West Ham co-chairman David Gold today admitted the club may not move into the Olympic Stadium.
The Hammers were awarded the stadium earlier this year only for the deal to collapse last month due to legal challenges by Tottenham and Leyton Orient.
A new tender process is being launched by the Olympic Park Legacy Company and the stadium will now be rented out after London 2012 with West Ham seemingly the most likely tenants.
But Gold today revealed that while the club remain desperate to leave Upton Park, there is now a doubt surrounding their plans to move into the Stratford site.
"I have mixed feelings," said Gold. "The Olympic Stadium is very exciting, but we need a consultancy procedure with our fans, that is important.
"I am ruling out developing the Boleyn, that would be pouring money down the drain.
"But what we can't do is nothing. West Ham have been at the Boleyn for over 100 years. I believe we are the eighth largest supported club in the country, and yet we perform more like the 20th biggest, and that's because we are at the Boleyn.
"So we have to change. The obvious change that everyone is looking at is the Olympic Stadium. But there is a doubt, there are issues unresolved."
