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John Henry has already ruled out a new stadium with only 15.000 more seats than Anfield.

He said that would be financial madness, unless they could sell the naming rights for it.

If so the financial side of the business would look promising. No need for raised ticket prices - quite the contrary - they would aim at filling the new stadium.

I do think it's a bit like catch 22 here though: We need the new stadium to raise our revenues and in turn invest in the squad to climb back into top 4 in EPL. But if we make the investment in the stadium we will jeopardize our financial well being, which might hold us out of signing new players and in turn out of top 4.

Which way to go? I think we need to be aggressive and make the stadium investment, but fast! If we wait 3-4 years we might as well give in and accept being a mid table club at the very best. I think the train is leaving soon. Do we want to be on board or not?

in the next 2 years we put everything in place plans zoning laws contractors etc.then we have to build.we have two years football see my earlier post,then we have to build at least a 75000 arena.the scum fill about 30000 more seats,we can't compete with that no matter how good the team is.at some point we have to have a cut off line then we must go and build.if fsg are as succeccful businessmen as we are led to believe then they will know that their grace period to get started is almost over and after that their is no point because the gulf will be too great to pull us back.not too great for a sheikh's pockets but beyond theirs

Maybe not totaly screwed but the footballing landscape would have to change for us to rival the bigger Clubs in the League again, which unfortunately aint gonna change soon.

Good decisions help any business. So far our decision making has been appaling from appointment of Hodgson and Dalglish to the £113m wasted to the Suarez debacle. What planet are you on KP ?

Listen I applaud your loyalty it's just a pity it's mis-placed, Liverpool Football Club is no longer the big or top Club it once was and here lies the problem, people think we still are. Unfortunately over time we have been caught up and overtook by other, bigger more powerful Clubs in the country to the point we now scramble around arguing if it is 5th or 6th place we will finish in every season.

B0ll0cks... soundbite mentality... and sentiment! We can get back into the mix with shrewd decisions. If Newcastle can challenge for the top 4 so can we. If Arsenal can turn things around so can we. If Chelsea can get to the semi-final of the CL so can we. We're only a few good decisions away from being as good as, or better than any of those clubs. [/quote]Listen I applaud your loyalty it's just a pity it's mis-placed, Liverpool Football Club is no longer the big or top Club it once was and here lies the problem, people think we still are. Unfortunately over time we have been caught up and overtook by other, bigger more powerful Clubs in the country to the point we now scramble around arguing if it is 5th or 6th place we will finish in every season. [/quote]

Misplaced??? Because I think we'll come back from this? How can that be misplaced? I think the doom and gloom woe is me is misplaced if anything mate. We haven't been at the top of the money tree for a while... but the owners can build and we can compete. Acting like the current situation is a permanents state is idiotic... football is in flux! [/quote]




football now is run by money, that is the deciding and most important factor in todays game, please tell me how you can hope to compete with the likes of your United, Chelsea and City's of this world especialy when you see other big clubs like Everton, Villa and Leeds fall away over time too, like i say the football landscape would have to change first if we were to start competing again.

either that or we could spend the 55m on the likes of carroll and hendo on the the likes of 18m cabaye and ciise like newcastle did.

Yeah, you don't only need money. You need to have brains and/or luck as well (like Newcastle have shown). That's where I think we've fallen behind the most. Where are our great thinkers? Besides on this forum I mean!

Look Newcastle are never going to get to the top no matter how good a manager they have or what good players they sign, thats my point, Clubs like Newcastle, Everton and Liverpool will only go so far up in the League before falling short of the big boys, Newcastle will prove this a bit later in the season.

Ian Rush is right but my point is why are we not the big boys. We have a far bigger (and global) fan base than Everton, Newcastle etc. We are a club with a huge asset not exploiting it standing still with the wrong mansger and owners who have woodworm in their bum they have sat on the fence for so long. It makes me so angry it really does.