News about our new stadium.

[Neil Young]

100,000 is 20% more than 80,000.

Never can a post and a sig been so well aligned

Are you going to tell him or shall I?

[Kloppster]

25%

[tomasjj]

Never can a post and a sig been so well aligned

dom means 'stupid' in Norwegian.

[Craig_H]

100,000 is 20% more than 80,000.

No it isnt.

100,000 is 20,000 bigger than 80,000.

20,000 is 25% of 80,000.

[Craig_H]

Have heard they can up to 92K.

But let's face it DJS, 80k is a lot better than 61

Yeah of course mate.

If it's gonna take 5 years though, it wont achieve the objective of competing with United's matchday related revenues though.

[Neil Young]

No it isnt.

100,000 is 20,000 bigger than 80,000.

20,000 is 25% of 80,000.

No, 80,000 is 20% smaller than 100,000. 100,000 is 25% larger than 80,000.

In each case the second figure is the base for the percentage.

[Craig_H]

Never can a post and a sig been so well aligned

[Craig_H]

but eth also has a valid point, G & T will want to give the fans the best he can give them, and is very interested in fan comfort. He wants the best possible stadium for the fans and everything they want in it.

I'm sure they do. But they're businessmen.

They'll do whatever they feel will generate the most revenue. Obviously keeping fans happy and comfortable will be a part of that, but their priority will always be the revenues.

[Craig_H]

No, 80,000 is 20% smaller than 100,000. 100,000 is 25% larger than 80,000.

In each case the second figure is the base for the percentage.

We're being pedantic now...

100,000 is 25% bigger than 80,000, meaning that if they're at 100k and we're at 80k, their ground will be 25% bigger than ours...which is what i said.

[Neil Young]

We're being pedantic now...

100,000 is 25% bigger than 80,000, meaning that if they're at 100k and we're at 80k, their ground will be 25% bigger than ours...which is what i said.

Actually, at risk of being pedantic, I think we've been pedantic for some time but I can see we're basically agreed on the important matters (i.e. the percentages).

[sonsofthedesert]

Depends, doesnt it?

We're doing this so we can compete with United, in terms of matchday revenues.

By 2012, they might have expanded their ground to 100,000.

So by then, 80,000 will still mean we're playing catchup.

Didn't Gillett say they were looking at the Arsenal figures and they are the ones to match. Arsenal make more on match days than the Scum with only 60,000 capacity. It is how you do it all. If we got 80,000 and then put a good amount of boxes in we would make more. I am confident we will make more than the scum on match days.

[Craig_H]

Didn't Gillett say they were looking at the Arsenal figures and they are the ones to match. Arsenal make more on match days than the Scum with only 60,000 capacity. It is how you do it all. If we got 80,000 and then put a good amount of boxes in we would make more. I am confident we will make more than the scum on match days.

I'm not sure if Arsenal do make more than United per matchday, i've not seen any figures.

Obviously corporate hospitality would be a big thing, but then you're taking seats away from the real fans.

Bit of a catch 22.

[sonsofthedesert]

I'm not sure if Arsenal do make more than United per matchday, i've not seen any figures.

Obviously corporate hospitality would be a big thing, but then you're taking seats away from the real fans.

Bit of a catch 22.

Yeah but not many seats, take 1000 seats away from your average fans in an 80,000 capacity isn't a big deal. These seats pay a LOT more than us mere mortals.

[dom9]

Never can a post and a sig been so well aligned

[memzey]

Arsenal's stadium generates more match day revenue than any other soccer stadium in Europe, or does according to David Dein (a few months back) anyway.