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posted on 13/10/12

Fine with that, although id like Anfield to be a 75K seater stadium.

posted on 13/10/12

Yes, after listening to what the owners said and then thinking about it, building a new stadium wouldn't be the right option at this time. However what shouldn't happen is an increase at Anfield, us achieving success, Champions League football etc. and then having to build a new stadium.

Plus, I love Anfield and can't imagine going to home games in another stadium.

posted on 13/10/12

I agree TOOR, anfield is just special. It raises the hairs on the back of my neck everytime i go and hear YNWA before KO.

If/when it is being redeveloped, where would we play our home games?

posted on 13/10/12

comment by Red Rhymenocerous (U1161)
posted 5 minutes ago
I agree TOOR, anfield is just special. It raises the hairs on the back of my neck everytime i go and hear YNWA before KO.

If/when it is being redeveloped, where would we play our home games?
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Well there are options, like building a new stand or two, building new tiers but in doing so they would put a stand out of use whilst work is being done, they won't put all stands out of use, so we would still play at Anfield. Obviously they would do most of the work over the summer too, to reduce the affect on match day revenue and of course fans.

posted on 13/10/12

To make it quicker we could play at Goodison while Anfield is being redeveloped.

Everton could use the money too. But hopefully it wouldnt come to that.

posted on 13/10/12

Both plausible, how likely do you think a groundshare with Everton, albeit a temporary one would be?

In terms of the redevelopment, would it just be Centenary and Main stand being upgraded, or would the Kop and Annie road stand be as well?

posted on 13/10/12

Just use goodison for a period....its a win win for us and Everton.

posted on 13/10/12

Either way we are looking at probably another 5 years before completion.

Considering we started this process in 2002, that's a lot of messing about! (obviously not FSG's fault).

We really should have sorted this in the 90's when Man Utd were redeveloping Old Trafford.

Shame.

posted on 13/10/12

The report I read suggests that a final decision will be made in the next 48 hours, work will start in 2014. The next piece is it will be completed in two stages the second stage being the most expensive. That is the Anfield Road end.

The first stage is the Main Stand and 12,000 seats will be added, the second stage is the Anfield road end. We could see Anfield having a capacity of over 60,000.

comment by RKW (U13169)

posted on 13/10/12

Always wanted us to stay at Anfield rather than move to Stanley Park.

Hope this gets the go-ahead.

posted on 13/10/12

That picture of Anfield is rather old Rebock seats in Anfield Road end :o lol

posted on 14/10/12

i believe they will do one stand at a time, most of the work could be completed over the summer months, so we would probably be closing one stand while the work is done, then closing the next the following year.

I hope they leave infrastructure for further development too, i.e. the ability to fill in the corners, that's the only way we will ever get near matching OT

(if we even need too, the difference in capacity between highbury and the emirates is just 4% of their annual turnover, so stadium size is not an ultra important factor, more something I would like to see us do as and when we can afford it)

posted on 14/10/12

Which would you rather have, a stadium with 65,000 seats and no debt or a stadium with 76,000 seats and interest repayments of £75 million a year like Man Who?

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