Sorry to be dismissive, but again, the capacity can not bet increased to the 70-80,0000 as the transport infrastructure will not acconodate that amount of people.
This is out of the clubs hands. Locals and the council have the power here.
I stand by what I said, the club will find a way. Businessmen are businessmen and if the transport infrastructure isn't there, they will work with the council to get it done. Or some way to get it done.
It has happened here before in America, multiple times actually, and those are American businessmen so to me I could see it happening but not for years down the road. If their are profits to be made from an investment, especially in sports, that investment will be made one way or the other.
Go take a look at Wrigley Field in Chicago, a renovation that is taking place currently. So many obstacles were in the way and yet the club pushed past all of them. From getting the plans through the city (which was a bi*ch to do and took years), to being sued by the locals and rooftop owners because of size as well as securing the surrounding buildings and places to sign off on some of the changes. Go back 5 years and people would have said it was impossible to do a 500M renovation to Wrigley and yet it is ongoing and looking quite nice if I might add.
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