{"id":226942,"date":"2025-06-30T15:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226942\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T15:32:10","slug":"chelsea-engages-london-officials-in-new-stadium-relocation-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/226942\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea engages London officials in new stadium relocation talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Premier League club Chelsea have \u201cheld talks\u201d with the Mayor of London\u2019s office over building a new stadium, according to Ben Rumsby of the London TELEGRAPH. Sources said that the club \u201cmet recently with officials at City Hall\u201d after Mayor Sadiq Khan \u201cpublicly urged them to speak with his team about whether they wanted to leave Stamford Bridge for Earl\u2019s Court<\/a> or redevelop their existing home.\u201d Rumsby noted news of the meeting between the club and the mayor\u2019s office comes more than nine months after Chelsea\u2019s prospects of relocating to Earl\u2019s Court were dismissed by the company in charge of the development of the site. The Guardian\u202freported that the club\u2019s COO Jason Gannon <\/a>had \u201cheld talks about the possibility of them moving to land that is under the management of the Earl\u2019s Court Development Company (ECDC).\u201d Chelsea spoke with developers, Delancey, two years ago and Gannon, who was appointed by the club in October, is reported \u201cto have continued those discussions.\u201d Gannon is also said to have \u201cdiscussed the matter with Transport for London,\u201d but ECDC released a statement \u201cdismissing the possibility of such a move.\u201d To move away from Stamford Bridge, they would \u201cneed to hammer out an agreement with Chelsea Pitch Owners (CPO),\u201d which holds the freehold for the land the ground sits on and could block any attempted move (London TELEGRAPH, 6\/29<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Premier League club Chelsea have \u201cheld talks\u201d with the Mayor of London\u2019s office over building a new stadium,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,10031,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-226942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114773042411188115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}