Chelsea co-owner Hansjorg Wyss admits Earl’s Court “would be the best option” as the Blues consider moving away from Stamford Bridge.
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Expansion plans difficult to put in placePossible relocation has been discussedBlues have nobody assigned to projectFollow GOAL on WhatsApp! 🟢📱WHAT HAPPENED?
The Premier League heavyweights have been informed by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan that their current home is “too small” for big ambitions to be met. Todd Boehly and the rest of the club’s ownership team have faced expansion problems since completing a big-money takeover.
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Chelsea can currently welcome a little over 40,000 spectators through their turnstiles. Many more tickets could be sold if the capacity at a famous west London venue could be increased. No solution to that conundrum has been found as yet.
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That has led to suggestions that the Blues could relocate. A move to Earl’s Court has been mooted, but no official bid for that site has been submitted as yet. Wyss concedes that Chelsea have nobody assigned to the long-running stadium project.
WHAT CHELSEA CO-OWNER SAID
The Swiss billionaire has told : “Earl’s Court would be the best option we can even think of. If it’s going to happen, I don’t know. There’s a lot of obstacles. But right now we don’t have one person who drives that project. That’s all we need. The meetings, the director’s meetings, that’s our course. Not that we have one project where I’ve said ‘I’m going to make it happen’. It’s not going to happen.”
