Media Discussion - 2023/24

[Bodicoteblue]

They should start a go-fund-me page!
With the billions of raggy fans world-wide they should raise the money in a day!

 

[The perfect fumble]

but that's not strictly true now, is it.

You've got me there :-)

 

[cheekybids]

It seems he may be doubtful they could raise enough money on stadium naming rights and they have huge debts that I assume would rise to catastrophic levels if they had to fund even part of it themselves.
Let's hope they are still selling a pipe dream to the rag fan base twenty years from now.

Old Trafford will close & they’ll blame the government for lack of funding, forced to play games at Wembley then in the US.

 

[Prophet of Doom]

Scruffy Jim took one look at the €1bn turnover recently announced at Madrid helped by their new stadium and is desperate to get a bit of that action.

Wont matter that United have £3bn of debt - as the current rules are not interested in debt - only turnover - and a 100k capacity stadium would give them a huge advantage no matter how it is funded.

 

[dadnlad]

Scruffy Jim took one look at the €1bn turnover recently announced at Madrid helped by their new stadium and is desperate to get a bit of that action.

Wont matter that United have £3bn of debt - as the current rules are not interested in debt - only turnover - and a 100k capacity stadium would give them a huge advantage no matter how it is funded.

yeah with running track they can use all year round

 

[Ithryn Luin]

Big story in The Grauniad about Chelsea Jim building a New Swamp with a capacity of 100,000. I'm getting the impression that this is all about him, his huge ego and his legacy.
In the meantime the building work continues at The Etihad...

Is he still after taxpayers and Greater Manchester Council Tax payers funding it?

 

[Father Paul]

It seems he may be doubtful they could raise enough money on stadium naming rights and they have huge debts that I assume would rise to catastrophic levels if they had to fund even part of it themselves.
Let's hope they are still selling a pipe dream to the rag fan base twenty years from now.

The stadium the rags played in the other day cost 5 Billion Dollars apparently and this appears to be the going rate now for a state of the art stadium. A lot of investment in that regardless of who pays for it.

 

[VOOMER]

Stadium 974 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Blue Mist]

You've got this backwards, Scruffy Jim wants some public/private finance bollocks to build the stadium, he wants the government to pick up the lions share of the tab. Starmer says no, but he won't stand in his way, he'll facilitate Scruffy building and paying for the stadium himself, but only by stumping up government money for a few extra trams and the odd bit of tarmac, peanuts in the scheme of things.

City were handed a brand new stadium 20 years ago for the price of a bottle of Vimto and a bag of Skittles, so we're in no position to criticise Starmer.

Ergh this brand new stadium we were handed, did it originally come with a South Stand and an extra tier around the whole of the stadium ?
If it did, some fucker nicked it before we took charge.
Oh and by the way, its Vimpto.

 

[Blue Pete]

Ergh this brand new stadium we were handed, did it originally come with a South Stand and an extra tier around the whole of the stadium ?
If it did, some fucker nicked it before we took charge.
Oh and by the way, its Vimpto.

The 'p' is invisible. A bit like the 'p' in pterodactyl is silent, but the other way round