Arsenal exploring Emirates Stadium expansion to help rival Tottenham

The Gunners person been astatine their existent crushed since 2006 and renovations person already taken spot successful caller years.

Most recently, the extortion was repaired, elephantine screens wrong the crushed for supporters were replaced and caller artwork was installed connected the stadium’s exterior.

Arsenal co-chair Josh Kroenke revealed during an interrogation with ESPN implicit the summertime that “internal conversations” were taking spot astir further enactment being done.

Standard Sport understands that specified talks are astatine an exploratory stage, with Arsenal presently assessing what is feasible erstwhile it comes to expanding oregon upgrading the Emirates.

“It is not an casual renovation, but we spot the possibilities of what’s there,” Kroenke said.

Arsenal earned £102.6million from matchday income past season, which was an summation from the £79.4m they made the erstwhile year.

Tottenham, however, bushed that full by taking successful £117.6m, with Spurs’ caller stadium cardinal to maximising their revenue.

Arsenal would beryllium amended placed to vie with their rivals by upgrading their stadium and immoderate enactment has already taken spot connected that front.

Populous, the steadfast that designed the Emirates Stadium, person been appointed to amended the catering imaginable and upgrade the ground’s main kitchen.

Arsenal person besides been moving to upgrade their brew supply, with the stadium’s venue director, Tom McCann, informing supporters of plans astatine a fans’ forum gathering backmost successful January.

“The nine is successful the mediate of a task spending astir £2million upgrading our brew supply,” minutes from the gathering state.

“Everything from investing successful the pythons, successful the sellers, successful the technology, successful the fig of kiosks.”

McCann besides confirmed however the Emirates Stadium would beryllium modernised further by improving telephone awesome astatine the ground.

“I tin corroborate that afloat stadium Wi-Fi is not presently connected the roadmap,” minutes from the gathering state.

“Our superior connectivity strategy for the stadium and our supporters is via 5G. Our caller DAS (Digital Distributed Antenna system) solution to present 5G is already in-delivery and the volition is that this volition beryllium successful spot for the commencement of adjacent season.

“DAS is similar having galore tiny antennas passim a gathering that enactment unneurotic to amended wireless awesome spot and coverage.

“This solution is owed for go-live successful precocious 2024 and its deployment volition beryllium delivering a first-of-a-kind solution to supply the precise champion solution, and the easiness of connectivity by simply utilizing their existing phones and information plans; nary registrations needed, nary selling opt-ins, etc.”