I think the motivation for wanting the extended lease as a condition of investing in the site is just a more reasonable version of Allam's "you wouldn't build an extension on a council house" stance. Obviously many clubs have done just that, but with a long enough lease to give them security. Sounds like that's what Tan is after.
Angus Young, fine journalist that he is, has written some actual information about the plans which I haven't seen elsewhere:
To be fair, I don't think Acun or Tan have ever mentioned a Sports Village. That was the Allams' term for their plan, which was obviously a lot bigger (and less realistic perhaps). I think it's people lazily using the language of the historic proposals on the same site.
There's been a lot of new information recently, talks of solar panels to help power the stadium, sports village, building up the area and creating jobs etc.. Is this extra to having a new training ground built there with indoor/outdoor pitches etc? Or is it two separate plans..
There's no mention of first team training facilities in the recent releases, it looks like they've been scaled back to just the youth training facilities.
I wouldn't be surprised if there is an indoor training pitch, which I guess could be unutilised by both the first team and academy at times of bad weather.
Im probably wrong but I thought the whole reason for wanting the land around the stadium was to develop it and build a much needed, modern training facility. If what OLM says is true, do we have any idea what the plan is for a new training ground? Also, and im trying not to sound ungrateful here as Acun has been brilliant so far. But if im correct in thinking we could build new training facilities without it affecting FFP... whats stopping us? Ive read countless stories of Acun wanting to spend more on players but he cant due to FFP, thats fine, if you cant, you cant.. But then whats the reason for not spending money on a new training ground.
A lot of kidology going on here by Mariakos,he’s threatening to leave the city ground unless the rent is cheap or he can buy it cheap from a bankrupt council
Spending more on players gets you to the Premier League, which can then fund your new training ground, I doubt he has tens of millions lying around.
The Railway Triangle has high biodiversity value, sand lizards and a plant that doesn't occur anywhere else in VC61 East Riding, blighting the landscape like the Hull University application for solar panels down Snuff Mill Lane ! By law there now has to be a 10 % Bio Net Gain for developments, doubtfull this could be done unless the council and planning committee bent the rules !
Here's hoping. And well played Angus Young for calling it as it was. For me, this disgusting act by the Allams was the tipping point (straw that broke the camels back).
Mark Clemmit visited the Training Ground last week for Football Focus and took the piss a bit saying it wasn't fit for the Premier League, Liam defended it very well saying they all love it because it's a real football environment, it didn't look that bad unless you're an unrealistic tw@t who compares it to facilities at Liverpool or Man City.
