Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack has not given up hope of moving to a new £80m stadium in the beach area of the city.
Despite leaders of Aberdeen City Council saying they will not use tax-payers money to build a new home for the club as part of a £150m regeneration project, Cormack is keeping his fingers crossed that they will change their minds when the administration meets on Wednesday to discuss the issue. The club recently put forward a case that a new stadium could generate £1billion for the local economy over fifty years with a plea for the council to become partners.
Council chiefs, however, are adamant that not a penny of local authority cash will go into the building of a new home for the Dons. Cormack revealed the previous Conservative-Labour coalition had approached him to express and interested in the Reds remaining in the city rather than move to a planned stadium in Kingsford, eight miles to the west of the city. Since then, the SNP has taken control of the city and turned that idea on its head.
