8raz wrote:Saint of Killers wrote:I know. How dare he hold out for as much money as he can get! I'm sure United Group's evaluation of the land is fair and so serves him right if a private business now colludes with the local government to steal his property off him. Whadda banana split.
Can a private company take the land of another private company? – yes if they are billionaires. Or at least they may try!
We have been on our land since 1987. We bought it when nobody wanted it. Since then there has been talk of the Olympics, then the Commonwealth games came, then talk of the Super casino. We have been approached by ‘everyman and his dog’ about selling our land.
Now the richest football club in the World want to buy it – no problem everything is for sale!
But there is a problem – they only want to buy it based on their valuation. A piece of scruffy land in East Manchester in the middle of a recession – shouldn’t cost much should it?
Our understanding of valuation should be based on the principal of supply-and-demand. How much the buyer needs it, and how much the seller needs to sell it – the same as a football player maybe?
The Ferrari Daytona Spyder – not the best car to come from Maranello. If you want one today expect to pay a lot for it because there aren’t many about! Is our land not in the same category? We have got it – they want it – let’s negotiate.
But no – they will not negotiate reasonably.
I don’t think this is fair. I bought this land when the government told us we had to look after our own future. This is my pension.
Thanks to the Manchester Evening News, this has now become a Red and blue issue.
As a season ticket holding United fan they’ve made it out that because we are red, we won’t sell, just to thwart city’s plans. This isn’t true but thanks for the idea!
If City can use their “friends”, why can’t we use our fellow Red friends to help us out?
We first got the idea from the situation with the Chelsea pitch owners, who managed to let Mr Abramovich know that his millions couldn’t get him what he wanted.
Almost 360 degrees around us has been sold to City already. Their work has begun and a fortune is being spent on the land while they are refusing to do the right thing and negotiate properly with us.
http://www.uniteagainstcity.co.uk/story.html