Espanyol

[ballcock]

I lived in Catalonia for four years between 2015-2019 and often passed the Espanyol stadium on my way to the airport.Indeed it is very impressive-nothing like old Turf Moor.

You could see the old stadium when travelling on the train into Barcelona centro from the med resorts in the east.

I always look for the football grounds from sea or air. The one I spot the most when Lanzarote bound, is the Benefica stadium which lies to the west of Lisbon and is visible from the air at 36000 feet.

[Swissclaret]

Just gone on Google maps and Espanyol don't play in Badalona anymore which is NE of Barcelona, they now play in a 40,000 seater new stadium on the other side of the city. Very impressive I might add, maybe this will give Pace food for thought with a view to relocating BFC to a new stadium.

Anyone any suggestions for the new location?

I would be quite happy if it relocated to Nyon. Nice view of the Alps if the football is cr*p

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I think ballcock was moving us towards Padiham not Nyon.

[sinkov]

Could we not ground share with Espanyol ? Flights are cheap enough.

[lancaster100]

No matter what is said it looks like Espanyol is to be the parent club of the various clubs owned by Alan Pace but that infers that Espanyol will retain the main decisions followed by BFC followed by Dundee. This is a worry for our supporters I think Alan Pace should be making some form of statement about how he sees this multi club ownership to work.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Leveraged purchases of football clubs is illegal in Spain and it’s reported the Velocity Sports Group have stumped up the thick end of 170 million euros to buy the majority stake in Espanyol. It seems pretty obvious to me where Pace’s priority will lie.

[kritichris]

Are Pace overstretching them selves or do they have more lucre than we thought?