Changes are also being made at the club’s training ground, with the club’s board willing to spend whatever Wenger wants in terms of the backroom support and facilities. Arsenal first moved to their London Colney base in 1999, with Wenger designing the facility to a specification that made it widely regarded as the very best in the Premier League. Chelsea, Manchester City, Manchester United, Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur have since built even more modern training centres and Arsenal are now preparing to seek planning permission on projects that, over the next three years, will run into the millions of pounds.