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The stadium cost, by today's rates, over £1bn.
"Wembley Stadium set to be SOLD by FA in astonishing £800m deal"
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The stadium cost, by today's rates, over £1bn.
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A building that big in London for less £1b can’t see it myself.
Spurs must be gutted, no NFL games for them 
Mail jumping the gun as per usual.
Think Spurs already have deals with some NFL clubs.Spurs must be gutted, no NFL games for them
If the Jags relocate it would almost certainly put an end to Spurs getting any further games after their existing arrangement.
If there is a London franchise based in Wembley Stadium there won't be many/any other games coming to London. The market will already have been close to saturated, and the NFL will start to look at other waters for their freshest pit of cash (Germany?)
What? It’s in other places too.
Everything seems to be being sold off in this country, its' quite sad tbh.
IIRC it cost around 750m to build. Plus all the development around the area taken place since must have increased land value massively. Seems on the low side.
Anyway wont it be classed as a listed building. Can they be sold to foreign owners?
Anyway wont it be classed as a listed building. Can they be sold to foreign owners?
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Don't Leyton Orient get a say in this?
Seems pretty low. Built for around 750m and all the work thats going into it.
The supposed structured deal for the sale would be 500m for stadium and 300m for club wembley.
Only thing I can think of is pricing to maintain it is too much for FA esp since it would take until 2054 for the to have paid off the stadium before they see any type of profit.
And yeah, BBC saying an offer has been made
Mail pretty much saying its done...
The supposed structured deal for the sale would be 500m for stadium and 300m for club wembley.
Only thing I can think of is pricing to maintain it is too much for FA esp since it would take until 2054 for the to have paid off the stadium before they see any type of profit.
And yeah, BBC saying an offer has been made
Mail pretty much saying its done...
You don't see the difference between:
The Football Association has received an offer, thought to be worth £800m, to sell Wembley Stadium.
And
Wembley Stadium set to be SOLD by FA in astonishing £800m deal
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At this stage the Mail headline is clearly clickbait in relation to how it is being reported elsewhere.
We should buy it and transport it up to Manchester piece by piece
The national stadium should have been built in Birmingham.
That's if it needed to be built at all. England playing at different stadiums all round the country was much better anyway.
Would this mean semi finals of the FA Cup stop being played at Wembley?
That's if it needed to be built at all. England playing at different stadiums all round the country was much better anyway.
Would this mean semi finals of the FA Cup stop being played at Wembley?
All for this if it means semi finals aren't at Wembley any more
I don’t agree, the national team should have a home and it should be in the capital. The whole nation should have better and more affordable transport to be able to attend though, but that’s another issue.
The new Wembley is a bit soulless though, it was overpriced and under delivered.
I think they should take the deal:
1) Having a national stadium is nothing more than ego and tradition, many other much more successful nations don't have one
2) How many coaches could they train and players could they produce for 800 million? I don't think its outlandish to suggest that this money, if invested properly, could result in tournament wins
3) Many people, once the true cost of Wembley came to light, were of the opinion we shouldn't have bothered and invested the money in the actual game, not bricks and mortar. It was only we were so deep into it we have no choice but to continue. We have the chance now to roll the clock back and for an inflation driven loss of say 100-200 million (its not my money or your money, who really cares)?
So as long as the FA get a clause in the contact to guarantee certain usage (cup finals, England games) for a good duration at a fixed cost, I'd take the deal and focus on the fecking game, not the fecking buildings.
1) Having a national stadium is nothing more than ego and tradition, many other much more successful nations don't have one
2) How many coaches could they train and players could they produce for 800 million? I don't think its outlandish to suggest that this money, if invested properly, could result in tournament wins
3) Many people, once the true cost of Wembley came to light, were of the opinion we shouldn't have bothered and invested the money in the actual game, not bricks and mortar. It was only we were so deep into it we have no choice but to continue. We have the chance now to roll the clock back and for an inflation driven loss of say 100-200 million (its not my money or your money, who really cares)?
So as long as the FA get a clause in the contact to guarantee certain usage (cup finals, England games) for a good duration at a fixed cost, I'd take the deal and focus on the fecking game, not the fecking buildings.
Completely agreed.
What could go wrong? I'm sure prices for cup finals and the like will drop as a result.
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Good deal for the FA I reckon. Will allow them to move smaller games (San Marino,Lithuania etc..) around England to the likes of Nottingham, Leeds, Birmingham etc... and play the bigger games at Wembley a la Germany who play their bigger games in Berlin and the rest of them all around Germany in the likes of Cologne, Nuremberg etc...
Im no brit. But 800m for a landmark british owned pride of the nation stadium sold to foreigner, that big bowl in the heart of capital free to be used as the next owner like... not very good.
800m is alot for the fa but it's pittance in the grand scheme of england.
800m is alot for the fa but it's pittance in the grand scheme of england.
So it’s worth only 4 Neymars
The FA preparing for Brexit
Don't worry you can fly over and use our Aviva Stadium, for a fair fee.
Don't worry you can fly over and use our Aviva Stadium, for a fair fee.That's because our leaders are corrupt. For example, you could sleep with the Prime Minister for 50k, and she'd throw in Boris for free.
It's true Steve lol I'm surprised the Queen hasn't been sold off yet.
The London Jags
Why couldn't Spurs buy it?
Football is dying.
50k? I could do with some extra cash. Not sure I'd want to keep and feed Boris though
If it means FA Cup semi finals away from Wembley again, it'd be a positive.
English not British owned landmark despite I'm sure the Scots, Welsh & Irish all paying towards it.
It's not central London though and it's a bit limited what you can do with it so it's probably a fair value. It's not like buying The Gherkin or the Shard for example.
I can't see why it shouldn't happen there's loads of advantages and no real disadvantages. The stadium will still be there it's just someone else owns it, not particularly fussed what the FA own myself.
She has, she's a floating hotel in Dubai now.
Why? To have it as a training ground? A shed? Or perhaps to house all the trophies?We should buy it and transport it up to Manchester piece by piece
Is this the end of NFL games in Spud turf?