Partick Thistle to construct 'transformative' training ground
Tuesday 11 April 2017 15:18, UK
Scottish Premiership club Partick Thistle have announced plans to build a new £4m training complex.
The investment is likely to transform the upwardly mobile club, who have secured a top-six place in the League for the first time.
When the complex is complete, Partick will have a dedicated training centre for the first time in the club's 140-year history.
Partick's managing director Ian Maxwell told Sky Sports News HQ: "A development company called Three Black Cats, who are owned by the Weir family, have decided to build a purpose-built training centre for Partick Thistle football club, which we will then rent from them.
"It is a truly transformational development for the football club, that is the best way to describe it."
The location for the complex has yet to be selected and Maxwell added: "We are obviously at the start of this process.
"The next thing is to try and secure land, and get on with the design team and make sure the facility is everything we need it to be."
Partick chairman David Beattie said: "It has been a long-held ambition of this club to have its own training ground. The Board is ecstatic that we will now have that facility.
"Most importantly, it won't just be for first team use but for our youth academy, women's team and everyone else who is part of our football club.
"I can't emphasise enough the significance of this new facility.
"It reinforces that we are an established Premiership club, with a level of professionalism and ambition that these new facilities will reflect."
