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Did they not say ages ago that the Anfield Road expansion would be held off until we had regular CL football again? They may have done that means it ain't going to happen because even if we qualify the definition of regular is controlled by FSG.
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We might not get city or Chelsea type owners although I can't see why not we are an attractive club but failing that I would like to see owners with a little more ambition They do have ambition in spades, but it's all about growing the asset value, which they know they can do without risking a single additional dollar of their own money, and they've been very successful at that to date. They have no ambition to compete in the transfer market for top quality players and by logical extension, no ambition towards risk taking investment to win on the field. If it happens then that is just icing on their cake. If you were an investor in the asset you'd be happy with them, but for the life of me I can't see how any fan of the club can be happy with what they've done on the field or on the bricks and mortar infrastructure. As you say the stadium largely defines the stature of of a football club, so how can any fan be happy with the fact that in stadium terms, we are slowly but surely being overtaken, and surpassed by clubs that we're always some distance in our wake? It's called having a different opinion to you. Shocking hey? No wilkij, it's called being happy and content with mediocrity. Is this the new Liverpool way? Expanding Anfield is not mediocrity, it is common sense. When did we spend more that 30m on players before FSG, I don't remember but I do remember what we spent in buying Caroll, Benteke and Mane. FSG have put more than 100m in the club (not counting what they paid to buy the club). Whay is the Liverpool way, to get a Sheik to throw their money away to show off maybe, you tell me.
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Liverpool FC: FSG can pay for Anfield revamp says John Henry
14:41, 11 SEP 2013
BY NORTH WALES DAILY POST Yes they can, as long as they can get their money back. If anybody thought that FSG was going to gift us anything, I must say that they are naive, we all knew they are investors. I was reading Moore's 'letter' to the press lately where he said he looked for the ideal owner, ie, a LFC fan who had the means to bankroll the club like Abramovich, and he spent lots of time on it, we all know the result. But we can still have hope in our heart
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Liverpool FC: FSG can pay for Anfield revamp says John Henry
14:41, 11 SEP 2013
BY NORTH WALES DAILY POST Yes they can, as long as they can get their money back. If anybody thought that FSG was going to gift us anything, I must say that they are naive, we all knew they are investors. I was reading Moore's 'letter' to the press lately where he said he looked for the ideal owner, ie, a LFC fan who had the means to bankroll the club like Abramovich, and he spent lots of time on it, we all know the result. But we can still have hope in our heart That's fine but but don't expect anything other than Liverpool declining in relation to other clubs call me weird but I find that hard to accept
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Liverpool FC: FSG can pay for Anfield revamp says John Henry
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BY NORTH WALES DAILY POST Yes they can, as long as they can get their money back. If anybody thought that FSG was going to gift us anything, I must say that they are naive, we all knew they are investors. I was reading Moore's 'letter' to the press lately where he said he looked for the ideal owner, ie, a LFC fan who had the means to bankroll the club like Abramovich, and he spent lots of time on it, we all know the result. But we can still have hope in our heart That's fine but but don't expect anything other than Liverpool declining in relation to other clubs call me weird but I find that hard to accept And you know we'll fall behind how? It's just you assuming we will based on not much at all. I know it's early days but West Ham have hardly benefitted from a (virtually free) new stadium. All it seems to have done is give their fans more room for a scrap. We know nothing of what will happen to Spurs with regards to paying for their stadium and how it will affect their recruitment and on field form. Then you can look at Utd and all they have and they have still declined from where they were. They can spunk all the money they want on players to play in their massive stadium but it hasn't paid off for nearly 4 seasons now. Nothing is guaranteed in football so to say to expect nothing but a decline is beyond wrong. No one knows what to expect and even if we had a shiny new stadium, we can't then just expect us to be successful.
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Liverpool FC: FSG can pay for Anfield revamp says John Henry
14:41, 11 SEP 2013
BY NORTH WALES DAILY POST Yes they can, as long as they can get their money back. If anybody thought that FSG was going to gift us anything, I must say that they are naive, we all knew they are investors. I was reading Moore's 'letter' to the press lately where he said he looked for the ideal owner, ie, a LFC fan who had the means to bankroll the club like Abramovich, and he spent lots of time on it, we all know the result. But we can still have hope in our heart That's fine but but don't expect anything other than Liverpool declining in relation to other clubs call me weird but I find that hard to accept And you know we'll fall behind how? It's just you assuming we will based on not much at all. I know it's early days but West Ham have hardly benefitted from a (virtually free) new stadium. All it seems to have done is give their fans more room for a scrap. We know nothing of what will happen to Spurs with regards to paying for their stadium and how it will affect their recruitment and on field form. Then you can look at Utd and all they have and they have still declined from where they were. They can spunk all the money they want on players to play in their massive stadium but it hasn't paid off for nearly 4 seasons now. Nothing is guaranteed in football so to say to expect nothing but a decline is beyond wrong. No one knows what to expect and even if we had a shiny new stadium, we can't then just expect us to be successful. If we get a new stadium and don't win trophies I guarantee you we will be told that a team's riches are on the pitch. Nothing is guaranteed in football and a shiny new stadium and a mountain of debt wont make us more successful.
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If we get a new stadium and don't win trophies I guarantee you we will be told that a team's riches are on the pitch.
Nothing is guaranteed in football and a shiny new stadium and a mountain of debt wont make us more successful.
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The debt I mean not the ground Those three have precious little debt when it comes to their stadiums. Chelsea don't have a new ground. United expanded Old Toilet. City got their ground on the cheap as it was built for the commonwealth games. We are one of the top spenders in the league over the last 20 years and we still haven't won the title. A new stadium wont suddenly transform our fortunes. Leagues are won on the pitch, no one will give a sh1t what Anfield looks like if Klopp wins the league.
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The debt I mean not the ground Those three have precious little debt when it comes to their stadiums. Chelsea don't have a new ground. United expanded Old Toilet. City got their ground on the cheap as it was built for the commonwealth games. We are one of the top spenders in the league over the last 20 years and we still haven't won the title. A new stadium wont suddenly transform our fortunes. Leagues are won on the pitch, no one will give a sh1t what Anfield looks like if Klopp wins the league. Yes that's true Shaggy, but no one is saying a new stadium will suddenly transform our fortunes, but would you accept that a new stadium of around 70 - 75,000 seats would make a contribution? Would you accept that the quality and capacity of a clubs stadium is at the very least, one of the defining indicators of the clubs identity, ambition and status?
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