Arsenal Set to Expand The Emirates

[DanDare]

Sorry for my skepticism. I know the Grove is constantly sold out and that expanding it therefore makes sense, but I still have a “fresh” memory of what followed the last time Arsenal were at the top and took on the previous stadium project.

I think the difference now is that KSE would spend this money and as it's infrastructure it wouldn't be counted towards FFP and shouldn't affect day to day spending.

 

[Penn_]

Given the club have stepped up atmosphere effort in recent years if this goes ahead we might even see the away relocated?

 

[Sapient Hawk]

Given the club have stepped up atmosphere effort in recent years if this goes ahead we might even see the away relocated?

Hopefully to the carpark.

 

[Goonger]

What would we like to see from an Emirates upgrade, realistically?

Ideally for me would be about 15k extra seats, stands a bit steeper if possible, and the roof redeveloped to house some sort of large wrap around LED screen. Something in size between the 1 at Atletico, & the 1 at the SoFi.

A nice, covered external fan zone would be nice as well.

 

[Nunowoolmez]

What would we like to see from an Emirates upgrade, realistically?

A strip bar

 

[BaZZe]

 

[SuperGoon]

Josh honestly comes across better now that his gamble with Arteta paid off.

How many other nutjobs would have given Arteta lenience after Covid?

 

[A_G]

 

[Batman]

The one thing Stan is great at is real estate projects. Disappointing not to get a decent expansion.

 

[Gooner Zig]

Disappointing.

60k capacity seems way too low given our current profile.

 

[Kuroske]

Too expensive?

 

[A_G]

Too expensive?

Difficult because of the infrastructure around the stadium I imagine

 

[Clrnc]

Very disappointing. Basically just means they gonna try to get more corporate seats revenue instead of prioritising having more people in the stadium.

All the word about how we have look at Bernabeu and wants to expand the same way... lol

 

[scytheavatar]

Too expensive?

The wisdom of spending 500M to get like 40-50M more per year is very debatable. The returns of an expansion from 60k to 80k is diminishing compared to moving from 30k to 60k when we left Highbury.

 

[Iwobeast]

Too expensive?

Heard that they don’t want to disturb the process while we’re in title winning mode. Wouldn’t be ideal to spend that money right now and having to move to Wembley for a while

 

[Tourbillion]

What would we like to see from an Emirates upgrade, realistically?

Ideally for me would be about 15k extra seats, stands a bit steeper if possible, and the roof redeveloped to house some sort of large wrap around LED screen. Something in size between the 1 at Atletico, & the 1 at the SoFi.

A nice, covered external fan zone would be nice as well.

The wavy design all around the top/back of the stands is ****ing dumb. Easily thousands of seats could have been installed in those gaps.

 

[Kuroske]

The wavy design all around the top/back of the stands is ****ing dumb. Easily thousands of seats could have been installed in those gaps.

The location to build the Emirates stadium was not choosen wisely and don't think they have thought having to expand the capacity.

 

[Goonger]

The location to build the Emirates stadium was not choosen wisely and don't think they have thought having to expand the capacity.

I'm not sure there are many other large areas in and around Islington that could be bought and house a mega stadium. I think we were very fortunate to find something that was a stones throw away from Highbury to keep Arsenal local to the area.

Even if your looking further afield, look at the trouble Chelsea have trying to find a location that suits them in West London. They were looking at things like Earls Court and Battersea Power Station to no success.

 

[Mrs Bergkamp]

The location to build the Emirates stadium was not choosen wisely and don't think they have thought having to expand the capacity.

There was nowhere else within the local area iirc. We would have had to move out of the area or spent a lot more buying up several surrounding properties- that the owners weren't even willing to sell

 

[bergholt]

these guys love real estate projects, they would have done it if it was at all possible. just not at all realistic in this location because of the train lines.

basically need the lads to convince the government to give them a chunk of Finsbury Park and build it up there