Coventry City

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CoventryLive brings you the latest Coventry City news as Simon Jordan analyses what happens next after the Sky Blues are handed an eviction notice.

That licence will now be up for negotiation between Coventry and Mike Ashley and unless Mike Ashley gets what he wants out of it, which is his gift, and so would it be your gift if you were a landlord, and finds a solution to the problem, or they will have to relocate. "You’ve got Coventry City sitting there under a licence which is now null and void, so they have to renegotiate and clearly what is happening is that Ashley is saying, clearly what you are paying for this stadium is not sufficient. "Wasps had the headlease, they granted the licence, this tells you how much of a mess that the current owners of Coventry have made of Coventry that they were last in the pecking order to be able to try and buy the stadium or to even get a lease on it. He then develops it and makes it more of a hotel environment, a retail environment, a resident environment and they find a solution that way. "The alternative that he does is he moves them out, they go and get rehoused, maybe at the University of Warwickshire which is what they have been talking about doing. If you have a building and you rent it, you make money out of it, that’s the reason you bought the building. So what Ashley is trying to do, whether you like it or you don’t, is basically commercialise his property to his benefit and not to Coventry’s which is what anybody would do if they bought that stadium as an asset. "They are stupid because the ownership process is very simple. Doug King will have been privy to this and they will not be booted out now, they will be booted out in May 2023. Frasers Group have presented the club with a new licence agreement proposal, but the [Sky Blues](https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/all-about/coventry-city-fc) say it is less favourable to the football club and would only last until May 2023. "Hence the reasons why my interest in Coventry, which was lukewarm at best, was even less after looking at it in more detail because of the stadium situation and it’s very simple. There is ACL which is the Arena Coventry Ltd that did the deal in the first place to build the stadium and managed the stadium, granted a 250-year lease which is what Mike Ashley has bought.

Frasers Group - run by former Newcastle United owner Ashley - have told them a new licence must be agreed to continue playing at the Coventry Building ...

However, CCFC chose not to sign it at that time. If he ends up owning the club he'll have my backing.' 'It would require the club not to fall into arrears again. The Frasers Group - run by ex-Newcastle owner Mike Ashley (left) - are said to have told the club that they must agree a new licence to continue at the Coventry Building Society Arena Ashley can flush out the chancers. - Frasers Group - run by former Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley - have told the club a new licence to play at the Coventry Building Society Arena is needed

Mike Ashley's Frasers Group PLC (LSE:FRAS) has served an eviction notice to Coventry City from its home stadium after buying it last month. ...

This position remains unchanged". It said: "We were surprised to learn of this intention by Frasers Group, given that discussions with Coventry City prior to the completion of their purchase of the Arena led us to understand the existing terms would continue unchanged with Frasers Group as the new owners". The Championship football club said it had been presented with new commercial terms to use the stadium that are "less favourable to the football club" and had been given "without any dialogue or negotiations".

Tickets for City's New Year's Day trip to Coventry City will go on Priority Sale on Thursday, December 8th at 10am.

Posted: Tuesday, December 6th 2022 • Stadium Posted: Tuesday, December 6th 2022 • Rugby Posted: Tuesday, December 6th 2022