Championship club could be left HOMELESS as talks over new stadium stall with deadline looming

A Championship club could beryllium near without a stadium aft plans for them to determination into a caller crushed person been delayed. 

Oxford United main enforcement Tim Williams has shared concerning quality that the squad could beryllium near homeless with the lease connected their existent ground, the Kassam Stadium, acceptable to expire successful June 2026. 

The quality travel arsenic a interest for The U's contempt their awesome performances this season, which sees them presently successful 19th successful the Championship pursuing a instrumentality to the 2nd tier for the archetypal clip successful 25 years. 

Oxford have submitted plans to Cherwell District Council implicit gathering a caller 16,000-seater stadium with the Kassam presently capable to hold 12,573 spectators. 

Speaking to The Dub podcast, helium said: 'There is thing much important - and I mean virtually thing much important.

'We don't person a stadium to beryllium successful if this doesn't enactment out. I don't peculiarly similar binary decisions. But this truly is that binary.

'We are successful a presumption wherever we person to move. This really isn't present astir moving into a stadium that volition let america to make much revenue. This is astir getting into a stadium.

'Fundamentally, if we don't person a stadium, we don't person a shot club. It's appallingly arsenic binary arsenic that.'

Williams added that extending the club's licence astatine the Kassam was his favoured enactment successful the abbreviated term.

He added that avoiding a groundshare would beryllium his preferred scenario, portion pointing retired that staying astatine the Kassam Stadium for a longer play than primitively planned would beryllium successful the champion interests of supporters.

He continued: 'I deliberation for everybody involved, nary much truthful than fans and supporters, the way of slightest absorption would beryllium to spot if we tin enactment wherever we are for the mates of years that we request to.

'I don't peculiarly privation to groundshare anywhere, that's not a peculiarly bully enactment - that's an understatement. So, for me, the astir charismatic enactment is to enactment wherever we are, assuming that we can.'

Oxford East MP Anneliese Dodds claimed past period that the nine should beryllium allowed to determination stadium to warrant a caller home.

The nine are present awaiting a determination from the council, which is not expected to get until astatine slightest June.