Arsenal’s plans to make Emirates bigger than Manchester United’s Old Trafford

Arsenal are exploring plans to grow the Emirates into an 80,000-seater stadium truthful that the Gunners person the biggest nine arena successful Britain.

The nine moved into their Emirates location successful 2006 and the stadium was the envy of the Premier League astatine the time.

With a 60,000 capacity, the Emirates was the 2nd largest nine stadium down Manchester United’s Old Trafford for a decade.

However, others person been catching up successful caller years, with Tottenham, West Ham and Liverpool each overtaking the Emirates successful presumption of capacity.

Manchester United are exploring the anticipation of gathering a caller 100,000-seater stadium, portion Chelsea and Manchester City person plans to expand.

And Bloomberg accidental Arsenal are fearful they could lag further down their rivals and person sought proposal from stadium planners to look astatine plans to grow the Emirates into a 80,000-seater.

That would importantly boost the club’s revenues, though gathering costs would beryllium high.

It is unclear however the plans would look, and whether the Gunners would beryllium capable to stay astatine the Emirates arsenic enactment is undetaken.

However, it’s imaginable that enactment could beryllium undertaken 1 basal astatine a time, meaning little disruption.

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