White Hart Lane finally being expanded?

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Spurs open talks to use Wembley while White Hart Lane is redeveloped

Tottenham have moved a step closer to a major redevelopment of White Hart Lane by opening talks aimed at becoming temporary tenants at Wembley.

Spurs are determined to cement a permanent place in the Champions League over the next few seasons but are fully aware the 36,000 capacity at their High Road home is just not big enough to pull in the revenue needed to back their ambitious project.

The club wants to rebuild the Lane in instalments with the major additions being to the West Stand, East Stand and Paxton Road sections of the ground.

New facilities will include restaurants and a museum and shops and businesses on the High Road and behind the north end of the ground have already been bought up and are ready for demolition as soon as final agreements about the building work are signed.

There will eventually be enough room for more than 50,000 fans to watch Martin Jol's team in action - and with 23,000 current season ticket holders, 20,000 more on the waiting list and a burgeoning membership scheme, there should not be any problems in filling all the seats on a regular basis.

Key to work beginning on White Hart Lane is the redevelopment of the Northumberland Park rail station and an extension to underground services on the Victoria line.

But it is believed Tottenham, in partnership with Haringey Council, have successfully petitioned Transport for London and that the work will go ahead.

Spurs believe moving to the lavish new Wembley is the best way to overcome the difficulties presented by the major reconstruction works.

They have ruled out groundsharing with neighbours Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, even though it is nearer to White Hart Lane and easier for most of their supporters to travel to.

The redevelopment work could start as early as next year meaning Spurs would move to Wembley for the 2008/2009 campaign.

And if all goes to plan, it will be a major feather in the cap of dynamic Spurs chairman Daniel Levy, who has already turned round the club's fortunes on the pitch with his strong boardroom leadership.

A Tottenham source said: "There has been a lot of hard work behind the scenes for a couple of years now and the club are hope their plans will soon come to fruition."
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About time to, I think redeveloping WHL is the way to go. Though a brand new stadium would have been good, Spurs soul runs through WHL and it would have been a shame to lose all those memories.
 
Whats wrong with closing off each terrace as its upgraded and shifting the season ticket holders to other areas of the ground, thats what Arsenal and ManU had to do when they redeveloped Highbury and OT :confused:

I don't see any reason why spurs should play at Wembley, although i can see the FA getting £££ signs in their eyes and wanting to recoup some of the £700million they forked out for the place.
 
I think most fans would rather redevelop their original stadium than move to a completely new one, best for everyone :)

This has to happen sooner rather than later though, we're losing more and more ground every season that goes by. The Top 4 aren't as invincible as everyone seems to think and if we keep Berbatov, Lennon and King aswell as add to the squad this summer I reckon we'll push Arsenal or Liverpool very hard for 4th next season.

A season of CL money and a bigger ground will make us a force to consistantly challenge and maybe even make it a Top 5?
 
Spurs are most certainly in an infinitely better position than 5 years ago. I think Daniel Levy has done a great job in turning the club around with some astute decisions.

We've gone from mid table mediocrity, European challengers and finally to almost breaking the top4 in that time. We just need to hold onto the assests and not let anymore slip away ala Carrick, which imo cost us dearly this season as he was our lynchpin in midfield. Saying that we are still well in the running for a UEFA cup spot and I fully expect us to acheive that.

I think holding onto Berbatov is going to be difficult (though he does have 3 years of contract to run IIRC) but if we do then he will go on to become a talismanic type player for the club and will only raise the reputation and performance of the club.

A redeveloped WHL will certainly help us make the final step of crushing the Champions League Money fuelled monopoly of this league.

:)
 
Stag said:
You say that chimaera but this means they can make huge changes to pretty much the whole ground at the same time.
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Exactly. I much rather Spurs spend 1 season getting WHL completely redeveloped than spending 4 years with only 3/4 of a ground. It affects the atmosphere.
 
Stag said:
I think holding onto Berbatov is going to be difficult (though he does have 3 years of contract to run IIRC) but if we do then he will go on to become a talismanic type player for the club and will only raise the reputation and performance of the club.

A redeveloped WHL will certainly help us make the final step of crushing the Champions League Money fuelled monopoly of this league.

:)
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Agreed Levy has made some good decisions, he's made some bad ones too but no one is perfect!

Spurs can hold onto Berbatov but we'll have to show him we mean business and show we can challenge next season. Also we'll have to smash our current pay structure. I believe Keane is our top earner on £40k a week, this isn't enough to ward off Man Utd or Chelsea with their £100k a week offers.
 
I seem to remember the red side of North London playing European games at the Old Wembley a few years back. If Spurs are paying the FA rent then I see no problem with it as a short term measure?
 
Chong Warrior said:
IThe Top 4 aren't as invincible as everyone seems to think and if we keep Berbatov, Lennon and King aswell as add to the squad this summer I reckon we'll push Arsenal or Liverpool very hard for 4th next season.
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Spurs fans said that at the start of this season, I can see them finishing 6-7th and 5th if they get lucky.
 
Stag said:
I seem to remember the red side of North London playing European games at the Old Wembley a few years back. If Spurs are paying the FA rent then I see no problem with it as a short term measure?
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We did indeed. It wasn't very good, but the new Wembley should be better
 
Visionary said:
Spurs fans said that at the start of this season, I can see them finishing 6-7th and 5th if they get lucky.
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That was before we lost Carrick who was the core of our midfield, it took the wind out of the start of out season. Zokora was brought in to play alongside him but was then made to replace him. It's taken him a number of months to adjust to the English game and get over a bought of malaria he suffered aswell.

If Spurs hang on to their key players and bring in some left sided players (Bale or Baines, Martin Petrov etc), another CB (Kaboul probably) and maybe another class central midfielder then you will see the odds of Spurs finishing top4 shorten remarkably imo.

:cool:
 
Visionary said:
Spurs fans said that at the start of this season, I can see them finishing 6-7th and 5th if they get lucky.
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As already said we did lose our main midfielder, who has since become the main man of a team going for the treble up until last night. No small change there then eh?

Zokora was bought as a replacement and Berbatov was brought in. Both got injured straight away which didn't help them adjust to the Prem, it took both until christmas to start firing on all cyclinders, by then we were already struggling. Our main man and captain King has also been missing for half of the season!

Even so we challenged well in every cup competition and only went out of the UEFA Cup thanks to some of the most diabolical ref's I've ever seen (everyone said that not just Spurs fans) and that was against one of Europe's top sides. Sevilla are easily a CL quality side.

A lot of players have been bloodied and gained valuable experience, don't forget Spurs have possibly THE youngest side in the Premiership. They growing up together and have played some of the best and most entertaining football of any side this season. Only Man Utd and Arsenal match us in those stakes.

We can play, we can score.... now we just need to learn how to defend set pieces!!
 
Good to hear they're planning a major redevelopment at the present site. When living in London I went frequently from the early 1950s onwards, and used to love paying one shilling admission (boys' rate) for the privilege of being crammed in on the terracing. I still go on occasion when I'm in the area and tickets are available. Hope I get a chance to see the newly developed stadium in due course.
 
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