Arsenal co-chairman Josh Kroenke has admitted the membership have held ‘inner conversations’ relating to the renovation and enlargement of the Emirates Stadium.
The Gunners left their religious Highbury house in 2006, upping sticks and shifting a matter of metres away to a brand new floor sandwiched between railway traces and London’s busy Holloway Street.
With a capability of 60,704, the Emirates is the fifth-biggest stadium within the Premier League behind solely Outdated Trafford, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London Stadium and Anfield. Nevertheless, the capability has not been elevated on a serious scale since inauguration.
Supporters initially criticised the Emirates for its lack of soul, however the membership have made renewed makes an attempt to make the stadium really feel extra like house, lately including new paintings to the outside and persevering with fan efforts to enhance the environment. Present supervisor Mikel Arteta has additionally been credited with serving to restore the bond between the group and the supporters.
In an intensive interview with ESPN, Kroenke was requested whether or not Arsenal had another plans to renovate and develop the Emirates.
“It could be untimely to speak about any plans in depth, however the inner conversations are beginning to happen about [the stadium]. It isn’t a simple renovation, however we see the probabilities of what is there,” he stated.
“Our purpose was at all times to compete for the Premier League title as a result of for those who look world wide, if you’re competing for the title year-in, year-out, you’re competing for every thing else.
“What can our followers count on? The whole lot they’ve gotten in the previous couple of years. We’ll hold including to the group. I do know Mikel’s vitality is thru the roof in the most effective of the way. In our girls’s group as effectively, you see how girls’s sport is taking off world wide. We’re actually enthusiastic about that a part of the enterprise.
“However as a membership our most important purpose is to proceed to make our supporters proud.”
