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by **Redrider** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:48 pm

kazza wrote:One problem with that argument..... WE ARE A MUCH BIGGER CLUB THAN THEM!!!

The reason why we are Bigger Club, is that we have always made the team a priority, making sure that we have won championships and cups.
Expenditure on the ground has always followed on from our success as a secondary feature.

by **kenco** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:39 pm

the only sensable course at the moment would be to spend on the squad, if you look on recent games in the champions league, [even], it's been difficult to fill the ground.theres only so much the average working man can take, what with ticket prices these days and two games a week, the wage packet just dosen't spreed to it!. football is fashionable at the moment but what happens when the corprate side the money making side of football pulls out, which it will in time. then every top club will be deep in the sh*t.

by **Woollyback** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:55 pm

It's all rhetorical anyway, the club will have planned financially for the new stadium a long time ago. Those plans will have included a new ground PLUS money for new players and I can't see anything changing that now.

Good question though, not really sure which I'd choose if I had to. I keep thinking that more and more sides across Europe are getting huge grounds so we need to be one of them if we are going to attract world class players. Or at least it would HELP us attract the big names

by **Redrider** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:28 am

I don't think the £22m loss was planned. The finances are currently up the spout, due to Houllier pay-offs and profligacy in his sterwardship.
We cannot move on a new ground with a big debt and a team that needs money for strengthening.

by **Woollyback** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:13 am

Redrider wrote:I don't think the £22m loss was planned. The finances are currently up the spout, due to Houllier pay-offs and profligacy in his sterwardship.
We cannot move on a new ground with a big debt and a team that needs money for strengthening.

Hence the reason Moores & Parry seem like they're finally gonna open the doors to some outside investment

by **andy_g** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:24 pm

all the statistics at the moment are pointing to quickly falling crowds at most football grounds, especially in the premiership but in the lower leagues aswell. many people blame the saturation of football on TV and high costs of tickets, especially for away fans.

so maybe this isn't the best time to be spending a fortune on a bigger new ground, its a gamble that may not pay off with people filling the extra 20000 seats and paying for the place. of course, there's the option of dropping ticket prices to get people in but i don't think any club would be brave enough to do that right now.

by **Starbridge42** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 3:22 pm

While i would love to see us bring in an extra 15000-20000 fans a game it seems hard enough to fill the stadium as it is. How many showed up against portsmouth? 30-something thousand is what i hear, thats a good 15000 shy of full capacity and thats not good enough to be talking about expanding. When like Man U we can draw 60000+ (the get even more) thats when we should expand.

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