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It's for TV in case they'd have nowt to play for.

Not for opening days. Arsenal played Man City in 2018, Man Utd played Chelsea in 2019, Spurs played Man City in 2021. Final days that does still seem to be the case nowadays.

Luton have to be away so almost certainly bollocks.

They also suggest Luton are at home but don't they have to be away due to improvements being made to their ground?

Arsenal's online fans are massive AIDS. They were all over every single NUFC related post like rats after both games against us this season. Both fan and club stuff on Twitter but also our players on Insta; can have a look for yourself. I'd be astonished if it was our lot tbh.

Has Whitley mag vanished now after he hilariously outed himself as a huge Tory? Probably doesn't want to mix with us looney lefties anymore.

Bit hypocritical posting in this thread now myself but only want to see this thread bumped if it's news that he's either bankrupt or deed.

Us finally signing a German player this century?

Heard it very briefly when the players were applauding the away end at Forest. Needs to be sung more but anything more than 2 lines seems to be beyond our lot.

Only ever thought it was going to be 3-4 signings tbh and I'll be very happy with that. A lite overhaul was never going to happen. Mentioned before about the similarities between our playstyle and trajectory between ourselves and early Klopp Liverpool; after they finished 4th in 2016-17 they only made 4 summer signings: Salah, Robertson, Oxlade-Chamberlain and Solanke. Van Dijk came in the January window. Similar will happen to us imo.

There any sign of the font we're using for player names and numbers for the CL?

More than the press persistently claim.

The press have a geet obsession with 'budgets' every transfer window which end up being bollocks every time.

The home kit for next season isn't going to be able to have stripes on the back is it? In the CL anyway. Think UEFA rules dictate it.

Fully agree. Original grounds are some of the remaining fragments of English football's soul in the PL era imo and I'm quite proud that we still play at ours. Didn't really notice how proud I was until we took my granda to the Man Utd game back in April. Got thinking that's the exact same patch of grass that he watched Len White and Bobby Mitchell for us on. Don't think that feeling can be replicated at a new ground, will take generations at least. It just needs some love that it's missed for the better part of 20 years. And some extra seats if it can be managed.

West Ham v Brighton could be a latter stage Europa League tie next season. Fair play to both.

Honestly think if Liverpool are arsed about it then the EL is theirs next season.

Savage, fucking hell. Hope the gantry spontaneously combusts.

Been dross, this.

Robbie Savage is fucking repulsive. Hope he encounters angry Fiorentina ultras on the way out the ground.

People are wanting a new ground built in what is currently a green space in Leazes Park. Obviously wouldn't be as pricey as reclaiming a dock but work would still have to be done there. Fairs, you clearly know what you're talking about. Just don't want to see us move from SJP. St James metro station is anyway pretty grubby and I imagine hardly ever used. People tend to get off on matchday at Monument, Haymarket and Central I believe? For a drink/scran in town before heading up. Only issue is it's the yellow line's terminus so if St James station was to close you'd have to make changes to Monument station which is extra cost. And I imagine there's no way the station could incorporated into the expansion to some degree?

My dad's had his extended so just going off that.

I find it hard to believe that expanding the Gallowgate would come to close to costing anything near what a new 65,000 capacity ground would cost. Spurs' ground has cost £1 billion, Everton's is ~£500m, the Emirates cost £390m almost 20 years ago.

According this article I found on .com they took out a £42m loan for it in 1997 and turfed out bond holders in the Milburn for new corporate areas. Spurs' new ground cost £1bn. You'd think a new ground up here would be cheaper as opposed to in London, but expansion would almost certainly be cheaper you'd think. FWIW, Anfield's extension at the Anfield Road End for an extra 7,000 seats is costing them ~£60m.

They've frozen the prices again I think? Those on that original 10 year deal have had that extended again so I imagine prices won't go up. Also given they only issued 1000 STs in the summer, they probably won't issue new STs until they extend the ground imo. I hope they don't anyway given there's no way I can afford one right now.