ground
Replies: 100
Views: 61358

I'd question whether loaning the club £2m (at, I presume, a better than base rate of interest) counts as actual investment the way it's being talked about here. I don't know the figures, but I suspect that after the Manor sale and after his developments around minchery farm, Kassam has made a consid...
by Isaac
Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:52 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Kassam drove the club into the ground
Replies: 100
Views: 61358

I'm not sure how people can argue whether or not Kassam &quotinvested&quot in the team or not. As far as I can remember from the accounts, there's no evidence that Kassam ever put any money into the club at all (nor took any out of course) - he only ever spent what was there and guaranteed w...
by Isaac
Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:14 pm
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Kassam drove the club into the ground
Replies: 100
Views: 61358

I wasn't asked but I'm going to plough in regardless - I think the positives for Kassam, to me, are quite straighforward 1) He kept the club solvent when no-one else would 7 years ago. 2) He enabled us to have a new stadium to play in. 3) We're not enormously in debt (although £2m is considerable). ...
by Isaac
Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:40 pm
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Kassam drove the club into the ground
Replies: 100
Views: 61358

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This will get things going. Issac, as someone who has met Kassam more times than I have met most of my cousins in the last 8 years, I have to say that I certainly don't find him 'unpleasant'. He is a man of conviction, who will never believe that he didn't do things properly for the club. Simply hi...
by Isaac
Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:08 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Kassam drove the club into the ground
Replies: 100
Views: 61358

Cool hand Firoz maybe, but it just adds further evidence to the fact that he's a very unpleasant man. It's really quite distasteful that a chairman who claimed to support the club and want the best for it would be willing to use the club and it's league status as a pawn in a machiavellian chess game...
by Isaac
Tue May 30, 2006 9:45 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: How much for the stadium?
Replies: 22
Views: 17283

&quotBut that is pure supposition, ‘cos it’s all secret, init? &quot Things like this have always been secret at OUFC, all the details were a secret when Kassam took over. That was generally ok though, as Snake was party to those secrets. I'd like to know too, but then I'd always like to kno...
by Isaac
Thu May 18, 2006 9:58 am
Forum: Raging On
Topic: Conference Level
Replies: 29
Views: 17260

From memory, the season Carlisle got relegated they were bottom and a long way adrift for ages, it was only towards the end of the season that they started getting it together and that was when they deliberately signed players who they'd keep for the season after regardless of the division they were...