Stifler

He’ll skip this game only in the same way Isak will skip Celtic only.

Because it’s only in the last week or so that he’s told the club that he wants out and has let his agent leak the information to the press.

Losing to one of his favourites clubs yet a fucking again. Fuck off man.

Is it 1-0 or 0-1 still?

No, it’s been known about for about 2 years now, but people forget and it makes easy headlines.

We are following the 70% in anyway to stay consistent for European football.

Spurs going down puts their place in the top 6 in threat, even with the assumption that they come straight back up. Arsenal bottling the league doesn’t move the dial for them.

1: A stadium sponsor would likely cover the interest payments. 2: SCR which is replacing PSR doesn’t count any sort of infrastructure spending, including interest payments. It purely goes on football related income.

I agree it’s not at the planning stage. However is it not fair to say that our project is all a little back to front. They know that they can’t move out of the city centre, and even the talk about Nuns Moor today doesn’t sound realistic. They need it to be in the city centre, and there is only 1 place that could be done. So therefor isn’t it fair to say that we have to look at that 1 site and ask what is possible on it, rather than look at what stadium we want and then find the site to fit it? We are kind of trying to find a supermodel to fit in the dress, rather than find a dress to fit in the supermodel.

Is there not a difference between them saying this is their intent and the design they want, but not having land approval? Surely it is better to say ‘This is the stadium we want to build, this is where we want to build it, and this is what we have got in place behind the doors to make it happen’ than it is to say ‘Look at this stadium, it may go there, it may go there, but look, pretty huh?’ You also have to factor in that for the first 2 years of their ownership, the fanbase was largely against a new stadium. Although the pendulum has swung in favour of a new stadium, there are still people who don’t want to move, and who are skeptical. Coming out with ‘It maybe this, this, or this, here, there, or there’ isn’t going to bring those fans onboard. I very much think the decision has been taken to build a new stadium, and has been made before our current CEO came in. I just don’t think they want to announce it until they have to, especially when they are supposed to consult the fanbase. We already know that they have been talking to the FAB for nearly 2 years now on the subject. I don’t think they would have done that if they are just weighing up the idea.

I was there last week delivering supplies.

The CEO and also the commercial officer have all been in favour of a move to a new stadium, even their predecessors. It was Staveley and Ghodoussi who were in favour of staying at SJP. The Reubens will very much be in favour of a new stadium as well and one of their companies will undoubtedly get some lucrative contracts out of it.

Yeah, it just takes time to plan all this. People point out Man City building their campus quickly, but Man City had waste land surrounding their stadium that they had first refusal of and which the council wanted rid of. It’s took Crystal Palace 10 years to start work on their new stand. Construction of Fulham’s new stand alone took 6 years. Let’s see how Man Utd’s and Birmingham City’s new stadiums progress. One has already hit the buffers after a launch that got the press talking. Spurs’ stadium took the best part of 10 years or so to happen.

I’d take being an after thought with the Saudi’s with a new training ground and stadium, than being the number 1 priority to some American consortium who will be happy just to be in the Premier League with our current facilities.

What’s this to do with Ramsey?

Yeah, I’d imagine I’m in pot 1.

Yeah, they said an average. In the U.K. the monthly fee would be much higher, I can’t see it being below £40-£50. Obviously on the other end of the scale, you have some countries where it currently costs £2 a month to watch the Premier League alongside other leagues, so you can’t charge £10 a month there.

There is no competition in France though, so there isn’t much demand for Ligue 1. They were propped up by BeIN for ages who bought the rights to help facilitate the PSG takeover. Once Qatar no longer needed them, they dropped them, which is what put them in the position to start with.

There is nothing to suggest that either within the League, within the sport domestically or globally, or in general globally. Demand for events is up across the board since the pandemic. It doesn’t matter if it’s Premier League games, or live bands in a pub on a Friday night. Pretty much most teams now are looking to expand. Crystal Palace, Leeds, and Aston Villa are all active during construction of new stands. Nottingham Forest are about to start their own redevelopment work in the summer, Brighton are reconfiguring their stadium. You then have Arsenal who are looking at their options to expand, which may result in them having to pay a significant amount of money to the TFL to upgrade 3 tube stations. Man Utd trying to rebuild their stadium. Everton have just moved into theirs. Man City are putting the finishing touches on their upgrades and expansion which is aimed at the corporate market. Fulham have completed their new stand in the last year, again aimed at the corporate market.

Shit stadiums, dwindling crowds, Real Madrid and Barcelona buying their stay players is what killed Serie A.

There was a study done a few years back that said that if the Premier League went to a DTC model, prices on average of £10 per month with every game televised, then it could generate up to £22bn per year. I personally think that’s a bit high, but £10bn-£15bn is easily achievable. In comparison the NFL’s domestic only TV rights equates to £9bn. Globally the Premier League are bringing in just over £3bn per year right now, with £2m of that being through the domestic TV rights.

They won’t be selling us. I’m sorry but they aren’t getting back into the Premier League again as owners, and since we have been taken over, the draw bridge has been pulled up a bit. The most important point though is that Premier League TV rights are undervalued, massively undervalued. It’s only now that the Premier League are considering going to a direct to consumer model with all matches being broadcast. Once they do, the TV income will explode, we are talking over £10bn per year here. Every club will be gaining somewhere close to £400m per season just for taking part. Honestly, in 10 years time if we have a new stadium similar to Spurs’ alone, then we would be valued at £5bn, minimum. With SCR meaning we can’t spend more than 70% (assuming we are in Europe), then it means that 30% of our income could be held back for returns. At a conservative income of £600m per year, that would equate to £180m per year income that can go back to PIF, assuming the club as a whole is ran sustainably. Over a 10 year period that’s £1.8bn, close to double their investment in us. That is assuming they keep us and don’t sell us once the TV money is coming in and the new stadium has been built. It makes no fucking sense to sell us, or any Premier League team right now.

So £85m for Tonali and we just move him into the 1st team squad?

Very much at risk of not qualifying for next seasons Champions League.

Outgrown us? He’s stood still for at least 2 fucking years.