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coys200

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Love to know real reason khan pulled out. Hard to believe he backtracked on a £600m deal, knowing he would have won the vote next week because it didn’t sit right on his conscience.
 

L-man

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its probably really irrational, but its realli irritating me how slow the cladding is taking to install?
Why? Clearly cladding is just an aesthetic feature. I’d rather them focus on the critical path to get the stadium open
 

Coq_Au_Ginge

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Get out the bleeding way man...
 

dondo

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I have no doubt that work will continue on the stadium well into next season, but that has no bearing on whether the team will be playing matches there or not. I think the plan was always to have the stadium match ready by Sept 15, but not finished for a while after that.


Yes I agree with that but the extra men are needed to get the stadium ready for us to open it. Once the stadium is open there will be mass lay offs not taking more on
 

whitesocks

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At the start of the month I posted this:-

Lighty64 responded with this:-


Grass - check
white lines - check
Goalposts - check
Nets - check

Nearly there Lighty':)
If only the Mace project managers were as organised as you, the stadium would have been complete months ago.
 

markiespurs

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Love to know real reason khan pulled out. Hard to believe he backtracked on a £600m deal, knowing he would have won the vote next week because it didn’t sit right on his conscience.

Have it on good authority that the reason Khan pulled out was because after last weeks FA meeting he would have struggled to get support from the FA council.
 

worcestersauce

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I heard Simon Jordan on talksport when all this first broke and he was so set against it based on the fact that after finally paying off all the debt Wembley was finally in a position of making some real money, I suspect Khan reckonrd that too, maybe the message finally got through to the FA, the collapse of the deal is certainly beneficial to us though, the home of NFL in England.
 

coys200

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Have it on good authority that the reason Khan pulled out was because after last weeks FA meeting he would have struggled to get support from the FA council.

It’s not what is being reported. Being said he would have won the vote with 65%. But he felt that wasnt conclusive enough for his peace of mind. Which I take to be utter nonsense. This was only ever a business deal, don’t tell me he was doing it for the good of grass roots football. He was doing it for his own pocket. Which is why a true business man wouldnt care if he won it by 51%.
 

mil1lion

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The stadium buy was never for fulham
I know that but if he intended to use Wembley for NFL then maybe a revamped Craven Cottage to host NFL games is in his plans instead. They were never going to fill Wembley anyway so a 30k stadium is probably more realistic. Either way ours is much more suited to NFL so I'm sure we'll benefit from that franchise as planned. Even better now we're not likely to compete with Wembley.
 

buckley

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I read today that the whole thing was being investigated by some official body and that corruption was suspected.Well who would have thought of that and the idea that the money would generate over £70 million a year is just the stuff of fairy tales.
I believe that the palms mrKhan greased were not enough to persuade those who hadn't had the benefit of graft
 

Gb160

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Have it on good authority that the reason Khan pulled out was because after last weeks FA meeting he would have struggled to get support from the FA council.
Comes as no surprise...can't imagine a load of old FA gammons would happily vote to sell the national stadium to a foreign bloke called Khan.
 

coys200

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May 22, 2017
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I read today that the whole thing was being investigated by some official body and that corruption was suspected.Well who would have thought of that and the idea that the money would generate over £70 million a year is just the stuff of fairy tales.
I believe that the palms mrKhan greased were not enough to persuade those who hadn't had the benefit of graft

Also read he was using it much like Levy used London stadium as leverage with Jacksonville city for funding. I’ve no idea how the FA council is made up. But I’d imagine other PL clubs must be terrified at the thought of Spurs getting a London NFL franchise. It would be huge for the club on so many levels. So i’d imagine other clubs would have done anything they possibly could to throw a spanner in our NFL aspirations. Which makes khan pulling out now all the more weirder.
 
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