{"id":26254,"date":"2018-04-26T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=26254"},"modified":"2018-04-26T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T15:22:29","slug":"the-fa-receives-offer-for-wembley-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/04\/26\/the-fa-receives-offer-for-wembley-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"The FA receives offer for Wembley Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-bodyintroduction\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Football Association received an offer, thought to be worth \u00a3800m, to sell Wembley Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Reports are the prospective buyer is billionaire owner of Fulham Football Club, Shahid Khan, who also owns the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">It is understood the approach includes \u00a3500m for the stadium and \u00a3300m for the FA to keep the Club Wembley debenture and hospitality business.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">NFL executive vice-president Mark Waller said having stadium options in London has been &#8220;critical to the NFL&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">His statement added: &#8220;The potential purchase of Wembley Stadium is a further powerful sign of their commitment to the UK and their vision to help us grow the sport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;This new relationship would allow for even greater flexibility in scheduling future NFL games in London.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The 90,000-seat stadium, which is the largest in the United Kingdom, cost \u00a3757m to build and opened in 2007. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Football Association received an offer, thought to be worth \u00a3800m, to sell Wembley Stadium. Reports are the prospective buyer is billionaire owner of Fulham Football Club, Shahid Khan, who also owns the Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team. It is understood the approach includes \u00a3500m for the stadium and \u00a3300m for the FA to keep the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,27],"tags":[1038,1037],"class_list":["post-26254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-sport","tag-shahid-khan","tag-wembley-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}