Villa Park Redevelopment

[VillaTim]

The Government should announce that they accept Jim Ratcliffe’s case that there should be a nation stadium for the north, and that it will be in Leeds/Liverpool/Newcastle/Sheffield/Sunderland/Bradford. (Delete as appropriate.)

Delete them all and put Birmingham.

[Richard E]

Birmingham isn’t in the north.

[VillaTim]

Birmingham isn’t in the north.

Says who

[AV82EC]

Birmingham isn’t in the north.

Says who

Anyone with a working knowledge of English Geography.

[Villan82]

Imagine all the speculation they would have avoided by just sticking to the original plan. Or, at the very least, making a clearer statement about why the biggest development in almost 25 years is now not going ahead

[IFWaters]

Birmingham isn’t in the north.

Says who

Anyone with a working knowledge of English Geography.

Its in the midlands, the invisible bit between the home counties and Cheshire.

[VillaTim]

Birmingham isn’t in the north.

Says who

Anyone with a working knowledge of English Geography.

And Anyone with a working knowledge of English politics will know how that works too. The HS2 Northern terminus is Birmingham Interchange, an ideal location for a Northern Wembley.
(This will be a political decision nothing to do with geography. The ManUre / Radcliffe Tory element worries me but the Tories will be gone later this year, just prey they don't shoehorn it in before they go).

[Chap]

It’s north of Watford, surely that qualifies?

[Brazilian Villain]

(This will be a political decision nothing to do with geography. The ManUre / Radcliffe Tory element worries me but the Tories will be gone later this year, just prey they don't shoehorn it in before they go).

Just make sure you keep an eagle eye on any developments

[pablo_picasso]

Are our owners worth more than Radcliffe? I do hope so.

Depends if you include Comcast, who through Atairos own 20%, and are worth around $200 billion. They also own Sky and it’s about time they put some editorial pressure on their football coverage IMO.

They own that much?

Christ...

I did not know they had purchased so much of the club.

Sawiris & Edens are worth a combined £10.4 billion, which places the owners in the top 7 wealthiest in the world in 2024.

Its hard to get that info from these "wealthy owner lists" floating about the internet though because they either just completely ignore us, or just go for Sawiris on his own.

If Comcast own 20% & their value is £185 billion, & adding the £10.4 billion on Sawiris & Edens, then that places all of our owners as 2nd wealthiest in the world behind Jawdi Arabia.

Obviously its not as simple as that & Im not naive enough to think that those numbers mean that Villa are that wealthy, but if we are going on our owners wealth, like the media do with Newcastle, ManC, ManU, Chelsea, etc, they our owners numbers are 2nd in the world.

Be nice if Comcast did exert some pressure on Sky to do their job properly as far as we are concerned though & not just always focus on the media & marketing favourite clubs...

[Sexual Ealing]

I'd imagine Sky's owners would want them to be as profitable as possible, rather than as fair and impartial as possible.

[tomd2103]

Birmingham isn’t in the north.

Says who

Anyone with a working knowledge of English Geography.

Its in the midlands, the invisible bit between the home counties and Cheshire.

Annoys me when northerners call us "southerners" and southerners call us "northerners".  Can't help myself telling them.that there is an area right in the middle of the  country called the Midlands and we are therefore "Midlanders".

[pablo_picasso]

I'd imagine Sky's owners would want them to be as profitable as possible, rather than as fair and impartial as possible.

I would imagine they would want to protect & grow their 20% investment in Villa too, but yeah, they will most likely go for the glory hunter numbers rather than impartiality.

[algy]

The national stadium of the north is Wembley, surely?

[waynejames]

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