Should We Stay Or Should We Go? - The Chelsea News Thread

Roman on the stand...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204528204577010123901005482.html?KEYWORDS=GUY+CHAZAN

 

Looks like the borough might pull their thumb out and work with CFC to expand SB, makes sense as they would stand to lose a huge sum of revenue if there were to be a move.


http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2501875,00.html

 

Not a great deal of scope though, is there. IIRC, we're bounded by a railway line, a tube line and the A304 Fulham Rd.

 

7th

 

Only been once, but it seems like there's next to no room for expansion.

*cough*bringterracesback*cough*

 

i thought the problem was the lack of viable and safe exits due to fulham being the only road accessible

 

When i initially heard that the borough wanted to help, i was just leaving the subway (tube) which connects to a large underground mall underneath an office building, and i thought maybe it had to do with the exits, like put an underground passage from Fulham Broadway to an exit in the north end for example.

I'm not sure how its like in London but here in Toronto there are many office buildings, stadiums, con centers that have underground passages connected to tube stations.

What is the likely hood of that happening.

 

That approach would also mean a hell of a lot of digging, I'd imagine. Expensive, risky, and time consuming.

Speaking of expensive, risky, and time consuming - we could always go with the sunken pitch approach to add a few thousand round the bottom.

 

Was intended to be tongue in cheek


More seriously, hasn't safe egress for those extra fans always been the biggest barrier to expanding the Bridge?

 

Maybe Roman can pull a sheikh mansour and make some company pay us 400 mil for naming rights so we can have an advantage when FFS comes into effect. That is if he still wants CFC to be self-reliant in the short term.

 

The Man City deal is still being investigated, you cant just sell something for 400m , theres a rule in the FFP where you cant do that you have to sell it for its actual price, if we went and sold naming rights for 500m that wouldn't work as the naming rights aren't worth that much, the man citeh ones are still being looked at as its a dodgy sponsorship, especially as their new training ground is being paid for by etihad too

 

if we could add capacity to the bridge and make it somewhere in the high 40,000s or low 50,000s, that would be a much better proposition than moving imo... the bridge is our home for 100+ years and it should stay that way, i'd be in favour of either expanding the shed end or destroying the hotel to achieve that... would not like to sell the stadium naming rights, Samsung bridge? no thanks!

 

good for Danny, hopefully it doesn't go to his head though, he's got a lot of room for improvement.

 

The problem is that Man U can fit in around 40,000 more spectators to a home game that probably works out at around GBP1.5m per game. If we want to compete with them (especially with the financial fair play rules) we need more capacity.