Spurs were seeking to move to the ground for the 2017/18 campaign while White Hart Lane is rebuilt and, while they are also willing to pay around £15m for that privilege, Chelsea’s four-year option would be worth nearer £60m to Wembley over a longer-term.
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Wembley is thought to be their first option, but Chelsea are also interested in playing at the national stadium because Stamford Bridge is being re-developed as well.
Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has revealed that Chelsea have made a four-year bid to land Wembley as their temporary home at a meeting with Spurs supporters.
Indeed, Levy offered the view that the plans for the new ground would give Spurs a better chance of signing elite players and retaining their best ones.
“Chelsea FC’s offer of a four-year deal, which would deliver a substantial sum of money, had changed this position and the FA would now consider a PL team”.
Chelsea, meanwhile, will have to vacate Stamford Bridge while development to increase its capacity to 60,000 is carried out.
Abramovich is anxious that Tottenham’s fixture list might impact that of Chelsea’s.
According to the minutes of the meeting, published on the Trust’s website, Levy indicated that transfer funds would remain ring-fenced and that Spurs’ performances on the pitch remained the priority. The north London club will have to find another home for the 2017-18 season, with chairman Daniel Levy confirming in August the club were in discussions with the FA over a temporary move to Wembley, located just 13 miles from their current home.
“DL also felt that the FA acknowledged the need to treat clubs equally”.
Levy told the Tottenham Supporters’ Trust that Wembley is the only neutral venue on the club’s radar, which may force them to Stadium mk in Milton Keynes if they miss out on the national stadium to Chelsea.
And Sky sources understand that, until that is decided, no further discussions with the clubs in question can take place.
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West Ham have the right of veto to keep Spurs out of the Olympic Stadium and the club’s vice-chair Karen Brady has already suggested the Hammers would take that course of action to stop Tottenham sharing for a season.
