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No one wants to buy Hull City

Hull may be the City of Culture but no one wants to buy the football club according to the club's owner. It is too remote and too far from London: Hull City

Owner Ehab Allam said, 'The club is for sale but it seems the interest in Hull is only when the club is in the Premier League. The attraction is the Premier League. We’ve seen investment from the US and more recently from the Far East, and the interest is in the Premier League. The location of Hull isn’t attractive either. There may still be interest in some Championship clubs, such as Reading. That’s 20 minutes from Heathrow.'

'They’re the same people who were interested in this club but once we lost our Premier League status, they started looking for a London-based club in the Championship. The interest in Hull is limited compared to a London club, just because of lifestyle. They’re wealthy people and it has to fit in with their lifestyle aspirations as well. Buying a London club is a lot more attractive than buying a club in East Yorkshire. Leeds was attractive because of the stature of that club historically. The same goes for Aston Villa and Birmingham. But you’ll find the two clubs that struggle to find new ownership in the Championship are the likes of Hull and Sunderland because their location to a foreign investor isn’t attractive.'

So it looks like it's a question of location, location, location.

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