Sportsmail understands West Ham’s London Stadium is among the venues Chelsea chiefs have checked in on in recent months...
Oh this would be magic.
Chelsea and West Ham ground sharing
The cultural hub of the country
RLC, Abraham and Solanke now in the England squad. Solanke already left on a free, will be interesting to see what happens with the other lads. Ridiculously good (and uber expensive) youth system, rather wasted so far...
(P.s. mad when you think two more of England youth's striking stars, Nketiah and Brewster, were Chelsea youth players but have already left to Arsenal and Liverpool to pursue their pro careers.)
Is it though if they sold Abraham and RLC in the summer. Say they got £30 to £40 million for the pair then you've got to say it's been worth bringing them through.
Their youth system is all about selling players to create finances, not actually playing the players.
This might not be popular, but as long as the pitch was up to it, I wouldn't have a problem with sharing NWHL for a couple of seasons with them.
I know they hate us, but I really am indifferent to them.
Probably couldn't easily happen due to planning restrictions - but with both clubs having extended runs in the CL and cups, there could be 60k there every few days - that has to help pay the bills.
All those wasted hours arguing about whether we could share Wembley and their not even going to start work until at least after we've moved in to ours
vile rag said:Chelsea are understood not to be concerned by the planned 2024 move-in date, with their initial schedule always thought to have been optimistic.
Over my dead body.This might not be popular, but as long as the pitch was up to it, I wouldn't have a problem with sharing NWHL for a couple of seasons with them.
I know they hate us, but I really am indifferent to them.
Probably couldn't easily happen due to planning restrictions - but with both clubs having extended runs in the CL and cups, there could be 60k there every few days - that has to help pay the bills.
Indeed. I can summarise my reaction to this astonishing news in this tl;dr: "I told you so"
I don't believe for a second that Chelsea's own timetable assumed they would be competing with us to use Wembley this season or next. The newspaper reports dreamed that up, so they could publish "Chelsea battle with Spurs" headlines to generate clicks.
It took Arsenal the best part of a decade, it's taking us the best part of a decade and it's going to take Chelsea the best part of a decade to build a new stadium. Because that's how long it takes to undertake a major development project in London.
Arsenal had 30 landowners to get off their site. We had a financial crash land on our heads, just as we were getting planning consent. Chelsea have an impossibly constricted site, with railway lines on two sides. There are no simple developments in London.
This might not be popular, but as long as the pitch was up to it, I wouldn't have a problem with sharing NWHL for a couple of seasons with them.
I know they hate us, but I really am indifferent to them.
Probably couldn't easily happen due to planning restrictions - but with both clubs having extended runs in the CL and cups, there could be 60k there every few days - that has to help pay the bills.
This might not be popular, but as long as the pitch was up to it, I wouldn't have a problem with sharing NWHL for a couple of seasons with them.
I know they hate us, but I really am indifferent to them.
Probably couldn't easily happen due to planning restrictions - but with both clubs having extended runs in the CL and cups, there could be 60k there every few days - that has to help pay the bills.
This might not be popular, but as long as the pitch was up to it, I wouldn't have a problem with sharing NWHL for a couple of seasons with them.
I know they hate us, but I really am indifferent to them.
Probably couldn't easily happen due to planning restrictions - but with both clubs having extended runs in the CL and cups, there could be 60k there every few days - that has to help pay the bills.
And the 'bats' problem David...
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lon...ble-over-threat-to-bats-habitat-a3330141.html
This might not be popular, but as long as the pitch was up to it, I wouldn't have a problem with sharing NWHL for a couple of seasons with them.
I know they hate us, but I really am indifferent to them.
Probably couldn't easily happen due to planning restrictions - but with both clubs having extended runs in the CL and cups, there could be 60k there every few days - that has to help pay the bills.
Chelsea just do not bother me.I'm intrigued as to why you'd even suggest this?