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Full details, including a fly through video are on the website. Looks fantastic. Great bits about number of local jobs created too, but that's the problem with these foreign owners who just want to make a profit and will sell up when they get bored.

I hear a Dutch company has won the contract to build the college on campus. Hope that does create the maximim number of local jobs or our detractors/green eyes will be on our backs

edit: or maybe that decision was made by the Council?

Alex Sapphire wrote:I hear a Dutch company has won the contract to build the college on campus. Hope that does create the maximim number of local jobs or our detractors/green eyes will be on our backs

edit: or maybe that decision was made by the Council?

BAM construction. Imagine the top brass on site will be their team but site workers and subbies will be local

Blue Since 76 wrote:

Alex Sapphire wrote:I hear a Dutch company has won the contract to build the college on campus. Hope that does create the maximim number of local jobs or our detractors/green eyes will be on our backs

edit: or maybe that decision was made by the Council?

BAM construction. Imagine the top brass on site will be their team but site workers and subbies will be local

I reckon they will Polish.

mr_nool wrote:
I reckon they will Polish.

All the Poles have gone back to Poland. That's how shit the situation is in the UK at the moment

mr_nool wrote:

Blue Since 76 wrote:

Alex Sapphire wrote:I hear a Dutch company has won the contract to build the college on campus. Hope that does create the maximim number of local jobs or our detractors/green eyes will be on our backs

edit: or maybe that decision was made by the Council?

BAM construction. Imagine the top brass on site will be their team but site workers and subbies will be local

I reckon they will Polish.

With any luck they'll do a spot of hoovering as well

Looks brilliant!!

Fidel Castro wrote:

mr_nool wrote:
I reckon they will Polish.

All the Poles have gone back to Poland. That's how shit the situation is in the UK at the moment

They just opened a new, Polish super market close to my house. The Bulgarian one that was there before closed down, though. Don't really know what that says about the financial climate in Holland.

with regards to the work force my understanding from my pal who works for bam is it will be all local workers, he is a project manager for bam and he hopes to be on the job as its local for him (hes a rag by the way)

cjhaz69 wrote:with regards to the work force my understanding from my pal who works for bam is it will be all local workers, he is a project manager for bam and he hopes to be on the job as its local for him (hes a rag by the way)

tell him if he wants to bury a Rag shirt in the foundations for a laugh that's OK




so long as it's got "10 Rooney" on the back.




and Wayne's still wearing it

This is actually 100 times more important than all the shite about spending an extra £10 mil to sign DeRossi. or Javi fucking Martinez.

This, is the main part of 'the project' . (Rumour has it this is only a small percentage of future building development but that is the commercial stuff) this is the priority area on the football side.


This has always been the priority, since the time Khaldoon arrived & went straight to the academy (whilst everyone else was busy wondering who we were going to sign), took it all in, sought advice & then started making changes. At that time we'd get 50 page threads on what Hughes was doing to the academy & how it was all a power struggle with Cassell, whilst neither actually had any power; Khaldoon had it then & has it now.

Now we can cut through the small time bullshit & see the reality of how we are building the best sporting academy in the world.

I've always seen this as the most important thing to happen since the takeover & this is a dream come true for me. It's wonderful to win a title but this is the area where City become a real top club like Barca. It was never a goal or a possibility to go on spending £100m per year on players. We will spend huge money occasionally but in the future (not neccessarily next year as some impatient "oh why don't we just shut it down, we'll never use young players" type knobs seem to expect!!) IN THE FUTURE, this will be the heart of the club.

This will work. They will MAKE it work. It will be fantasic for City, for Manchester & for our (& other's) international team.

Ted Hughes wrote:This is actually 100 times more important than all the shite about spending an extra £10 mil to sign DeRossi. or Javi fucking Martinez.

This, is the main part of 'the project' . (Rumour has it this is only a small percentage of future building development but that is the commercial stuff) this is the priority area on the football side.

This has always been the priority, since the time Khaldoon arrived & went straight to the academy (whilst everyone else was busy wondering who we were going to sign), took it all in, sought advice & then started making changes. At that time we'd get 50 page threads on what Hughes was doing to the academy & how it was all a power struggle with Cassell, whilst neither actually had any power; Khaldoon had it then & has it now.

Now we can cut through the small time bullshit & see the reality of how we are building the best sporting academy in the world.

I've always seen this as the most important thing to happen since the takeover & this is a dream come true for me. It's wonderful to win a title but this is the area where City become a real top club like Barca. It was never a goal or a possibility to go on spending £100m per year on players. We will spend huge money occasionally but in the future (not neccessarily next year as some impatient "oh why don't we just shut it down, we'll never use young players" type knobs seem to expect!!) IN THE FUTURE, this will be the heart of the club.

This will work. They will MAKE it work. It will be fantasic for City, for Manchester & for our (& other's) international team.

Agree with all of that.

Now we're going to see what a real academy is like.

Can't wait for the next inflex of Bradley Wright-Phillips', Stephen Jordans and Joey Bartons lol.

Ted Hughes wrote:This is actually 100 times more important than all the shite about spending an extra £10 mil to sign DeRossi. or Javi fucking Martinez.

This, is the main part of 'the project' . (Rumour has it this is only a small percentage of future building development but that is the commercial stuff) this is the priority area on the football side.


This has always been the priority, since the time Khaldoon arrived & went straight to the academy (whilst everyone else was busy wondering who we were going to sign), took it all in, sought advice & then started making changes. At that time we'd get 50 page threads on what Hughes was doing to the academy & how it was all a power struggle with Cassell, whilst neither actually had any power; Khaldoon had it then & has it now.

Now we can cut through the small time bullshit & see the reality of how we are building the best sporting academy in the world.

I've always seen this as the most important thing to happen since the takeover & this is a dream come true for me. It's wonderful to win a title but this is the area where City become a real top club like Barca. It was never a goal or a possibility to go on spending £100m per year on players. We will spend huge money occasionally but in the future (not neccessarily next year as some impatient "oh why don't we just shut it down, we'll never use young players" type knobs seem to expect!!) IN THE FUTURE, this will be the heart of the club.

This will work. They will MAKE it work. It will be fantasic for City, for Manchester & for our (& other's) international team.

Good work Ted, A+

It will also be good for smaller clubs. 400 odd trainees obviously ain't all going top make with City but many will have had excellent training at our expense, and go on to make a good living elsewhere. For the likes of Stockport, Bury etc this could actually be the difference between going under or not.

The reality of all this thou, won't be assessable for a good 10-15 years anyway so I'll just be smug knowing that we are planning this and concentrate on this season instead.

space for 400 trainees? presumably the club are also funding an expansion at strangeways?

I love that half pitch for keeper training.

That video is complete bollocks. Absolute shitty lying bastards city are. It won't be ANYTHING like that.



It's never that sunny in Manchester.

ashton287 wrote:That video is complete bollocks. Absolute shitty lying bastards city are. It won't be ANYTHING like that.



It's never that sunny in Manchester.

the exact same thought crossed my mind....

cjhaz69 wrote:with regards to the work force my understanding from my pal who works for bam is it will be all local workers, he is a project manager for bam and he hopes to be on the job as its local for him (hes a rag by the way)

It says here...

Remediation of the site over the past year has already created 49 jobs, all of which were recruited within the local community and 34 of which were taken up by the previously long term unemployed. A minimum of 160 further construction jobs will be available for which a minimum 70% local recruitment target has been set.

Additional employment opportunities for local people will arise with the creation of around 95 permanent positions ranging from landscaping, arboriculture and water management to administration, security and site management. Again, a minimum 70% local recruitment target rate has been set.

ashton287 wrote:That video is complete bollocks. Absolute shitty lying bastards city are. It won't be ANYTHING like that.

It's never that sunny in Manchester.

It's part of the works - we're going to spin the world a bit so that Manchester is further south. About where St Tropez is will do for me.