'Earl's Court will be the best option' - Chelsea co-owner lifts lid on Blues' stadium plans and warns of 'obstacles' after being told Stamford Bridge is too small

The Premier League heavyweights have been informed by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan that their current home is “too small” for big ambitions to be met. Todd Boehly and the rest of the club’s ownership team have faced expansion problems since completing a big-money takeover.

Chelsea can currently welcome a little over 40,000 spectators through their turnstiles. Many more tickets could be sold if the capacity at a famous west London venue could be increased. No solution to that conundrum has been found as yet.

That has led to suggestions that the Blues could relocate. A move to Earl’s Court has been mooted, but no official bid for that site has been submitted as yet. Wyss concedes that Chelsea have nobody assigned to the long-running stadium project.

The Swiss billionaire has told Chelsea Fan TV: “Earl’s Court would be the best option we can even think of. If it’s going to happen, I don’t know. There’s a lot of obstacles. But right now we don’t have one person who drives that project. That’s all we need. The meetings, the director’s meetings, that’s our course. Not that we have one project where I’ve said ‘I’m going to make it happen’. It’s not going to happen.”

Chelsea are focused on ending the 2024-25 campaign as positively as possible. They remain in the hunt for a top-five finish and Champions League qualification, while the second leg of a Europa Conference League semi-final clash with Djurgarden will be taken in on Thursday.