Everton’s former chief Keith Wyness has claimed Nottingham Forest could pay £50million to expand the City Ground by 10,000 seats.
Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, the 66-year-old – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – claimed it is “now down to Forest to keep themselves in the Premier League” to green-light the project.
As per the BBC (8 July), Nottingham City Council has agreed in principle to sell the land around the City Ground to Nottingham Forest after a rent dispute earlier this year.
Owner Evangelos Marinakis had threatened to move the club out of the city to a new 50,000-seater stadium but the new agreement is now set to allow Forest to expand capacity from 29,000 to 40,000 at their historic ground.
The Midlands club plan to rebuild the Peter Taylor Stand and extend the Bridgford Stand to facilitate the increase.
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