Stifler

Going to be on the clubs site for sale in 5 weeks.

Rangers in talks of buyout from the San Francisco 49’s.

Staveley did 3 years of due diligence between her first visit to the club and the Saudi bid, and 4 years by the time she bought us.

Like what? You mean that woman who used NUFC in her account name on social media as she started throwing about transphobic insults?

Martin O’Neil.

Can’t stand that Arty Ziff weasel cunt. It makes me want to punch my TV.

That’s him out for 2 months then.

Yeah I get that. In my opinion all Everton have done is catch up with SJP 25 years after it became what it is in its current guise. I honestly think it could have been, and should have been a bit more. In saying this, I’m not quite sure them lot down the road would swap either, especially when in theory they could have a bigger capacity.

The big question I’d have to ask would you trade SJP for Everton’s new stadium? Honestly I wouldn’t. The capacity is only marginally better, and I don’t think it offers anything or can do anything that SJP can’t. It looks good from the outside, but when you get closer and inside, it’s bland and a bit bare.

Can’t unsee it as the a modern version of the Old White Hart Lane now.

I’m not that arsed if they do come up. We are doing different things to them, and to be honest I looked at both of those teams last night and saw nothing that would keep either team up. The match was so slow, and every team will just be able to take them both apart.

That is the most Everton like stadium ever. Looks like it maybe up to job from the outside, but once you get in there it’s a bit bland. It’s not the best, but it’s not the worst, but still could have been better. If we are going for best in class, I’d hope that ours blows that away.

So what’s everyone’s wish list? Here’s mine, assuming we are building on Leazes Park/Castle Leazes with a 70k minimum capacity. The stadium should have a street frontage all the way around. Outside of match-day, I want to be able to see bars and restaurants on the ground floor and be able to go in and interact with it. Places like the Emirates don’t have that aside from the club shop. It needs to have either a fixed or movable roof so that it can host events other than football. The same with the pitch, we need to be able to fold it away and use a different surface for things like concerts etc. The Southern most goal end stand needs to be a single tier as steep and as high as you can possibly get, with rail seating for the ability to stand. It needs to have a unique design. I don’t want a bubble effect wrap or a sort of backlight plastic cladding that Bayerns have. It’s tacky, and over done. It needs to be engineered to maximise crowd noise retention. I’d prefer a halo type scoreboard, single large screens TV’s look a bit dated now. I’d also rather strip advertisements like Spurs’ stadium than say tacky LED lights on the stairs like the Etihad. We need to have invisible/non-intrusive segregation for away fans that can be easily expanded and decreased without the need of reducing capacity. Think like the walls they have at the Emirates and Spurs. Additionally away fans can’t be in a position where they are either above or below home fans. We don’t need people chucking object at each other. Non-obstructive turnstiles. I don’t want to have to contort my body to enter the stadium. Let me scan my ticket and get in easily enough. Choice of different food and drink outlets, preferably made up of local companies who do well in this area. A large amount of corporate without it getting in the way of regular fans. In addition, some sort of tunnel club that is still affordable for a 1 off for regular fans. A unique feature that indicates that it is our home, similar to how Spurs have the Cockerel. It could even be a modern version of the ‘Newcastle United’ sign. Plenty of lifts/escalators to the upper levels so that we don’t have a repeat of the dreaded level 7 stairs. This one will irritate a few people, but a fucking phones signal. It would still be nice to be able to contact my lass at half time or check the half time scores that I want, and not the predetermined ones the club chooses. Better facilities all round. No need for such long queues for toilets and bars. I’d also add that the club should also buy both the Strawberry, and the Black Bull in order to maximise revenue by owning some of the bars around the stadium in addition to the stadium bars.

The outside looks nice, internally the stands look bland and very much like German stadiums which are just bleachers. The stands don’t look that steep to be honest. I was actually thinking about creating a wish list for our stadium to be honest.

He does. He has one attacking journalists and other accounts, then one defending them and calling out his alt accounts. He’s a fucking freak, and it’s shocking to think that he’s a father. The general rule of thumb for any account that shares ‘NUFC news’ without having someone actually show their face, then it’s one of his accounts.

It’s reported in the Chronicle, he’s just aggregating news stories without providing the source so people think he’s ITK. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/what-yasir-al-rumayyan-said-31014973

And there is exactly what they wanted with the ESL. A league by them, for them.

They spend £72m per year on the stadium debt and that’s just on the repayments, it doesn’t include the training ground, or general maintenance. https://thstofficial.com/interim-analysis-of-tottenham-hotspur-financial-statements-2022-3/

It’s going to paying off their stadium. Thats’s why their wages to turnover is so low, because the remaining amount has to pay off their stadiums and training ground.

Not really. As you say, Ashley actively made us uncompetitive and took what he could out of the club. He took a team who regularly got into Europe (and went deep in UEFA Cup) to being a yo-yo team between the Premier League and Championship. You can rightfully say Spurs aren’t actually challenging for titles and not winning cups (although a cup win in 2008 is still good for a team who’s not elite). However Levy has put everything in place for Spurs to compete. They have possibly the best stadium in sports, a world class training ground, a squad who should be doing better, since Poch they have had managers who have been ambitious appointments, even if they never came off, and they have the revenue and clubs stature to compete financially. Levy and Ashley are not comparable.

We had a good year out of him. The first 6 months he was here he was mostly injured for. Last season 3 games a week caught up with him. This season he’s just been outright poor. We really should have cashed in on him in January with Turkish teams after him.

We’re an investment, but a soft power investment, not a financial one. As you say, they are about to take the spend on NUFC alone to about £2bn, possibly more if the stadium is going to cost more than the £1.2bn the latest rumours suggest it is. I also think the training ground for what they want will end up costing more than the reported £200m budget. Since they took us over they have already invested £300m in Teesside. They are rumoured to have a lot of other projects in the pipeline in the area, be that Sports teams, or buying a controlling majority of the airport. If the stadium goes ahead, then that development will dwarf any sole project the North East has ever seen (at £1.2bn, it would cost 50% more than what the 1984 Metro project cost if we adjusted for inflation), and to be honest I can’t see it being beaten unless they come back and do something else. I still think the stadium will be a venue for them to host European editions of things like WWE, Boxing, Taylor Swift style concerts. Newcastle and the North East as a consequence will be the project that enables Saudi Arabia to keep their seat at the table with world leaders once the oil race is over.

He’ll get the summer and such. However if we have no trophy, miss out on CL and possibly European football altogether, then I don’t think he gets to get to December in the position that we were in going into the Leicester match this season. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that. Hopefully on Monday 17th March we are all still celebrating and making excuses to our bosses as to why we aren’t coming in (I’ve already got that day off), and maybe just maybe we have cup doubles, or made a decent end of season effort to get into the Champions League.

With the threat of the ESL hanging over them, UEFA won’t go after anyone.

I see your points, but to me today was one of those crunch games. If we turned up and played like we can, I think we beat a fragile Man City team that they are right now, and with Chelsea losing last night, that would have given us the advantage point so to speak in the fight for the top 4. The fear from the fans is that we do that in the cup final. We are also in a position where I believe anyone left in FA Cup, we should be able to beat if we turn up. I also don’t think our owners will be as patient and others like to think. Even though we haven’t been able to better our squad, I think they will see it as Eddie having had a lack of European games and a better squad overall than the chasing pack to get in to Europe and get 5th place if it results in a Champions League place. I also think from their point of view, they will be very fearful that we could become a Spurs, where we have a squad capable of competing, and are capable of beating anyone, but never do. In my opinion I think if we play as well as we can do, we can beat Liverpool and win the cup. I think we have the potential to be our own greatest enemy.