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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/football_league/article6315929.ece

phew - sounds like they're sorted

Yeah, just like Southampton were when they sorted out the financing for their new stadium.

Hmm. Isn't an investment, as the headline calls it, something which won't be withdrawn. A £93m loan, debt free or otherwise, should still be treated with caution as jonny says.

And embarking upon a £93m stadium building project at the moment seems a little carefree.

Still, probably better than renting a £15m 3 sided ground from some cunt.

Jeez is it that much?  Still you seem to be buying up every single half decent conference player at the mo, so you must have something down the back of the sofa!

And also from a Professional Poker player!

Is what that much?

The new chairman has done the business and secured investment (thats the true meaning of "investment" - non-repayable lump sums) for transfer funds. I think he's been schmoozing with the rich folk in the boxes and pursuaded them to stump up some free cash.

We've offloaded about 6/7 players who signed on very favourable terms, ridiculous sums of money, so have plenty of budget freed up which can go towards wages.

Thats going to take quite a few years to pay off.

Maybe even a decade or two. But to be fair, they do need it more than anyone.

The fans down here are more deluded than us lot, they are now talking about premiership and being the biggest team in the south

Presumably London is North then? So bigger than gillingham, southampton, plymouth and portsmouth? I think one of those is achievable.

What league are Gillingham in?

I'll answer that on saturday evening.

Sorry the 15m

Having read up on it some more, why is it being referred to Tony Bloom providing a loan or financing?

What Tony Bloom is actually doing is pissing away £93m. He will never see that money again.

Plus the capacity is only going to be 22k, is that all you get for £93m nowadays?

The stadium at falmer was only given the go ahead on very certain specific recommendations. Its situated on the sussex downs in a national trust park, part of the stadium is going to be dug into the hillside and have a grass camoflauged roof. The architects intial drawings look pretty amazing to be fair.

There should be a stadium planning law which imposes random restrictions on planning permission for stadiums; might force clubs to use a bit more imagination.

They're gonna be mowing the roof? Superb.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/may/19/brighton-cash-injection-tony-bloom

thats the story in a nutshell

http://www.dmhstallard.com/cms/photo/places/a1_Brighton___Hove_Albion_Stadium.jpg

theres the stadium complete with part grass roof

well personally i hope it all goes horribly wrong for them and they end up out of business

Quote of the day....

Will they have sheep grazing on the roof?

That should be written into the planning permission.

I think £15m is the combined cost of the land and construction work.

The actual and current value of the stadium is another issue altogether, though you can bet that Kassam is wanting to recoup all of his original investment if any deal is to be done.

It's a tricky one, hence the 1/2 year timescale for a deal to be thrashed out.

£15m for a 12,000 doesn't seem too bad when Brighton are shelling out £93m for a 22,000.

That's like some kind of wierd inverse economies of scale....diseconomies of scale or something.

The Brighton build costs are £60m, rest are fees / land purchase / consultants etc.

Still a shit load of money for a shit capacity stadium.

The modern football stadium isnt about the capacity. Its about the corporate facilites. Brigthons will be very well if i recall correctly