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Found a screenshot of how they're going to do it!
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Johnny Mars Bar said:
I agree mate and it probably is nonsense but it's the kind of commercial arrangement that I can see Khaldoon rubbing his hands together for.
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If they are allowed to ground share I want my seat sterilising after each of their matches. I will also require the club to send me a video of it being done.
 
danielwood5 said:
I assumed it was more that he'd got himself into a frothing rage and was blaming everyone under the sun for something that is just a pr exercise for the Stretford scruff bags.
It's a real problem these days, invent a problem then use media, both social and traditional, to get people angry then give them a nebulous target for that anger.
Bread and circuses bullshit.
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I might have misread it but I thought the bit highlighted referred to Labour and this place is a raving cesspool of Left Wing politics, so I just thought he'd been dragged up on that.
 
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Johnny Mars Bar said:
The Mirror seem to be suggesting the rags want to use the Etihad while Salford is a building site.

My initial reaction is of course get to fuck, but I wouldn’t put it past the soulless accountants at City to be receptive to the idea.
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And still increase the cost of our season tickets no doubt.
 
Does anyone really care anymore?

Bored of reading about this awful club that used to be successful. Join the queue of clubs that were a success and now are not.

The media will keep on pushing the agenda as it makes economic sense to do so.

I still laugh when they get beat but I genuinely don’t care anymore. I suppose that’s worse and reflects their trajectory to mediocrity.

Get much more fun out of the dips getting beat atm.
 
Get it built asap; I look forward to laughing at the empty fuckin' seats!

And, let's get a clock going so we can time exactly how long it is before the scummy, clown tramps fill it with 100,000 cunts deluded enough to turn up for a league game - in fact, make that beating our attendance record of 84k+ at Maine Road.

Fuckin' scum.
 
danielwood5 said:
I'm pretty certain that any government would have to get involved in a project as huge as this would be, if Badenoch was prime minister I can 100% guarantee that her government would be saying the same thing.
If you take out the political and footballing tribalism out of it you'd probably agree. If Salford Reds or whoever plays at Old Trafford Cricket Ground (Lancashire I guess?) wanted to expand or build a new ground and the government (local or national) agreed to get involved and use the project as a focal point to allow them regenerate and invest in the area, on top of the money put in by the sporting bodies involved then there wouldn't be this outcry. I'd go so far as to say that if a government saw an opportunity to bring money into the country and to get a good return on their investment into a project then they've been pretty damp negligent in their duties if they don't get involved.
Having said that, it still feels like you're creating this into an issue to get angry about as the link to the Mirror article states that the government would look into getting involved in regenerating the area but none of the money will go to the sporting side of the project and even that article doesn't say the extent that the government would get involved and what they would get back from the project in the long term. How can you be so upset when we have little to no information about a project that almost certainly won't go ahead to the extent that United's PR team are trying to alleged? If the government put £2m into regenerating an area and got £5m (arbitrary figures pulled out of thin air, like a lot of the facts and figures used in these stories) back over time would that be fine with you? Or would it only be fine if it was a Conservative or Reform UK government doing it? Or would it be OK if the project was elsewhere in the country and didn't involve United?
As I said a lot of the whingeing going on seems to come from a place of sporting, or going off the language of your posts more likely, political tribalism. That is unless I missed the outpouring of wailing and gnashing of teeth when Boris Johnson approved the use of publiic funds in a similar manner to that suggested in Trafford when Spurs built their stadium.

Mayor approves ambitious plans to redevelop Spurs’ stadium

The Mayor has given final approval for the £400m development of Tottenham's new stadium.
www.london.gov.uk www.london.gov.uk

Or the Merseyside council approved money to be used as part of the regeneration of the area around Everton's new stadium.

www.liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk

Combined Authority announces up to £45m plan to support region’s biggest regeneration project in more than a decade

<p>Funding will provide jobs, training and improved health and wellbeing for local people as well as act as a catalyst for ‘transformational regeneration’ of north docks and area around Goodison Park.</p>
www.liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk
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paragraphs.
 
Blue Mist said:
Allegedly they are going to build the stadium off site and ship it down the canal.
Is this feasible? There are no docks to moor ships and no cranes to lift the kit off.
Can anyone on here answer the question that the media refuse to ask ?
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They are going to do it the same way the pyramids were built.
All their supporters will carry and drag the constituent parts to the site where it will be assembled, obvs.
 
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