Celtic park- is it time to increase capacity and refurb stadium.

I know it is pretty clear that DD is happy with the status co but if he really wanted to make a difference at the club infrastructure investment is somewhere he could really make a difference, whether it is paying in to a share issue, strengthening his position, or bringing in.investors who would be keen.

There’s also looking to companies in his portfolio, who could either sponsor for naming rights, or potentially be in line to benefit from providing some of the works.

Given all the new financial rules this is the way that people with money can make a difference to the clubs they are associated with. He could also provide patient capital, not that we would have an issue with achieving our own lending arrangements.

My worry is that they just don’t bother and remain happy with the status co, anything that seems difficult is steered away from.

For example we announced the Barrowfield project and Lennoxtown upgrades about 18 months ago but it was getting thought about before that. In that time period through retained profits the club will have roughly the same amount of cash available to it now as it did when that announcement was made.

Where stadium or stand redevelopment is on a whole other level there is a demand for Celtic and involvement with Celtic just now that possibly has never been matched. Whether its season tickets, evenings with, shows, player of the year being at the hydro (what other clubs do something like that) or anything else club associated it sells out and could sell out way over and above capacity.

For example if they done a museum it would be super popular, if they created a high quality hotel, with a Celtic theme it would be popular, upgraded the catering settings as I understand the food quality is already high, it would do well. The other thing is these ventures can be done in partnership, a hotel provider for the accommodation aspect, franchise for match day catering etc.

There really is a lot of opportunity to do something that would take the clubs off field up a couple of notches which then could be put back on the field through future revenue.

 

Could it be we are waiting to see what happens with alcohol at matches …. Spurs sell 130k pints a game that’s roughly 15m turnover a season on pints lol as soon as the government lift the ban the concourses will be getting done up


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Maybe not a problem with our stadium design but some huge stadiums have a pathetic atmosphere due to bad design. Look at clubs like Barca, Real, Man Utd etc. And most clubs in Italy. Just sound like a weird surround noise. Swedens NT arena is a perfect example of a hilariously bad sound design.

Im for it as long as we keep the current layout so to speak but not not that much so we have lots of empty seats every week. That just sucks,

 

I think we can go to 75 k with out having empty seats


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Surely the first thing to look at would be to add a top tier in both corners, in line with existing upper tiers, with little or no inconvenience to fans, could be done one by one in pre season. Should be able to fund it from cash reserves. Guessing 10 to 15M a tier??? And then make a plan for main stand.