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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?

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?

Herc's a new stadium would be lovely but it is not essential to our long term success (only my opinion).

Success on the pitch is what attracts players and we need to get that right first.

It's not a case of either one or t'other though Shaggy, nor is it a case of it having to be one before t'other either, as stadia tend to be built with long term borrowings, whereas players tend to be signed from current expenditure. There never will be a better time to finance a new stadium than now, with interest rates at historical lows, plus the likely rise in inflation, given that governments are desperately trying to stoke it upwards. The odds are that with owners interested in longterm involvement we would have built a new stadium on the free site offered to us in Stanley Park, but as we all know FSG aren't interested in longterm investment, hence the cheap tart up.

You know what RFC, you're arguments make sense, and it reminds me of all the similar sensible arguments I had to endure in my (thankfully) long and varied working life, but fortunately I had the courage of my convictions and (while not ignoring them) carried on with my projects. And you know what? Despite all the predictions of doom, all worked out fine.
A stadium on a free site would cost a maximum of 400m especially if it was built within the last 4 or 5 years, given the competition among building companies due to the financial crash. Well we're still in uncertain times but there are projects now under design expected to cost multiples of that, and yet those concerned are proceeding. Thank god for the risk takers for theirs is the stuff of progress.
If all investors were as pessimistic as you RFC, we'd all be still living in the trees. Nobody would invest in anything because they'd have to repay the finance with interest. I'm sure you're a very skilled accountant, but I'd hazard a guess you'd never make a successful business man. In business you have to take risks, calculated risks of course, but risk none the less, otherwise you're going nowhere.

FYI I am not an accountant and run a company and I know about risks and business plans having been taught at London Business School where I am an alumni. So please, your post makes me laugh. Do you even know what calculated risk is, do you know that you shouldn't invest where your target market cannot afford your product, looks like you don't. I hope it is not only your courage and intuition that made your conviction but your market study convinced you as well otherwise you were just lucky. Luck does work every now and then but is not the norm in business. Why didn't you take the risk of buying LFC, it was a bargain when H&G almost put it under administration?

FYI I am not an accountant and run a company and I know about risks and business plans having been taught at London Business School where I am an alumni. So please, your post makes me laugh. Do you even know what calculated risk is, do you know that you shouldn't invest where your target market cannot afford your product, looks like you don't. I hope it is not only your courage and intuition that made your conviction but your market study convinced you as well otherwise you were just lucky. Luck does work every now and then but is not the norm in business. Why didn't you take the risk of buying LFC, it was a bargain when H&G almost put it under administration?

Who says the target market can't afford the product? Everton is planning to build a new stadium and they operate a couple of hundred yards from Anfield! You're some businessman if you operate on assumptions like that! Or is it that you heard about the protest against FSG when they tried to increase charges? If that's the case then all I can say is the sum total of your research leaves a lot to be desired.