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Something in the news today Liverpool are moving tpo Stanley Park and the sponsorship is moving forward including Standard Chartered involvement. 60k all seater. Redeveloping Anfield has hit very difficult property and legal issues.

Still think it's madness to build in Stanley Park and I dont think 300 or 400 million pound for an extra 15k seats is good either, lets face it how many of the seats will be for ordinary fans, only doing it for executive members really, thats what its all about.

Focus the revenue from 15k extra seats vs £400m is nonsense. Its capital profit that matters not revenue. With a new stadium, television rights, commercial deals the club could easy be worth £2b in 5 years (man u are valued similar today). Thats a £1b profit for Henry. I agree Stanley Park is not the best option but a million miles better than tarting up Anfield which would kill the club relative to City / Utd etc.

But hasn't John Henry made that statement on record; that he sees it as madness much along the lines fix or repair daily was talking about?

Seems a strange turn about face if we are now moving to Stanley Park.

wont make any difference to you or me stanley as we wont be going when it eventualy gets built anyway, it will be OOT and foreign fans as they will be the only ones who will be able to afford it, I know am struggling now and it's only close on 50 quid a ticket as it is.

Me too ford but then I could not afford it at crummy old anfield either.

Henry was playing a game. He has not bought Liverpool for revenue profit why do you think he bought the club?

Would we fill an 80k lower prices or not? just thinking people dont go to football as much these days and its not just about money. Utd and city tommorrow for example is NOT sold out. A few years ago you would not have got a ticket for love or money

ok i will accept what you are saying. 80k in speke or burtonwoed would be just fine by me.

I just think we need to change the whole way of what we know when we go to the Match. If the Stadium is on your doorstep you take it for granted, you turn up just before and leave within five minutes of the ref blowing the whistle, it more of a chore going the game. The way I see it is, if the Club built a massive 80k or 90k stadium up by Say Burtonwood in it's own grounds, charge lower prices for tickets, send tickets out to local schools and encourage local youngsters back to the game which in turn would protect the Club future and give the Club it's identity back, you could build massive concorses with big food and beer halls, giant television screens, open spaces with statues of all the great players in and even stages that local groups could get exposure on. We could build our own rail station and have four or five shuttle trains every hour transfering fans back and forth from the City 15 minite express service, we could have our own coach park too. The point I am making is if we had something like that, the whole match day experience would change, it would become more of a day out because fans would be encouraged to get to the fan park area early and stay later, instead of the old fashioned, victorian way we go to games now, also the money spent would go straight into the Club. I have always said if we get the next move wrong we will have to pay for it for the next 100 years so this type of idea is at least worth considering, lets do something nobody has done before and be ahead of our time, we would be the envy of everyone not just here but Europe too whose grounds are all land locked.