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I mean, they literally bought the business in Teesside for the same price as the club. Everything takes time, and no doubt SJP and to a lesser extent, the training ground will be dominoes that need to fall first. Everyone suspects that the training ground won’t happen until the ministry has moved into Newcastle city centre, and SJP obviously has it’s own course to run before that starts.

Can’t see what it says.

Point 8 is to give it to Bally until the end of the season.

RTG just love to show themselves up. The match today with no segregation, fans sitting side by side, or in each others area just goes to show that there is plenty of normal people on both sides. RTGers acting like that because they lost and are determined to drag people down with them. Seen some people on there say how it’s embarrassing that there is no need for segregation and such man. Get a fucking grip, it’s a football match.

Fancy getting some tickets together for the home fixture? We could open it up to an N-O group welcome?

Aye, I couldn’t make it today, but I ever me and you having this discussion earlier in the season, even thinking it should be home fans only in both fixtures, for the fear of the idiots coming out and spoiling it for the families, and young ones who go.

Newcastle and Sunderland fans sitting together for a derby game. I’m surprised.

I honestly think in the next 10-20 years, we won’t have relegation at all. We’ll have an 18 team Premier League.

I demand to see Ben Jacobs tears.

Sofi isn’t that large, it was built into the ground because it is too close to an airport, and couldn’t be too tall. If you look at pictures of it inside, it’s basically just bleachers like the London stadium, and not proper stands, with proper concourse's.

I guess architecture is subjective. A warehouse style building in an industrial city fits in more than say the Mercedes Benz stadium does. The Mercedes Benz stadium is a good looking stadium, but it sort of has to fit in with it’s surroundings.

It won’t look anything like that.

Paris FC are being bought out by Europe’s richest person, and Red Bull. I wonder if Ligue 1 will be imposing new rules to prevent them from competing with PSG.

No I appreciate your feedback. I would prefer a stadium that is obviously designed for football, rather than an NFL stadium that can also host football. My point was that the facilities in it look amazing, and exactly what we need, and I also love the fact that you can see the pitch as soon as you walk in. My favourite stadium is actually Lucas Oil Field, it looks like a giant warehouse from the outside, but has that semi-open end behind one goal line.

Aye but then they have to go back and pay another £10 for another one. FFP/PSR would be no fucking issue at all for us.

I guess legally, when they were handed to the Premier League, they would have been legal. If they delayed it until they changed the rules, or determined it based on the new rules, then they would be subject to further legal action.

I get that, but unfortunately the way football is, and the way the EU, and U.K. laws are, there is no really way to prevent clubs from just spending all that money and implementing anything. Unfortunately I think we will get the Super League, I think the cartel will use this as a way of closing the Premier League up. They will accept teams spending fortunes, on the condition that there is no relegation, and possibly less teams, in order to free up spaces in the calendar for other fixtures.

You don’t put a salary spending cap on though, you put an expending cap on it.

We can’t compare to American leagues like the NFL. The NFL has no competition, it doesn’t even have a cup tournament that isn’t part of the league season. It can easily have things like wage caps, on top of that, the league owns the players, not the clubs. We have too much competition, pretty much every country in the world plays our football. If we imposed salary caps on our league, then every other league would have someone bankrolling them. We need FIFA to come in and propose spending caps, otherwise everything proposed, will just leave our league at the risk of being topped.

Man City’s supporters trust has sent a letter to Man City encouraging them to start petitioning to get Masters out. Additionally, I don’t think it’s been mentioned on here yet, but Masters has cancelled a meeting with broadcasters in order to attend the ‘emergency meetings’.

But it would only happen if alcohol was allowed in view of the pitch. At that point you’d be allowed to take your drink in the stands with you. People would just get a few drinks and take them with them.

I’ve been watching walkthrough YouTube videos of the Mercedes Benz stadium, and it looks amazing. From various points, including the main entrance point into the stadium, the concourse is open plan so that you can see the pitch. Absolute shame that the ‘No alcohol in view of the pitch’ laws would mean that we can’t do that.

Nah, I wanted too, but can’t make it.

It is capped at £200m, and isn’t classed as footballing revenue. Aston Villa owners put in £50m this way a few days ago, and this was the discussion.

Aye, they have just bought 33 aircraft with an option of 39 for their new airline. Each one of those new aircraft units costs as much as NUFC did.