More investment incoming from new owner


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This time on a new pitch.... taken from the Daily Fail mind....

Sunderland's home may become the Stadium of Floating Lights, after the club’s new owner made installing a state-of-the-art playing surface one of his priorities.

Kyril Louis-Dreyfus, French heir to a billionaire fortune, is the youngest chairman in England at 23 and is keen to make his mark. The pitch has come in for heavy criticism from boss Lee Johnson and Louis-Dreyfus is ready to fork out £500,000 to sort it out.

He plans to install the same HT Pro hybrid turf system as at Tottenham’s impressive home. The surface will have an integrated pitch-grow lighting system, with lights suspended above the pitch from rails at either end, so it never comes into direct contact with the grass. Grow lights are used in most large stadiums, where stands and partial roof coverings restrict sunlight. However, most use wheel-on structures which can damage the playing surface.

 
I wonder what happened to the grow lights we used to have. I appreciate they were on wheels not rails across the pitch but I remember seeing them for the first time on a stadium tour many years ago, we were one of the first clubs in the country to have them.

Donald probably sold them to Madrox for £5 or something.
 
This time on a new pitch.... taken from the Daily Fail mind....

Sunderland's home may become the Stadium of Floating Lights, after the club’s new owner made installing a state-of-the-art playing surface one of his priorities.

Kyril Louis-Dreyfus, French heir to a billionaire fortune, is the youngest chairman in England at 23 and is keen to make his mark. The pitch has come in for heavy criticism from boss Lee Johnson and Louis-Dreyfus is ready to fork out £500,000 to sort it out.

He plans to install the same HT Pro hybrid turf system as at Tottenham’s impressive home. The surface will have an integrated pitch-grow lighting system, with lights suspended above the pitch from rails at either end, so it never comes into direct contact with the grass. Grow lights are used in most large stadiums, where stands and partial roof coverings restrict sunlight. However, most use wheel-on structures which can damage the playing surface.


tremendous, the pitch in its current state is truly league one standard
 
I wonder what happened to the grow lights we used to have. I appreciate they were on wheels not rails across the pitch but I remember seeing them for the first time on a stadium tour many years ago, we were one of the first clubs in the country to have them.

Donald probably sold them to Madrox for £5 or something.
SD’s home has the best lawn in Oxfordshire. Charlie borrows them from time to time- borrows his mate’s transit to nip over for them.
 
I wonder what happened to the grow lights we used to have. I appreciate they were on wheels not rails across the pitch but I remember seeing them for the first time on a stadium tour many years ago, we were one of the first clubs in the country to have them.

Donald probably sold them to Madrox for £5 or something.
The lights are still there, were normally in a unit across from South stand, rode past on Friday and were next to stand.
 
I wonder what happened to the grow lights we used to have. I appreciate they were on wheels not rails across the pitch but I remember seeing them for the first time on a stadium tour many years ago, we were one of the first clubs in the country to have them.

Donald probably sold them to Madrox for £5 or something.

Have you checked the local scrap yards?
 
Sustainable has been the word used a number of times. Im really optimistic about the future but I don't think people should expect us to be spunking tens of millions on players anytime soon.
Nobody knows what Kyril’s budget is.

We don’t know how much disposable cash the Louis-Dreyfus family has.

I watched something on YouTube last night - Mrs Louis-Dreyfus had to re-mortgage $1bn in 2019 from Credit Suisse bank even though the company assets were $4bn, because of a lack of liquidity.

 
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