Matthew Le God

Walker-Peters was offered a deal new, but rejected it. He'll get big wages to join a PL club.

I listed three, not two. I'd also question your points on the first two.

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Rasmus Ankersen at a council meeting...

Sounds like a fever dream, but yes that did happen!

I have no idea. Might not even be any. Beyond an unknown amount for a capacity expansion, what the rest of the plans are is unknown.

Some significant differences between this and what Cortese did in 2012! 1) Cortese was not the owner or financial backer... Solak is. 2) Cortese and the city council did not release they had a MOU, like we had in December 2024 under Solak.

Thank you for proving I did not say "shopping centres" or "loads of shops". Plus you didn't post all my suggestions.

I haven't said anything remotely close to that. Plus in any case, we don't fully know what the 'idea' is apart from an ambition for an unknown amount of extra seats, plus some kind of wider development beyond the stadium.

I think a lot of PL clubs would like him if he wanted a return to England. He'd also be quite expensive. He is on the fringes of their first team.

Why would he rejoin? We are in a worse situation now than when he left.

I did not say they did. It is irrelevant to the point I was making that developments are catalysts for further development. Fallacy after fallacy from some people on here!

You now quoting people misrepresenting what I've said, does not help. That one was from the King of Fallacies himself.

Stop mispresenting what I've said would help you.

I did not say shopping centres. Nor did I say loads of shops.

I didn't say they'd use that land.

See my previous answer

1) When did I say shops would be the main addition? (I didn't) 2) What do you think the "hundreds of millions" is allocated for? Because it doesn't take hundreds of millions to increase the Kingsland. 3) Are you denying developments can act as catalysts? And a snowball effect of development can occur?

Man City's and West Ham's stadiums are catalysts for development in the surrounding areas. Birmingham City are planning for that as well.

No one in this thread has said that.

Those things would be removed to make way for it, so they wouldn't detract from it as it is replacing them. Plus I doubt shops would be the key focus.

I doubt anything will be happening to those areas any time soon. But large scale developments act as catalysts for further development in an area in future years.

The development in part would be to change that perception through gentrification of the surrounding area

Moving to a club in the same division doesn't automatically mean a "sideways move". Was van Dijk moving from Saints to Liverpool a "sideways move"? Saints should have a much better chance of being towards the top of the league and chance if promotion than Norwich. Much bigger income and a better squad, like Liverpool had over Saints for van Dijk.

The "hundreds of millions" Dragan Solak is talking about spending is not only on increased capacity of the stadium. It is about increasing revenue from non football things throughout the year with things that aren't affected by TV revenue fluctuations or relegations. I'd guess things like hotels, shops, restaurants, offices, accommodation and maybe an indoor arena/conference hall. Those are the types of things we saw in Cortese's AFL architect plans in 2012. They all generate revenue throughout the year to pay back loans, regardless of if we are in the Premier League or Championship. "Hundreds of millions" wouldn't be needed for a 6k expansion of the Kingsland for example. This is more grand and ambitious than just that.