United Thread | 2024/25

[mancboy]

Yeah but my point is, it got built with council money for the commonwealth games, and it got converted to a football stadium using council money.

And what exactly would the rags new stadium be being built for and iirc city paid for the conversion?

 

[deano ou812]

It’s all in the pipeline the winter payments that labour scrapped for pensioners will go towards the infrastructure around the ground..

 

[Tarnats left peg]

Yeah but my point is, it got built with council money for the commonwealth games, and it got converted to a football stadium using council money.

The majority of the cost was paid for by Sport England and then a little over £30million was paid for by Manchester Council which I'm sure a good chunk was paid back during the commonwealth games due to it being a successful event, bringing in hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city. But if I remember rightly the £25 million it took to convert to a football stadium was all paid for by city.
It's amazing that if you tell a lie for long enough and to enough people it becomes truth. Again from what I remember the original plan was to build a temporary stadium and after the event it would be taken apart and shipped over seas as they didn't want a white elephant like the millennium stadium. But after talking with the scum and I believe Franny we took up the option to move in so it became a permanent stadium.

 

[dadnlad]

Public. Money = multi use running track is priority
Us FOC can run round it to keep warm

 

[chedinho]

Public. Money = multi use running track is priority
Us FOC can run round it to keep warm

Not sure if joking or not. ;-)

 

[Vienna_70]

Yeah but my point is, it got built with council money for the commonwealth games, and it got converted to a football stadium using council money.

Manchester City paid a considerable amount of money to Manchester city council to take over CoMS, as it was, and we still pay a considerable amount in rent to the same body.

 

[Vienna_70]

The majority of the cost was paid for by Sport England and then a little over £30million was paid for by Manchester Council which I'm sure a good chunk was paid back during the commonwealth games due to it being a successful event, bringing in hundreds of thousands of visitors to the city. But if I remember rightly the £25 million it took to convert to a football stadium was all paid for by city.
It's amazing that if you tell a lie for long enough and to enough people it becomes truth. Again from what I remember the original plan was to build a temporary stadium and after the event it would be taken apart and shipped over seas as they didn't want a white elephant like the millennium stadium. But after talking with the scum and I believe Franny we took up the option to move in so it became a permanent stadium.

Yes. Spot on.

If City hadn’t agreed to use the stadium, after the games, MCC would have built a temporary arena for them.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Ye. Spot on.

If City hadn’t agreed to use the stadium, after the games, MCC would have built a temporary arena for them.

And don't forget that we also gave them Maine Road as well.

 

[Vienna_70]

And don't forget that we also gave them Maine Road as well.

In other words, we more than paid for it.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

In other words, we more than paid for it.

That we did but never let the truth get in the way of a good story

 

[malg]

I feel it's time for them to approach the National Lottery. That'll sort them out.

 

[Sky Blue Thinking]

And don't forget that we also gave them Maine Road as well.

Maine Road also had a sizeable plot of land outside the stadium including forecourt/carparks and the distance from the Kippax turnstiles and rustic outside toilets to the stand.

 

[manimanc]

How the fuck do the these cunts get away with the constant blowing smoke up their arse from the press and having the press telling us they are biggest team in the world rammed down our throats daily, and then go cap in hand to get help with revamping their shithole of a stadium with hand outs and nobody at the FA or the Premier League questioning it?

Absolute piss take yet again. These red mardarses, the Premier League, the FA, the local council and parliament are laughing their cocks off at every other team in the league.

 

[pride in battle]

Hate united but we wouldn't have the Etihad without public money. Don't we still lease it off the council to some degree?

Popcorn out...

 

[Blue Mist]

Yeah but my point is, it got built with council money for the commonwealth games, and it got converted to a football stadium using council money.

No it didn't. Why do Blues spout shite about the stadium 20 years after it was handed over.

 

[jrb]

The current Etihad stadium was originally built for the 2002 Manchester Commonwealth Games. It had nothing to do with City.

The stadium was offered to United, but they didn’t want it. They wanted to say at Old Toilet and to expand it.

If City hadn’t taken the stadium on it would have become a white elephant.

City gave up Maine Road, which was demolished and became housing.

City’s lease agreement on the stadium is for 250 years. If City honour the lease agreement MCC will get £1bill from City which goes back to the residents of Manchester, RED and blue.

City have paid for all of the expansions and upgrades in the Etihad stadium. As well as ploughing £100mill’s into East Manchester, investing in the area, and creating 1000’s of jobs.

Whilst Sheikh Mansour and City have done all of that and much more for Manchester, the Glazers and United have done fuck all for Trafford.

 

[cheekybids]

Manchester United, Trafford Council, and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority have inked a strategic partnership aimed at ensuring the redevelopment of the stadium maximises the regeneration opportunities in the area.

The partnership plans to appoint a three-party advisory team to support the redevelopment of Old Trafford into a 90,000-capacity nationally significant venue. The stadium project is the fulcrum of a wider plan aimed at regenerating more than 200 acres of surrounding land.

Old Trafford overhaul gathers pace - Place North West

Manchester United, Trafford Council, and the Greater Manchester Combined Authority have inked a strategic partnership aimed at ensuring the redevelopment of the stadium maximises the regeneration opportunities in the area.

www.placenorthwest.co.uk

Perhaps Scruffy Jim is hoping to sell his share as the same shit hole with planning approved. The important detail they all forget is City cost £200m, which means billions can be spent on the campus & still cost less than those cunts.

 

[cheekybids]

Whatever these cunts are planning, we need to steal any of the good ideas (if there are any?) and get them incorporated to the Etihad campus, so Manchester will then already have them and rag shitheads can get planning turned down.

All their ideas appear to be ideas already in our pipeline.

 

[cheekybids]

Trafford Council should concentrate on regenerating the roads around Altrincham, Dunham, Bowdon and the rest of the borough. They have wrecked my alloys.

On my annual visit back last year & I couldn’t believe the state of the roads, it reminded me of Bali. I’m sure they’ve all been upgraded when I’m back next month ;)

 

[Blue Mist]

Perhaps Scruffy Jim is hoping to sell his share as the same shit hole with planning approved. The important detail they all forget is City cost £200m, which means billions can be spent on the campus & still cost less than those cunts.

That's a very good point about Scruffy selling up
If public money is used to rebuild the swamp (or to build new) the Glazers could, I think would, sell and make a fortune. The local and national taxpayers however........