Tottenham executive director Paul Barber said the club were ready to compete with Chelsea for potential sponsors as they continue their attempts to sell naming rights of their proposed new 56,000-seater stadium.

Chelsea's new chief executive Ron Gourlay admitted that, for commercial reasons, his club would consider selling naming rights to Stamford Bridge, provided the current name was included in the new one.

"They've got an old, established stadium in Stamford Bridge. Chelsea have got a fantastic stadium there.

"We've got a new state-of-the-art, technologically advanced, environmentally friendly stadium planned, which will have no name attached to it and no history or heritage attached to that stadium.

"There's a balancing act; it's great those stadiums exist already and that a sponsor can come straight in and name them tomorrow.