KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum 54,000 stadium when we can sell out 90,000?

The nett spend on players is minuscule in comparison to the elite clubs. If they'd spent less in all probability we would be relegated or fighting dogfights each season. They spent as little as possible on the team for the sake of staus quo...no ambition to succeed on the pitch but just enough to keep us midtable. Building a super stadium was never in their plans, they did to Anfield what they did to Fenway Park...as little outlay as possible, fluffing the place for commercial revenue, yielding the biggest gains.

I think the stadium is too small at 54k. Theres other clubs out there that have bigger stadiums that are playing in championship like newcastle.

I know it was never in there plans to build a new stadium but they shouldve left it at 45k and let new owners build a new one. But then again I guess it is more money for them from a selling point of view if they can brag about increasing the stadium by a few thousand.

All those one Championship clubs that don't have bigger stadiums at 52405?

But I agree, a new stadium should've been a priority. Do as Snakey said and spend the money on that and not half the cack players they've bought over the years. I'm sure there would still be a massive amount of moaning while we didn't compete as Arsenal fans have but in the long run it would've been better.

Arsenal with the new stadium and all. there players still moan as much as us.. that wenger is a share holder and doesnt want to spend himself. bla bla bla

it never ends

With the money wasted on duds we could have built the new stadium three times over and probably still done as well on the field who knows maybe better

How expensive would it have been to build a new stadium?

If the club is valued at 1 billion pounds and FSG paid 300million for us, then spending 500million on a new stadium would have still left them with 200million profit if they sold us.

It all depends on how much you can sell your tickets (fans cannot take any more increases) and the required investment

Revenue is not just about the size of the stadium, Arsenal have the largest matchday receipts in the world, but they are still 20,000 seats less than Man Utd per game, they have built a modern stadium which is aimed at corporate entertaining also, where the money is compared to the average fan. This is what Liverpool have done with the new stand, they are aiming a large part of it at corporate to maximise the revenue.

It would be interesting to know how many of the 90,000 fans at the Barca game are from Liverpool, or London/surrounding area? would Liverpool fill a 75,000 seater stadium if they built it at Stanley park? I am not sure, I know we have large waiting lists but how many of them would buy season tickets of offered, how many are just on the list as they can be? London has the advantage of tourist, any week there could be 100,000 tourists, so if you can offer 10,000 seats available on the day, you can attract them in for the 'Premier League experience', they don't have to be Arsenal fans, West Ham can do that also, the way they got the Olympic Stadium is a joke at £2 million per year, other London clubs must be going mad, look at the problems Chelski are having on a new stadium/extension.

Having a 90,000 seater stadium would be great against teams lile barca man utd and everton. But it would look pretty man city esque when it's near empty against wba or a league cup tie against burton

54,000 is way too low tho surely 65k would have been best

yep, and you don't need a big stadium to win things, you just need quality football first and foremost