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11 Mar
11:02am, 11 Mar 2025
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Diogenes
As Manchester United announce plans for a new 100,000 capacity stadium, let's get all the obvious jokes out of the way first. It'll be the best stadium in the Championship They've yet to announce which part of Surrey it's being built in Leeds would fill double that. |
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11 Mar
11:04am, 11 Mar 2025
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Diogenes
One thing's for sure, they won't be financing it out of player sales.
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11 Mar
11:04am, 11 Mar 2025
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Derby Tup
‘Leeds. Still a big club’ 
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11 Mar
11:07am, 11 Mar 2025
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paulcook
Diogenes wrote: One thing's for sure, they won't be financing it out of player sales. What chance the taxpayer ends up paying for it? |
11 Mar
11:09am, 11 Mar 2025
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Nellers
None at all, paulcook. It's a commercial business building a new facility to allow it to increase profits. It'll be financed by the club taking loans out on the basis of the increased revenue when it's completed. The public funding part of things is around some of the new housing developments around the stadium that are planned, and partial financing of some of the transport links but the stadium itself is Man Utd's cost to bear. |
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11 Mar
11:16am, 11 Mar 2025
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paulcook
Ah. That sounds like a very plausible answer. I had heard (probably rantings from Liverpool fans) about some kind of regeneration project and they wouldn't be spending a penny.
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11 Mar
11:22am, 11 Mar 2025
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Nellers
There's been a lot of conflating the wider development with the stadium itself in the media (yes, mostly driven by rival fans) but the plans are very clear on the matter. It is being done in partnership with the local council (Salford presumably) but the stadium is one part of it and the wider development is separate. It only makes sense to take the opportunity to redevelop that area while the stadium is going up and the place will be in a mess for a while anyway. (I'm not a Man U fan but my son is and he's been following the news of this development closely and getting annoyed at the falsehoods being touted around about the taxpayers millions being thrown at the richest club in the world, or not as the case actually is.) |
11 Mar
12:27pm, 11 Mar 2025
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bigleggy
paulcook wrote: Ah. That sounds like a very plausible answer. I had heard (probably rantings from Liverpool fans) about some kind of regeneration project and they wouldn't be spending a penny. That'll be the same Liverpool fans who shrieked about Evertons Stadium being publicy funded - It wasn't |
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11 Mar
12:29pm, 11 Mar 2025
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Diogenes
I hope the new ground also has a waterfall feature
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11 Mar
12:39pm, 11 Mar 2025
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Cheg
Nellers wrote: None at all, paulcook. It's a commercial business building a new facility to allow it to increase profits. It'll be financed by the club taking loans out on the basis of the increased revenue when it's completed. The public funding part of things is around some of the new housing developments around the stadium that are planned, and partial financing of some of the transport links but the stadium itself is Man Utd's cost to bear. Proof that there are sensible well informed parts of the internet if you look hard enough. Outstanding. |
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