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Funny little turnaround. They didn't want anything to do with us at the start of this season.
One title run later...
Is the single tier Kop the right hand side of the pics - that protrudes further out?
I think it was Chelsea offering them loads of cash and they couldn't be seen to be favouring one team.
for some reason I thought the ground was orientated the other way
180 degrees, not 90 - I should add.
I think of it as the pointy bit is pointing towards central London.
Or like a huge gun aimed towards the emirates
WOAH, for big European ties the option will be available for the full 90,000......
Will it? As I understand it we'll have the bottom two tiers - about 52,000. Where'd you hear this my furry chum?
The Times Article, hold up
Tottenham Hotspur are expected to announce today that they will play their Champions League matches at Wembley next season and use the national stadium as a temporary home while White Hart Lane is rebuilt in the following campaign.
The overall deal could be worth more than £25 million to the FA if Tottenham progress beyond the group stage of Europe’s leading club competition next season.
There is nothing in the contract to prevent Chelsea from also using the venue in 2017-18, but the west London club may not be ready to redevelop their ground in time as they may only receive planning permission for their proposed redevelopment of Stamford Bridge this summer.
Tottenham will use Wembley for Champions League games next season as about 4,000 seats will be removed from a corner of White Hart Lane this summer to help the building work that has started on their new stadium, adjacent to their present home. The club will be limited to playing in front of 50,800 people at Wembley because of local planning constraints, but the deal includes the potential for them to use the full 90,000 capacity should they be drawn against a big European team.
Although Tottenham expect to need to leave their home for one season, there is also understood to be a contingency plan agreed with the FA should their builders overrun and the club need to use Wembley for a longer period.
Spurs will pay £20 million to use the stadium for the 2017-18 campaign, but the governing body may have to bear some of the operational costs.
Tottenham plan to fund their new stadium using a combination of a loan and commercial income. They have agreed a £25 million-a-year deal with Nike to become their shirt manu- facturer from 2017 and are aiming to receive the same sum per season from naming rights of their new ground.
Mauricio Pochettino, the Tottenham manager, has admitted that his financial muscle in the transfer market will be squeezed as a result of the redevelopment and would prefer that the club use spare money to tie down his senior players to better deals.
Pochettino wants to sign only a few players and is expected to lodge an offer for Michy Batshuayi after watching the Marseilles striker play in the French Cup final on Saturday. Batshuayi has scored 17 and made six other league goals this season and is likely to cost upwards of £25 million. His transfer could be partly funded by Tottenham offloading Nacer Chadli, Batshuayi’s Belgium team-mate, who has two years left on his deal. Chadli was mainly used as a substitute at the end of the season and took the blame for a mistake that led to a 1-0 defeat by West Ham United at Upton Park in March.
Always welcome.
People keep saying that, but I think it's bunk.
Does no one else remember when the League was telling us to ground-share with Woolwich instead of renting Wembley?
Vaguely, it didn't come across as particularly serious.
At the time he said it was the logical move. He admitted that it was unlikely to be accepted by either set of fans, but at the time Wembley was steadfastly opposed to splitting the stadium between tenants.
