Here is the NFFC news

Both sides are spinning like a very spinning thing at the moment - but surely those numbers are plucked out of his arse?

The current lease has 33 years to run & the Council are (allegedly) asking for £1m p.a. on a 250-year extension... but suddenly they're willing to sell the freehold for 10 years' worth (or 40 years' worth, at current rent)? If it's true, we should be snapping their hands off - but if it's true, it also explains why the Council's finances are in such shit order; from their perspective, that's an absolutely terrible deal.

From the club's, we'd be talking finally acquiring the land for less than an Omobamidele. [I like Andy O, but no-brainer].

There's a strong smell of BS around here...

Yeah, did occur to me that for the leasehold to be valued at £1m a year, while the freehold is valued at £8m-£10m doesn't really stack up. Either the former is too high or the latter too low.

Are there really?

Yes there's a waiting list the club has but they won't all actually buy and how many would going to Toron knock off that list too I wonder.

Am also curious how many Notts folks would pay big for the hospitality that really drives matchday revenue. I know a couple of guys with seats in the H Club at Spurs.

£30k one off joining fee and £15k a year (all ex VAT prices). That's what drives your revenue.

I think Saturday was probably an example of a game where they could have filled another 10,000-15,000 seats quite easily and maybe 20k. And I doubt the people making decisions can see that Toton would reduce that demand. Let alone recognise that sooner or later, history says, we will be relegated and then, unless it was a one season charge to the title, being in Toton would kill the club.

On my property-nerd forum the folks who talk like they understand stuff seem to say that Eastcroft is a no-go. The incinerator is an important bit of infrastructure (supplying district heating) and isn’t going anywhere. Which is a shame.. as for a second choice option it’s great… avoids the space constraints of the CG site and, if you really want to think ambitiously, opens up a terrific opportunity for something of a sports and entertainment precinct with a bit more freedom to operate than any site that’s surrounded by roads and houses.

Were I a billionaire, mind, I’d be flattening pretty much everything not directly facing Radcliffe Road and building a whole new ground slightly rotated and further from the river. You could possibly build half of it without even interfering with the current ground (Spurs style). Piece of piss really.. just need about 80million people to lend me 12quid and we can get this thing going.

The man from the council explains that in some detail in the Athletic article.

The article suggests this figure would rise if forest wanted to build on the site (like maybe a new stand?!).

For £10m I wouldn’t think there would be need for much negotiation. I’m calling BS.

This seems like nothing but also very ominous: www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/newsroom/news/nottinghamshire-county-council-and-nottingham-forest-fc-set-to-sign-up-to-a-new-partnership-agreement

Did anyone actually read the Athletic article or are you all just working off the headline?

I read it and I know that was mentioned as a possibility but now it’s confirmed. So, NFFC news.

I was talking to why you think it's ominous. It's an MOU with absolutely zero legal weight or value; you and I could sign an MOU to agree that we're going to work together to ensure that Kylian Mbappe signs for Forest and carries us to the Champions League title, but it doesn't mean it's going to happen. It seems abundantly clear that it's simply more sabre-rattling by Forest, and a convenient exercise in populist bullshit by that odious cunt Bradley.

I didn't, I wanted to but I've forgotten my log in.

The more closely the club aligns with the county over the city, the more likely Toton is.

The City Ground is in the county, of course.

I'm with Simon. There's a cluster of cunts here, Cartledge, Marinakis, Bradley, expect bad things to occur.