Tottenham Hotspur

[Buzzo]

The cost of Chelsea's development is also heading north of £1B and there's still no start date in sight.

Imagine what costs will end up at if it is STARTING at over £1bn.

Its always the same with trades, double the cost and takes twice as long...

[PTP]

In the expansion/new build debate, I think I voted for a new stadium.

Was thinking about it after the City game and was glad we didn't.

Hindsight is a beautiful thing. A new stadium seems like an amazing option, but on the face of it other than revenue what else does it bring you, particularly if it leaves you saddled wit a massive debt to service. If we can get up to 60k by overhauling the main stand and the anfield road end for a fraction of the cost, then we have definitely made the right decision.

I was the same - was desperate for a new stadium and thought it was vital.

However, having seen first hand, prob more than most people (Ie a normal member of the public) how good the improvements have been and how well it's been implemented I think £ for £ we defo made the right choice....

I base it on being involved in quoting for the fire alarm install so managed to get hold of plans/attend site surveys of the ground throughout the build, also a mate worked on the lighting and cctv so I visited a few times with him, I've had business networking in the boardroom, I've been in 3x of the many different executive boxes and to top it off my season ticket was in the old main stand for about years and then I moved up into the new stand when it first opened.


Anfield, in my opinion, has completely transformed. I know people still moan about the atmosphere at times and it can be ****ing dire but I think this is a league wide issue, not just a Liverpool one (also, since we've had a good run in Europe the atmosphere has been much better- funny that )

but the whole area is so much better - the new club shop, the concourse by the kop/clubshop where they have a big stage and live acts on before the game and a big screen showing highlights or whatever - all the street food outlets, the area where the coaches go in, just the site of the main stand, then even the fan park at the anfield road and then going up to the top tier of the main stand, where you can get a beer and burger with no fuss and it feels so much cleaner/spacious and fresh but still bouncing with activity - I never used to bother going for a pint in the old main stand - now, about four or five us take it in turns throughout the season at we go for a pint every half time!

With the hotel complex thing to come and plans for the Annie Road to be modernised we've defo made the right choice

only thing i'd change/add would be some sort of underground tube station to improve match day access from the city centre but appreciate it's probably not feasible

[The_weatherman]

Well that IS good news, seems FSG are doing things the smart way. There is no way Spurs can keep their players AND their wage structure, Alli, Kane and Eriksen will be looking at ways out over the next seasons.

[Shaggy]

Be great if he leaves

[ame]https://twitter.com/MailSport/status/996148209021079554[/ame]

[Buzzo]

Seems as though he is looking to move on.

Though 100 mil ain’t much of a war chest in 2018.

[BigChief]

Selling Kane would quick-fix a shed load of their financial issues at the drop of a hat. Would introduce others obviously, like goals, but a good scoring department and manager would remedy that reasonably quickly.

[red g]

just a short list of countries that didn’t exist when spurs last won the league.

June 19, 1961 - Kuwait
January 1, 1962 - Samoa
July 1, 1962 - Burundi
July 1, 1962 - Rwanda
July 5, 1962 - Algeria
August 6, 1962 - Jamaica
August 31, 1962 - Trinidad and Tobago
October 9, 1962 - Uganda
December 12, 1963 - Kenya
April 26, 1964 - Tanzania
July 6, 1964 - Malawi
Sept.21, 1964 - Malta
October 24, 1964 - Zambia
February 18, 1965 - Gambia, The
July 26, 1965 - Maldives
August 9, 1965 - Singapore
May 26, 1966 - Guyana
September 30, 1966 - Botswana
October 4, 1966 - Lesotho
November 30, 1966 - Barbados
January 31, 1968 - Nauru
March 12, 1968 - Mauritius
Sept. 6, 1968 - Swaziland
October 12, 1968 - Equatorial
June 4, 1970 - Tonga
October 10, 1970 - Fiji
March 26, 1971 - Bangladesh
August 15, 1971 - Bahrain
Sept. 3, 1971 - Qatar
November 2, 1971 - United Arab Emirates
July 10, 1973 - Bahamas
Sept. 24, 1973 - Guinea-Bissau
February 7, 1974 - Grenada
June 25, 1975 - Mozambique
July 5, 1975 - Cape Verde
July 6, 1975 - Comoros
July 12, 1975 - Sao Tome and Principe
Sept. 16, 1975 - Papua New Guinea
November 11, 1975 - Angola
November 25, 1975 - Suriname
June 29, 1976 - Seychelles
June 27, 1977 - Djibouti
July 7, 1978 - Solomon Islands
October 1, 1978 - Tuvalu
November 3, 1978 - Dominica
February 22, 1979 - Saint Lucia
July 12, 1979 - Kiribati
October 27, 1979 - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
April 18, 1980 - Zimbabwe
July 30, 1980 - Vanuatu
January 11, 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda
Sept.21, 1981 - Belize
Sept. 19, 1983 - Saint Kitts and Nevis
January 1, 1984 - Brunei
October 21, 1986 - Marshall Islands
November 3, 1986 - Micronesia, Federated States of
March 11, 1990 - Lithuania
March 21, 1990 - Namibia
May 22, 1990 - Yemen
April 9, 1991 - Georgia
June 25, 1991 - Croatia
June 25, 1991 - Slovenia
August 21, 1991 - Kyrgyzstan
August 24, 1991 - Russia
August 25, 1991 - Belarus
August 27, 1991 - Moldova
August 30, 1991 - Azerbaijan
Sept. 1, 1991 - Uzbekistan
Sept. 6, 1991 - Latvia
Sept. 8, 1991 - Macedonia
Sept. 9, 1991 - Tajikistan
Sept. 21, 1991 - Armenia
October 27, 1991 - Turkmenistan
November 24, 1991 - Ukraine
December 16, 1991 - Kazakhstan
March 3, 1992 - Bosnia and Herzegovina
January 1, 1993 - Czech Republic
January 1, 1993 - Slovakia
May 24, 1993 - Eritrea
October 1, 1994 - Palau
May 20, 2002 - East Timor
June 3, 2006 - Montenegro
June 5, 2006 - Serbia
February 17, 2008 - Kosovo
July 9, 2011 - South Sudan

[Alex]

demands a £100m war chest

War Chest

[Scratch]

Red g, not sure about your list there...where did you get it from?

[red g]

Red g, not sure about your list there...where did you get it from?

A mate of mine sent it, no idea of source!

[Tatterdemalion]

I was the same - was desperate for a new stadium and thought it was vital.

However, having seen first hand, prob more than most people (Ie a normal member of the public) how good the improvements have been and how well it's been implemented I think £ for £ we defo made the right choice....

I base it on being involved in quoting for the fire alarm install so managed to get hold of plans/attend site surveys of the ground throughout the build, also a mate worked on the lighting and cctv so I visited a few times with him, I've had business networking in the boardroom, I've been in 3x of the many different executive boxes and to top it off my season ticket was in the old main stand for about years and then I moved up into the new stand when it first opened.


Anfield, in my opinion, has completely transformed. I know people still moan about the atmosphere at times and it can be ****ing dire but I think this is a league wide issue, not just a Liverpool one (also, since we've had a good run in Europe the atmosphere has been much better- funny that )

but the whole area is so much better - the new club shop, the concourse by the kop/clubshop where they have a big stage and live acts on before the game and a big screen showing highlights or whatever - all the street food outlets, the area where the coaches go in, just the site of the main stand, then even the fan park at the anfield road and then going up to the top tier of the main stand, where you can get a beer and burger with no fuss and it feels so much cleaner/spacious and fresh but still bouncing with activity - I never used to bother going for a pint in the old main stand - now, about four or five us take it in turns throughout the season at we go for a pint every half time!

With the hotel complex thing to come and plans for the Annie Road to be modernised we've defo made the right choice

only thing i'd change/add would be some sort of underground tube station to improve match day access from the city centre but appreciate it's probably not feasible

I'm glad we stayed at Anfield, but my mind casts back to the early-mid 1990s when Parry baulked at the cost of a new stadium because he thought steel prices were too high (because of excessive demand from China..lol) = £200m as I recall.

[dom9]

I'm glad we stayed at Anfield, but my mind casts back to the early-mid 1990s when Parry baulked at the cost of a new stadium because he thought steel prices were too high (because of excessive demand from China..lol) = £200m as I recall.

What's that in today's terms? £400m or so? For a pretty bland generic stadium that would already be out of date in terms of facilities.

[Kenneth]

It wasn't quite that long ago. Was being proposed in the early 2000, planning submitted in late 2003. Probably would have cost under £200m in today's terms and would have been paying towards itself for the last 12 years and be due to be paid off in 2021, with 60k seats and corporate facilities. With the increase in revenues since, we would probably have already paid it off and own a 60k stadium. A boring 60k stadium but might have been a good position to be in.

[kev776]

Pocos had a net spend of about 40m - hmmmmm sounds familiar.

[Kenneth]

Sure, he's riding on the back of a good crop of youngsters, and he's done very well with them. But unless they have another load 'knocking on the door' then is it sustainable?