Manchester’s beloved Club de Padel to return home, with plans for huge new club

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Club de Padel – the first padel club to bring the sport to Manchester – have announced exciting plans for a brand-new club in the city centre.

The Manchester-born business closed down earlier this year after land owners Renaker began redeveloping the site it occupied at Deansgate Square.

But now Club de Padel will be making a grand return home, with an exciting new club featuring five covered courts, a coffee-bar, and event spaces.

They’ve secured a new home within Mayfield Park, beneath the arches of Depot Mayfield which is already home to Freight Island and the Warehouse Project.

The new club will also be close to the park’s award-winning children’s playground.

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As well as operating padel clubs in Sheffield and Manchester, Club de Padel has a huge lifestyle arm to its business too, collaborating with local brand UN:IK on a clothing range, as well as working with M&S for a spring childrenswear line.

Co-owner Lucy Noone-Blake said: “We are beyond excited to have found our Manchester home at Mayfield Park.

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Manchester's beloved Club de Padel to return home, with plans for huge new club
Manchester’s beloved Club de Padel to return home, with plans for huge new club

“The regeneration of the Mayfield district, including the dynamic and creative use of the Depot, the sheer care and effort poured into the park, incredible collaborations such as the rehoming of an award-winning Chelsea Flower show garden and the development of new workspace and homes come together to create a neighbourhood that we’re delighted to be a key part of.

“We’re grateful for the Mayfield Partnership who understand our vision and commitment to bring a well priced, accessible and creative approach to city centre wellness, and for their efforts in creating this beautiful place. We’re Manchester-born and based and we just can’t wait to come home.”

Hen Nowne, Development Director at Landsec, speaking on behalf of the Mayfield Partnership, said:
“Club de Padel is a brilliant addition to Mayfield Park. We want to create the kind of place people feel a real connection to and want to return to with more reasons to spend time here.

“It brings another burst of energy to Mayfield and feels like a really natural fit. We’re delighted to have Club de Padel as part of our community.”

Club de Padel Manchester will open in the summer of 2027, with a full programme of events, coaching, music and wellness.

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Liam Gallagher says he turned down an offer to be on The Celebrity Traitors… and the reason why is baffling

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Liam Gallagher says he turned down an offer to be on The Celebrity Traitors… but the reason why is not what you’d expect.

It’d be easy enough to imagine the Oasis frontman saying no to a trip to the castle due to work commitments, or maybe because he’s just wanting to rest up ahead the massive Oasis Live ’27 tour next year, but surprisingly (or maybe unsurprisingly… this is Liam Gallagher we’re talking about, after all) that isn’t the case.

If you’ve never seen The Celebrity Traitors before, it’s a spinoff of the wildly popular main series, The Traitors, and it sees famous faces take part in the ultimate test of deceit and betrayal. 

Some of the celebrities taking part this series include Richard E Grant, Miranda Hart, James Blunt, Maya Jama, James Acaster, and more as part of a stacked lineup.

A stacked lineup that Liam Gallagher would undeniably have been a very entertaining part of, but despite this, the rockstar has revealed that not only did he receive an offer to appear on the show, he actually turned it down.

Answering a fan’s comment on Twitter this week, Liam confirmed that he had received an offer but it wasn’t really his ‘thing’.

The tweet in question declared: “They should put Liam [Gallagher] on Celebrity Traitors”, to which Gallagher replied: “I’ve been asked [but] it’s not my thing.”

After offering up reason of it not being his ‘thing’ as to why he turned the show down, he then followed up with a slightly more baffling explanation too: “I’m not a celebrity,” he concluded.

We can only assume the denial of celebrity status is due to the fact that Liam doesn’t like the word, and not because he doesn’t consider himself to be famous, as coming off the back of the globally successful Oasis Live ’25 tour and ahead of the upcoming Oasis Live ’27, the band arguably couldn’t be more of a household name.

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Many of the comments in response to Liam’s declaration point out that he could be a contestant on the normal BBC series instead, if he doesn’t consider himself a ‘celebrity’. Others also made sure to note that he appeared on an episode of Channel 4’s Celebrity Gogglebox, so he didn’t appear to have an issue with the word then.

So, will LG ever change his mind then? Only time will tell.

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