Villa Park Redevelopment

[Weedy]

Meanwhile, Arsenal looking to expand the Emirates: (mailonline link):

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14096209/arsenal-emirates-stadium-changes-upgrades.html

[sid1964]

I don't think the current owners are prepared to spend their money on an expansion of the current stadium or on a new stadium, we may need to wait until they sell and we get another set of multi-Billionaire owners before we see any major investment.

Also as we are not selling out each game, there is currently no need to increase our stadium capacity to 48-50,000

[Demitri_C]

I don't think the current owners are prepared to spend their money on an expansion of the current stadium or on a new stadium, we may need to wait until they sell and we get another set of multi-Billionaire owners before we see any major investment.

Also as we are not selling out each game, there is currently no need to increase our stadium capacity to 48-50,000

I think they would actually  as it would make the club worth significantly more which is of interest to both when they sold. Its mainly because of the transport issues that the expansion was scrapped. Also getting CL they didnt want the stadium to be thousands of seats short (which kind of makes sense) as lose alot of money during our CL season.

With the sell outs thats mainly due to the price increases people cant afford the prices now with the rip off CL prices

[Ads]

We do have another set of billionaire owners. They're the investment arm of Comcast. Finance self evidently was no issue prior to December 2023 and it is even less of an issue now.

The board for NWSE is now also loaded up with expertise in stadium development as of recent appointments.

We comfortably sell out GA, we sell a surprisingly large amount of Arsenal priced GA+ and Corporate.

I'll copy that to save typing it out for the 112th time as this thread goes round and round and round and round.

[The Edge]

I don't think the current owners are prepared to spend their money on an expansion of the current stadium or on a new stadium, we may need to wait until they sell and we get another set of multi-Billionaire owners before we see any major investment.

Also as we are not selling out each game, there is currently no need to increase our stadium capacity to 48-50,000

There's only one reason we're not selling out every home match. The scandalous ticket pricing policy.

[Drummond]

Meanwhile, Arsenal looking to expand the Emirates: (mailonline link):

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14096209/arsenal-emirates-stadium-changes-upgrades.html

At least the locals won't have a valid complaint about noise.

[Drummond]

112? So you're only planning on doing half the job?

[Brazilian Villain]

Meanwhile, Arsenal looking to expand the Emirates: (mailonline link):

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14096209/arsenal-emirates-stadium-changes-upgrades.html

"Reports emerged last week that Arsenal have set a target of 80,000 seats, which would make the Emirates the fifth-biggest stadium in Europe behind the Nou Camp, Wembley, Twickenham and the Stade de France."

Doesn't seem accurate to me.

[Drummond]

It's the Heil, you didn't go in expecting accuracy, surely?

[itbrvilla]

Meanwhile, Arsenal looking to expand the Emirates: (mailonline link):

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14096209/arsenal-emirates-stadium-changes-upgrades.html

"Reports emerged last week that Arsenal have set a target of 80,000 seats, which would make the Emirates the fifth-biggest stadium in Europe behind the Nou Camp, Wembley, Twickenham and the Stade de France."

Doesn't seem accurate to me.

Croke Park would also be bigger.

[eamonn]

I think that's what BV was getting at. He's always thinking with his Irish heart.

[Villan82]

We do have another set of billionaire owners. They're the investment arm of Comcast. Finance self evidently was no issue prior to December 2023 and it is even less of an issue now.

The board for NWSE is now also loaded up with expertise in stadium development as of recent appointments.

We comfortably sell out GA, we sell a surprisingly large amount of Arsenal priced GA+ and Corporate.

I'll copy that to save typing it out for the 112th time as this thread goes round and round and round and round.

Yes, and that is a smart conclusion  but that involves a lot of reading between the lines. The official position is that we are going to reorganise the exits and stairways to get another 800 seats into the existing bowl.

The club clearly don't want to knock anything down. Since walking away from the rebuild, they have spent a lot of money on the old North stand, the guts of £25m was spent last summer on the whole ground. The redevelopment was to be in the region of £120m.

Can't see them doing all of that to just make rubble of it in 2-3 years time.

It's a very curious situation and the lack of logical explanation has caused all of the specualtion.

Edit, something as simple as a sentence stating that 'It remains our ambition to expand capacity to 50,000 in the medium term' and I would agree with you but that all seems to be gone.

[Risso]

We do have another set of billionaire owners. They're the investment arm of Comcast. Finance self evidently was no issue prior to December 2023 and it is even less of an issue now.

The board for NWSE is now also loaded up with expertise in stadium development as of recent appointments.

We comfortably sell out GA, we sell a surprisingly large amount of Arsenal priced GA+ and Corporate.

I'll copy that to save typing it out for the 112th time as this thread goes round and round and round and round.

It's a weird position at the moment, everything about the Comcast deal screams "new stadium" but everything the club says and does points to nothing happening.

[Drummond]

We do have another set of billionaire owners. They're the investment arm of Comcast. Finance self evidently was no issue prior to December 2023 and it is even less of an issue now.

The board for NWSE is now also loaded up with expertise in stadium development as of recent appointments.

We comfortably sell out GA, we sell a surprisingly large amount of Arsenal priced GA+ and Corporate.

I'll copy that to save typing it out for the 112th time as this thread goes round and round and round and round.

It's a weird position at the moment, everything about the Comcast deal screams "new stadium" but everything the club says and does points to nothing happening.

***Bullshit Language Alert***

Maybe they are getting their ducks in a row in the background..... No point telling everyone they are looking at moving, because that would just have loads of people bleating about moving and demanding to know where to and when, because that's their right etc etc.

[bill]

Well if Wes Edens and the Yanks at Comcast are involved, anything regarding a new stadium is possible. I’ve travelled pretty extensively in the States , and I’ve seen many perfectly good arenas demolished. Was at Yankee Stadium in 2007, thought it was great, next time I visited the Big Apple, it was gone. There have been no less than 4 Maddison Square Gardens. There’s very little sentimentally about venues in America, Fenway Park excepted. If they decide to rebuild, they will do it, regardless of any sentimentality, it will be based purely on business.