Fruit Market OFF - Club redeveloping Mem instead.

I'm told by a trusted source that Mr Abdullatif Al-Saeed is indeed a director of a club in his homeland, but I do find that hard to believe as yet again there is no evidence of it anywhere and isn't included on his LinkedIn profile or mentioned in the programme article about the new owners, which having newly taken over another football club you would have thought that would've been worth a mention.

The Peterborough Telegraph timeline and the subsequent Hard Truth podcast version of events matches up with what was reportedly told by Tom Gorringe to the forum moderator Gashead1981 and I'm sure you would agree that Gashead1981 has no reason to be telling porkies and therefore we do have an idea of what was happening.

With all due respect, there is zero evidence the new owners had the means to personally write off £2.2million on one player and looks like when it came to the crunch we were found wanting, because there is absolutely no reason why having agreed a deal with 2 hours left of the deadline (and the Peterborough United Head of Football Operations even helping us speed up the paperwork) that we shouldn't have completed the paperwork and deal in plenty of time. If you want to believe poor old Bristol Rovers somehow simply missed the two deadlines by a matter of seconds/minutes (despite having 2 HOURS to get it over the line) then that is your prerogative, but it certainly doesn't wash with me.

I'm still waiting for you to point me in the direction of evidence for these "huge projects" and "projects that would have cost multi millions" they were previously involved in, because despite exhaustive searches I still can't find any. Again, I would be grateful if you could point me in the right direction for info about these impressive sounding projects. Thanks, much appreciated.

If the FM is off and once the South and SW stand is done could we turn our attention to seeking planning permission to revamp the other parts of the ground in a relatively low cost fashion?

1) Could the East Stand be extended (essentially bolting on an extension) towards the corners and in the short term keep terracing to the front all the way along?
2) Same with the West - could it be extended by bolting on a couple of additional boxes, additional seats below and terracing to the front.
3) Finally, complete rebuild of the North Terrace into a proper stand with bars, restaurant etc below where there will be plenty of space and in line with what we had permission for under Geoff Dunford?

Say the rest of the Mem is rebuilt in same way the South Stand is. Yes it will be seated, but is it really a big step forward for the club?

A bit smarter in areas, but I don't think the South Stand is going to have big indoor concourses with drinks, food, merch outlets..I think it will be quite open at the back still.

Pirate I'm not sure what programme article you are looking at but it says he is director of Kazma sporting club and also lists all the business the real estate company has completed. Sorry I don't know how to upload the article.

There will be food, drink and toilets under the south concourse. Nothing special i'd guess
IMHO it wont be this for all sides IF the plan is re redevelop and stay. There will need to be 1 or 2 with sizeable hospitality areas. North and East make most sense.
So possibly something like-
South seated semi perm finished 2024
North demo and build 6K stand with bars and hospitality 24-25
East stand demo and build 8k stand with corporate boxes, main hospitality, and areas for non match day use 25-26
West stand full length 5K semi perm like south stand 26-27

total cap 20-22K
Finish by 2027 ish

Would the East Stand need to be demolished rather than extended? It looks awful at the moment - almost like a 2 seater sofa sat alone against a long bare wall ! If it was able to be extended the full length of the pitch it would look a lot better? In the longer term perhaps seats over the existing terracing that sits in front? 

The speculation over an article less sourced than most tweets is insufferable.

Per this thread the deal collapsed several times before. Yet, none of those were proven right. Relax.

Mr Asaad Al-Benwan is Chairman of Kasma SC and Mr Salem Al-Abkal, Mr Meshal Al-Hamad (Meshal Al-Hassan), Mr Yousef Bu Skandar, Mr Omar Al-Mulla, Mr Abdulmohsen Al-Bahar, Mr Bader Al-Kharafi and Mr Waleed Al-Yaqout are directors of the club, but once again our mystery takeaway fella is hard to find in relation to any directorship role. I thought maybe he could be found on the list for the clubs Governing Council or Club Committee, but again isn't amongst the names.

Kasma SC Directors -
kazmasc.com/%d9%85%d8%ac%d9%84%d8%b3-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-2/

I know it was written Al Elmam "developed various projects, including multi-story group housing, residential townships, shopping malls, office buildings, hotels and restaurants", but that is what is basically written word for word on their elmamrealestate.com/index.html website too, but I'm still left without anything of substance to confirm. I just want to marvel at their expertise and see what these "projects that would have cost multi millions" (according to daniel300380) look like and what we can expect from them moving forward. So far what we have seen doesn't exactly fill me with confidence.

If the 8,500 York City stadium cost £44.2 million to build, I'm wondering how much a 20,000 seater is likely to cost?