Peter Ridsdale has revealed Deepdale will be illuminated by new floodlights next season as the club continue to invest in the infrastructure at Deepdale. But the Preston North End director admitted plans to install undersoil heating at PR1, along with a new state-of-the-art Desso pitch, will be put back until next year as he aims to provide boss Ryan Lowe with a sizeable transfer kitty going into this summer’s transfer window.
‘We have plans, as soon as possible, and it’s probably going to be next summer now, to do undersoil heating and a Desso pitch. It’s one of those crazy things, if we did undersoil heating this summer in advance of a Desso, that heat would crumble the grass we’ve got because it’s currently not a Desso pitch, it’s a sand-based pitch. So you can’t do undersoil heating in isolation of doing the Desso as well.