It was only slightly a come to Allah meeting. There is no secret that Dave meets regularly with the club, from time to time other attend. This week instead of Domey (who is in Hong Kong) it's Rob. It's not rocket science boys.
Auckland City run off Trillian Trust and Club World Cup money. Neither of which is an option for Welnix.
I can't this this enough.
I reckon we might be viewing ACFC insight into Auckland investment through too narrow a prism, ie existing ACFC funding model. I seem to recall ACFC were exploring possible A league expression of interest about 12 months ago. A different funding model would have been partying of that thinking. Time for Rob to revisit that thought with Ivan? Just wondering what NZ avenues have been explored.
Well, here is facts on this - Auckland City received $432,437 from Trillian Trust between October 2017 to April 2018 (so, basically, for the 2017/2018 season). And that's not counting the grants to Central United, a few of which were also made in that period, and which take the overall amount easily over $500,000 (though I haven't bothered to tally it up). Add to that US $250,000 (which Mr Google tells me is $362,922.50 NZ) that they got from the Club World Cup, and somehow I think that Auckland City aren't exactly pressed for money to run a team in a league with significantly lower costs than the A-league.
And coincidentally, I suspect that Welnix would be prepared to pole dance their way through all the strip clubs in Wellington for $430k worth of sponsorship for one season.
You sound like Terminatorx,