City need £25mil or they will not be allowed in Europe.

I'm told Tiger Airways are lined up, but doubt that much cash will be involved.

In other news Etihad paid £500mill to rename eastlands......

Melton based apparently - going to have naming rights on the new stadium as well.

Just heard city youth are to use bishop Burton college as training headquarters.....he can't let us have out can he Mr Allam! He will sling his cash about & we will be moved on.

Pearson takes our training base to YPI, Allam gazumps him when he decides to buy, according to rumour. Pearson takes our training base to Bishop Burton and announces our long term future and investment there, Allam announces... etc.

I did hear rumours a year or so back after Pearson left City that Allam was undermining Pearson's business deals but I don't know how true this is. What we do know is that Pearson had his access to the Chairman's hospitality suite on matchdays revoked, our request to practice kicking on the pitch refused and the whole picturegate embarrassment. All this stinks of, at worst, a vendetta, and at best malicious pettiness.

I hope there's nothing sinister in Allam's proposed move to Bishop Burton. Money talks, but not always concludes, as YPI eventually found out to their cost. As did Ionians. Trust Bishop Burton values what it already has and is a shrewd observer.

Anyway, wasn't Pearson hinting at a further training development site somewhere recently?

Yeh Chamberlain Road we have just bought some land there!

For what it worth the whole name change is for me simply now nothing more than blackmail he is scaring a lot of older fans into voting yes with all the threats he is putting out there. First he was going to double the admissions if he didn't get his way then he is threatening to walk within 24 hours now they will put it up for sale. Some City fans are scared stiff and why do I mention it or why am I concerned Well for me and a lot of others the Bishop Burton thing is just a symptom of the general disease and we will be next in his firing line, he's after us or Adam as you say he is already making it really difficult for us at the Stadium. Perhaps some of us are paranoid but I bet I'm proved not to be in the longer term.

Saw Assam Allam getting into a Y reg BMW this morning, if it parked in the same place tomorrow, shall I let it's tyres down?

Y reg? Crikey he must have spent all his money then

You're not Andre Marriner are you?

Yes, thank you Wilf, Chamberlain Road it was!

I share your fears. While I may have quailed before the accusations of "paranoia" in the past, relying on the Council battle and my gut feeling to formulate my impression of the nature of the beast, his more recent staggering behaviour justifies every reason for our concern. I really hope the FA calls his bluff and his pride forces him to find a buyer. He's a threat to anyone involved in business with him, I believe. A very dangerous loose cannon.

Chamberlain Road was secured a few years ago and is part of a larger Barratt deal to redevelop the site, with FC having the greenspace aspect of the development. FC will have changing facilities and pitches at the back of Dove House if the plans agent changed too much since submission a couple of years ago. I worry about aa and his approach.

Into the relegation mix they go. Hopefully back down a peg.

Who?

it's harsh to wish the team and it's supporters ill fortune, just because their owner is a maniac.

I see AP is quoted this morning as saying that our "big lads" were part of our initial success, I must have missed our barn storming start to the season, AP is almost as arrogant at Allam, just in different ways. It takes a level of arrogance to succeed at anything.

Success can be measured in many ways and doesn't just have to be a "barn storming start to the season".

Many people, until Sunday, were commenting on the progress the team were seen to be making on the field.

These comments were not just from blinkered fans but also pundits such as Kear, Cullen, Clarke etc

Given a full (or near full) quota of props would make a big difference to our performances.

It's not paranoia in any way. Many of us have had the utmost suspicion of Allam and his motives since we heard his first Blunderside radio interview when he talked of 'knowing nothing about rugby' and how a KR/FC merger seemed logical. His actions since then have simply reinforced early doubts.