We’d have gotten more funding from the bank as well as kicked in more ourselves. It doesn’t do the banks any good to let a construction project (especially one as specific as this) fall incomplete. It’s not like they can call this project in default and sell it to someone else. Who else is going to buy this thing? Not like there’s a huge market out there for a 3/4 finished stadium!
If we’ve borrowed more money from the banks then I would have expected to hear about it as any large scale city borrowing if often reported on straight away in the financial press. A few extra hundred million for a large scale construction project in London wouldn’t go unreported surely. When we originally borrowed for the project it was reported on and when we refinanced last year, it was also reported on. The media claiming that costs have rocketed to £1bn don’t seem to add up to me. There’s no way the club could just cover the costs and we don’t appear to have borrowed anymore money from what I can tell. Whether this can be arranged confidentially I’m not sure.
The only over solution is that Lewis has chucked in money but I am highly doubtful that he would have done so.