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Steven Caulker
Once the CPO was under a go, I would say yes it would be illegal, but like I said.. once the CPO had started.. it should be bare minimum payout by Haringey.
Prior to CPO it would not have been illegal, as the matter was always between club and Archway. I believe in a recent statement the club said it had been in negotiations since it took ownership from Sugar!... 14 years!
I have no idea what is meant by the players.
It was aimed at somebodys earlier remark that we just sell all the players but off-topic in regard to the CPO
The issue is that we were in catch 22 with the CPO
You go around paying xxxxx to everybody who you need to clear the land, word gets out the figures get higher. Eventually buying the land becomes so expensive you cannot do the work
You buy the land slow time as available or from those that are willing to take an offer. Once the CPO was issued then we had no choice.
What nobody could have really seen coming is the London Riots the subsequent involvement of government into the process and the CPO. At that point the issue became larger than us. Maybe if the Riots hadnt had happened then the CPO wouldnt have been issued and we could have arranged with archway a sale. Equally archway could have held us to ransom.
You can go back to Sugar 14 years ago and say why didnt we buy then or why didnt ENIC buy the day they walked in , however we were firmly a mid table team im not sure building a 60k stadium at that point would have been prudent.