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That espn piece is by Harry Harris a reknowned bullshitter, its also dated today and he talks about how roman has a decision to make on the eve of our game with BOLTON! Make your own conclusions but i call bullshit

oh, get you now

Rooney...I fucking hate the sight of that twat and chimp features Bale too

no, the CPO basically said that whilst they, like most of us, wanted to remain at the bridge it seemed that the facts and figures Chels had provided had put an end to that but that they would still like to speak to the council for themselves to 'double check' so to speak.

as i said earlier failing the council telling the CPO that the figures are incorrect there really is only one option

It would seem so

Yeah reading it i honestly thought at first the option of the Shed and Matthew Harding being expanded was a possible goer but the figures speak for themselves.

CPO BOARD STATEMENT ON MEETING WITH THE CLUB On Friday 24 February Chelsea FC invited CPO board members Steve Frankham, Rick Glanvill, Dennis Wise and Gray Smith to a meeting where extensive and detailed presentations were made by Ron Gourlay and Bruce Buck from the club, as well as architects and planning advisors working with them, regarding the potential expansion of Stamford Bridge. CPO board member Bob Sewell was away. Areas covered included: present club finances and the challenges to revenue generation of the present stadium capacity; potential benefits to supporters' match day experience; planning, safety, heritage, environmental, political, disruption and access issues surrounding the expansion of Stamford Bridge; the increasing demands of live TV coverage. We were shown designs and figures from many different plans exploring ways to expand all parts of the Bridge, along with explanations of the costs involved set against future income, and benefits to match goers. These schemes ranged from finding 2,500 new seats in corners of the ground to the total demolition and rebuild of a 55-60,000-seater stadium on the same site. The presentations were very open, with regular input, questions and points made by the CPO board. All were responded to with clarity and transparency by the club and the experts they had brought along. From the presentations and discussions, which lasted several hours, it was clear that an immense amount of time and money has been allocated to exploring how to expand Stamford Bridge. Chelsea FC's conclusion is that none of the schemes would achieve the goals of giving greater access and a better experience to supporters, and increasing matchday income. Like many of our shareholders, we have hoped and felt that there might still be some way to expand the capacity of Stamford Bridge. Having seen the detailed analysis, we all felt that a persuasive case was put that this might no longer be feasible or viable. Since so many of the planning issues concern the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham, we are requesting further information and comments from them regarding Chelsea's presentation. We hope that as far as possible Chelsea make the materials we have seen available for scrutiny by all shareholders and supporters so that the issue can be debated further.

CPO are saying that although they like most had hoped to stay at the Bridge, it now looks unlikely but they will be checking with Fulham and Hammersmith borough to make sure that all the figures Chels have put forward are correct. Looks like the end of an era And promptly! couldnt believe the web site had this up 18:30 on the dot

CPO are saying that although they like most had hoped to stay at the Bridge, it now looks unlikely but they will be checking with Fulham and Hammersmith borough to make sure that all the figures Chels have put forward are correct. Looks like the end of an era

Conclusions It is clear to the Board of Chelsea Football Club that a complete new build of a 60,000 seat stadium at Stamford Bridge has little chance of acceptability. We believe that, after our discussions with the council they have come to the same conclusion. A 60,000 new-build would cost over £600 million and require the club to play away for at least three seasons and, even if the economics were acceptable, the planning risks would likely be insurmountable. Expanding Stamford Bridge to 55,000 also has a number of challenges. The cost per seat of expanding the stands is very high. The incremental revenues provide an unsatisfactory level of return, would not even cover the hypothetical financing costs, and the planning risks are significant. We believe the council recognises these challenges. The club's exercise over the years has been to analyse a large spectrum of possible expansion options, even some which would appear to be unworkable. The Board recognises that our work will not satisfy every fan, but the Board also believes its work has been thorough, appropriate and in the best interests of the club and all of our fans. To reiterate what was said at the beginning of this summary, the club are not in any way stating we have made a decision on the need to move.

Announcment at 18:30 apparently

So have the CPO had any assurances or offers from the club ,like giving them the freehold of the new pitch or anything

Honestly couldn't give a monkeys who dislikes us, Fuck them all. Ps I was initially just going to write "so" but thought I'd elaborate a bit

how did you go about that jim

Hard to believe its 6 years since the great man passed. Wish I could have seen him,play more but our generations just missed each other. Even still watching the replays is enough to see what a player he was and an absolute gent to go with it. RIP never forgotten Ossie the king of Stamford bridge

The reason people wont give him a second season is because its easy to talk about winning nothing for a few years in the interest of transition but its very different in reality. I genuinely hope avb gets the chance to bring in his own team, think it could be great. By the way what is with this fan boy shit? Seems like you can't like a legend of this club without being labeled a fan boy! Ridiculous.

the majority of the players you mentioned are from the one generation, hardly a conveyor belt of youth. Pique and Rossi never really kicked a ball for manure so its not like he nurtured them through and as for brown and oshea. .seriously? Its hard to compete against fergie because of his longevity at one club but If most managers stayed as long as he has I think they would have brought through plenty of youth, in fact wenger in half the time is more renowned for bringing youth through. Manure are continually big spenders and where the biggest until Roman and the sheiks came to town. No the question is can pep do it with a team that doesn't have some of the best players on the planet including THE best player on the planet? That will be the teller because he still has the world beating side of recent years now including cesc and Sanchez and he seems to be struggling already this season.

instead of breaking into the bank FERGIE brought through youth did he bring Rooney through? What about rio or ronaldo ?are smalling and Jones the recent product of uniteds and fergies famous youth development? Don't be fooled into thinking Alex is some sort of miracle working,youth developing legend who keeps the purse strings tight. As for pep we will never really know just how good he is until he leaves barca. Ps much prefer this sort of reply to your original

Your right but as LDN hinted at i dont believe he is accountable for Lukaku or Curtois and he made no secret of De Bruyne not being his signing

Get Englands number 9 Cahill up front for sat

I didn't say he was the best manager but I could point to the length of time he has been in the game,which isn't a massive amount of time, and the amount of major trophies he has won (2 European cups with 2 different teams as well as winning the title in every country he has been in which will continue failing a miracle this season) to make the point. You should try making some points yourself instead of coming in with useless comments like 'mourinho best manager, Ha that's a laugh'

He is absolutely one of the best managers in the world. Id love for you to tell me how he isnt

I wish someone like him with the same abilities and work rate played for us ...but not him

STEPHEN CUNT, I MEAN HUNT