Chelsea will stay put Stamford Bridge and focus on expanding the ground’s capacity to 55,000 if co-owner\u00a0loses his his boardroom struggle with\u00a0Behdad Eghbali, amid the disagreement between Boehly and his co-owner partner Eghbali regarding the club’s future, according to The Sun.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood that Boehly would prefer to find a new home for Chelsea, and apparently already has zeroed in on a new 60.000-capacity stadium in Earls Court, while Eghbali favors a \u00a31.5billion renovation of Stamford Bridge instead, which currently seats 40,000.<\/p>\n
The pair are intent on buying each other out.<\/p>\n
While the proposed Earl’s Court project seems increasingly unlikely,\u00a0Chelsea would have to temporarily vacate their current premises for two years if the Club were to expand Stamford Bridge. There are plans to improve the West Stand, which would include building concrete decks over a nearby railway line.<\/p>\n
Eghbali isn\u2019t keen on having Stamford Bridge demolished and is not warm at all to the thought that building a new stadium on the existing site could take up to five years.<\/p>\n
Last month former Chelsea defender William Gallas criticised the civil war between Boehly and Eghbali and described the situation as ‘a real mess’.<\/p>\n