The Stadium!
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walmsley73096
Vital Youth Team
And as usual the same ones refuse to accept that there are reasons for bad results. They choose to call them excuses 
Big Chiv
Vital Football Legend
And as usual the same ones refuse to accept that there are reasons for bad results. They choose to call them excuses
I should have stuck my house on that result today , most of us saw it coming and guess what, yeah, it happened.
Same old Spursy Spurs.
Spursex
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Except it's off the back of a 'successful' season where our best players have been played into the ground and had the injuries to prove it.
It was forecastable, but it was because they were/are mentally and physically fcuked.
And that's the fault of the club/Poch and of course the number of high intensity games we've had to play.
No idea why two photos came out . Both are the same photo!
Looks really good though
Looks really good though
Harry-Kari
Vital 1st Team Regular
If only the team was as good.
I ve read that the pitch has been dug up and relaid , on a different sub base , to alleviate the slipping and sliding that happened last season .
This was on another forum so I cannot substantiate it , but it did appear to be a problem.
This was on another forum so I cannot substantiate it , but it did appear to be a problem.
Nick Real Deal
Vital Football Legend
My own opinion is that it looks a bit chintzy. A bit circus or fun fair like. Not very tasteful or classy.
You having a bubble Nick !
Tell me that as / if you walk along the High Road going to a Champions League game .
Chintzy ! Circus! Funfair !
Nick Real Deal
Vital Football Legend
From the outside at street level the architecture looks fussy and disjointed. The surrounding buildings intrude on its lines. The panels break up the shape. There is no statement feature or focul point like Wembley's arch for example. Then at night let's make it look like a Christmas tree or a multi coloured advent calendar with all its flaps open.
It's verging on bling ugly. The inside is great but the outside is a let down for me.
It's verging on bling ugly. The inside is great but the outside is a let down for me.
Bet you can’t wait for the three ,( or is it four) tower blocks, hotel and diving centre to be built . Ha ha
Nick Real Deal
Vital Football Legend
Seriously Walt, take a look at the Qatar WC stadiums . Design wise on a different level. I know people have died and they have virtually unlimited funds to throw at them but I am looking purely aesthetically.
Nick , I haven’t seen the the Qatar stadiums ,and , to be honest , I hadn’t even thought to look but I will now .
I understand that we all see things differently . Ours was built with a lot of future proofing and many add ons which are still ongoing . It can also be completely changed for minimal outlay and very quickly in the scale of things .
Beauty , someone said , is in the eye of the bank manager , sorry .... beholder .
Nick Real Deal
Vital Football Legend
Exactly , we couldn't throw as much money at it and I understand that. I'm just saying it as I see it without any bias . Our stadium is impressive in the context of the limitations but it's not a thing of beauty IMO.
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Departed
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THe 35 to 40 million a year from AIA will roughly cover the costs of financing the stadium which will be around 25 million in debt repayment and 20 million in interest costs per year.
Add in the revenues from the additional events such as the NFL, concerts and whatever else runs at the new stadium and we're in REALLY good shape.
Levy just announced that we would be improving the team on the pitch when the AIA deal was announced.
OH HAPPY DAYS!
Add in the revenues from the additional events such as the NFL, concerts and whatever else runs at the new stadium and we're in REALLY good shape.
Levy just announced that we would be improving the team on the pitch when the AIA deal was announced.
OH HAPPY DAYS!
Real Deal
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40m a year seems the going rate for the big clubs these days. We are closing the gap on the Chavs, gooners, and scouse like some of us said would happen.
We ain't catching the Manchester boys anytime soon but we knew that would take decades to achieve.
Will help keep the commercial side of things going in Asia too.
We ain't catching the Manchester boys anytime soon but we knew that would take decades to achieve.
Will help keep the commercial side of things going in Asia too.
Spursex
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It's the third biggest shirt deal in the Prem.
Where we have to improve is the commercial revenues where we have always lagged in the growth dept; if we can improve that at the scale I expect - then all talk of the finance dragging us down will disappear faster than 80's debit card at the bar!
