AFC Bournemouth are shopping for again their stadium as they plan to double the 11,286 capability.
Twenty years in the past, Bournemouth offered Dean Court docket, now often called the Vitality Stadium, to property agency Structadene for £3.5million.
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The membership leased it again to assist repay money owed whereas they had been in League One.
Membership proprietor Invoice Foley has confirmed the Cherries will repurchase the stadium – which is the smallest within the Premier League.
It’s nearly 6,000 seats smaller than Brentford’s Gtech Neighborhood Stadium.
Foley has began his technique of main funding – as proven by the Cherries’ new state-of-the-art £32m efficiency centre.
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On the official opening, Foley mentioned: “I am happy to tell you that we’ve come to phrases on the acquisition of Vitality Stadium and we needs to be closing that shortly.
“And we are also getting ready our pre-application to the council with regard to increasing and renovating the stadium, with the aim being inside two and a half years, we’ll have 20,000 seats.
“With the additional aim, if issues work out nicely, to enter 23,000 seats.”
If Bournemouth proceed their wonderful type into subsequent season and past, they may have loads of followers rallying collectively on the stadium.
Andoni Iraola’s facet sit eighth within the Premier League, which might be their highest ever top-flight end in the event that they keep there, bettering Eddie Howe’s ninth-place end within the 2016/17 season.
Bournemouth’s present facet has a variety of standout gamers equivalent to Antoine Semenyo, Milos Kerkez, Dean Huijsen, and prime scorer Justin Kluivert.
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The primary three have been linked with massive cash strikes away, particularly Huijsen, who has a price ticket upwards of £50m.
The proprietor cited the transfer as a ‘strategic and logical step’ to pursue ‘continued ambitions’.
Foley continued: “It will permit us to offer extra hospitality, it will permit us to deal with a number of the 15,000 folks which might be at the moment on our ready checklist and the stadium might be utterly renovated.
“It may be lovely. And we checked out different choices.
“We checked out constructing a brand new stadium and dealing that out, we lastly determined it will take us about 5 or 6 years.
“So on this case, we are going to renovate this stadium and we’ll do it in such a manner that no followers might be disrupted, it will not be shut down, everybody may have their seat after which we’ll transfer ahead and be capable of begin increasing our base.”