Manchester United

Drico · March 22, 2025

I can't see this stadium happening...

‘Tax exile’s half-baked scheme’: Jim Ratcliffe challenged over Man Utd plan to use public funds for £2bn stadium project

Club co-owner’s request for hundreds of millions of pounds to help regenerate local area labelled ‘outrageous’ by critics

www.theguardian.com

Pity the Labour MP doesn't turn fire on Andy Burnham, though, who really is talking out of both sides of his mouth on this.

Bryan+ · March 22, 2025

Rita_Poon said:
pensioner and kid ticket concessions scrapped. check

5% season ticket increase announced.

there'll be mutiny there this season yet.

They will 100% have fans on the pitch soon. Isn’t it about £70 to go and see them? Imagine that. A couple of kids you’re talking £300 to watch a Fernandes penalty.

ste d' indica · Sunday at 10:02 AM

Drico said:
Well, one word we will not see associated with this build is "elegant".

Or 'completed'

Dad watched Dixie · Sunday at 10:10 AM

Bryan+ said:
They will 100% have fans on the pitch soon. Isn’t it about £70 to go and see them? Imagine that. A couple of kids you’re talking £300 to watch a Fernandes penalty.

I would pay £300 to see Everton get awarded a penalty!

Bryan+ · Sunday at 11:06 AM

Dad watched Dixie said:
I would pay £300 to see Everton get awarded a penalty!

Depending which ref we get you may be able to have your wish granted for £300

Tipp blue · Sunday at 11:58 AM

Media in full Branthwaite to United mode now.. Why on earth would he want to go there?

Yarrgh · Sunday at 12:18 PM

Drico said:
Nah, they'll swallow it for as long as they swallow the propaganda about being "big". That stadium is "big" - so it appeals to their needy sense of "bigness".

I have never met a fanbase more obsessed with being "the biggest" club in the country. When Liverpool and then we were winning all before us in the 80s, they were still massaging their bigness. Biggest crowds, biggest transfer fees, Big Ron...

Their fans will sell their souls to the red devil if it means they can continue to imagine themselves in the same ball park as Real Madrid, who they don't hold a candle to in terms of greatness.

Bigger scruffs than the rs? I imagine that some scruffs support both declaring loyalty to whoever has the upper hand.