Dundee FC plan to leave Dens Park

Dundee Managing Director John Nelms insists a move away from Dens Park is essential, for the Dark Blues to move forward.

He's outlining the way ahead, after the club posted an operating loss of more than half a million pounds for the last financial year - with 200,000 of that for the upkeep of their ageing stadium.

Nelms and club owner Tim Keyes own 29 acres of land near the ice rink at Camperdown Park.

Nelms says : “We will be putting in a land-use application shortly that we hope really enhances Dundee Football Club - not only its day to day inner-workings but the type of event we can put on for Dundee Football Club. We think that’s the future of Dundee Football Club.

“We’re quite excited about it. It’s early doors. I’m not going to talk about it until we get to certain levels. We’ve got a lot of hoops to jump through and a lot of politics to get through. But I can tell you we’ve been working on this for the last year - even before we purchased the property.

“The city council has been fantastic. We all see it being a good thing for the city.

“We have been trying to future-proof as much as possible any facility we put on that site and make it exciting and work 24 hours a day, seven days a week and be a jewel for the City of Discovery and Dundee."

We've been speaking to football finance expert at Ernst and Young, Neil Patey and he reckons relocating from Dens makes perfect economic sense as it'll reduce various overheads and boost revenue, but some fans may be against moving from the club's spiritual home.