CITY CONFIRM SEARCH FOR NEW TRAINING GROUND CONTINUES

Cardiff City Football Club have moved to dispel internet rumours that new state-of-the-art training facilities have been given the “green light”.

Supporters this week speculated on online forums that the much talked about new training ground was to be built on the old Civil Service Ground near Sanatorium Road, in Ely, Cardiff.

The posts included sketches of what the facility might look like, but Cardiff City officials yesterday branded them as “not accurate”.

The club has been looking at building a training ground since last summer, when principle investor Tan Sri Vincent Tan and chairman Dato Chan Tien Ghee (TG) committed to new training ground facilities and a stadium expansion in the future.

The club yesterday confirmed that they were still looking at a number of sites and nothing had been settled.

Cardiff City director Steve Borley said:“Those plans, which someone put out on our website forum, were the initial plans when we were first looking into the improvements.

“They are really eight months out of date.

“The land on those drawings is not all available and the land that is we can’t necessarily build on due to planning restrictions.”

The former Bluebirds chairman said that planning applications alone would take up to six months so the new training ground would not be up and running until the season after next.

But the director offered his assurance that the training ground would happen and include significantly more pitches, improved facilities and a sports science section.

The current Vale of Glamorgan training base offers only a pitch and a half and pushing through a new £10m centre is still high up on the board’s list of priorities.

Mr Borley said: “The stories that have appeared on the website are indicative of what we would like to build but they are not accurate.

“That was an initial scheme for us to just get our minds around what we want to achieve.”

A Cardiff City spokesman added: “We ran those pictures on our site last year but they are not new or accurate.

“They are concept drawings but they are roughly what we want to have in terms of better facilities.

“It’s all exploratory at the minute and it’s been seen as one of the ways to take the club to the next level.”

Someone help me out by here, I thought we had state of the art training facilities down the Vale ? We had them when the new stadium went up. I have obviously missed something

I think the problem at the vale is we don't own them - They cost us money in leasing from brothers Leeke

Where do these in the know people get their info from? Dave in the Club shop is it?

No closer than when the re brand was first on us. Oh dear !!

Where do these in the know people get their info from? Dave in the Club shop is it?

What does make me chuckle is that when somebody 'in the know' suggest they know something and it turns out they were wrong, they get shot down.

Everybody always thanks Carl for his updates but when he turns out to be wrong, nothing is ever said about it.The 'marquee signing' and the training facilities are two things from the top of my head that he has got wrong in the past few weeks.

I think to spare the blushes people should start keeping their information from their 'sources' to themselves and wait for official statements from the club to be released.

Someone help me out by here, I thought we had state of the art training facilities down the Vale ? We had them when the new stadium went up. I have obviously missed something

They may be first class facilities but there is only one full pitch down there.

I seem to recall that Wales rugby also have first dabs and have taken priority over us before.