Being closer to Goodison Park would surely be fun for the local supporters especially thinking of new songs and chants that could annoy their neighbours but in general the atmosphere in a larger stadium with more fans attending would surely make You’ll Never Walk Alone more special than it is now.
On a non-football side every year when the stadium fills to remember Hillsborough the extra seats would allow more people to pay their respects to the 96.
I would much prefer to stay at Anfield if it was feasible but with United’s ground generating double our revenue(hopefully all profits taken up by Glazer debt), Man City getting approx. £120million in a naming rights deal it looks like we would need to move to keep the pace with those two. Tottenham are looking to increase their capacity and in London Mr. Abramovich has been trying to buy land but has been quoted approximately £1billion for a very large plot of land. This surely shows that even with deep pockets Chelsea and Man City are looking at netting extra funds whether it be by a new stadium or naming rights.
We may have to do both to help fund a new stadium but if it will help us compete in the long term I would be very interested in the new stadium and I believe that the majority of Liverpool fans will be won over if it is built.
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To be honest there’s no sentiment in football anymore. Those fans that would like to stay at Anfield would have to accept that it clearly hinders us as a club. If we expand it to 60k, that’s it, no more expansions.
We need a new stadium if we’re to compete at the top of the premiership and to continue buying top class players. Anfield will never generate what Old Trafford does, no matter how much we expand. We’ll always be behind them financially.
New stadium please.
Although i’d like for us to stay at Anfield, moving to a new stadium would be beneficial in the long run but one thing i find very annoying is ……. why are we only expanding to 60000?
With Utd at about 80000, Arsenal – just over 60000, then surely our measily 60000 will still keep us below the high earners on match days unless there is going to be a very steep price rise on matchdays?
Come on FSG – wake up and look at the figures – 80000 minimum, LFC is a well supported club and surely if you look at your ticket subscriptions you’ll see how many fans miss out.
I’m sure the stadium will be built with the option to expand further in the future.
A ‘NEW STADIUM” is the only way to go! ‘FULL STOP’
Hopefully there will be a stand named in memory of te 96 legends of the club who have still not got JUSTICE. “Stand for the 96” or simply put “96”……YNWA……JFT96
I read the title of the article and I thought it was about Liverpool signing Downing for 18.5 million. Seriously.
I have to say that personally I would love to stay at Anfield, the history and the tradition give the old place a magical feel. However I am a realist and while we should not rush willy nilly to a new stadium, I am afraid that for business reasons it seems the only option. This of course should have been built by now but stadler and waldorf were as trustworthy as the sleaziest politucians. Let’s be grateful our new owners have taken time to consider the options and it seems highly likely that we’ll have to move. Red4Life why are you so worried on 60,000? It’s a starting point if we fill 60,000 seats, something we have never done, regularly the stadium will be increased but would it not look stupid if our 80,000 stadium only attracted 60,000 people regularly? It would be a quarter empty, something no business owner, and that’s what FSG are, would want.
It would be crazy to redevelope ‘ANFIELD’.What happens down the track when Chelsea,Spurs,ManU(YES! ManU!)decide to expand again,and yes that will happen in the future.
‘IF’& when LFC have expanded/redeveloped to 60,000(in order to ‘catch up’),and with very little chance of a further redevelopement!,what then do they do when ManU expand to 90’000,and ‘YES’ THAT WILL HAPPEN!
LIVERPOOL FC need to move on because staying where they are they will always have less income in ‘gate money’etc; compared to MU!!!
A move to a different site is ‘PARAMOUNT’ if they want to be equal to other clubs! And if it cannot be in Stanley Park,which incidentally,is a magnificent setting,(where it would stand out and be seen from miles away!),then another site should be found on the outkirts of the city,where it is easily accessable from the ‘motorways’.
To repeat,they will never keep up with the’Jones’s’,(ManU?) if they do a ‘one off’ expansion to the present Anfield!!!!!