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And retreating like an Italian tank in WW2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70zy5w983go https://news.sky.com/story/trump-100-days-executive-orders-tariffs-stock-markets-trade-war-latest-live-13209921 The amount of lies here is astonishing. The DNC is a disgrace though and should be mobilising ahead of the mid-terms. Instead they are AWOL, even if Trump and MAGA are doing a fab job of sinking themselves https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98gv43pjjno

Mind you, Jeffrey Archer would’ve been more of a threat to defences than Cameron’s been.

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A non-Melania one (allegedly).

This area needs further research, it’s a real gap at the moment. Would have a lot of benefits if done well.

St James Park for all-northern games even pre-renovation let alone post. Villa once North Stand expanded/renovated, Brum’s new stadium if they build it.

It does look a bit lopsided with the existing smaller lower tier and widened and higher upper, but still a big improvement on what is there now having been in that stand when the lower tier housed away fans https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2025/april/24/aston-villa-announce-redevelopment-of-the-iconic-north-stand/ Leeds have plans for a second tier on the Revie End but I suspect that’s subject to survival next season and a prolonged PL stay. Hillsborough by comparison has had virtually nothing spent on it since the main stand renovation for Euro 96. In the 1970s it was miles better than most Division One grounds despite Sheff Weds languishing in the second and third divisions. The Leppings Lane was a problem by the 1980s but poor policing played its part too as other SF venues eg White Hart Lane, Highbury, had ends that were dangerous.

Having been there to watch Saints, it’s still got the bones of a major stadium, tunnel for the coaches under the main stand etc. North Stand a stunner of it’s era. But the away end is monsterously dated, dangerous and basic, even without its chequered history, pure 1970s with asbestos roof, Kop has pillars in it and the blocked off corners. It would need £100m spending minimum to renovate it to that standard for SFs/Euro matches. In the 1990s, it and Villa Park were peers and the latter could still host a cup semi once the old North Stand is replaced and capacity up to 50k. That’s what 20 years plus in the second and third tier wilderness does.

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/dragan-solaks-stance-southampton-sale-emerges-big-simon-jordan-claim/ At the moment, probably better with SR even with their flaws.

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There’s the song the team come out to sorted. Although ‘we’re going to score one more than you’ is rather fanciful.

Added to that the peer review and Director’s panel decisions, whilst supposed to be faster, may have taken months, and may even have happened under the last government as well.

Not to mention a manager and new DoF too. Shits on the fans after such an appalling season. I hope for Dragan’s sakes a sale happens quickly or start the season well because if neither happens there won’t be a repeat of the mindless happy clapping at Spurs.

Sorry to MLG you but having read further, it is the whole funding body, established by Dominic Cummings as a more high risk, high reward funder along the lines of DARPA in the US, which has a budget of £800m, not that project or programme. This particular programme, one of their biggest, could be up to £50m in value but probably won’t be in practice. Some of the other programmes are here including Programmeable Plants are here https://www.aria.org.uk and https://www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-spaces/programmable-plants/programmable-plants I much prefer the plants and other programmes and don’t like the sun dimming project. But the whole point of ARIA was to be different and risky so we understand more in the future if we do need to use those methods. Not saying it’s my cup of tea but it’s meant to be more edgy and have commercial applications.

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There is much truth in this, however it wasn’t long ago Dragan was on there being interviewed by Jim White who he is apparently friendly with. Would have taken White seconds to rebut Jordan with ‘news to me or not heard anything about that’. He didn’t. Doesn’t mean the club is actively up for sale but might mean Dragan will want to oversee another promotion but recognise that to undo the sheer scale of Rasmus’s ineptitude plus compete at the PL level as we traditionally have will cost more than he’s prepared to gamble. So for anyone to kick the tyres more firmly, £125m opens the door to discuss further.

I see the Canadian election interference is working out well for him….not https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ylzkzxkndo It is set to be close, but it wasn’t anywhere near close pre-Trump with the Liberals set to be on the wrong end of a landslide.

Or @LeG

If Spors gets the opportunity. My sense is that most clubs are available if the owner’s price is matched, excluding the Bundesliga which has a different culture. But the optics are poor on the Jordan comments which haven’t come from thin air sans a manager, pending a total squad rebuild and the DoFs feet barely under the table. Not to mention a diabolical season.

Interesting piece - Bessant and Kellogg at the moment as the adults in the administration seem to be having more input over the morons like Navarro https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g45zp77y5o

Agree with much of that although Goztepe would never had access to those players without SFC. And SFC was his answer to losing the PL rights in Serbia. He has brought Spors in as well. My sense, not ITK, is there was a tyre kick or two, Solak’s said via TalkSPORT backed up by the Echo and BBC Solent when asked ‘that’s the price’. Nothing in the commercial world is not never for sale.

Get the club promoted again though first, better price, unless he’s got buyers sniffing who reckon they can both buy the club and invest to grow in the PL to promote whatever their mission is?

Given how interlinked the three clubs are, one can only assume that they are also up for sale? And worth a lot less in Goztepe’s and Valenciennes case without the joint scouting and management systems? Rasmus will be out of work and his brother - wonder if he’s fallen out with Solak and Dragan went ‘fuck it, this Rasmus’s pet empire. I want to sack the prick but can’t be arsed to do it solo’?

This is what I thought. Effectively they’d be up for sale too. Far easier to sack Rasmus like he did with Kraft.

Those of you who missed the League 1 days are in for a treat then. Nice of the club to give the new manager the final say.