It would be interesting to know if we can use profits from NFL towards the team, and rents from the Northumberland development.
Tucked up our sleeve we have.... the profit from the proposed housing development behind the South Stand; the hotel development or an alternative usage; the sports centre; the land at The Goods Yard or the profit from the development thereon. There's got to be around £150m in there, minimum. Plus, there's the stadium sponsorship money. Say we get a very conservative £20m per year (given that we're looking at sponsors for individual bits of the stadium - the retractable pitch, South Stand, Goal Line Bar, etc., etc. that should be the absolute minimum) then we'd pay off another £300m over 15 years. That's £450m of £637m paid off with minimum pain. That leaves £187m plus interest or about approximately £20-25m p.a. over 15 years. That seems pretty minimal to me in the circumstances.
Is it time our owner retired to an allotment and grew rhubarb and forget football,which he may already have done!?
Philip Parris Lynott was born on 20th August 1949 in West Bromwich, near Birmingham. The son of Philomena Lynott, a white Irish Catholic and Cecil Parris from Brazil, Phil was initially brought up in Moss Side, Manchester and moved to Ireland whilst still at school. He lived in Crumlin, Dublin with his grandparents so he doesn't even really count as irish he was a brummie!