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Any truth in the rumour that he was quoted as saying afterwards "the deal was agreed a while ago, but I felt it necessary to wait until BigAl started the summer 2023 transfer thread on DonsTalk before announcing the signing of it" ?

All that appears to have happened is the council have changed their wording to "possible stadium", which seems a fair thing to say. Quite happy not to be part of anything to do with the council though. They have shown consistently they can't be trusted, no matter which party is in charge. Of course Kingsford & rebuilding Pittodrie are both beset with issues, so does leave us a bit of an issue. Is the old Hilton Hotel site definitely not doable? Either way, I think the £80m price tag still remains the biggest sticking point.

Bored of this now. 20years ago while at uni there were 'masterplans' which included trams and modifications to the beach which included new stadium. A big difference was fancy 3D computer images weren't as quick or cheap to produce plus social media was basically 'myspace' and 'friends-reinited' so news articles were fairly dull and wordy and didnt get much traction. Modified Pittodrie with smaller capacity seems to be the future. Start putting more effort into the rail seating campaign in the hope it can be installed behind both goals and authorities allow for increased capacity when set to standing (eg 3000 seats becomes 5000 standing or something similar). Will mean smaller capacity for Euro and international games but so be it. Have had a couple of trips to aberdeen which took me around the kingswells area and frankly putting a new stadium out there without a proper rail link or a significant upgrade to the bypass exit is a non starter for me. Recently got to see Bolton's stadium which is in Horwich, a mere 6miles from the old Burnden Park (Cormack park is 8miles from pittodrie). Cant imagine they would have gotten away with it had the site not been next to the M61 and without a rail link.

And my daughter is being forced to watch it this weekend. For research purposes.