>>154762321Thank god the evil germans didn’t win WW2.
>>154762321kek how long were british people hiding this from us? they love shitting on our sports stadium for being funded by tax payers but nothing like this ever happens here.
>>154762321Lmao paki mayor
>>154762370it was a deal boris johnson made99 years deal for west ham to rent the stadium, they paid 4.4 mil per year if they are in the prem and half if they went downit is chicago's parking deal level of stupidity
Does West Ham even need a big stadium like that? Basically forced to move into the white elephant. Pic unrelated, it got gentrified kek
>>154762400they are a decent size team, that stadium is probably too small for them but they are not big and rich enough to build their own so they have to rent
>>154762321Isn't that place kinda shit for footy compared to nearly all the other stadiums in London?
>>154762370The Raiders have a deal with Las Vegas where they are reimbursed with local taxpayer money if the hotel tax doesn't pay X amount of dollars each year for the stadium's loans
>>154762498It's a half arsed compromised bowl that is fit for no-one because of the running track design. They are supposed to retain this (and cover it with retractable seating) as the stadium should also be usable for major athletics events.London wants to bid for 2029 World Athletics Championships but West Ham are refusing to move out the stadium for a fortnight in September because season would be under way.So basically it's also useless for the same reason that makes it useless for football. And what Sadiq here isn't making clear, these £2.5m losses are *additional* if (when..) they are relegated. It already loses money on West Hams £4.4m (which would be halved by relegation) per year rent on a 99 year lease, a sum which doesn't cover the basic operating costs. A farcical situation which as noted above Boris Johnston signed off on, inclusive such genius foresight as no-one having thought to charge more if West Ham qualify for Europe and the stadium then had to be used more often, which happened. And the taxpayer carries all of these costs, not that piece of shit club.
>>154762400Their games are constantly sold out.
>>154763663>Premier league team>sell out big stadium>sold own groundthen TaxpayerFC have no excuse for not building a proper ground, instead of squatting in London Stadium at public cost because their jizzmag emperor and alleged raypist owner was cushy with that corrupt idiot Boris.
>>154763787Maybe you shouldn't have voted for Boris then :^)
>>154762321Can't be any British taxpayers left in London right?
>>1547623212.5 million is nothing compared to what the city of London will be wasting elsewhere. Sure, small shit adds up as well, but it cannot be catastrophic. The stadium deal already was trash beforeWhat’s really weird is that West Ham nearly sell out every game. 62,340 average at a capacity of 62,500? That’s the 2nd-highest attendance, after United. How come? Are these all tourists? West Ham doesn’t seem that popular and relevant to me, I didn’t perceive the club as having that much of a presence in London either. Tottenham, Liverpool, and Arsenal all have worse total attendance and worse attendance rates, with smaller stadiums. Surely it must be about pricing as well, but it’s just weird. And if West Ham are this popular, they should be able to afford their own stadium in the long run. An even larger one
>>154764317I don’t have an actual answer but West Ham are popular with the working class and are strongly associated with their locale of East London. They’re a big London club, if that makes sense
>>154763942The deal is from when he was mayor of London, only Londoners could vote for him.
>>154764334I don’t want to disagree, as I recognize you must be more knowledgeable about this than me, but I spent a week in London last summer, and I specifically stayed in what would be considered core West Ham territory. I was astounded by the lack of presence the club had, both there and all over London. I saw one West Ham pub and one guy with a West Ham shirt all week. No comparison to Arsenal, Chelsea, even Spurs and goddamn Millwall. It was just my eye test, or course. No great study. But I remember being a bit surprised. When we got near the Arsenal neighborhood, you could see a certain shift at leastNewham and the surrounding area definitely was working class, but there were so few British people that my personal explanation for the lack of West Ham presence is that all people there only think of Bangladeshi cricket or something
>>154762356The children were also immigrants
