Andy Burnham | Manchester Mayor

kismet said:
How can the cost of a new United stadium be quoted at £2 billion when the LA Chargers paid £5.5 billion for a new stadium. Also in the United States the Labour and raw material costs are less than here.
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Probably because they have no intention of building one. Once planning permission is in place the club becomes a much more saleable business and they’re hoping potential buyers won’t look at the real cost of what a complete new build would actually be. Spurs were hoping to build for £800M and they went 50% over budget. Probably £1.5Bn in today’s money and that’s for a smaller stadium. £2Bn sounds very tight indeed for a 100k.
 
Salford quays has been in development for a number of years, 25 maybe, with the building of the lowry centre and imperial war museum then later with media city. Not once did we hear a peep from the red cunts about any other development around the ground. Mighty coincidence, that now they need a new stadium, they have only just noticed that there's an arse load of land that just happens to surround old Trafford that need renovating. Hmmm.
 
birchvillablue said:
Unless I heard Burnham wrong, he said funding would be for enabling works, which is usually demolition of buildings on that land and remediation.
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Which begs the question, did City get help towards enabling works when building the CFA? I don't think we did, so why should this project. Furthermore, I think we paid the landowners above Open Market Value to avoid going down the costly/time consuming CPO route.
Any investment in Gtr Manchester is a good thing, and even a modest improvement in the train bottlenecks is not to be sniffed at, but there are numerous clubs that have improved their stadia fully out of their own pockets with no assistance from the public purse.
 
how long before they say they are now just fixing the roof, after finding out the tax payer will not build then a new stadium?
 
Vic said:
And nothing about Burnham's other vital project - the new line from the proper HS2 line to Crewe rather than putting even more trains on the existing at-capacity West Coast Main Line.
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Nothing yet he may just ignore my question he is up for re-election May 2nd that is priority so he promised to look into match day trams at the Etihad.
 
Elbow beards said:
Salford quays has been in development for a number of years, 25 maybe, with the building of the lowry centre and imperial war museum then later with media city. Not once did we hear a peep from the red cunts about any other development around the ground. Mighty coincidence, that now they need a new stadium, they have only just noticed that there's an arse load of land that just happens to surround old Trafford that need renovating. Hmmm.
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I used to work at The Anchorage back in the mid-90's. The Quays was a shithole back then. They had only just started building The Lowry, although IWM was already there. No comparison to what's there today, but I'd say it's more like 30 years.
With any luck, there'll be a few less Glazers and no scruffy twat by the time they've gone through planning, site assembly, remediation & construction, which won't be a quick process.
 
Kirkstall Blue said:

Nothing yet he may just ignore my question he is up for re-election May 2nd that is priority so he promised to look into match day trams at the Etihad.
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He'll get voted back in no matter what he does, not because he's is competent but because he wears the right colour rosette, he could set fire to old people and send babies to war and the mouth breathers will still tick his box.
 
Just a thought.

Khaldoon and Beth Craig (leader of Manchester City Council) should go to Starmer and Rachel Reeves and say......

"We've got a huge parcel of land next to the Etihad stadium called the Collar site.

We've got massive (arf!) plans to redevelop the land, bringing investment and 1000's of jobs to East Manchester.

We need Government support and investment (and tax payers money) to get the the plans started.
 
BlueSkyBlue said:
The plan is to build housing all over the area between United and the canal.

The housing has absolutely nothing to do with Man U, but they are somehow getting credit for it in the press. It's a Trafford Council thing, not Man U.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Sheikh Mansour invested in housing there. He has made big profits so far in his housing schemes.
 
Is it their intention to build a new ground whilst keeping the swamp open?
Or, are they thinking they will be allowed to play somewhere else for the 3/4 years whilst the swamp is demolished and they have it rebuilt?
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
Probably because they have no intention of building one. Once planning permission is in place the club becomes a much more saleable business and they’re hoping potential buyers won’t look at the real cost of what a complete new build would actually be. Spurs were hoping to build for £800M and they went 50% over budget. Probably £1.5Bn in today’s money and that’s for a smaller stadium. £2Bn sounds very tight indeed for a 100k.
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Minority rat is only in for the property development play and a sell on to the Qatari's who are in the background with $ burning a hole in the sand.
 
BlueFurn said:
Is it their intention to build a new ground whilst keeping the swamp open?
Or, are they thinking they will be allowed to play somewhere else for the 3/4 years whilst the swamp is demolished and they have it rebuilt?
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Could always ground share with Salford City Reds I suppose.
 
BlueSkyBlue said:
The plan is to build housing all over the area between United and the canal.

The housing has absolutely nothing to do with Man U, but they are somehow getting credit for it in the press. It's a Trafford Council thing, not Man U.
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As well as fitting in what ever is going to provide 90,000 jobs!
 
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